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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.

$68k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Religion$55kEducation$31kRecreation & Sports$30kHealth$17kAnimals$6kScience & Tech$3kYouth Development$2kInternational$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k18 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
$1,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$140k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Holly's Nest Annual Rescue$1,000
Trinity Anglican Seminary$1,000
Trinity School for Ministry$1,000
H3 Health Healing Hope$1,000
Family Promise of Lee County$1,000
Anglican Relief and Development Fund$567
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 76% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%INTO AFRICA: $3k → 15%TRINITY SCHOOL FOR MINISTRY: $2k → 10%PREMIER INSIGHT: $1k → 5%Global Service Network: $4k → 8%THE CHURCH OF THE ADVENT: $1k → 10%ALL SAINTS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $6k → 13%NC ZOO: $1k → 14%Funky Frogz Indoor Playground: $30k → 16%GREENSBORO SCIENCE CENTER: $1k → 16%Holly's Nest Annual Rescue: $1k → 17%Anglican Frontier Missions: $2k → 9%INTO AFRICA: $2k → 15%TRINITY SCHOOL FOR MINISTRY: $1k → 10%PREMIER CHRISTIAN: $1k → 5%NC ZOO: $1k → 14%CENTRAL CAROLINA COMM COLLEGE FDN: $10k → 16%GREENSBORO SCIENCE CENTER: $1k → 16%ANGLICAN FRONTIER MISSIONS: $2k → 9%Trinity Anglican Seminary: $1k → 10%NC ZOO: $1k → 14%Central Carolina Community College Foundation Inc: $10k → 16%GREENSBORO SCIENCE CENTER: $1k → 16%ANGLICAN FRONTIER MISSIONS: $1k → 9%Trinity School for Ministry: $1k → 10%NC ZOO: $1k → 14%St Francis Anglican Parish: $7k → 16%TRINITY SCHOOL FOR MINISTRY: $1k → 10%NC ZOO: $1k → 14%HELPING HAND CLINIC: $5k → 16%TRINITY SCHOOL FOR MINISTRY: $1k → 10%ST FRANCIS ANGLICAN PARISH: $3k → 16%ST FRANCIS ANGLICAN PARISH: $3k → 16%Helping Hand Clinic: $3k → 16%ST FRANCIS ANGLICAN PARISH: $3k → 16%ST FRANCIS ANGLICAN PARISH: $3k → 16%HELPING HAND CLINIC: $1k → 16%H3 Health Healing Hope: $1k → 16%HELPING HAND CLINIC: $1k → 16%CAROLINA ANIMAL RESCUE AND ADOPTION: $1k → 16%CAROLINA ANIMAL RESCUE AND ADOPTION: $1k → 16%CAROLINA ANIMAL RESCUE AND ADOPTION: $1k → 16%HELPING HAND CLINIC: $1k → 16%REACH OUT PREGNANCY: $1k → 16%MISSIONS ABLAZE - JONESBORO HEIGHTS: $2k → 16%NC State University: $2k → 8%NC STATE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 8%NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 8%NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 8%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

NY
OR
IA
PA
VA
AZ
TN
NC
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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$87k · 16 repeat orgs$69k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
11

Total granted

$87k
$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+45%

Still filing today

44%
9%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureAnimalsInternationalYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesOther
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

  • GS
    GLOBAL SERVICE NETWORK INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $14k · revenue +22%
  • HH
    HELPING HAND CLINIC INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $11k · revenue +117%
  • CA
    Carolina Animal Rescue & Adoption Inc
    2× · 2021–2022 · $3k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • CC
    CENTRAL CAROLINA COMM COLLEGE FDN
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • AS
    ALL SAINTS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
    one grant, 2023 · $6k
  • MA
    MISSIONS ABLAZE - JONESBORO HEIGHTS
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
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
International Commission Inc

Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.

Religion
2
Charlotte Christian College & Theological Seminary

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.

Religion
3
Biblica Inc

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.

Religion
4
Tyndale Bible Translators

Bible Translation and acts of Christian Services

Religion
5
African Bible Colleges Inc

Educate, train and equip religious teachers and preachers

Education
6
Carolina University

A christ-centered university committed to exceptional teaching, scholarly research, creative innovation, and professional collaboration.

Education
7
Biglife International Inc

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

Recreation & Sports
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
Global Servants Inc

Christian world-wide missions and ministries to see lives changed by the power and truth of Gods Word.

Religion
10
Trinity Christian Center of Santa Ana

A church whose primary purpose is to spread the gospel of jesus christ to the world

Religion
11
Central Christian College of the Bible

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.

Education
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life; 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.
04the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 37 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Funky Frogz Indoor Playground: $30,000 · OtherFunky Frogz Indoor PlaygroundST FRANCIS ANGLICAN PARISH: $18,683 · OtherST FRANCIS ANGLICAN PARISHHELPING HAND CLINIC INC: $11,010 · OtherHELPING HAND CLINIC INCCENTRAL CAROLINA COMM COLLEGE FDN: $10,000 · OtherCENTRAL CAROLINA COMM COLLEGE FDNTRINITY ANGLICAN SEMINARY: $7,002 · OtherTRINITY ANGLICAN SEMINARYALL SAINTS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $6,482 · OtherALL SAINTS CHRISTIAN ACADEMYANGLICAN FRONTIER MISSIONS: $5,062 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherAtrium Health Wake Forest Baptist: $4,917 · Other+17 more: $16,800 · Other+17 moreGLOBAL SERVICE NETWORK INC: $14,000 · EducationGLOBAL SERVICE NE…CENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUND: $10,000 · EducationCENTRAL CAROLINA …+1 more: $50 · EducationINTO AFRICA INC: $5,000 · InternationalAnglican Relief and Development Fund: $1,082 · InternationalCarolina Animal Rescue & Adoption Inc: $3,000 · AnimalsHOLLYS NEST: $2,000 · AnimalsTHE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER OF GREENSBORO INC DBA GREENSBORO SCIENCE CENTER: $3,000 · Arts & CultureTEMPLE THEATRE COMPANY: $500 · Arts & CultureYOUNG LIFE: $1,800 · Youth DevelopmentFAMILY PROMISE OF LEE COUNTY INC: $1,000 · Human Services
Other$114,956Education$24,050International$6,082Animals$5,000Arts & Culture$3,500Youth Development$1,800Human Services$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 budgetGLOBAL SERVICE NETWORK INC: $14,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHELPING HAND CLINIC INC: $11,010 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetINTO AFRICA INC: $5,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetCarolina Animal Rescue & Adoption Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER OF GREENSBORO INC DBA GREENSBORO SCIENCE CENTER: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnglican Relief and Development Fund: $1,082 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF LEE COUNTY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTEMPLE THEATRE COMPANY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDBR MINISTRIES: $500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBIBLEPROJECT: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $50 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 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 DBR MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds BIBLEPROJECT ↗
  • Who funds William Marsh Rice University ↗

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.

Duke Energy FoundationRuby and Ernest McSwa…The Pfizer Foundation…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…Natl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Duke Energy FoundationNC14.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Espere Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Espere Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%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
    1get no government money at all
    2report 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.

    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 37 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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