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Foundation for Christian Ministries
THE ORGANIZATION PROVIDES FUNDS TO CHURCHES AND INDIVIDUALS TO SUPPORT THEIR EFFORTS IN HELPING THOSE IN NEED IN THE COMMUNITY.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 41% of FOUNDATION FOR CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k1 grant · $3k
- $250k+1 grant · $277k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION | $277,197 |
| APPOINTED CHURCH | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $356k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +58% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2023, 20 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $280k 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
- FFFAMILY FIRST INC6× · 2017–2022 · $310k · revenue +516%
- CCCHOICES CLINICS INC6× · 2017–2022 · $276k · revenue +32%
- CCCrossing Cultures International Inc6× · 2017–2022 · $131k · revenue +100%
Funded once
- BSBELL SHOALS BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $175k
- BIBIGLIFE INTERNATIONAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue +61%
- NINEUROSHIFTS INCone grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue -84%
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.
A non-denominational local christian ministry focused on providing christ-centered physical, mental and spiritual comfort to women in need. our mission is to present christ's love through the gospel as we endeavor to enrich the lives of…
Christian counseling for individuals with anxiety depression or other emotional struggles. Christian counseling for marriages and other couples.
mission is to empower women to heal from trauma, grow in faith, and thrive in purpose, fully realizing their full potential
The promotion of the gospel of Jesus christ through international evangelism through the establishment of churches, support organizations, and missionaries.
Biblical counseling
As Christs followers, we have the Holy Spirit residing within us, which means we have His power to fulfill this command. We cant save anyone, but its our responsibility to tell people about the God who can. How will they believe unless…
Grace community exists to glorify jesus christ through biblically-based teaching designed to win the world for christ through heads of households, disciple the world through families, equip christian families to live the christian life…
We equip and empower women transitioning out of incarceration by providing stable employment and housing, life skills, and mentors to walk alongside them. Through this, we inspire hope, disrupt cycles of incarceration, and restore families.
Christian religious teaching organization providing biblically based resources on emotional and relationship wholeness.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc and the most unlike its peers is Her Lighthouse Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 20% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 30 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 FAMILY FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHOICES CLINICS INC ↗
- Who funds Crossing Cultures International Inc ↗
- Who funds CONSTRUCTION FOR WORLDWIDE EVANGELISM INC A/K/A CWE MISSIONS ↗
- Who funds BIGLIFE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE HIM INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR HER FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds FAITH TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds COMPASS INC ↗
- Who funds Faith Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds TESTUDO MINISTRIES INC HARTZOG ↗
- Who funds WORKPLACE PARACLETES INC ↗
- Who funds HER LIGHTHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE GOSPEL MISSION ↗
- Who funds NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ↗
- Who funds COOKSON HILLS FAMILY MINISTRIES OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds NEUROSHIFTS INC ↗
- Who funds MARY AND MARTHA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds VIDA NUEVA TAMPA BAY 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: Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Allegany Franciscan Ministries Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Foundation for Christian Ministries 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Metropolitan Ministries Inc — 0% of income from government
- Choices Clinics Inc — 0% of income from government
- Hope for Her Florida Inc — 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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