· Private foundation
Encouragement Ministries Inc
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $52k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Lenana Hanna Howard Fund | $13,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $13,500 |
| Dream Childrens Center | $13,500 |
| St Mary Magdalene Seminary | $11,841 |
| World Food Program | $9,750 |
| Atlanta Community Food Bank | $3,000 |
| Mercy Ships | $2,000 |
| Covenant House | $270 |
| Wikimedia | $200 |
| American Indian College Fund | $150 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 24% of grant dollars ($84k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 76% that went abroad ($265k) is mapped below.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 76% of all-years giving ($265k)
3 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +61% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC4× · 2022–2025 · $39k · revenue +4%
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF2× · 2021–2022 · $12k · revenue +64%
Mercy Ships International3× · 2023–2025 · $7k · revenue +61%
Funded once
- DCDream Children Centerone grant, 2020 · $7k
- AUATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATIONone grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue -13%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +3%
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.
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.
To improve lives by mobilizing caring power of communities around the world to advance common good.
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.
Food for the hungry is a christian humanitarian aid and global development organization that has designed, developed and delivered solutions for more than 50 years so that children, families and communities can flourish. (continued on…
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
TO MANAGE AN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, HEALTH, AND RELIEF FOCUSED FAMILY OF ORGANIZATIONS HELPING PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES LIFT THEMSELVES OUT OF POVERTY, SUPPORT WELL-BEING OF INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES, AND PROVIDE…
To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.
See schedule o for a more detailed description of ide's mission statement and achievements.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 26 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds CALVIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BY GRACE TRUST ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Encouragement Ministries Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Encouragement Ministries Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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