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Faithful Journey Foundation
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What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 51 grants below total $1,482,254 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,605,662 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $123,408 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $62k
- $10k–50k38 grants · $764k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $228k
- $250k+1 grant · $428k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VANGUARD CHARITABLE | $428,353 |
| FAMILY LIFE MINISTRIES | $92,000 |
| SHINING LIGHT INC | $81,000 |
| ALDEN COMMUNITY CHURCH | $55,000 |
| WHITE OAK CHURCH | $43,000 |
| LEBANON CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP | $40,000 |
| EDEN COVE MINISTRIES INC | $40,000 |
| GRACETALK MINISTRY | $40,000 |
| CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP CHURCH | $36,250 |
| CHRISTIAN AID MINISTRIES | $30,250 |
| THE POCKET TESTAMENT LEAGUE | $30,000 |
| THE PALOMA SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| THE SPIRIT OF AMERICA FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| BRETHERN OF MAINE MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| CROSSNET MINISTRIES | $24,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $67k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 100% of Faithful Journey Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 49% of the giving stays in PA; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +24% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 25 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, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $371k 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
SHINING LIGHT INC3× · 2022–2024 · $255k · revenue +24%- FLFAMILY LIFE MINISTRIES INC3× · 2022–2024 · $238k · revenue +16%
- SOSpirit of America Foundation3× · 2022–2024 · $118k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- NCNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $103k · revenue ×103
- EMEPHRATA MENNONITE SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $100k
- CLCHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT AFRICAone grant, 2023 · $50k
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.
To prepare students to serve christ and his church through biblical, experiential and practical ministry. prts provides theological training and instruction in accordance with the scriptures and the historic reformed creeds for promotion…
To develop christ-centered servant leaders through a challenging academic environment in order to impact the world for the kingdom of god.
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.
Charis Bible Colleges, Inc. (CBC) was established to train and equip individuals to carry out the Gospel of Jesus Christ through practical application through mentoring, training, and teaching.
In accordance with the mandate of matthew 28:19-20 and 2 timothy 2:2, alaska bible college seeks to train servants who lead with christlike character by 1.) nurturing students in bible-based, academic programs that solidify their christian…
Asbury Theological Seminary is a community called to prepare theologically educated, sanctified, Spirit-filled men and women to evangelize and to spread scriptural holiness throughout the world through the love of Jesus Christ, in the…
Walk thru the bible (wtb) ignites passion for god's word. by developing a global network of influential pastors and leaders and then resourcing them with tools and training, wtb fulfills its role in the great commission.
Carolina college of biblical studies exists to disciple christ-followers, through biblical higher education, for a lifetime of effective servant leadership.
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.
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…
Provide education in theology, divinity, religious education, ministerial training, business and organizational leadership.
North America Bible Institute (NABI) is an evangelical graduate school, made up of students who are diverse in both ethnicity and ministry aims -- but united in great love for Jesus and his gospel. As a graduate school, NABI offers them…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Life Ministries Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the American University of Afghanistan. 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 41 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 6% 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.
48 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. 48 of the 85 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 VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds SHINING LIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY LIFE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Spirit of America Foundation ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF AFGHANISTAN ↗
- Who funds THE PALOMA SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CROSSNET MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Christian Aid Ministries ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT AFRICA ↗
- Who funds CAVOD PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER BIBLE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MARANATHA MENNONITE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE SIGNATRY CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds CHRISTS HOME ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY AT THE LAKES INC ↗
- Who funds THE POCKET TESTAMENT LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds DAYSPRING CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Andrew Wommack Ministries Inc ↗
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: Eden Bridge Foundation · Anabaptist Foundation · Lancaster County Community Foundation · Shady Maple Foundation · Burkholder Family Foundation · Clark Associates Charitable Foundation · The Norman & Elizabeth Hahn Family Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation · Alvin S Engle Foundation · George E Ley Company Foundation · Servant 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 Faithful Journey 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.
- Wheaton College — 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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