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Emmaus Evangelical Fellowship

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.

$81k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$23k
Largest
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$241kYouth Development$134kEducation$77kInternational$68kHuman Services$28kArts & Culture$7kHealth$5kCommunity Improvement$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $38k
$2,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$414k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PHOENIX CHRISTIAN UNIFIED SCHOOLS INC$22,949
HIGHLANDS CHURCH$15,000
HOPE FOR THE HOPELESS$8,000
LIVING STREAMS CHRISTIAN CHURCH$7,660
HOPE 4 KIDS INTERNATIONAL$6,650
MARK BUCKLEY MINISTRIES LLC - SOLE MEMBER - LIVING STREAMS CHRISTIAN CHURC$5,560
WORLD VENTURE$5,000
FAMILY OF GOD CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP$3,500
POSSIBILITY PLACE CHRISTIAN MISSION$2,000
HEART FOR THE CITY$1,000
WELL SPRING CHURCH$1,000
WALK AND TALK INC$1,000
JOEL OSTEEN MINISTRIES$500
CJMI$500
K-LOVE RADIO$500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%OKLAHOMA BAPTIST HOMES FOR CHILDREN: $500 → 16%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

WA
CA
CO
NE
AZ
TN
OK
MS
GA
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$505k · 26 repeat orgs$65k to everyone else

26 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
19

Total granted

$505k
$37k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+14%

Still filing today

31%
26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
Human ServicesReligionInternationalEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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
    PHOENIX CHRISTIAN UNIFIED SCHOOLS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $75k · revenue +151%
  • H4
    HOPE 4 KIDS INTERNATIONAL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $58k · revenue +79%
  • GC
    Grand Canyon University
    2× · 2024–2025 · $1k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • CF
    CORNERSTONE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -15%
  • GC
    GLEN CAMPBELL I'LL BE ME CAREGIVER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • CH
    CHRISTIAN HEALTH SERVICES CORPS
    one grant, 2017 · $4k
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
Financial Planning Ministry

Financial planning ministry, inc. (fpm) is a not-for-profit organization devoted to assisting in the performance of the functions of christian churches by serving their financial needs.

Health
2
Insight for Living

Insight for living is a christian radio ministry that teaches the practical application of the bible. insight for living reaches audiences through radio sermons, compact disc recordings, dvd's, podcasts, internet access, books,…

Religion
3
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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4
Marketplace Ministries Inc

To share god's love in the workplace by providing a personalized and proactive employee care service through chaplain teams.

Religion
5
Bibleproject

Bibleproject's mission is to help people experience the bible as a unified story that leads to jesus. this is achieved by creating biblical videos to be regularly released on a newly-created youtube channel. (continued on schedule o.)each…

Religion
6
Biglife International Inc

Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.

Recreation & Sports
7
Apt Ministries

To train pastors/leaders in africa who have little or no formal training and resources. teach them how to study and prepare bible-based messages using the thompson chain reference study bible and to provide bible to trained pastors/leaders.

Religion
8
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
9
Presbyterian Reformed Ministries International

Exalting jesus christ igniting the church in the power of the holy spirit under the authority of the holy bible as the word of god through prayer, leadership development, growing the church, and mission outreach so that the church may be…

Religion
10
World Hope Ministries International

Training pastors, growing churches, and transforming communities for christ.

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11
Global Outreach International Inc

To get the good news to every nation this generation by showing and sharing god's love by providing opportunities and supporting christian missionaries in over fifty seven countries around the world.

International
12
The King's University

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life; the most unlike its peers is Possibility Place Christian Mission Inc. 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

15 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. 15 of the 49 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
9/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PHOENIX CHRISTIAN UNIFIED SCHOOLS: $74,822 · OtherPHOENIX CHRISTIAN UNIFIED SCHOOLSLIVING STREAMS CHURCH: $49,050 · OtherLIVING STREAMS CHURCHFAMILY OF GOD CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: $38,700 · OtherFAMILY OF GOD CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIPLIVING STREAMS CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $33,473 · OtherLIVING STREAMS CHRISTIAN CHURCHJOSHUA INITIATIVE MINISTRY: $19,000 · OtherJOSHUA INITIATIVE MINISTRYMARK BUCKLEY MINISTRIES: $17,665 · OtherMARK BUCKLEY MINISTRIESMARK BUCKLEY MINISTRIES LLC - SOLE MEMBER - LIVING STREAMS CHRISTIAN CHURC: $15,068 · OtherHIGHLANDS CHURCH: $15,000 · OtherWELLSPRING CHURCH: $14,825 · Other+27 more: $51,070 · Other+27 moreHEART FOR THE CITY: $132,950 · Human ServicesHEART FOR THE CITYWALK & TALK INC: $14,750 · Human ServicesWALK & TALK INCHOPE FOR THE HOPELESS: $8,000 · Human Services+1 more: $500 · Human ServicesHOPE 4 KIDS INTERNATIONAL: $57,600 · InternationalHOPE 4 KIDS I…CORNERSTONE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · InternationalCORNERSTONE F…+1 more: $300 · InternationalPOSSIBILITY PLACE CHRISTIAN MISSION INC: $9,850 · ReligionRESTING PLACE CHURCH INC: $3,000 · ReligionLikewise Worship Inc: $2,000 · Religion+1 more: $100 · ReligionGrand Canyon University: $1,200 · EducationYOUNG LIFE: $1,000 · Youth Development
Other$328,673Human Services$156,200International$67,900Religion$14,950Education$1,200Youth Development$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHEART FOR THE CITY: $132,950 over 9y, 8.5% of budgetPHOENIX CHRISTIAN UNIFIED SCHOOLS: $74,822 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetHOPE 4 KIDS INTERNATIONAL: $57,600 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetWALK & TALK INC: $14,750 over 9y, 11% of budgetCORNERSTONE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPOSSIBILITY PLACE CHRISTIAN MISSION INC: $9,850 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetRESTING PLACE CHURCH INC: $3,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetJONI AND FRIENDS: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGrand Canyon University: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOKLAHOMA BAPTIST HOMES FOR CHILDREN INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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 HEART FOR THE CITY ↗
  • Who funds PHOENIX CHRISTIAN UNIFIED SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds HOPE 4 KIDS INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds WALK & TALK INC ↗
  • Who funds CORNERSTONE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds POSSIBILITY PLACE CHRISTIAN MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE FOR THE HOPELESS ↗
  • Who funds RESTING PLACE CHURCH INC ↗
  • Who funds Likewise Worship Inc ↗
  • Who funds JONI AND FRIENDS ↗
  • Who funds Grand Canyon University ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗

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.

Arizona Community FoundationAZ12.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Emmaus Evangelical Fellowship funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Emmaus Evangelical Fellowship. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%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
    3report 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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Emmaus Evangelical Fellowship?

    Find your warmest path to Emmaus Evangelical Fellowship 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 49 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-PF 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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