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Glad Tithings Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Glad Tithings Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$17k
Granted FY2020
15
Grants FY2020
8
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Religion$93kHuman Services$5kEnvironment$4kEducation$2kCrime & Legal$2kHealth$1kInternational$1kAnimals$1kOther$0
02FY2020 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k14 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$500
Median grant
8
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PEACE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$10,000
LIFE CONNECTION MINISTRIES$1,000
THE WINSTON-SALEM FOUNDATION$1,000
SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS$1,000
EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE$600
SERGEGRACE AND THE FRAY$500
CHRIST AT THE SEA FOUNDATION$500
ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN MISSION CENETER$500
ST JOHN OF THE LADDER CHURCH$500
MILL VILLAGE FARMS$500
TEACHING FOR CHANGE$250
PRISON POLICY INITIATIVE$250
HEALTH CARE JUSTICE NORTH CAROLINA$250
MONTREAT COLLEGE$200
UTAH DINE BIKEYAH$200
02The need
03

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:

Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS: $1k → 10%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

NY
MA
PA
CA
UT
MD
AZ
NC
SC
DC
AL
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$102k · 10 repeat orgs$12k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against +57% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2020, 4 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
15

Total granted

$102k
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+57%

Still filing today

50%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
EnvironmentCivil RightsReligionInternationalHealthCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED
    2× · 2018–2019 · $4k · revenue +111%
  • MONTREAT COLLEGE
    2× · 2019–2020 · $1k · revenue +60%
  • FA
    FAIRNESS & ACCURACY IN REPORTING INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $800 · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • UM
    UNITED MINISTRIESgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +61%
  • Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +118%
  • LC
    LIFE CONNECTION MISSION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue -63%
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
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
2
Grist Magazine Inc

Grist is an independent, non profit media organization dedicated to reporting on climate change.

Environment
3
Eden Peopleplanet

To offer the dignity of fair employment to people living in impoverished communities, who become transformational agents of global forest restoration.

International
4
Southern Center for Human Rights

The Southern Center for Human Rights is working for equality, dignity, and justice for people impacted by the criminal legal system in the Deep South. SCHR fights for a world free from mass incarceration, the death penalty, the…

Civil Rights
5
Partnership for Policy Integrity

Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) uses data-driven advocacy and litigation to fight for forests, communities and the climate.

Environment
6
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
7
Detention Watch Network

Detention Watch Network seeks to end the cruel system of immigration detention via programs of grassroots organizing, strategic communications, and collective advocacy.

Human Services
8
Democracy Unlimited

Democracy Unlimited uplifts people to build a world where our systems of power prioritize the well-being of humans and the living world. We reclaim authority that has been unjustly seized by governments and corporations - all with the aim…

Education
9
Climate Catalyst Inc

Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.

Environment
10
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
11
Forward Justice Action Network

Forward Justice Action Network is a nonprofit with the purpose to engage in educational and advocacy activities to promote political and grassroots support for public policies that advance racial social and economic justice in North…

Human Services
12
Equal Justice Society

The Equal Justice Society (EJS) is transforming the nations consciousness on racethrough law, social science, and the arts. EJS works to dismantle structural andinstitutional racism to advance robust equal protection under the Fourteenth…

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Teaching for Change; the most unlike its peers is Christ At the Sea Foundation 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

19 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. 19 of the 34 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/19
Grantees still filing
11/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PEACE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $82,000 · OtherPEACE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHITNSARASOTA INC: $4,500 · Other+20 more: $15,000 · Other+20 moreENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $4,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE EARTH: $250 · EnvironmentUtah Dine Bikeyah: $200 · EnvironmentCHRIST AT THE SEA FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · ReligionUNITED MINISTRIES: $1,000 · ReligionEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $600 · Civil RightsPrison Policy Initiative: $500 · Civil RightsDemocracy North Carolina: $250 · Civil RightsLIFE CONNECTION MISSION INC: $1,000 · InternationalTEACHING FOR CHANGE: $250 · InternationalMONTREAT COLLEGE: $1,200 · EducationSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc: $1,000 · Human Services
Other$101,500Environment$4,450Religion$3,500Civil Rights$1,350International$1,250Education$1,200Human Services$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetITNSARASOTA INC: $4,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHRIST AT THE SEA FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetMONTREAT COLLEGE: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED MINISTRIES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSafe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Winston-Salem Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIFE CONNECTION MISSION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAIRNESS & ACCURACY IN REPORTING INC: $800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPrison Policy Initiative: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAchievement Academy of Durham: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDemocracy North Carolina: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDurham For All: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTEACHING FOR CHANGE: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE EARTH: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCritical Resistance: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUtah Dine Bikeyah: $200 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.

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.

Tides FoundationTriangle Community Fo…New Venture FundFoundation for the Ca…Silicon Valley Commun…The San Francisco Fou…ImpactassetsincNational Philanthropi…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Renaissance Charitabl…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…
Tides FoundationCA13.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tides Foundation · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · New Venture Fund · Foundation for the Carolinas · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Impactassetsinc · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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 Glad Tithings Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Glad Tithings Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 37%
  • Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc: 37% of income from government
  • Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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 34 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 (FY2021) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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