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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
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% 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
02FY2023 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$50,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GROVE PARK RENEWAL$50,000
THAT'S MY CHILD$50,000
CROSSTOWN MINISTRIES$50,000
BLUEPRINT 58$50,000
OAKS MINISTRIES$50,000
MERCY STREET$50,000
THE MOM COMMUNITY$50,000
COMMUNITY CONNECT CDC$50,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THRIVE NOLA: $10k → 23%THRIVE NOLA: $8k → 23%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 13% of Desire Street Ministries’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 46% of the giving stays in GA; by stated purpose, 41%.

Desire Street Ministrieslessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 11% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

51%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$450k · 6 repeat orgs$434k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +233% since the first grant, against +126% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
3

Total granted

$450k
$34k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+233%
+126%

Still filing today

50%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23
Youth DevelopmentReligionHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • PA
    PARADISE ATLANTA WESTSIDE ENRICHMENT CENTER INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $168k · revenue +489%
  • SC
    SUMMERHILL COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $41k · revenue +31%
  • TN
    THRIVE NEW ORLEANS
    2× · 2018–2019 · $18k · revenue +233%

Funded once

  • WR
    WIND RIVER MINISTRIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +126%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $11k
  • KO
    Kids of Excellence Learning Centergraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue +74%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Agape Development Ministries

Transforming our neighborhood by preparing Christ-following independent community leaders.

Education
2
New Covenant Safe Haven

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…

Human Services
3
Power Cross

To spread the life changing word of Christ into our community utilizing a variety of resources to have a far reach and broad impact.

Religion
4
Do Right Chrisitian Center

Our mission at Do Right Christian Church is to transform lives and communities

Religion
5
Thrive Academy Atlanta Inc

Thrive Academy is a private Christian school using education as a platform to reach, disciple, and empower students facing systemic injustice, childhood trauma, and poverty. With student housing, engaging curriculum, and intentional…

Education
6
Community Kids

Community Kids exists to transform communities through kids by providing long-term, life-changing, worldview-expanding relationships, led by Christ.

Religion
7
City Rescue Mission Inc

Our mission is to lead our community by serving people experiencing or at risk of homelessness with help, hope, and healing, in the spirit of excellence, under the call of christ.

Human Services
8
Good Samaritan Mission Inc

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.

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9
New Genesis Inc

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…

—
10
City Gospel Mission and Affiliates

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…

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11
Christ Cathedral Ministries

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…

Religion
12
Faith Hope and Love Christian Ministries

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.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Paradise Atlanta Westside Enrichment Center Inc; 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 tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PARADISE ATLANTA WESTSIDE ENRICHMENT CENTER INC: $168,200 · Youth DevelopmentPARADISE ATLANTA WESTSIDE ENRICHMENT CENTER IN…MERCY STREET: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentMERCY STREETBLUEPRINT 58 INC: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentBLUEPRINT 58 INCTHATS MY CHILD: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHATS MY CHILDSUMMERHILL COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $40,500 · Youth DevelopmentSUMMERHILL COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INCABUNDANCE OF DESIRE: $92,553 · OtherABUNDANCE OF DESIRETRINITY FAMILY MINISTRIES: $66,700 · OtherTRINITY FAMILY MINISTRIESST ROCH COMMUNITY MISSION: $64,000 · OtherST ROCH COMMUNITY MISSIONIndividual grant recipient: $10,588 · OtherCROSSTOWN MINISTRIES INC: $50,000 · ReligionCROSSTOWN MINI…OAKS MINISTRIES INC: $50,000 · ReligionOAKS MINISTRIE…WIND RIVER MINISTRIES INC: $15,000 · ReligionWIND RIVER MIN…Mom Community Inc: $50,000 · Human ServicesMom Commu…THRIVE NEW ORLEANS: $18,000 · Human ServicesTHRIVE NE…Kids of Excellence Learning Center: $7,964 · Human ServicesKids of E…GROVE PARK RENEWAL INC: $50,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY CONNECT CDC: $50,000 · Community Improvement
Youth Development$358,700Other$233,841Religion$115,000Human Services$75,964Housing & Shelter$50,000Community Improvement$50,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 OutreachFundNatl Christian Charit…The Blackbaud Giving …Morgan Stanley Global…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Desire Street Ministries funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Desire Street Ministries. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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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