· Private foundation
Encourage Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k2 grants · $248k
- $250k+5 grants · $8.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC | $4,019,103 |
| CONNECTION FOR THE HOMELESS | $2,500,000 |
| LAKE WALES CARE CENTER | $1,000,000 |
| ANCHOR HOUSE SERVICES INC | $882,500 |
| ST ALBAN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $378,028 |
| ANCHOR HOUSE INC OF POLK COUNTY | $125,000 |
| DIOCESE OF CENTRAL FLORIDA | $123,308 |
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 (FY24–24, $883k) 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 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against -17% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.0M 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
- SUScripture Union2× · 2017–2018 · $126k · revenue +36%
- SFSOCIETY FOR KINGDOM LIVING2× · 2017–2018 · $110k · revenue +14% · 27% of their budget
- TMTHIRD MILLENNIUM MINISTRIES INC2× · 2017–2018 · $105k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- EDEPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF CENTRAL FLone grant, 2018 · $257k
- EDEPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF CENTRAL FLORIDAone grant, 2017 · $203k
- MIMAN IN THE MIRROR INCone grant, 2018 · $35k · revenue +12%
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.
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…
To deliver the message of Jesus
Religious
Our mission is to make disciples of jesus christ by engaging indigenous pastors around the world. our vision is to train pastors and their congregants to share the gospel in a friendly, non-denominational approach across all ethnicities,…
A training ministry that equips the saints more focusing on preparing leaders and ministers of the word for the work of ministry to the building up of the body of Christ.
Religious
Heart Bridge International exists to equip and empower Christians around the world to fulfill the Great Commission. The organization provides free ministry training, discipleship resources, and practical coaching to under-resourced…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Third Millennium Ministries Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rwanda Ministry Partners. 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 26 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 12% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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. 23 of the 45 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 CONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE WALES CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ANCHOR HOUSE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ANCHOR HOUSE INC OF POLK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Scripture Union ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR KINGDOM LIVING ↗
- Who funds THIRD MILLENNIUM MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds PEACE OF THE CITY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HUTCHCRAFT MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CS Lewis Institute ↗
- Who funds SHINING LIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds BIBLE STUDY MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds AvSTEM Inc ↗
- Who funds REVEL ↗
- Who funds OFFICERS CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP OF THE UNITED ↗
- Who funds MAN IN THE MIRROR INC ↗
- Who funds Seneca Gospel Mission ↗
- Who funds THE CALL ↗
- Who funds ARIEL A MINISTRY OF PROCLAMATION ↗
- Who funds HOWTOLIFE MOVEMENT ↗
- Who funds RWANDA MINISTRY PARTNERS ↗
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: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund
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 Encourage Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Lake Wales Care Center Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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