How much did Desire Street Ministries grant in FY2023?

Desire Street Ministries reported 8 grants totaling $400,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing.

Where is Desire Street Ministries based?

Desire Street Ministries is based in GA.

Desire Street Ministries

Foundation Dossiers Mostly funded, not a grantmaker — see who funds it →

· Public charity

Desire Street Ministries

To love our neighbor by revitalizing under-resourced neighborhoods through spiritual and community development.

$400k

Granted FY2023

Grants

Communities

$50k

Largest

01What you fund

0183% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2023.

Youth Development$296kReligion$115kHuman Services$76kHousing & Shelter$50kCommunity Improvement$50kOther$124k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

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2020

partner

2021

—

2023

capitalpassenger vanrenovationsbuilding

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$50,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.6M

Total assets

Largest grants

CROSSTOWN MINISTRIES$50,000
MERCY STREET$50,000
THE MOM COMMUNITY$50,000
THAT'S MY CHILD$50,000
OAKS MINISTRIES$50,000
COMMUNITY CONNECT CDC$50,000
BLUEPRINT 58$50,000
GROVE PARK RENEWAL$50,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–19, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 23% — the area typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

29%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$207k · 3 repeat orgs$504k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +440% since the first grant, against +74% for the ones you funded once.

3 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$207k

$104k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+440%

+74%

Still filing today

67%

60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $400k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Youth DevelopmentHuman ServicesReligionHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementOther

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

PA
Paradise Atlanta Westside Enrichment Ctr
4× · 2018–2021 · $140k · revenue +173%
TF
Trinity Family Ministries
3× · 2018–2020 · $49k
TN
THRIVE NOLA
2× · 2018–2019 · $18k · revenue +440%

Funded once

AO
ABUNDANCE OF DESIRE
one grant, 2018 · $51k
SR
ST ROCH COMMUNITY CHURCH
one grant, 2018 · $24k
WR
Wind River Ranch and Ministriesgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +117%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Community Kids

Community Kids is a faith based, inner city youth organization. Community Kids exists to transform communities through kids by providing long-term, life-changing, worldview-expanding relationships, led by Jesus Christ. Community Kids…

Religion

Global City Missions Initiative Incorporated

Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evangelism, disciple-making, and church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities around the world, starting in North America.

Religion

UrbanPromise Charlotte

Our mission at UrbanPromise is to provide Charlotte's children and youth with the spiritual, academic, and social development necessary to become Christian leaders determined to restore their communities.

Youth Development

Little Lights Urban Ministries Inc

Little Lights Urban Ministries empowers underserved youth and families in Washington, DC with the love of Christ. We seek to develop their God-given potential spiritually, socially and intellectually through academics, life skills, the…

Youth Development

Grace Place Ministry Inc

To empower impoverished single mothers and their children toward developing healthy, safe and independent lives in the local community.

Housing & Shelter

City Gospel Mission and Affiliates

Breaking the cycle of poverty and despair, one life at a time.

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Streetlight Christian Ministries

Advancing religion in urban areas

Religion

Go On the Mission

GO equips impoverished children to conquer the cycle of poverty through holistic Christ-centered care, enabling them to become followers of Christ who bring hope and healing to their worlds.

Religion

Bloc Ministries Inc

BLOCs mission is building relationships with our neighbors and sharing hope in brokenness. We do this through a variety of free activities and programs for youth and adults.

Religion

Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries

Health

Flourish Ministries Inc

To help individuals and couples live better lives by understanding, repairing, rebuilding, improving, and strengthening their relationship with God and others.

Human Services

Downtown Ministries Inc

Christian ministry for youth and adults

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy Street 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.

05the grantee network

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

14/14

Grantees still filing

14/14

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Youth Development$296,250Other$123,786Religion$115,000Human Services$75,964Housing & Shelter$50,000Community Improvement$50,000

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.

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.

World OutreachFundGA13.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: World OutreachFund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 organisation 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.

2024

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1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: COMMUNITY CONNECT CDC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +55% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 814434171 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on COMMUNITY CONNECT CDC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 32% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Desire Street Ministries?

Find your warmest path to Desire Street Ministries through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Desire Street Ministries

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Desire Street Ministries?

More from the funding graph

Desire Street Ministries

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Desire Street Ministries?

More from the funding graph