· Private foundation
God's Gift
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k42 grants · $171k
- $10k–50k54 grants · $824k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $507k
- $250k+1 grant · $600k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC | $600,000 |
| HOPE INTERNATIONAL | $80,000 |
| CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE INC COEUR D ALENE | $75,000 |
| KALAHEO MISSIONARY CHURCH | $72,000 |
| SOUL SHEPHERDING INC | $72,000 |
| KALAHEO MISSIONARY CHURCH | $58,000 |
| THOMAS MORE SOCIETY | $50,000 |
| HOPE INTERNATIONAL | $50,000 |
| OPERATION FIRST RESPONSE | $50,000 |
| CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE INC COEUR D ALENE | $39,000 |
| VETERANS FOR CHILD RESCUE INC | $30,000 |
| AGNUS DEI FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| PROJECT DYNAMO INC | $25,000 |
| LIFE TEEN INC | $25,000 |
| NATIONAL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
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 human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 57% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 24% of God's Gift’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
143 repeat relationships — 66 still active in FY2024, 77 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $195k 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
HOPE INTERNATIONAL5× · 2020–2024 · $900k · revenue +56%- SSSoul Shepherding4× · 2021–2024 · $475k · revenue +35%
ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM4× · 2017–2022 · $424k · revenue +134%
Funded once
- LCLIBERTY COUNSEL INCone grant, 2022 · $175k
- FLFIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $94k · revenue +56%
- NCNATIONAL COALITION FOR HOMELESS VETERANSone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +14%
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.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Serving and pastoring overseas workers on their own turf and equipping nationals by training and empowering them in their work of advancing the gospel.
Passionlife ministries is a global missions initiative to spread the gospel of life and expand the pregnancy help movement among nations plagued by abortion, infanticide and gendercide.
Our mission is to affirm life through evangelism, education, counseling and practical assistance.
To provide resources, training, and continuing support to leaders in the us and around the world in order that they may help others find freedom in christ.
Freedom seekers international is a christian organization that exists to rescue the most severely persecuted for their religious faith in hostile and restrictive countries. through collaborative partnerships we deliver those who are…
Reaching and teaching pastors in the majority world.
Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.
Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.
Bible Translation and acts of Christian Services
The organizations exempt purpose is to rescue orphans and widows, feed the poor, build the local church through ministry, crusades and outreaches and to win souls around the world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Convoy of Hope and the most unlike its peers is Hope International. 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 29 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
161 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. 161 of the 249 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 NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Soul Shepherding ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds AGNUS DEI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPEN ARMS PCC AND REAL CHOICES ↗
- Who funds My Friend's House Family and Children Services Inc ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE MARRIAGE AND FAMILY LIFE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
- Who funds LIFE TEEN INC ↗
- Who funds THOMAS MORE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SWP INC dba SHADOW WARRIORS ↗
- Who funds Pro-Life Pregnancy Counseling & Educational League ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds HOPE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds With God All Things Are Possible ↗
- Who funds IMMACULATE HEART MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds BUILD A MIRACLE ↗
- Who funds Hope Clinic For Women ↗
- Who funds OPERATION FIRST RESPONSE INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Riding Emphasizing Individual Needs & Strengths ↗
- Who funds MIKAEL ↗
- Who funds CONVOY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Real Life Catholic ↗
- Who funds ENLIGHTEN LEARNING RESOURCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE DYNAMIC CATHOLIC INSTITUTE ↗
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: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · The Signatry Charitable Trust · The San Diego Foundation · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · International Generosity Foundation Trust · Eternal Perspective Ministries · From His Hand Foundation · First Fruit Inc · The Bolick 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 God's Gift 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.
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% 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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