· Private foundation
Earle & Virginia Combs 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $84k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $125k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
- $250k+1 grant · $525k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION | $525,000 |
| LANGHAM PARTNERSHIP | $150,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| BARRINGTON WHITE HOUSE | $30,000 |
| FORT WILDERNESS MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| RUSSIAN LEADERSHIP MINISTRIES | $20,000 |
| LOUIS PALAU ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| A ROCHA USA | $10,000 |
| VILLAGE CHURCH OF BARRINGTON | $10,000 |
| LIKEWISE WORSHIP | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TYNDALE | $10,000 |
| BRISTOL MINISTRIES | $8,000 |
| AMG INTERNATIONAL | $7,500 |
| SANGO ASSOCIATION | $7,500 |
| MESA GLOBAL | $6,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
84 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 55 since wound down; 2 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- LPLANGHAM PARTNERSHIP USA INC NFP9× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +63%
- NCNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2025 · $980k · revenue ×103 · 89% of their budget
- FWFORT WILDERNESS MINISTRIES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $280k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- LFLIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +27%
- AIAxia Internationalone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +24%
- CCCALVARY COMMUNITY CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $3k
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.
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.
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…
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
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…
Asbury Theological Seminary is a community called to prepare theologically educated, sanctified, Spirit-filled men and women to evangelize and to spread scriptural holiness throughout the world through the love of Jesus Christ, in the…
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
The King's University integrates Biblical education and practical ministry to shape Spirit-formed individuals who follow Jesus, serve His Church, and are sent to impact the world.
Provide education in theology, divinity, religious education, ministerial training, business and organizational leadership.
Assisting national Christian leaders around the world.
The Center of Theological Inquiry is an independent research institution with an international visiting scholar program which convenes researchers in an ideal setting for interdisciplinary inquiries where theology casts light on global…
Bible Translation and acts of Christian Services
Manna University is a biblical higher education institution dedicated to educating, equipping, and empowering emerging leaders to change the world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trinity Forum Inc and the most unlike its peers is The International Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 101 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 LANGHAM PARTNERSHIP USA INC NFP ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WILDERNESS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP MANITO-WISH YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds Luis Palau Association ↗
- Who funds RUSSIAN LEADERSHIP MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds 222 Foundation ↗
- Who funds Chicago Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds SANGO ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds American Friends of Tyndale House Cambridge Inc ↗
- Who funds The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS FOR CONSERVATION INC ↗
- Who funds Likewise Worship Inc ↗
- Who funds A ROCHA USA INC A ROCHA USA ↗
- Who funds Trinity International University ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HOPE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE ADLER PLANETARIUM ↗
- Who funds AMG INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Scholar Leaders International ↗
- Who funds COMMON HOPE ↗
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: Tyndale House Ministries · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Domanada Foundation · G II Charities · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The Signatry Charitable Trust · First Fruit Inc · AbbVie Foundation · John Templeton 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 Earle & Virginia Combs 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.
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.