· Public charity
Eternal Perspective Ministries
Teaching, counceling, & facilitating personal growth of a relationship with Jesus Christ.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 36 grants below total $522,815 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $759,792 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $236,977 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $97k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $426k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Water Mission | $36,526 |
| Desiring God Ministries | $32,380 |
| Joni & Friends Ministries | $29,282 |
| International Justice Mission | $28,000 |
| Open Doors | $27,576 |
| Compassion International | $25,520 |
| BILD International | $23,950 |
| Prison Fellowship Ministries | $20,475 |
| Illuminations | $20,000 |
| Operation Mobilization | $19,797 |
| Samaritans Purse | $18,000 |
| Lift up the Vulnerable | $16,228 |
| Life International | $15,500 |
| East West Ministries | $15,500 |
| Alliance Defending Freedom | $13,233 |
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 (FY18–25, $88k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 64% 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 +45% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 11 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $102k 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
- IFILLUMINATIONS FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2025 · $214k · revenue +136%
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE7× · 2017–2025 · $175k · revenue +134%
- WMWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL5× · 2021–2025 · $124k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- JFJONI & FRIENDS MINISTRIESone grant, 2021 · $16k
- MEMISSION EURASIAgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $13k · revenue +61%
Soar Detroitone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -29%
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.
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 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…
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
The organization is dedicated to reaching people for christ through an international network of christians who journey with the poor and marginalized, bringing practical and spiritual support with hope of a better future,(continued on…
Bible Translation and acts of Christian Services
Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.
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.
With a desire to see the Gospel proclaimed in all nations, we exist to make and multiply disciples of the next generation through the vehicles of church-planting missions and missional leadership training.
Assisting national Christian leaders around the world.
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…
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Commission to Every Nation and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
51 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. 51 of the 66 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 ILLUMINATIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Open Doors With Brother Andrew Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
- Who funds East-West Ministries International ↗
- Who funds WORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS ↗
- Who funds JONI AND FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds DESIRING GOD MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds LIFE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds COMMISSION TO EVERY NATION ↗
- Who funds PEACE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds LOXAFAMOSITY MINISTRIES INC DBA ABORT73 ↗
- Who funds SAT-7 NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds HUMAN COALITION ↗
- Who funds The New Horizons Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds John M Perkins Foundation for Reconciliation and Development Inc ↗
- Who funds RADIUS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds First Image ↗
- Who funds DIGNITY FREEDOM NETWORK ↗
- Who funds World Help ↗
- Who funds Pro Athletes Outreach ↗
- Who funds LIFT UP THE VULNERABLE INC ↗
- Who funds Elam Ministries ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds MISSION EURASIA ↗
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: Servant Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · The Signatry Charitable Trust · International Generosity Foundation Trust · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · G II Charities · God's Gift · Gordon Christian Trust · The Bolick Foundation · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · GiveClear 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 Eternal Perspective Ministries 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.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% of income from government
- Holla — 29% of income from government
- Good News Community Health 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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