· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| PROJECT 5-2 MINISTRY | $100,000 |
| MASTER PROVISIONS | $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 |
| URBAN OUTREACH NKYCINCINNATI | $10,000 |
| NEW LIFE ASSEMBLY OF GOD | $10,000 |
| KINGDOM INCLUSION | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +62% since the first grant, against +6% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- LBLAKE BUFFUM BAPTIST CHURCH GOD'S HANDS FARMone grant, 2022 · $25k
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 49 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 NEW DAY RANCH ↗
- Who funds SPORTSMEN'S CLUB OF FORT WORTH CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds POTTERS RANCH INC ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Dig Deeper Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dig Deeper Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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