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Friendship Beyond Borders Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

Friendship Beyond Borders Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$220k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$40k
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, FY2022 to 2024.

Religion$271kEducation$120kInternational$90kHuman Services$48kHealth$6k
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $205k
$25,200
Median grant
1
States reached
$230k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ANC Scholarship Foundation$40,000
Shalom Disability Ministries$36,000
Silk Wave Mission$35,000
SRC International$27,100
Servant of Servants International$25,200
House of Provision$24,000
Wilderness International Church$18,000
Korean Gospel Broadcasting$5,000
A Cup of Water Ministries$5,000
Seeds of Empowerment Corporation$4,800
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Seeds of Empowerment Corporation: $5k → 8%Silk Wave Mission: $35k → 10%Milal Mission: $6k → 14%Silk Wave Mission: $30k → 10%A Cup of Water Ministries: $5k → 14%Silk Wave Mission: $26k → 10%A Cup of Water Ministries: $5k → 14%Korean Gospel Broadcasting: $5k → 10%A Cup of Water Ministries: $5k → 14%Korean Gospel Broadcasting: $5k → 10%Shalom Disability Ministries: $36k → 14%Mission Ukraine: $40k → 10%ANC Scholarship Foundation: $40k → 14%Shalom Disability Ministries: $10k → 14%ANC Scholarship Foundation: $40k → 14%Shalom Disability Ministries: $6k → 14%ANC Scholarship Foundation: $40k → 14%Wilderness International Church: $18k → 14%Wilderness International Church: $10k → 14%Wilderness International Church: $8k → 14%Servant of Servants International: $57k → 14%Servant of Servants International: $25k → 14%Servant of Servants International: $3k → 14%House of Provision: $24k → 14%House of Provision: $12k → 14%House of Provision: $12k → 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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 13% of Friendship Beyond Borders Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 87%.

Friendship Beyond Borders Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 7.5% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$457k · 8 repeat orgs$78k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against -6% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
2

Total granted

$457k
$46k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
-6%

Still filing today

75%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
ReligionEducationInternationalHealthOther
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

  • AS
    ANC SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $120k · revenue +51% · 36% of their budget
  • SO
    SERVANT OF SERVANTS INTERNATIONAL
    3× · 2022–2024 · $85k · revenue +55% · 33% of their budget
  • SD
    SHALOM DISABILITY MINISTRIES
    3× · 2022–2024 · $52k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • MU
    MISSION UKRAINE
    one grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue -6%
  • MM
    Milal Mission
    one grant, 2023 · $6k
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
Korean World Mission Council
Religion
2
More International Ministries

To spread the gospel of jesus christ through crusades

Religion
3
Global Mission

To bring the gospel of jesus christ to those who have never heard it and take care of orphans

Religion
4
Korean American Network International

To spread the gospel to the underserved countries

International
5
Vision for Asia

Christian Ministry Activities

Religion
6
Chinese Church Support Ministries Usa Inc

Meet needs inside china through bringing awareness and resources.

Religion
7
Christ's Servants Abroad

Ministry work abroad

Religion
8
Silkroad Mission

This organization is a mission organization.this organization is suppoting organization for mission and missionary of jesus christ.

Religion
9
Christian Ministries
International
10
Activation International Ministries

Teaching and ministering to pastors internationally and in the usa.

Religion
11
Soon Movement Global

To win people to know jesus christ and have a personal relationship with god, build people to be spiritual mutiplying disciple, and send people to win the world with fulfilling the holy spirit.

Religion
12
Christ to the World Ministries Inc

Proclaim and share the Gospel of Christ in unique ways throughout Asia to reach Christians and non-Christians.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Servant of Servants International; the most unlike its peers is Mission Ukraine. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 12 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Silk Wave Mission: $91,100 · ReligionSilk Wave MissionSHALOM DISABILITY MINISTRIES: $52,000 · ReligionSHALOM DISABILITY MINISTRIESMISSION UKRAINE: $40,000 · ReligionMISSION UKRAINESRC INTERNATIONAL: $27,100 · ReligionSRC INTERNATIONALA CUP OF WATER MINISTRIES: $15,000 · ReligionA CUP OF WATER MINISTRIESKOREAN GOSPEL BROADCASTING CO INC: $10,000 · ReligionANC SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $120,000 · EducationANC SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATIO…HOUSE OF PROVISION: $48,000 · OtherHOUSE OF PROVISIONWILDERNESS INTERNATIONAL CHURCH: $36,000 · OtherWILDERNESS INTERNAT…Milal Mission: $6,000 · OtherMilal MissionSERVANT OF SERVANTS INTERNATIONAL: $85,200 · InternationalSERVANT OF SERVANT…SEED OF EMPOWERMENT CORPORATION: $4,800 · Health
Religion$235,200Education$120,000Other$90,000International$85,200Health$4,800

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetANC SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $120,000 over 3y, 36% of budgetSilk Wave Mission: $91,100 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetSERVANT OF SERVANTS INTERNATIONAL: $85,200 over 3y, 33% of budgetSHALOM DISABILITY MINISTRIES: $52,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetMISSION UKRAINE: $40,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetSRC INTERNATIONAL: $27,100 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetA CUP OF WATER MINISTRIES: $15,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetKOREAN GOSPEL BROADCASTING CO INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Friendship Beyond Borders Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Friendship Beyond Borders Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Friendship Beyond Borders Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Friendship Beyond Borders 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 12 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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