· Private foundation
Espere Foundation
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 FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Funky Frogz Indoor Playground | $30,000 |
| Central Carolina Community College Foundation Inc | $10,000 |
| St Francis Anglican Parish | $6,667 |
| Global Service Network | $4,200 |
| Helping Hand Clinic | $3,010 |
| Anglican Frontier Missions | $2,041 |
| Younglife | $1,800 |
| Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist | $1,553 |
| NC State University | $1,500 |
| Trinity School for Ministry | $1,000 |
| Trinity Anglican Seminary | $1,000 |
| Holly's Nest Annual Rescue | $1,000 |
| Family Promise of Lee County | $1,000 |
| H3 Health Healing Hope | $1,000 |
| Anglican Relief and Development Fund | $567 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 76% of your 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.
16 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 10 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, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k 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
- GSGLOBAL SERVICE NETWORK INC4× · 2021–2024 · $14k · revenue +22%
- HHHELPING HAND CLINIC INC4× · 2021–2024 · $11k · revenue +117%
- CACarolina Animal Rescue & Adoption Inc2× · 2021–2022 · $3k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- CCCENTRAL CAROLINA COMM COLLEGE FDNone grant, 2022 · $10k
- ASALL SAINTS CHRISTIAN ACADEMYone grant, 2023 · $6k
- MAMISSIONS ABLAZE - JONESBORO HEIGHTSone grant, 2021 · $2k
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.
Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.
To educate, train, and develop ministers, evangelists, missionaries, and other people who are going to enter the Christian ministry. Educate ministers and missionaries to serve the Lord.
To provide the bible in accurate, contemporary translations and formats so that more people around the world will have the opportunity to be transformed by jesus christ.
Bible Translation and acts of Christian Services
Educate, train and equip religious teachers and preachers
A christ-centered university committed to exceptional teaching, scholarly research, creative innovation, and professional collaboration.
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
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.
Christian world-wide missions and ministries to see lives changed by the power and truth of Gods Word.
A church whose primary purpose is to spread the gospel of jesus christ to the world
Central christian college of the bible (central) exists to develop servant-leaders for the church. as a traditional undergraduate bible college of the restoration movement, central equips faithful men and women for leadership 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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life and the most unlike its peers is William Marsh Rice University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 37 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 GLOBAL SERVICE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING HAND CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUND ↗
- Who funds INTO AFRICA INC ↗
- Who funds Carolina Animal Rescue & Adoption Inc ↗
- Who funds THE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER OF GREENSBORO INC DBA GREENSBORO SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOLLYS NEST ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds Anglican Relief and Development Fund ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF LEE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds TEMPLE THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds BIBLEPROJECT ↗
- Who funds DBR MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds William Marsh Rice University ↗
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: Duke Energy Foundation · Ruby and Ernest McSwain Worthy Lands · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Espere Foundation 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.
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.