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Eternal Vision Inc

Eternal vision promotes quality and excellence in ministry by teaching biblical stewardship and building ministry endowments

$117k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$2.6MReligion$665kHealth$468kInternational$27kYouth Development$9kHuman Services$5k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $99,724, the rows itemized in this filing. The $116,819 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $17,095 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$75,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Heritage Baptist Coalitioin$75,000
Maranatha Baptist University$24,724
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 25% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%International Baptist Missions: $15k → 11%First Baptist Church: $6k → 11%Pioneer Bible Translators: $5k → 14%Bob Jones University: $24k → 10%Global Vision Outreach: $27k → 16%Calvary Baptist Church: $10k → 11%Cullman Christian School: $10k → 16%Lakewood Baptist Church: $68k → 5%New Testament Baptist Church: $8k → 8%Maranatha Baptist University Inc: $570k → 8%Northland Baptist Church: $6k → 11%Victory Academy of Boys: $9k → 12%Camp Chetek: $32k → 13%Harbour Lights Baptist Church: $25k → 14%Ambassador Baptist College: $22k → 17%Baptist Mid-Missions Global Ministries Inc: $14k → 17%Heritage Baptist Coalition: $100k → 7%Evergreen Village Supportive Living: $5k → 11%Keystone Baptist Church: $7k → 7%Gene Duffy Foundation: $346k → 15%Southern Baptist Theological Seminary: $20k → 15%Downeast Baptist Church: $38k → 16%Bob Jones University: $20k → 10%Maranatha Baptist University Inc: $490k → 8%Camp Chetek: $23k → 13%Harbour Lights Baptist Church: $15k → 14%Ambassador Baptist College: $6k → 17%Baptist Mid-MIssions Global Ministries: $12k → 17%Heritage Baptist Coalition: $100k → 7%Gene Duffy Foundation: $122k → 15%Southern Baptist Theological Seminary: $11k → 15%Downeast Baptist Church: $25k → 16%Bob Jones University: $9k → 10%Maranatha Baptist University: $416k → 8%Camp Chetek: $19k → 13%Harbour Lights Baptist Church: $11k → 14%Ambassador Baptist College: $5k → 17%Heritage Baptist Coalitioin: $75k → 7%Blue Grass Baptist Church: $6k → 15%Maranatha Baptist University: $357k → 8%Camp Chetek: $18k → 13%Maranatha Baptist University: $246k → 8%Camp Chetek: $18k → 13%Maranatha Baptist University: $188k → 8%Camp Chetek: $12k → 13%Maranatha Baptist University: $142k → 8%Maranatha Baptist University: $25k → 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

ME
MN
IL
WI
OH
KY
VA
AZ
NC
SC
AL
TX
FL
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.6M · 10 repeat orgs$190k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
14

Total granted

$3.6M
$190k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+40%

Still filing today

40%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionEducationInternationalOther
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

  • MB
    MARANATHA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +13%
  • TH
    The Heritage Baptist Coalition
    3× · 2020–2024 · $275k · revenue +214% · 49% of their budget
  • CB
    CHETEK BAPTIST ASSEMBLY INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $122k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • LB
    LAKEWOOD BAPTIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $68k
  • GV
    Global Vision Outreach Incgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $27k · revenue +143%
  • TB
    TRI-CITY BAPTIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2018 · $15k
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
Clear Creek Baptist Bible College Inc

Private Baptist College

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2
Faith Baptist Bible College

Post secondary and graduate educational institution The mission of Faith Baptist Bible College and Theological Seminary is to equip vocational Christian workers and other servant leaders while inspiring them to take the Word to the world.

Education
3
The Cornerstone Bible College and Seminary

The training of men and women for ministry in local churches. Specifically, providing a Bachelor's Degree or Certificate of Accomplishment designating the completion of course material required. Also, the rewarding of a Master's Degree…

Education
4
Apostolic Faith Bible College

Provide education opportunities for individuals to develop academically and intellectually in a Christian educational program to serve God and their fellow man.

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5
American Baptist Theological Seminary dba American Baptist College

Is to provide educational opportunities for gifted students who have limited academic experiences and resources but unlimited potential for leadership in society.

Education
6
Reformed University Inc

Provide education in theology, divinity, religious education, ministerial training, business and organizational leadership.

Education
7
Heritage Christian University

Heritage Christian University equips servants through undergraduate and graduate and continuing education. HCU produces effective communicators, preachers, teachers and missionaries for real world ministry with a focus on evangelism and a…

Education
8
Olivet University

Providing guality Christian education to the network generation

Education
9
Carolina College of Biblical Studies

Carolina college of biblical studies exists to disciple christ-followers, through biblical higher education, for a lifetime of effective servant leadership.

Education
10
Associated Christian Broadcasters

Christian Radio Station

Arts & Culture
11
International Biblical Training Inc

International Biblical Training is a teaching, training and equipping religious ministry. IBT staff provide theological teaching and training for the purpose of making Christian disciples who in turn train and disciple others in…

Religion
12
Association of Certified Biblical

Training & certification of christian biblical counselors

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Baptist Coalition; the most unlike its peers is Gene Duffy Foundation 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

10 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. 10 of the 24 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MARANATHA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY INC: $2,433,095 · OtherMARANATHA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY INCGENE DUFFY FOUNDATION INC: $467,800 · OtherGENE DUFFY FOUNDATION INCCHETEK BAPTIST ASSEMBLY INC: $121,550 · Other+15 more: $362,197 · Other+15 moreThe Heritage Baptist Coalition: $275,000 · ReligionCullman Christian School: $10,261 · Religion+1 more: $5,000 · ReligionAmbassador Baptist College: $33,060 · EducationPENSACOLA CHRISTIAN COLLEGE INC: $8,000 · EducationGlobal Vision Outreach Inc: $27,000 · International
Other$3,384,642Religion$290,261Education$41,060International$27,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMARANATHA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY INC: $2,433,095 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetGENE DUFFY FOUNDATION INC: $467,800 over 2y, 93% of budgetThe Heritage Baptist Coalition: $275,000 over 3y, 49% of budgetCHETEK BAPTIST ASSEMBLY INC: $121,550 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetAmbassador Baptist College: $33,060 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetGlobal Vision Outreach Inc: $27,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetCullman Christian School: $10,261 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPENSACOLA CHRISTIAN COLLEGE INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPioneer Bible Translators: $5,000 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 MARANATHA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds GENE DUFFY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds The Heritage Baptist Coalition ↗
  • Who funds CHETEK BAPTIST ASSEMBLY INC ↗
  • Who funds Ambassador Baptist College ↗
  • Who funds Global Vision Outreach Inc ↗
  • Who funds Cullman Christian School ↗
  • Who funds Victory Homes for Boys Inc ↗
  • Who funds PENSACOLA CHRISTIAN COLLEGE INC ↗
  • Who funds Pioneer Bible Translators ↗

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.

Natl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA5.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Eternal Vision Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Eternal Vision Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Global Vision Outreach Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report 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.
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How do I get to Eternal Vision Inc?

Find your warmest path to Eternal Vision Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 24 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $128k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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