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Foles Believe Foundation

The Foles Believe Foundation is dedicated to impacting and serving those in need.

$812k
Granted FY2021
6
Grants FY2021
4
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2021.

Religion$625kFood & Nutrition$540kHousing & Shelter$75kInternational$50kEducation$50kEmployment$25kPublic Benefit$25kPhilanthropy$15k
02FY2021 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $520,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $812,015 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $292,015 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 · FY2021

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$50,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$7k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Progressive Baptist Church$300,000
Mariners Church$100,000
Children First Fund$50,000
SEAL Legacy Foundation$25,000
Step Forward Academy$25,000
Compassion International$20,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 70% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Philabundance: $85k → 22%Go Fund Me: $15k → 10%SEAL Legacy Foundation: $25k → 10%Feeding NE Florida: $50k → 14%Compassion International: $30k → 9%Lakeview Pantry: $115k → 14%Food Bank of South Jersey: $75k → 12%Step Forward Academy: $25k → 10%Central Texas Food Bank: $50k → 10%Compassion International: $20k → 9%Children First Fund: $50k → 14%Orange County Rescue Mission: $75k → 10%Feeding Texas: $50k → 10%The Chicago Partnership for Church Planting: $150k → 14%Mariners Church: $100k → 10%Progressive Baptist Church: $300k → 14%Mariners Church: $25k → 10%Progressive Baptist Church: $50k → 14%Greater Chicago Food Depository: $115k → 14%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.
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.

37%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$525k · 3 repeat orgs$880k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
10

Total granted

$525k
$780k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+19%

Still filing today

0%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21
Food & NutritionReligionHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • NP
    NEW PROGRESSIVE MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH
    2× · 2020–2021 · $350k
  • MC
    MARINERS CHURCH
    2× · 2020–2021 · $125k
  • Compassion International Incorporated
    2× · 2020–2021 · $50k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • CP
    CHICAGO PARTNERSHIP FOR CHURCH PLANTINGgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue +75%
  • NH
    NOURISHING HOPEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $115k · revenue +107%
  • GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY
    one grant, 2020 · $115k · revenue +17%
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
Community Food Bank of New Jersey Inc

We serve as a champion for addressing the root causes of hunger, delivering neighbor-centric solutions, and fostering collaborative partnerships across all sectors of society for New Jersey.

Food & Nutrition
2
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition
3
Central Illinois Foodbank Inc

The Foodbank's mission is to provide food, and develop awareness of and creative solutions for food insecurity. Annually, the Foodbank distributes approximately 9.5 million pounds of food to 130 food pantries, soup kitchens, children's…

Food & Nutrition
4
Feeding Illinois

Feeding illinois is a coalition of eight feeding america food banks that provide food to over 2,400 food pantries, soup kitchens, and shelters that feed nearly 1.4 million residents across the entire state of illinois.

Food & Nutrition
5
Central California Food Bank

Ccfb is dedicated to ending hunger, working with over 200 partner agencies to provide food to those experiencing hunger. our mission: transforming lives together, in the passionate pursuit to end hunger in central ca - one meal, one…

Food & Nutrition
6
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
7
California Association of Food Banks

California association of food banks (cafb) is a non-profit public benefit corporation located in oakland, california. together with its 41-member foodbanks, cafb is the largest charitable hunger-relief and anti-hunger leader in the state.…

Food & Nutrition
8
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
9
Feeding Indiana's Hungry Inc

By drawing on varied resources within public agencies and the private sector, we hope to provide hunger relief for those in need throughout Indiana.

Human Services
10
Great Plains Food Bank

End hunger together.

Food & Nutrition
11
Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc

Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.

Food & Nutrition
12
Coralville Community Food Pantry

We believe that food is a human right and that food has the power to bring people together. Our vision is to build a stronger, healthier, and hunger-free Coralville community. Powered by community support, the Coralville Community Food…

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nourishing Hope; the most unlike its peers is Seal Legacy 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

14 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. 14 of the 16 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW PROGRESSIVE MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH: $350,000 · OtherNEW PROGRESSIVE MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCHMARINERS CHURCH: $125,000 · OtherMARINERS CHURCHNOURISHING HOPE: $115,000 · OtherNOURISHING HOPEFOOD BANK OF SOUTH JERSEY INC: $75,000 · OtherFOOD BANK OF SOUTH JERSEY INCSTEP FORWARD ACADEMY: $25,000 · OtherSeal Legacy Foundation Inc: $25,000 · Other+1 more: $15,000 · OtherGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $115,000 · Food & NutritionGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEP…Philabundance: $85,000 · Food & NutritionPhilabundanceRegional Food Bank of Northeast Florida Inc: $50,000 · Food & NutritionRegional Food Bank of No…Central Texas Food Bank Inc: $50,000 · Food & NutritionCentral Texas Food Bank …CHICAGO PARTNERSHIP FOR CHURCH PLANTING: $150,000 · ReligionCHICAGO PART…Orange County Rescue Mission Inc: $75,000 · Housing & ShelterFEEDING TEXAS: $50,000 · Community ImprovementCompassion International Incorporated: $50,000 · InternationalCHILDREN FIRST FUND THE CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Education
Other$730,000Food & Nutrition$300,000Religion$150,000Housing & Shelter$75,000Community Improvement$50,000International$50,000Education$50,000

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 budgetNOURISHING HOPE: $115,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $115,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPhilabundance: $85,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOrange County Rescue Mission Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFOOD BANK OF SOUTH JERSEY INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFEEDING TEXAS: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRegional Food Bank of Northeast Florida Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN FIRST FUND THE CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCentral Texas Food Bank Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEP FORWARD ACADEMY: $25,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetSeal Legacy Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGOFUNDMEORG: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA8.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Foles Believe Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Foles Believe Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Food Bank of South Jersey Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Regional Food Bank of Northeast Florida Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report 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.
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How do I get to Foles Believe Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Foles Believe 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 16 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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