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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 it funds
01FY2020 · 98 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$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
DELAWARE STRONG FAMILIES$500
SOUTH POTOMAC CHURCH VIA CINDY BARNES$500
SWAT LEAGUE INC$500
MIKE AND LISA NEIFERT$500
Individual grant recipient$500
Individual grant recipient$500
SHERIDAN CHURCH$500
ISAAC TV$500
02The need
02

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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Its 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. Its 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
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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
IA
IN
PA
CA
NE
MO
WV
VA
MD
DE
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
AL
GA
TX
FL
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 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
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
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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Revival Today Inc; 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 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. 10 of the 98 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

REVIVAL MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC: $2,000 · OtherREVIVAL MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL INCIndividual grant recipient: $1,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSTRAW MARKETING DARRYL STRAWBERRY: $1,000 · OtherLA DREAM CENTER: $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…HOPE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL: $250 · ReligionHOPE MINI…REVIVAL TODAY INC: $250 · ReligionREVIVAL T…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 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 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 budgetLIFESTYLES OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL: $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetREVIVAL TODAY INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTim Lee Ministries: $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
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.

  • Who funds HOPEGIVERS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds GARDNER-WEBB UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Delaware Strong Families Inc ↗
  • Who funds WINGFIELD MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds LIFESTYLES OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗

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

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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 Frank Shelton Global Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Frank Shelton Global Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 42%
  • Lifestyles of Maryland Foundation Inc: 42% 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, 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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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 98 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 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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