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Desire Street Ministries

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

$400k
Granted FY2023
8
Grants FY2023
8
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 8
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
4
Total assets, FY2023
$4.0M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Desire Street Ministries funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’18’19’20’21’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’23
ReligionYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterCommunity Improvement
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20238$400k100%
FY20211$100k0%
FY20203$44k33%
FY20193$41k0%
FY20187$126k29%
FY20176$173kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Religion$196kYouth Development$191kEducation$150kHuman Services$126kFood & Nutrition$93kCommunity Improvement$68kHousing & Shelter$50kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Paradise Atlanta Westside Enrichment Center Inc$168,200510%
Abundance of Desire$92,5532n/a
Trinity Family Ministries$66,7004n/a
St Roch Community Mission$64,0002n/a
Grove Park Renewal Inc$50,00014%
Community Connect CDC$50,000132%
Crosstown Ministries Inc$50,00016%
Mercy Street$50,00012%
Oaks Ministries Inc$50,000120%
Blueprint 58 Inc$50,000116%
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All grantees of Desire Street Ministries by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Paradise Atlanta Westside Enrichment Center Inc$168,200510%
Abundance of Desire$92,5532n/a
Trinity Family Ministries$66,7004n/a
St Roch Community Mission$64,0002n/a
Grove Park Renewal Inc$50,00014%
Community Connect CDC$50,000132%
Crosstown Ministries Inc$50,00016%
Mercy Street$50,00012%
Oaks Ministries Inc$50,000120%
Blueprint 58 Inc$50,000116%
Mom Community Inc$50,000119%
Thats My Child$50,00018%
Summerhill Community Ministries Inc$40,5002n/a
Thrive New Orleans$18,00021%
Wind River Ministries Inc$15,00011%
Kids of Excellence Learning Center$7,96411%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($11k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Desire Street Ministries supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetParadise Atlanta Westside Enrichment Center Inc: $168,200 over 5y, 9.9% of budgetGrove Park Renewal Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetCommunity Connect CDC: $50,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetCrosstown Ministries Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetMercy Street: $50,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetOaks Ministries Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetBlueprint 58 Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetMom Community Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetThats My Child: $50,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetThrive New Orleans: $18,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetWind River Ministries Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetKids of Excellence Learning Center: $7,964 over 1y, 1.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

World OutreachFundGA13.6× 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 · 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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Desire Street Ministries

How much does Desire Street Ministries give?
Desire Street Ministries reported 8 grants totaling $400,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 8 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Desire Street Ministries fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Religion (22%), Youth Development (22%), Education (17%).
Who are Desire Street Ministries's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Paradise Atlanta Westside Enrichment Center Inc ($168k), Abundance of Desire ($93k), Trinity Family Ministries ($67k).
Does Desire Street Ministries fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Desire Street Ministries?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include World OutreachFund, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, The Blackbaud Giving Fund.
Where is Desire Street Ministries based?
Desire Street Ministries is based in GA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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