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Faithful Journey Foundation

We provide education about charitable giving techniques and distribute gifts to nonprofitorganizations as our primary activity.

$1.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
51
Grants FY2024still arriving
17
States reached
$428k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Religion$1.8MPhilanthropy$638kEducation$519kYouth Development$388kHuman Services$95kInternational$90kHealth$62kArts & Culture$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 51 grants below total $1,482,254, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,605,662 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $123,408 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

  • Under $10k9 grants · $62k
  • $10k–50k38 grants · $764k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $228k
  • $250k+1 grant · $428k
$16,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VANGUARD CHARITABLE$428,353
FAMILY LIFE MINISTRIES$92,000
SHINING LIGHT INC$81,000
ALDEN COMMUNITY CHURCH$55,000
WHITE OAK CHURCH$43,000
GRACETALK MINISTRY$40,000
EDEN COVE MINISTRIES INC$40,000
LEBANON CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP$40,000
CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP CHURCH$36,250
CHRISTIAN AID MINISTRIES$30,250
THE POCKET TESTAMENT LEAGUE$30,000
THE PALOMA SCHOOL$30,000
BRETHERN OF MAINE MINISTRIES$25,000
THE SPIRIT OF AMERICA FOUNDATION$25,000
CROSSNET MINISTRIES$24,000
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BUFFALO CITY MISSION: $10k → 13%CHRIST'S HOME: $35k → 9%MENNONITE HOME COMMUNITIES: $13k → 9%NORTH STAR INITATIVE: $9k → 9%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
IL
NY
IN
OH
PA
NJ
RI
CO
MO
VA
DE
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
MS
AL
GA
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 100% of Faithful Journey Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 49% of the giving stays in PA; by stated purpose, 0%.

Faithful Journey Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 33 repeat orgs$987k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
25

Total granted

$2.2M
$616k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+16%

Still filing today

48%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $371k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
ReligionEducationHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • SHINING LIGHT INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $255k · revenue +24%
  • FL
    FAMILY LIFE MINISTRIES INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $238k · revenue +16%
  • SO
    Spirit of America Foundation
    3× · 2022–2024 · $118k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • NC
    NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $103k · revenue ×103
  • EM
    EPHRATA MENNONITE SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • CL
    CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT AFRICA
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
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
Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary

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…

Education
2
Champion Christian College Inc

To develop christ-centered servant leaders through a challenging academic environment in order to impact the world for the kingdom of god.

Education
3
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
4
Charis Bible College Inc

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.

Religion
5
Alaska Bible College

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…

Education
6
Asbury Theological Seminary

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…

Education
7
Walk Thru the Bible Ministries Inc

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.

Religion
8
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
9
Evangel University

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.

Education
10
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

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…

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11
Reformed University Inc

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

Education
12
North America Bible Institute

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Life Ministries Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

48 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. 48 of the 85 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/48
Grantees still filing
32/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FAMILY LIFE MINISTRIES INC: $237,500 · OtherFAMILY LIFE MINISTRIES INCWHITE OAK CHURCH INC: $185,000 · OtherWHITE OAK CHURCH INCBUFFALO COMMUNITY CHURCH: $145,931 · OtherBUFFALO COMMUNITY CHURCHALDEN COMMUNITY CHURCH: $112,000 · OtherALDEN COMMUNITY CHURCHEPHRATA MENNONITE SCHOOL: $100,000 · OtherGREATER GRACE MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH: $97,500 · Other+49 more: $1,068,579 · Other+49 moreVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $428,353 · PhilanthropyVANGUARD CHARITABLE…NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC: $102,871 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL CHRISTIAN …CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT AFRICA: $50,250 · PhilanthropyCHRISTIAN LEADERSHI…THE SIGNATRY CHARITABLE TRUST: $39,448 · PhilanthropyTHE SIGNATRY CHARIT…+1 more: $17,500 · PhilanthropySHINING LIGHT INC: $255,245 · Youth DevelopmentSHINING LIG…Spirit of America Foundation: $118,125 · Youth DevelopmentSpirit of A…CROSSNET MINISTRIES: $77,000 · ReligionChristian Aid Ministries: $70,250 · ReligionTHE POCKET TESTAMENT LEAGUE INC: $30,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $27,600 · ReligionAndrew Wommack Ministries Inc: $25,000 · ReligionBIBLE2SCHOOL: $17,000 · ReligionKOMPASS MINISTRIES: $10,450 · ReligionPLANTED MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 · ReligionAMERICA'S KESWICK: $10,000 · ReligionORAL ROBERTS EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · ReligionTHE PALOMA SCHOOL: $91,000 · EducationLANCASTER BIBLE COLLEGE: $45,500 · EducationMARANATHA MENNONITE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $40,000 · EducationACADEMY AT THE LAKES INC: $34,930 · EducationDAYSPRING CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $28,000 · EducationWHEATON COLLEGE: $20,361 · EducationFISK UNIVERSITY: $12,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF AFGHANISTAN: $101,000 · InternationalCompassion International Incorporated: $10,000 · InternationalCHRISTS HOME: $35,000 · Human ServicesTHE MENNONITE HOME: $13,105 · Human ServicesCITY MISSION SOCIETY INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesNORTH STAR INITIATIVE: $9,000 · Human Services
Other$1,946,510Philanthropy$638,422Youth Development$373,370Religion$287,300Education$271,791International$111,000Human Services$67,105

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 budgetVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $428,353 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHINING LIGHT INC: $255,245 over 3y, 17% of budgetFAMILY LIFE MINISTRIES INC: $237,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetSpirit of America Foundation: $118,125 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF AFGHANISTAN: $101,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetTHE PALOMA SCHOOL: $91,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetCROSSNET MINISTRIES: $77,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetChristian Aid Ministries: $70,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT AFRICA: $50,250 over 1y, 17% of budgetCAVOD PERFORMING ARTS: $50,150 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetLANCASTER BIBLE COLLEGE: $45,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARANATHA MENNONITE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $40,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetTHE SIGNATRY CHARITABLE TRUST: $39,448 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTS HOME: $35,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetACADEMY AT THE LAKES INC: $34,930 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE POCKET TESTAMENT LEAGUE INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDAYSPRING CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $28,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $27,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPINE VALLEY BIBLE CONFERENCE: $22,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWHEATON COLLEGE: $20,361 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVANGELICAL COMMUNITY HOSPITAL: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACTS LEGACY FOUNDATION INC: $17,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBIBLE2SCHOOL: $17,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetREGULAR BAPTIST FELLOWSHIP INC: $17,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetALIGN LIFE MINISTRIES: $16,100 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOMPASSION PAROCHIAL CLINIC: $15,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetGUIDESPRING INC: $15,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetCAMP ANDREWS: $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE MENNONITE HOME: $13,105 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaranatha Village Inc: $12,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWE CARE PROGRAM: $12,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMORAVIAN UNIVERSITY: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFISK UNIVERSITY: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENVIEW BIBLE CAMP CORPORATION: $11,400 over 1y, 12% of budgetKOMPASS MINISTRIES: $10,450 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetPLANTED MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetGOSPEL ECHOES TEAM ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICA'S KESWICK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetORAL ROBERTS EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCITY MISSION SOCIETY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH STAR INITIATIVE: $9,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNICHOLAS WOLFF FOUNDATIONINC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNEW HOPE PHILLY INC: $7,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetHERALDS OF HOPE INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 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 ↗

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.

Eden Bridge FoundationPA50.9× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wheaton College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Faithful Journey Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Faithful Journey Foundation 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 85 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.

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