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Educational Media Foundation
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Read this first · the figures below need context
91% of Educational Media Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Convoy Of Hope, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Educational Media Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $368k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 5 grants below total $368,250 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $377,349 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $9,099 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $360k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PORTER'S CALL | $150,000 |
| CHRISTIAN MUSIC BROADCASTERS INC | $85,000 |
| THE PREMIER FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| GMA FOUNDATION (GOSPEL MUSIC ASSOCIATION) | $50,000 |
| NAB LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION | $8,250 |
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 (FY21–24, $185k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +64% since the first grant, against -24% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2021, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2024, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- PCPORTERS CALL4× · 2018–2021 · $800k · revenue +153% · 36% of their budget
- CMCHRISTIAN MUSIC BROADCASTERS INC7× · 2017–2023 · $533k · revenue +29%
- GMGOSPEL MUSIC ASSOCIATION INC3× · 2020–2022 · $260k · revenue ×85
Funded once
- WMWILLIAMS MEMORIAL CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRISTone grant, 2017 · $24k
- WSWatson Seven Foundation Incone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -149%
- DDDevelopmental Disabilities Service Service Organization Incone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue -24%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Convoy of Hope and the most unlike its peers is Calvary Community Church of Salinas. 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 24 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
23 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.
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 CONVOY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds PORTERS CALL ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN MUSIC BROADCASTERS INC ↗
- Who funds GOSPEL MUSIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Premier Foundation ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BROADCASTERS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HOPE CHURCH OF DETROIT INC ↗
- Who funds WITH OPEN EYES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds The Hope Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Watson Seven Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SLAVE 2 NOTHING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM JESSUP UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Developmental Disabilities Service Service Organization Inc ↗
- Who funds Motor Racing Outreach Inc ↗
- Who funds NEED HIM NATIONAL MEDIA OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds THE GLOBAL ORPHAN PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR GUIDANCE AID PLACEMENT AND EMPATHY ↗
- Who funds FRANCE FOR CHRIST ↗
- Who funds CALVARY COMMUNITY CHURCH of SALINAS ↗
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: Servant Foundation · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 Educational Media 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.