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Doulos Partners

DOULOS PARTNERS exists to empower the indigenous to take the gospel further and faster to the ends of the earth.

$37M
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$14M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$57MHousing & Shelter$851k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$4,758,070
Median grant
6
States reached
$391k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
E3 PARTNERS$14,415,526
BIG LIFE MINISTRIES$6,382,638
THE TIMOTHY INITIATIVE$5,589,389
EVERY HOME FOR CHRIST$4,758,070
EAST WEST MINISTRIES$2,128,129
NEW GENERATIONS$1,765,889
DOOR INTERNATIONAL$1,498,777
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 49% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 7%E3 PARTNERS: $14.4M → 5%WORLD LINK MINISTRIES: $30k → 11%REACHING SOULS INTERNATIONAL: $336k → 13%BIG LIFE MINISTRIES: $6.4M → 10%DOOR INTERNATIONAL: $1.5M → 8%EVERY HOME FOR CHRIST: $4.8M → 9%E3 PARTNERS: $5.2M → 5%BIG LIFE MINISTRIES: $1.2M → 10%DOOR INTERNATIONAL: $666k → 8%EVERY HOME FOR CHRIST: $1.2M → 9%EAST WEST MINISTRIES: $2.1M → 5%BIG LIFE MINISTRIES: $685k → 10%DOOR INTERNATIONAL: $614k → 8%EVERY HOME FOR CHRIST: $851k → 9%E3 PARTNERS: $298k → 5%BIG LIFE MINISTRIES: $479k → 10%DOOR INTERNATIONAL: $436k → 8%EVERY HOME FOR CHRIST: $284k → 9%EAST WEST MINISTRIES: $147k → 5%BIG LIFE MINISTRIES: $392k → 10%DOOR INTERNATIONAL: $271k → 8%BIG LIFE MINISTRIES: $378k → 10%DOOR INTERNATIONAL: $206k → 8%BIG LIFE MINISTRIES: $348k → 10%DOOR INTERNATIONAL: $18k → 8%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
CA
CO
KY
NC
OK
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$57M · 9 repeat orgs$260k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
2

Total granted

$57M
$260k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+1%

Still filing today

67%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • BI
    BIGLIFE INTERNATIONAL INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $10M · revenue +141%
  • TT
    THE TIMOTHY INITIATIVE INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $8.2M · revenue +11%
  • NG
    NEW GENERATIONS
    7× · 2019–2025 · $4.5M · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • BT
    By The Spirit Ministries Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $238k · revenue +1%
  • FO
    Fellowship of Israel Related Ministries Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $22k · revenue 0%
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
Global City Missions Initiative Incorporated

Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…

Religion
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
World Indigenous Missions Inc

Engaged in missionary training, organizing churches, evangelism, and related Christian activities.

Religion
4
Next Worldwide Inc

With a desire to see the Gospel proclaimed in all nations, we exist to make and multiply disciples of the next generation through the vehicles of church-planting missions and missional leadership training.

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5
Mio Frontiers

Church planting among the least evangelized peoples of the world through recruiting, training, sending, and serving field workers.

Religion
6
International Leadership Institute

The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…

Religion
7
Indigenous Ministries International Inc

The purpose of IMI is reaching nationals through nationals in ministry.

Religion
8
New Life International Christian Ministry Inc

Our mission is proclaiming the message of salvation through the saving power of the Holy Spirit to reach the unreached by evangelizing; motivating, mobilizing and organizing the body of Christ.

Religion
9
Mission Without Borders International

The organization is dedicated to reaching people for christ through an international network of christians who journey with the poor and marginalized, bringing practical and spiritual support with hope of a better future,(continued on…

International
10
Timothy Two Project International

Reaching and teaching pastors in the majority world.

Religion
11
Leadership Resources International

International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures

Religion
12
Raise Up Global Ministries

Raise Up Global Ministries is committed to educating Christian leaders in communities around the world. The three programs of Raise Up equip the global church by 1 Developing biblically based interactive materials and 2 Training…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Biglife International Inc; the most unlike its peers is New Generations. 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

9 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. 9 of the 11 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)
8/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

E3 Partners Ministry: $19,897,094 · ReligionE3 Partners MinistryTHE TIMOTHY INITIATIVE INC: $8,193,425 · ReligionTHE TIMOTHY INITIATIVE INCNEW GENERATIONS: $4,526,082 · ReligionNEW GENERATIONSEast-West Ministries International: $2,275,129 · ReligionEast-West Ministries International+4 more: $1,481,254 · ReligionWORLD LITERATURE CRUSADE: $7,096,681 · OtherWORLD LITERATURE CRUS…D O O R INTERNATIONAL: $3,708,720 · OtherD O O R INTERNATIONALBIGLIFE INTERNATIONAL INC: $10,458,330 · Recreation & SportsBIGLIFE INTERNATIONA…
Religion$36,372,984Other$10,805,401Recreation & Sports$10,458,330

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetE3 Partners Ministry: $19,897,094 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetBIGLIFE INTERNATIONAL INC: $10,458,330 over 9y, 7.5% of budgetTHE TIMOTHY INITIATIVE INC: $8,193,425 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetNEW GENERATIONS: $4,526,082 over 7y, 11% of budgetREACHING SOULS INTERNATIONAL INC: $791,181 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetWORLD LINK MINISTRIES INC: $430,498 over 3y, 12% of budgetBy The Spirit Ministries Inc: $237,800 over 1y, 16% of budgetFellowship of Israel Related Ministries Inc: $21,775 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds E3 Partners Ministry ↗
  • Who funds BIGLIFE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TIMOTHY INITIATIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW GENERATIONS ↗
  • Who funds East-West Ministries International ↗
  • Who funds REACHING SOULS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD LINK MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds By The Spirit Ministries Inc ↗
  • Who funds Fellowship of Israel Related Ministries 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.

Servant FoundationThe Signatry Charitab…Natl Christian Charit…Finishing Fund Manage…Christian Community F…Vanguard Charitable E…Raymond James Charita…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Servant FoundationKS20.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Servant Foundation · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Finishing Fund Management · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Doulos Partners funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Doulos Partners. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's 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, 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 11 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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