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Giving Firstfruits Foundation Inc C/0 Stephanie Edwards

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$50k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182024.

Religion$158kHuman Services$146kHousing & Shelter$73kEducation$52kInternational$12kCivil Rights$9kHealth$3kPhilanthropy$500Other$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $5k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $44k
$500
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LEGACY HOUSE$13,483
TOMOKA CHRISTIAN CHURCH$11,000
HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY$10,000
RESOURCES FOR WOMEN$10,000
JEREMY CHRISTAN MISSION$2,000
KIDDS ARE FIRST INC$1,000
THE CORE CHURCH INC$500
MULLY CHILDRENS FAMILY USA INC$500
REMEMBER NHU$250
GRACE HOUSE$250
FAITH HOMESCHOOL ACADAMY$100
FLORIDA UNITED METHODIST CHILDRENS HOME$100
SANTA MARIA DEL MAR CATHOLIC CHURCH$100
REACH A VILLAGE$100
FAMILY RENEW COMMUNITY INC$100
02The need
03

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 (FY20–24, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FLORIDA UNITED METHODIST CHILDRENS HOME: $2k → 12%FLORIDA UNITED METHODIST CHILDRENS HOME: $1k → 12%FLORIDA UNITED METHODIST CHILDRENS HOME: $250 → 12%FLORIDA UNITED METHODIST CHILDRENS HOME: $250 → 12%FLORIDA UNITED METHODIST CHILDRENS HOME: $100 → 12%EXCELLERATE: $250 → 12%RESOURCES FOR WOMEN: $11k → 12%RESOURCES FOR WOMEN: $10k → 12%RESOURCES FOR WOMEN: $10k → 12%RESOURCES FOR WOMEN: $10k → 12%RESOURCES FOR WOMEN: $3k → 12%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.

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 edge
repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$439k · 17 repeat orgs$19k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +77% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
9

Total granted

$439k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+77%
0%

Still filing today

41%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $600 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesInternationalEducationYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterReligionOther

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

  • HP
    HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2018–2024 · $52k · revenue +81%
  • RF
    RESOURCES FOR WOMEN INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $44k · revenue +109%
  • RN
    Remember NHU Inc
    4× · 2018–2024 · $9k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • JC
    Jeremie Christian Mission Inc
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -24%
  • SE
    SPECIAL EVENT SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • CC
    CPH CHURCH
    one grant, 2019 · $2k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

1
Real Love Ministries International

RLMI is organized exclusively for charitable purposes. Our Mission is to minister to the Haitian people beginning in the village of Laffiteau seeking to share the love of Jesus with each individual and discipling those who know Jesus as…

Religion
2
New Horizons Ministries Inc

Providing a loving, healthy home atmosphere for the orphans and the unfortunate children of Haiti along with giving them an education that will help them develop into men and women that will be an asset to the people of their country and…

Philanthropy
3
Children Rescues International

Mobilize loving and qualified Pastors, Caregivers, Educators, Administrative Personnel, and Volunteers to establish Children's Homes, Schools, and Medical Clinics in Liberia. Facilities and programming are designed to care for orphaned…

International
4
Rejoice Ministries International

RMI provides pastoral care ministry and support globally, with conferences, seminars, retreats, meetings and individual counseling.

Civil Rights
5
Harvest Family Life Ministries Hawaii

Harvest Family Life Hawaii (HFLHI)serves vulnerable keiki and their ohana before, during and after foster care with the Love of Jesus. HFLHI exists to help children progress from abuse and neglect to a safe, loving home with more than…

Human Services
6
Child Hope International

We minister to orphans and widows in their distress by transitioning children from orphanages into loving families. We do this through Christ- centered care, training and social work.

Arts & Culture
7
Hope for the Fatherless

HFTF serves orphaned and vulnerable children in Ethiopia, and its mission is to see every child thriving in a loving family. HFTF accomplishes this through five primary initiatives: in-country adoption training and placement, family…

International
8
New Hope Childrens Ministries

The organization provides housing medical care education and loving support for homeless children in peru. the home is located in arequipa peru. the organization houses approximately 50 children and assists children no longer residing at…

International
9
Refuge Ministries of North America

Helpfamiliesimpactedbydomesticabusefindredemption

Human Services
10
Rwanda Children

The mission of Rwanda Children is to provide housing, food, family, and hope to at-risk Rwandan children in the name of Jesus, so that all Rwandan children may have equal opportunity to realize their full potential as they grow into the…

11
Hope for Haiti Childrens Center Inc

We rescue, love and care for orphans and impoverished children in Haiti, meeting their physical, emotional, educational and spiritual needs so they are empowered to become leaders in their communities and nation.

International
12
Harvesters Reaching the Nations Inc

Nonprofit, Christ-Centered Organization providing discipleship, education, and healthcare to orphans and vulnerable women in remote regions of the world. We are working to realize a vision of a world where children are free from spiritual,…

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Renew Community Inc and the most unlike its peers is Resources for Women Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the 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 28 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TOMOKA CHRISTIAN CHURCH — $97,500 · OtherTOMOKA CHRISTIAN CHURCHKIDDS ARE FIRST INCORPORATED — $86,600 · OtherKIDDS ARE FIRST INCORPORATEDLEGACY HOUSE — $72,669 · OtherLEGACY HOUSEJEREMY CHRISTAN MISSION — $44,500 · OtherJEREMY CHRISTAN MISSION+15 more — $31,959 · Other+15 moreHIGH POINT UNIVERSITY — $52,000 · EducationHIGH POINT U…RESOURCES FOR WOMEN INC — $43,500 · Human ServicesRESOURCES F…FLORIDA UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME INC — $3,600 · Human ServicesFLORIDA UNI…+1 more — $250 · Human ServicesJeremie Christian Mission Inc — $10,000 · InternationalMULLY CHILDRENS FAMILY USA INC — $1,500 · InternationalRemember NHU Inc — $8,750 · Youth DevelopmentReach A Village — $3,100 · ReligionFAMILY RENEW COMMUNITY INC — $2,200 · Housing & Shelter
Other$333,228Education$52,000Human Services$47,350International$11,500Youth Development$8,750Religion$3,100Housing & Shelter$2,200

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 budgetHIGH POINT UNIVERSITY — $52,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRESOURCES FOR WOMEN INC — $43,500 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetRemember NHU Inc — $8,750 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFLORIDA UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME INC — $3,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetReach A Village — $3,100 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY RENEW COMMUNITY INC — $2,200 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMULLY CHILDRENS FAMILY USA INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetExcellerate Inc — $250 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetORMOND MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM INC — $250 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 HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds RESOURCES FOR WOMEN INC
  • Who funds Jeremie Christian Mission Inc
  • Who funds Remember NHU Inc
  • Who funds FLORIDA UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME INC
  • Who funds Reach A Village
  • Who funds FAMILY RENEW COMMUNITY INC
  • Who funds MULLY CHILDRENS FAMILY USA INC
  • Who funds Excellerate Inc
  • Who funds ORMOND MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM 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.

Raymond James Charitable Endowment FundFL9.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Giving Firstfruits Foundation Inc C/0 Stephanie Edwards 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 28 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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