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Fortress Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Young Life | $20,000 |
| 111 Project | $7,500 |
| Alternative Pregnancy Center | $7,500 |
| Open Door Ministries | $5,000 |
| Our Neighborhood Empowered | $5,000 |
| Spero Project | $5,000 |
| Calvary Family Churches | $5,000 |
| City Care Homeless Service Project | $5,000 |
| Food & Shelter for Friends | $5,000 |
| CRU - Campus Crusade for Christ | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
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.
19 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 1 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- YLYOUNG LIFE3× · 2017–2024 · $60k · revenue +59%
- 1I111Project Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $55k · revenue ×21
- APAlternatives Pregnancy Center Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $43k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- SSSHILOH SUMMER CAMP INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +67%
- YLYOUNG LIFE - CLEARWATER COVEone grant, 2018 · $4k
- YLYOUNG LIFE - CIM REGIONone grant, 2018 · $3k
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 partner with leaders globally to boldly proclaim the biblical truth of the father's heart for life, champion the gospel of jesus christ, and establish life-giving ministries.
To glorify the Lord Jesus Christ by ministering to orphans around the world by meeting spiritual, physical, emotional, and educational needs.
Redeem's mission is to protect widows and orphans from violent abuse and exploitation.
Life Network provides support and mentoring to women and men facing unexpected pregnancies; offers parenting support, material resources, and referrals; and promotes sexual risk avoidance through education to foster a culture that values…
to spread the gospel to the world by planting and serving churches, training local Christian leaders and to transform the world through prayer,
Our mission is to affirm life through evangelism, education, counseling and practical assistance.
Empowering life-affirming decisions
Empowering Lives International (ELI) ignites world changers. We equip families and orphans to crush poverty, embrace Christ, and share their transformation with others through their God-honoring income, their deepening relationship with…
Provides adoption services to meet the needs of both birth parents and adoptive families placement of domestic and international children with families.
The Womens Pregnancy Center is a Christ-centered ministry designed to engage and inform women in unplanned pregnancies, empowering them to make life-affirming decisions.
Sozo International partners with at-risk families to create a sustainable future and transformed lives through education, health, and economic initiatives.
Love Life is uniting and mobilizing the church to create a culture of love and life that will bring an end to abortion and the orphan crisis.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life and the most unlike its peers is WATER4 Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 27 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 YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds 111Project Inc ↗
- Who funds Alternatives Pregnancy Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THE EDEN CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds Sunhive collective Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SPERO PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds WILLOW SPRINGS BOYS RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds International Christian Concern Inc ↗
- Who funds OUR NEIGHBORHOOD EMPOWERED INC FORMERLY COLE COMMUNITY IMPACT ORG ↗
- Who funds WATER4 INC ↗
- Who funds SHILOH SUMMER CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds Elam Ministries ↗
- Who funds Global Sports Partners 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: Servant Foundation · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Fortress 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.
- Global Sports Partners Inc — 78% 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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