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Educational Media Foundation

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$377k
Granted FY2021
5
Grants FY2021
4
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

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

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’17
8
’18
7
’19
6
’20
5
’21
5
’22
2
’23
3
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

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 2024.

Religion$1.6MInternational$900kFood & Nutrition$419kArts & Culture$303kEducation$42kHuman Services$35kHealth$15k
02FY2021 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $368,250, the rows itemized in this filing. The $377,349 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $9,099 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $360k
$75,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.2B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE HOPE CENTER: $25k → 18%AGAPE: $10k → 14%PORTER'S CALL: $150k → 4%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
MO
AZ
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
TX
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 9 repeat orgs$237k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +64% since the first grant, against -24% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
7

Total granted

$1.8M
$102k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%
-24%

Still filing today

100%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionHuman ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureInternationalEducationOther
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

  • PC
    PORTERS CALL
    4× · 2018–2021 · $800k · revenue +113% · 36% of their budget
  • CM
    CHRISTIAN MUSIC BROADCASTERS INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $533k · revenue +29%
  • GM
    GOSPEL MUSIC ASSOCIATION INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $260k · revenue ×85

Funded once

  • WM
    WILLIAMS MEMORIAL CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST
    one grant, 2017 · $24k
  • WS
    Watson Seven Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -149%
  • DD
    Developmental Disabilities Service Service Organization Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue -24%
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
Praise Broadcasting Inc

Praise broadcasting's (praisefm) vision is to see every tribe and nation experiencing jesus together. our mission is simple: together we help people discover and worship jesus. more than a radio station, praisefm is a place where…

Religion
2
Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry Inc

To glorify god by equipping the church with proper christian doctrine and to help non-believers come to a saving knowledge of jesus christ.

—
3
Christian Heritage Broadcastinginc

Chb's (praisefm) vision is to see every tribe and nation experience jesus together. our mission is simple: together we help people discover and worship jesus. more than a radio station, praisefm is a place where passionate lovers of jesus…

—
4
For the Gospel Ministries

Support local churches, leaders, and christians from around the world through online content that strengthens and affirms their life in christ. committed to using every means possible to reach every age and life stage with the gospel…

Religion
5
Explore God Network
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6
Wounded Spirits Ministries

The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…

Recreation & Sports
7
Safe Haven Counseling Associates in

Biblical counseling

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8
Concerts of Prayer International

Prayer based evangelism

Religion
9
Music Serving the Word Ministries
Religion
10
Gospel Crusade Ministries Inc
—
11
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

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…

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12
Global Radio Outreach

Our Gospel Radio Program in Arabic was inaugurated in 1993, broadcast from the Middle East on 5 transmitters and on the internet. Approximately 350 million Arabs can receive the programs. Our Farsi Gospel Radio Program was inaugurated in…

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Convoy of Hope; 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.
04the grantee network

23 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/23
Grantees still filing
14/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONVOY OF HOPE: $1,318,508 · InternationalCONVOY OF HOPE+1 more: $41,000 · InternationalPORTERS CALL: $800,000 · Human ServicesPORTERS CALL+2 more: $35,000 · Human ServicesCHRISTIAN MUSIC BROADCASTERS INC: $533,056 · ReligionCHRISTIAN MUSIC BROADC…The Premier Foundation: $75,000 · ReligionThe Premier FoundationTHE HOPE CHURCH OF DETROIT INC: $43,000 · ReligionTHE HOPE CHURCH OF DET…+2 more: $24,000 · ReligionGOSPEL MUSIC ASSOCIATION INC: $260,000 · Arts & CultureGOSPEL MUSI…NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BROADCASTERS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $68,300 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL AS…WILLIAMS MEMORIAL CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST: $24,000 · OtherWILLIAM JESSUP UNIVERSITY: $16,500 · OtherDevelopmental Disabilities Service Service Organization Inc: $15,000 · OtherCALVARY COMMUNITY CHURCH of SALINAS: $10,000 · OtherFRANCE FOR CHRIST: $10,000 · OtherSLAVE 2 NOTHING FOUNDATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropyWatson Seven Foundation Inc: $20,000 · PhilanthropyTHE GLOBAL ORPHAN PROJECT INC: $10,250 · PhilanthropyNEW HOPE ACADEMY: $25,000 · Education
International$1,359,508Human Services$835,000Religion$675,056Arts & Culture$328,300Other$75,500Philanthropy$50,250Education$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCONVOY OF HOPE: $1,318,508 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPORTERS CALL: $800,000 over 4y, 36% of budgetCHRISTIAN MUSIC BROADCASTERS INC: $533,056 over 7y, 21% of budgetGOSPEL MUSIC ASSOCIATION INC: $260,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetThe Premier Foundation: $75,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BROADCASTERS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $68,300 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetWITH OPEN EYES FOUNDATION INC: $41,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetNEW HOPE ACADEMY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Hope Center Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetSLAVE 2 NOTHING FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWatson Seven Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetWILLIAM JESSUP UNIVERSITY: $16,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDevelopmental Disabilities Service Service Organization Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMotor Racing Outreach Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNEED HIM NATIONAL MEDIA OUTREACH INC: $11,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE GLOBAL ORPHAN PROJECT INC: $10,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR GUIDANCE AID PLACEMENT AND EMPATHY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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…Christian Community F…The Community Foundat…Thrivent Financial fo…Raymond James Charita…The Blackbaud Giving …Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…
Servant FoundationKS18.3× 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 · 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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 21 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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