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Delta Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k28 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $90k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $350k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DESIRING GOD MINISTRIES | $150,000 |
| GRACE CHURCH | $150,000 |
| CROSS ROADS BAPTIST CHURCH WEEKDAY PRESCHOOL | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| GRASSY POND BAPTIST CHURCH | $20,000 |
| FRONT PORCH HOUSING | $10,000 |
| TOUCH MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| FOSTERING THE FAMILY | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| SET FREE ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| NORTH HILLS CHURCH | $8,300 |
| HOMES WITH A MISSION | $6,100 |
| JASMINE ROAD | $5,300 |
| SWITCH | $5,000 |
| PIEDMONT WOMEN'S CENTER | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $192k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
42 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $96k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- DGDESIRING GOD MINISTRIES8× · 2018–2025 · $750k · revenue +46%
- TMTOUCH MINISTRIES7× · 2019–2025 · $110k · revenue +41% · 37% of their budget
- SFSET FREE ALLIANCE (F/K/A WATER OF LIFE)7× · 2019–2025 · $46k · revenue +196%
Funded once
- CRCROSS ROADS BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $50k
- BLBLUE LETTER BIBLEgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +91%
- OMOPERATION MOBILIZATIONone grant, 2019 · $8k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Freedom seekers international is a christian organization that exists to rescue the most severely persecuted for their religious faith in hostile and restrictive countries. through collaborative partnerships we deliver those who are…
Our mission is to make disciples of jesus christ by engaging indigenous pastors around the world. our vision is to train pastors and their congregants to share the gospel in a friendly, non-denominational approach across all ethnicities,…
Ftlm seeks to equip churches to minister to those who are suffering from addiction and equip christians with the resources needed to facilitate spiritual growth in christlike character and biblical wisdom.
Connecting biblical soul care to missions through the local church.
To provide resources, training, and continuing support to leaders in the us and around the world in order that they may help others find freedom in christ.
Far Reaching Ministries (FRM) was founded to carry the Gospel Jesus Christ to the world with discipleship as our primary objective. We plant and edify evangelical churches, found Bible schools, gather intimate small groups, and sustain…
To broadcast the Gospel of Jesus Christ through the available means including television, radio, internet, recorded, and written formats.
The organization is dedicated to reaching people for christ through an international network of christians who journey with the poor and marginalized, bringing practical and spiritual support with hope of a better future,(continued on…
For his glory's mission is to launch disciple-making movements that transform nations for christ.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
First fruit ministries shares the unconditional love of god through outreach and supportive housing for people experiencing homelessness or trafficking in southeastern north carolina.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Set Free Alliance (F/K/a Water of Life) and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 21 years old; the field is 21. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 59 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds DESIRING GOD MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds TOUCH MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds SET FREE ALLIANCE (F/K/A WATER OF LIFE) ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE HILL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds SWITCH ↗
- Who funds FRONT PORCH HOUSING ↗
- Who funds JASMINE ROAD INC ↗
- Who funds Back 2 Back Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds BE THE BRIDGE ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds BIBLEPROJECT ↗
- Who funds FIRE PIT RANCH ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD FOCUS ↗
- Who funds HOMES WITH A MISSION ↗
- Who funds BLUE LETTER BIBLE ↗
- Who funds Fostering the Family ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: South Carolina Christian Foundation · Upward Unlimited · Scansource Charitable Foundation · J M Smith Foundation · United Community Bank Foundation · Kellett Family Foundation · The Jolley Foundation · Dabo's All in Team Foundation · Spartanburg County Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Delta Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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