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Frank Shelton Global Inc

Frank travels around the country to speak in churches and revivals to proclaim the name of jesus.

$30k
Granted FY2020
98
Grants FY2020
21
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2020 · 98 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$250
Median grant
21
States reached
$21k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
REVIVAL MINISTRIES INTL$2,000
Individual grant recipient$1,500
HOPEGIVERS INTERNATIONAL$1,168
LA DREAM CENTER$1,000
STRAW MARKETING DARRYL STRAWBERRY$1,000
GARDNER WEBB UNIVERSITY$1,000
Individual grant recipient$550
SWAT LEAGUE INC$500
SHERIDAN CHURCH$500
Individual grant recipient$500
DELAWARE STRONG FAMILIES$500
DELAWARE DREAM CENTER$500
SOUTH POTOMAC CHURCH VIA CINDY BARNES$500
MIKE AND LISA NEIFERT$500
Individual grant recipient$500
02The need
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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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $250) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LIFESTYLES OF MARYLAND INC: $250 → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your field

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.

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Global Gospel Initiative Inc
Religion
2
Awakening Ministries International

Proclaim the gospel worldwide, prepare followers of jesus christ, and propel those into their god given destiny.

Religion
3
Influencers Global Ministries

Religious organization devoted to strengthening members' personal faith.

Religion
4
Gods Promise Ministries International

Religious Purposes

Housing & Shelter
5
Gospel Ministries International Inc

Medical and Educational evangelism Worldwide

Religion
6
Wayne Dorsett Ministries Inc

To reach lost people with the transforming Gospel of Jesus Christ

Religion
7
Todd Worldwide Ministries
Housing & Shelter
8
Paul White Ministries

Present the gospel

Religion
9
Power Ministries International Inc
10
Keith Wheeler Ministries Inc

Spread the gospel of jesus christ

Religion
11
International Impact Ministries in
Religion
12
Spirit Invasion Ministries

Spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Revival Today Inc and the most unlike its peers is Open Gate International. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 98 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

REVIVAL MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC — $2,000 · OtherREVIVAL MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL INCIndividual grant recipient — $1,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLA DREAM CENTER — $1,000 · OtherSTRAW MARKETING DARRYL STRAWBERRY — $1,000 · Other+86 more — $20,967 · Other+86 moreHOPEGIVERS INTERNATIONAL INC — $1,168 · ReligionHOPEGIVER…Delaware Strong Families Inc — $500 · ReligionDelaware …WINGFIELD MINISTRIES INC — $300 · ReligionWINGFIELD…REVIVAL TODAY INC — $250 · ReligionREVIVAL T…HOPE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL — $250 · ReligionHOPE MINI…GARDNER-WEBB UNIVERSITY — $1,000 · EducationLIFESTYLES OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC — $250 · Human ServicesOPEN GATE INTERNATIONAL — $200 · Employment
Other$26,467Religion$2,468Education$1,000Human Services$250Employment$200

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHOPEGIVERS INTERNATIONAL INC — $1,168 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGARDNER-WEBB UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDelaware Strong Families Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWINGFIELD MINISTRIES INC — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREVIVAL TODAY INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTim Lee Ministries — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL — $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLIFESTYLES OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN GATE INTERNATIONAL — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMITH MEDICAL CLINIC INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 HOPEGIVERS INTERNATIONAL INC
  • Who funds GARDNER-WEBB UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds Delaware Strong Families Inc
  • Who funds WINGFIELD MINISTRIES INC
  • Who funds REVIVAL TODAY INC
  • Who funds Tim Lee Ministries

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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Frank Shelton Global 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 42%
  • Lifestyles of Maryland Foundation Inc42% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Frank Shelton Global Inc?

Find your warmest path to Frank Shelton Global Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 98 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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