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Diakonos Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$7k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Religion$85kInternational$34kHealth$29kHuman Services$28kFood & Nutrition$18kEducation$6kHousing & Shelter$2kYouth Development$350Other$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$280
Median grant
7
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALPHA MINISTRIES$2,625
AFRICAN BIBLE COLLEGE$2,500
Individual grant recipient$608
LIFE NETWORK$500
BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP$280
Individual grant recipient$250
FIRST PLYMOTH CHURCH$200
NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY$100
BAMFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$100
PARADISE VALLEY ENGINEERING ACADEMY$100
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY20–23, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 4%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HOPE'S PROMISE: $7k → 3%HOPE'S PROMISE: $5k → 3%CHRISTIAN ALLIANCE FOR ORPHANS: $3k → 6%HOPE'S PROMISE: $5k → 3%CHRISTIAN ALLIANCE FOR ORPHANS: $2k → 6%HOPE'S PROMISE: $2k → 3%CHRISTIAN ALLIANCE FOR ORPHANS: $2k → 6%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
PA
NJ
CA
CO
NE
VA
TN
NC
OK
MS
TX
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$182k · 20 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
14

Total granted

$182k
$29k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+2%

Still filing today

50%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionHealthInternationalHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • HP
    HOPE'S PROMISE INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $19k · revenue +117%
  • Compassion International Incorporated
    4× · 2020–2023 · $15k · revenue +16%
  • AB
    AFRICAN BIBLE COLLEGES INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $15k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • MC
    MOSAIC CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $13k
  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +50%
  • MS
    MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +32%
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
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

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…

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2
Christianity Today International

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.

Religion
3
American Bible Society

Since 1816, american bible society has been fulfilling its mission of making the bible available to every person in a language and format each can understand and afford so all people may experience its life-changing message.

Religion
4
Bibleproject

Bibleproject's mission is to help people experience the bible as a unified story that leads to jesus. this is achieved by creating biblical videos to be regularly released on a newly-created youtube channel. (continued on schedule o.)each…

Religion
5
Global Outreach International Inc

To get the good news to every nation this generation by showing and sharing god's love by providing opportunities and supporting christian missionaries in over fifty seven countries around the world.

International
6
Global Media Outreach

Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.

Religion
7
Blue Letter Bible

The specific purpose of this corporation is to present a biblical, christian ministry of the gospel, hope, encouragement and strength to as many people as possible. the intent of those who will conduct this corporation's work is to present…

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8
Biblica Inc

To provide the bible in accurate, contemporary translations and formats so that more people around the world will have the opportunity to be transformed by jesus christ.

Religion
9
Jewish Voice Ministries Intl

To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…

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10
Christian Healthcare Ministries Inc

To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.

Religion
11
Ason International Inc

Assisting national Christian leaders around the world.

Human Services
12
Biglife International Inc

Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bible Study Fellowship; the most unlike its peers is Armchair Samaritan Dba American Samaritan. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 38 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/23
Grantees still filing
15/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DEER CREEK COMMUNITY CHURCH: $17,800 · OtherDEER CREEK COMMUNITY CHURCHMOSAIC CHURCH: $13,432 · OtherMOSAIC CHURCHMORGAN HILL BIBLE CHURCH: $10,000 · OtherMORGAN HILL BIBLE CHURCHVOICE OF THE MARTYRS INC: $9,500 · OtherVOICE OF THE MARTYRS INCIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $4,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+10 more: $6,106 · Other+10 moreFEED THE CHILDREN INC: $17,500 · InternationalFEED THE CHILDREN INCCompassion International Incorporated: $15,110 · InternationalCompassion Internatio…Mercy Ships International: $7,000 · InternationalMercy Ships Internati…SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $11,500 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURS…ALPHA MINISTRIES INC: $11,250 · ReligionALPHA MINISTRIES…Ligonier Ministries Inc: $5,500 · ReligionLigonier Ministr…+4 more: $3,130 · Religion+4 moreST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $10,500 · HealthST JUDE CHILDRE…Life Network: $7,750 · HealthLife NetworkNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $5,860 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIP…MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC: $2,000 · HealthMULTIPLE SCLERO…BENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $1,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,000 · HealthHOPE'S PROMISE INC: $19,000 · Human ServicesHOPE'S PROMIS…Christian Alliance for Orphans: $6,500 · Human ServicesChristian All…AFRICAN BIBLE COLLEGES INC: $14,750 · EducationAFRICAN BI…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $4,500 · EducationSTEPHEN SI…GARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $1,000 · PhilanthropyCOMPADRES THERAPY INC: $1,000 · Community Improvement
Other$65,838International$39,610Religion$31,380Health$28,110Human Services$25,500Education$19,250Philanthropy$1,000Community Improvement$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHOPE'S PROMISE INC: $19,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetFEED THE CHILDREN INC: $17,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAFRICAN BIBLE COLLEGES INC: $14,750 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $11,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $10,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLife Network: $7,750 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMercy Ships International: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChristian Alliance for Orphans: $6,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $5,860 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArmchair Samaritan DBA American Samaritan: $1,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Bible Study: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEAVEN'S FAMILY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPADRES THERAPY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP: $780 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGRIT AND GRACE PROJECT INC: $350 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Servant FoundationNatl Christian Charit…American Endowment Fo…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Servant FoundationKS14.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Diakonos Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Diakonos Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Diakonos Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Diakonos Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 38 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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