· Private foundation
First Fruit Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k37 grants · $208k
- $10k–50k50 grants · $829k
- $50k–250k18 grants · $1.8M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIFE IN ABUNDANCE INTERNATIONAL | $500,000 |
| RECONCILED WORLD | $330,000 |
| STRATEGIC GLOBAL ASSISTANCE INC | $255,000 |
| VILLAGE SCHOOLS INTERNATIONAL | $200,000 |
| ELAM MINISTRIES | $200,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL GENEROSITY FOUNDATION | $160,776 |
| EVERY GENERATION MINISTRIES | $125,000 |
| THORNSTON EDUCATIONAL FUND | $118,000 |
| NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION | $116,250 |
| REDEEM INTERNATIONAL | $100,000 |
| FAR EAST BROADCASTING COMPANY | $100,000 |
| DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATES INTERNATIONAL | $100,000 |
| INSTITUTE OF CHINESE STUDIES | $90,000 |
| ALPHA USA | $80,000 |
| LIFENET INTERNATIONAL | $77,500 |
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 (FY20–24, $623k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 43% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 12% of First Fruit Inc’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, 16% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 12% — 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 +22% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
112 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2024, 67 since wound down; 28 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $841k 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
- NCNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $1.9M · revenue ×103
- NGNEW GENERATIONS4× · 2020–2023 · $737k · revenue +42%
- DADevelopment Assoc International4× · 2020–2024 · $629k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- TBTheological Book Networkone grant, 2022 · $110k · revenue +9%
- IFInstitute for Global Engagementone grant, 2020 · $90k · revenue -32%
- AHAl Hayat Ministriesgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue +35%
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.
Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…
Religious
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…
Crossing Cultures International, Inc. exists to glorify God by equipping Christ followers globally with comprehensive training for effective ministry.
Reaching and teaching pastors in the majority world.
Heart Bridge International exists to equip and empower Christians around the world to fulfill the Great Commission. The organization provides free ministry training, discipleship resources, and practical coaching to under-resourced…
Serving and pastoring overseas workers on their own turf and equipping nationals by training and empowering them in their work of advancing the gospel.
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…
Raise Up Global Ministries is committed to educating Christian leaders in communities around the world. The three programs of Raise Up equip the global church by 1 Developing biblically based interactive materials and 2 Training…
The organizations mission is the support, training, and equipping of Christian missionaries to Asia, the Middle East, and Africa
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Development Assoc International and the most unlike its peers is Tijeras Foundation. 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 23 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% 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.
173 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 173 of the 232 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW GENERATIONS ↗
- Who funds Development Assoc International ↗
- Who funds LAUSANNE COMMITTEE FOR WORLD EVANGELIZATION ↗
- Who funds VSI ↗
- Who funds NEW INDIA EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds RECONCILED WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds CURE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds CHALMERS CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds FAR EAST BROADCASTING COMPANY ↗
- Who funds EVERY GENERATION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds LIFENET INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Luis Palau Association ↗
- Who funds Redeem International ↗
- Who funds Christian Alliance for Orphans ↗
- Who funds STRATEGIC GLOBAL ASSISTANCE INC ↗
- Who funds VIVA NETWORK - NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds PROJECT MERCY INC ↗
- Who funds Alpha USA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SAIACS ↗
- Who funds THORNSTON EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF CHINESE STUDIES ↗
- Who funds Elam Ministries ↗
- Who funds Helping Children Worldwide Inc ↗
- Who funds Horizons International ↗
- Who funds Kids Alive International Inc ↗
- Who funds Heart for Lebanon Foundation ↗
- Who funds Scholar Leaders International ↗
- Who funds LANGHAM PARTNERSHIP USA INC NFP ↗
- Who funds SINAPIS GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds THE VERITAS FORUM 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: International Generosity Foundation Trust · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · Tyndale House Ministries · G II Charities · Henry P & Susan C Crowell Trust · Gordon Christian Trust · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Summit Foundation · Servant Foundation · The Harry J Lloyd Charitable Trust · The Signatry Charitable Trust
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 First Fruit Inc 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.
- Medical Teams International — 14% 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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