· Public charity
Desire Street Ministries
To love our neighbor by revitalizing under-resourced neighborhoods through spiritual and community development.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MERCY STREET | $50,000 |
| GROVE PARK RENEWAL | $50,000 |
| THAT'S MY CHILD | $50,000 |
| THE MOM COMMUNITY | $50,000 |
| CROSSTOWN MINISTRIES | $50,000 |
| BLUEPRINT 58 | $50,000 |
| COMMUNITY CONNECT CDC | $50,000 |
| OAKS MINISTRIES | $50,000 |
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 (FY18–19, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 13% of Desire Street Ministries’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 46% of the giving stays in GA; read by stated purpose it is 41% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +233% since the first grant, against +126% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2023, 6 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $400k 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
- PAPARADISE ATLANTA WESTSIDE ENRICHMENT CENTER INC5× · 2017–2021 · $168k · revenue +489%
- SCSUMMERHILL COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC2× · 2017–2018 · $41k · revenue +31%
- TNTHRIVE NEW ORLEANS2× · 2018–2019 · $18k · revenue +233%
Funded once
- WRWIND RIVER MINISTRIES INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +126%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $11k
- KOKids of Excellence Learning Centergraduatedone grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue +74%
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.
Transforming our neighborhood by preparing Christ-following independent community leaders.
Our mission at Do Right Christian Church is to transform lives and communities
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Community Kids exists to transform communities through kids by providing long-term, life-changing, worldview-expanding relationships, led by Christ.
To spread the life changing word of Christ into our community utilizing a variety of resources to have a far reach and broad impact.
New Covenant Safe Haven is a Christian-based organization committed to uplifting and supporting individuals and families living in poverty within our community. Our primary mission is to provide essential services such as temporary shelter…
Breaking the cycle of poverty and despair, one life at a time. this is accomplished by working with local churches to provide for the physical and spiritual needs of men, women and children who have lost hope and are least able to meet…
To care for the needy, share the good news of jesus christ and change lives by providing counseling, life skill training, dignity gained through work and christ-centered discipleship.
New genesis, inc. is committed to positively impacting lives in southwest michigan. new genesis is a youth and family services organization whose mission is to transform lives through programs and services that effectively meet expressed…
Faith Hope and Love Christian Ministries exist to glorify God by proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ, nurturing spiritual growth, strengthening families, and serving our community with faith, hope, and love.
Magic city woodworks dba: manufacture good serves young men in birmingham, alabama, with a focus on those facing significant life challenges and coming from under-resourced communities. our apprentices represent a wide range of…
Christ Cathedral Ministries is a church that provides a place of worship fellowship and training for people in the Christian faith. This ministry seeks to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ and fulfill the great commission and the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Paradise Atlanta Westside Enrichment Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Community Connect Cdc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 17 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 PARADISE ATLANTA WESTSIDE ENRICHMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GROVE PARK RENEWAL INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CONNECT CDC ↗
- Who funds CROSSTOWN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY STREET ↗
- Who funds OAKS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds BLUEPRINT 58 INC ↗
- Who funds Mom Community Inc ↗
- Who funds THATS MY CHILD ↗
- Who funds SUMMERHILL COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THRIVE NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds WIND RIVER MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Kids of Excellence Learning Center ↗
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: World OutreachFund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Desire Street Ministries 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.