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Giving University
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $274k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $121k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $65,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $55,645 |
| Every Nations Church Bhutan | $35,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,300 |
| New Day for Children | $30,000 |
| SOLVA | $24,824 |
| Friends Lanka Child Foundation | $14,000 |
| Freedom House Foundation | $12,100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| Coast Hills Church | $12,000 |
| Physically Challenged Action Foundation | $12,000 |
| Surf n' Turf | $11,000 |
| Youth for Christ International | $11,000 |
| United Bible Theological College | $10,000 |
| Influence Church | $10,000 |
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 US giving — 90% of grant dollars ($6.5M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 10% that went abroad ($749k) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $221k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 42% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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
Beyond the US — 10% of all-years giving ($749k)
17 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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 +47% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $387k 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
- LALIVE ACTION2× · 2021–2022 · $861k · revenue +9%
- JAJONI AND FRIENDS4× · 2020–2023 · $500k · revenue +73%
- CMCHAMPION MINISTRIES INC3× · 2020–2022 · $424k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- PHPROJECT HOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONone grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -51%
- TGTrustBridge Globalone grant, 2020 · $150k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $120k
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.
Provide safe housing and training to women who were victims of addiction,sex trafficking, abuse, homelesness or previously incarcerated.
SOS provides assistance to poor and marginalized people in the USA & other countries. SOS feeds the hungry, drills water wells, contributes to schools and operates an orphanage. SOS also rescues and rehabilitates victims of sex trafficking.
The Orphan's Hands provides a safe home and education for orphaned youth at risk of being trafficked in high-risk countries while bringing the love and hope of Jesus.
Misfits Mission purpose is to lead women to restoration in Christ through transitional living and godly counsel of Christian leaders.
Alive at Last helps victims of sexual exploitation and trafficking live free and discover their God-given purpose.
Ftlm seeks to equip churches to minister to those who are suffering from addiction and equip christians with the resources needed to facilitate spiritual growth in christlike character and biblical wisdom.
Providing transitional housing and quality restorative services that move women and their children to lives of stability independence and new life.
We are compelled by god's word to provide security, education and the hope of jesus to children in south africa so they can thrive personally and impact their future families, communities and the kingdom of god.
Refuge for women inc is a faith-based organization that provides housing, counseling, and life and work skills training for women who have escaped human trafficking or sexual exploitation.
House of Hope Kansas City is unique, because we work with teens and their parents to find solutions and ultimately, restoration of healthy family relationships. We serve families in crisis with our program for residents to experience the…
See schedule oour mission is the integration of women and children into society, transformed through the power of healing and complete discipleship and vocational training within a safe, loving, and serving community. our vision is to see…
We aim to assist hurting women that demonstrate the desire for a life change with a helping hand up, not a hand out, through a biblically-based, Christ-centered, mentoring and discipleship program. In order to facilitate life-long change,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Sheepfold Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dean-o and the Dynamos Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 20 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
148 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. 148 of the 261 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 LIVE ACTION ↗
- Who funds JONI AND FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds CHAMPION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds The Network Group Inc ↗
- Who funds LIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC ↗
- Who funds FOR THE CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds OBRIA MEDICAL CLINICS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds ONE GENERATION ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR FAITH AND FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds OC UNITED TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds Precept ↗
- Who funds BRAVE GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds EQUIPNET ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL FUND ↗
- Who funds AGUA VIVA MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Hitching Post Ministries ↗
- Who funds Surf and Turf Therapy ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CAMP FREEDOM INC ↗
- Who funds UNCHARTED MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES SET FREE INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER EUROPE MISSION ↗
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: Orange County Community Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Sisters of St Joseph Healthcare Foundation · Servant Foundation · Inland Empire Community Foundation · Optivest Foundation · Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian · In-N-Out Burgers Foundation · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Liferay Foundation · O L Halsell 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 University 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Adelante Mujeres — 31% of income from government
- The Contingent — 5% of income from government
- Community Rowing Inc — 2% 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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