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· Private foundation

Encouragement Unlimited Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$72k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What you fund
0191% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Religion$253kHuman Services$82kInternational$61kCivil Rights$31kFood & Nutrition$13kHealth$10kEducation$4kHousing & Shelter$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $46k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $26k
$2,717
Median grant
7
States reached
$162k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAP INTERNATIONAL$15,925
SECOND HARVEST FOOD$10,000
WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER TO END VIOLE$6,500
OAK GROVE METHODIST CHURCH$6,100
SPARROWS NEST BRUNSWICK GA$5,588
WORD MINISTRIES$5,000
NATL DAY OF PRAYER MINISTRY$4,824
CENTER FOR LIFES COUNCEL$4,274
OTHER SMALL GRANTS500$2,717
MTN2SEA MINISTRIES$2,000
AMITY HOUSE BRUNSWICK GA$2,000
WELLROOT FAMILY SERVICES$1,550
TURNING POINT MINISTRY$1,100
Individual grant recipient$1,091
Individual grant recipient$1,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%WELLROOT FAMILY SERVICES: $11k → 14%WELLROOT FAMILY SERVICES: $8k → 14%WELL ROOT FAMILY SERVICES: $4k → 14%WELLROOT FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 14%WELLROOT FAMILY SERVICES: $500 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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GA
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$371k · 17 repeat orgs$95k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +76% since the first grant, against +62% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
25

Total granted

$371k
$62k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+76%
+62%

Still filing today

53%
16%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k 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
HealthInternationalReligionEducationArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther

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

  • MAP International Inc
    4× · 2018–2025 · $47k · revenue +140%
  • UM
    UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME OF THE NORTH GA CONFERENCE INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $25k · revenue +10%
  • FO
    FOUNDATION OF WESLEY WOODS INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $16k · revenue +391%

Funded once

  • WR
    WOMENS RESOURCE CTR DEKALB CTY GQA
    one grant, 2020 · $29k
  • C1
    CAFE 1040 INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +62%
  • MC
    MERCY CHURCH
    one grant, 2018 · $3k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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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Global Media Outreach

Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.

Religion
2
Time of Grace Ministry

Time of grace is for people who want more growth and less struggle in their spiritual walk. we share the truth of god's word simply and clearly through television, print, and digital media that people view millions of times each month. we…

Religion
3
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
4
Jewish Voice Ministries Intl

To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…

5
Evangel University

Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.

Education
6
Global City Missions Initiative Incorporated

Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…

Religion
7
Mid-Atlantic Christian University

Mid-atlantic christian university is an undergraduate institution of christian higher learning whose mission is to impact the world by transforming ordinary people into extraordinary christian leaders. students are taught to think…

Education
8
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…

9
Blue Letter Bible

The specific purpose of this corporation is to present a biblical, christian ministry of the gospel, hope, encouragement and strength to as many people as possible. the intent of those who will conduct this corporation's work is to present…

10
George Fox University

George fox university, a christ centered community, prepares students spiritually, academically, and professionally to think with clarity, act with integrity, and serve with passion.

Education
11
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
12
Bloodwater Mission Inc

Bloodwater mission, inc. (the organization) is a not-for-profit organization registered in nashville, tennessee that operates an international nonprofit that partners with african community-driven organizations to end water and hiv/aids…

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgia Tech Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Word Ministries 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

14 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 52 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
12/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Oak Grove Methodist Church — $199,738 · OtherOak Grove Methodist ChurchWOMENS RESOURCE CENTER TO END VIOLE — $30,500 · OtherWOMENS RESOURCE CENTER TO END VIOLEWOMENS RESOURCE CTR DEKALB CTY GQA — $29,321 · OtherWOMENS RESOURCE CTR DEKALB CTY GQA+38 more — $80,366 · Other+38 moreMAP International Inc — $47,498 · InternationalMAP Internati…Mercury One Inc — $9,762 · InternationalMercury One I…FOUNDATION OF WESLEY WOODS INC — $16,456 · HealthBREAKTHRU HOUSE INC — $7,390 · HealthGILGAL INC — $2,000 · HealthUNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME OF THE NORTH GA CONFERENCE INC — $24,793 · Human ServicesMTN2SEA MINISTRIES INC — $10,500 · ReligionTurning Point for God — $1,100 · ReligionCAFE 1040 INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureEmory University — $1,000 · EducationGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC — $800 · Education
Other$339,925International$57,260Health$25,846Human Services$24,793Religion$11,600Arts & Culture$5,000Education$1,800

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMAP International Inc — $47,498 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME OF THE NORTH GA CONFERENCE INC — $24,793 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION OF WESLEY WOODS INC — $16,456 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetMTN2SEA MINISTRIES INC — $10,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetMercury One Inc — $9,762 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWORD MINISTRIES INC — $8,500 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetBREAKTHRU HOUSE INC — $7,390 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCAFE 1040 INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGILGAL INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC — $1,350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC — $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM INC — $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 MAP International Inc
  • Who funds UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME OF THE NORTH GA CONFERENCE INC
  • Who funds FOUNDATION OF WESLEY WOODS INC
  • Who funds MTN2SEA MINISTRIES INC
  • Who funds Mercury One Inc
  • Who funds WORD MINISTRIES INC
  • Who funds BREAKTHRU HOUSE INC
  • Who funds CAFE 1040 INC
  • Who funds GILGAL INC
  • Who funds ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC
  • Who funds Turning Point for God

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.

The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta IncGA16.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Scott Hudgens Family Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Encouragement Unlimited 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your 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, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 52 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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