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Divine Order Foundation

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.

$8k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What you fund
0177% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20222025.

Religion$38kFood & Nutrition$13kPublic Benefit$3kHuman Services$550Philanthropy$521Civil Rights$454Other$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$100
Median grant
5
States reached
$643
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Obule Church of Christ$2,446
University Parkway Church of Christ$1,790
Individual grant recipient$1,120
Kidodo Church of Christ$735
Individual Benevolence Total$521
Individual grant recipient$500
East Baltimore Church of Christ$100
New Life Church of Christ$100
Individual grant recipient$100
Individual grant recipient$100
Individual grant recipient$83
Individual grant recipient$75
Mind Expansion Community Services$50
100K Project$50
change dot org ICAN$50
02The need
03

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 US giving32% of grant dollars ($18k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 68% that went abroad ($40k) is mapped below.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 61% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 16%Deontae Blade: $1k → 8%Christian Chronicle: $600 → 16%change dot org ICAN: $404 → 14%GODSU: $900 → 13%St Jude: $100 → 17%Jacqueline Owens: $710 → 11%East Baltimore Church of Christ: $100 → 11%Inner City Church Of Christ: $30 → 19%Christian Chronicle: $50 → 16%change dot org: $275 → 14%Thanksgiving Baskets: $1k → 11%University Parkway Church of Christ: $3k → 19%change dot org ICAN: $50 → 14%Thanksgiving Baskets: $750 → 11%University Parkway Church of Christ: $2k → 19%Thanksgiving Baskets: $650 → 11%University Parkway Church of Christ: $2k → 19%S Parker: $3k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

IL
MD
TN
NC
DC
OK
LA
TX
FL

Beyond the US68% of all-years giving ($40k)

5 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Kenya$33k · 4 grants
Nepal$3k · 2 grants
Uganda$3k · 3 grants
Ukraine$750 · 2 grants
South Africa$404 · 2 grants

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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$50k · 7 repeat orgs$9k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
13

Total granted

$50k
$7k

Still filing today

14%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureReligionOther

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

  • OC
    Obule Church of Christ
    4× · 2022–2025 · $33k
  • UP
    University Parkway Church of Christ
    3× · 2023–2025 · $7k
  • BC
    Baneshwor Church of Christ
    2× · 2022–2023 · $3k

Funded once

  • SP
    S Parker
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $1k
  • G
    GODSU
    one grant, 2022 · $900

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

04Your field
04the grantee network

2 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 2 of the 31 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
2/2
Grantees still filing
0/2
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Obule Church of Christ — $33,001 · OtherObule Church of ChristUniversity Parkway Church of Christ — $6,994 · OtherUniversity Parkway Church of ChristBaneshwor Church of Christ — $3,251 · OtherBaneshwor Church of ChristS Parker — $3,000 · OtherKidodo Church of Christ — $2,652 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $2,520 · Other+23 more — $6,441 · Other+23 moreChristian Chronicle Inc — $650 · Arts & CultureINNER CITY CHURCH OF CHRIST — $30 · Religion
Other$57,859Arts & Culture$650Religion$30

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetChristian Chronicle Inc — $650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINNER CITY CHURCH OF CHRIST — $30 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Christian Chronicle Inc
  • Who funds INNER CITY CHURCH OF CHRIST

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Divine Order Foundation 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.

2025
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Divine Order Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Divine Order 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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