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Dig Deeper Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $132k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $465k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIFE LEARNING CENTER | $600,000 |
| HAPPY CHURCH | $465,000 |
| SOUTHSHORE COMMUNITY CHURCH | $100,000 |
| MASTER PROVISIONS | $100,000 |
| PROJECT 5-2 MINISTRY | $100,000 |
| BACK 2 BACK MINISTRIES | $60,000 |
| SAM HUBBARD FOUNDATION | $55,000 |
| ST VINCENTE DE PAUL OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY | $50,000 |
| NAVIGATORS | $15,000 |
| THE LIT MOVEMENT | $15,000 |
| FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST | $11,000 |
| BOONE COUNTY 4H OUNCIL | $10,941 |
| SPORTSMEN'S CLUB OF FORT WORTH | $10,000 |
| URBAN OUTREACH NKYCINCINNATI | $10,000 |
| PEL MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $670k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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 +62% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $921k 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
- MPMASTER PROVISIONS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $325k · revenue +63%
- LMLIT MOVEMENT6× · 2020–2025 · $55k · revenue +324%
- YLYOUNG LIFE5× · 2020–2025 · $50k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- RORIVER OF LIFEone grant, 2021 · $50k
- WAWE ARE THE RIPPLEone grant, 2022 · $30k
- IFIEDA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $25k
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.
Sending disciples to glorify god
Cross to Light is a nondenominational Christian organization providing spiritual education and physical aid to people in need around the world. Since 2005, Cross to Light has helped people cross from darkness to light by hearing the Gospel…
Counsel beleivers who are in need of spiritual and mental healing. bring non believers the good news of the gospel of grace. educate others on how to counsel through the word of god. provide seminars and conferences to enhance christian…
The purpose of Word of Life Fellowship is evangelization and discipleship through various means consistent with the Holy Scriptures to help build and strengthen the Church of Jesus Christ. Ministries include camps and conferences, youth…
Leadership Revolution is a ministry founded to develop leaders globally who will spread the gospel and make disciples in their arena of influence.
To present Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord to business and professional men and to develop Christian business and professional men to carry out the Great Commission.
WayMaker International Ministries is an inter-denominational mission organization committed to leading Christians in sharing Jesus Christ with the world, encouraging believers, and ministering to the international community.
Our mission is to affirm life through evangelism, education, counseling and practical assistance.
To share the Gospel of Jesus Christ and support missionaries and ministries.
Our mission is to multiply the global impact and influence of Christian leaders and pastors throughout their organizations and communities. Our activities involve working with members of the leadership of other exclusively charitable…
Gull lake ministries provides bible based, christian retreats year-round for families, churches and organizations where we exalt jesus and share his truth.
To advance the gospel in closed and hard-to-reach nations and to impact those nations for christ.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life and the most unlike its peers is New Day Ranch. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 18 years old; the field is 18. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 19% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
12 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. 12 of the 49 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 Life Learning Center Inc ↗
- Who funds MASTER PROVISIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Back 2 Back Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds Sam Hubbard Foundation ↗
- Who funds LIT MOVEMENT ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds GREAT COMMISSION FELLOWSHIP MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds SPORTSMEN'S CLUB OF FORT WORTH CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds NEW DAY RANCH ↗
- Who funds POTTERS RANCH INC ↗
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: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · George and Mary Jo Budig Family Foundati Foundation C/O George J Budig · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Dig Deeper Foundation Inc 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.
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