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Good News Foundation at a glance

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Good News Foundation

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.

$182k
Granted FY2020
15
Grants FY2020
4
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of Good News Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Peninsula Community Foundation Of Virginia Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Good News Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 11 organizations, $182k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

5
’17
7
’18
11
’19
11
’20
4
’21
1
’22
0
’23
0
’24
0
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0183% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$1.0MReligion$208kInternational$99kYouth Development$96kEducation$76kHealth$45kHousing & Shelter$35kHuman Services$30kOther$0
02FY2020 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k7 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $147k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$4.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEWSON-BAILEY PROJECT INC$25,000
INTERNATIONAL COOPERATING MINISTRIES$25,000
Individual grant recipient$21,000
PENINSULA RESCUE MISSION$20,500
ORPHAN NETWORK$20,000
YOUNG LIFE CAPERNAUM$15,000
UNITED WAY OF VIRGINIA PENINSULA$10,000
SERVANT PARTNERS$10,000
YOUTH CHALLENGE$5,000
PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER OF METRO RICHMOND$5,000
HELP$5,000
LACKEY FREE CLINIC$5,000
FRONTIER FELLOWSHIP$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
SERVE THE CITY PENINSULA$5,000
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 (FY17–21, $138k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LACKEY FREE CLINIC: $10k → 5%SERVE THE CITY PENINSULA: $5k → 6%ORPHANETWORK: $25k → 10%LACKEY FREE CLINIC: $5k → 5%ORPHAN NETWORK: $25k → 10%GROVE CHRISTIAN OUTREACH CENTER: $10k → 7%ORPHAN NETWORK: $24k → 10%GROVE CHRISTIAN OUTREACH CENTER: $5k → 7%ORPHAN NETWORK: $20k → 10%ORPHAN NETWORK: $5k → 10%LINK OF HAMPTON ROADS: $4k → 17%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.
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.
$613k · 13 repeat orgs$110k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2020, 4 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
6

Total granted

$613k
$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+55%

Still filing today

69%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentInternationalOther
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

  • TR
    The Rosser Foundation dba International Cooperating Ministries
    5× · 2017–2022 · $150k · revenue +32%
  • YC
    YOUTH CHALLENGE INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $75k · revenue +271%
  • EH
    ELIJAH HOUSE ACADEMY
    3× · 2017–2019 · $51k · revenue +89%

Funded once

  • YL
    YOUNG LIFE OLD DOMINION REGION
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • HU
    HANDS UP MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2019 · $9k · revenue -93%
  • SW
    Shepherds Way Relief Center Inc
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +55%
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
Faithful Servants Ministry

Housing the homeless

Human Services
2
Good Samaritan Mission Inc

To care for the needy, share the good news of jesus christ and change lives by providing counseling, life skill training, dignity gained through work and christ-centered discipleship.

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3
Philippians 3 13 Ministries

Transitional living for recovered addicts.

Health
4
Hope Services Hawaii Inc

Hope services hawaii provides housing-focused interventions to end homelessness through a continuum of services, including homeless prevention and diversion, mobile outreach, medical respite, street medicine, in- shelter medical attention,…

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5
Shepherd's House Ministries

To grow disciples of jesus christ by ministering to and serving those in need while sharing god's hope, faith, and love, bringing them to a place of restoration and empowering them to become productive members of our society.

Housing & Shelter
6
Lexington Rescue Mission

The organization is a Christ-centered ministry that meets the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of hurting people in the greater Lexington area. Its activities are focused on rebuilding lives.

Human Services
7
Serving Him in Partnership

Serving Him In Partnership is committed to minister to individuals who have been displaced and need time and support to adjust their lives The ministry promotes healthy lifestyles with Christian values within the family the church the work…

Human Services
8
Lighthouse Ministries Inc

Lighthouse ministries, inc. is set apart by the spirit of god to communicate the gospel of jesus christ to meet the physical, emotional, and other needs of the poor and at-risk population.

Religion
9
Fathers Heart 4U

At Father's Heart 4U we meet people at the crossroads of their life and share Jesus with them through: 1. Sharing the Gospel of the Kingdom and the new life it brings 2. Small groups discussing life choices, direction and goals 3.…

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10
Covenant House Georgia Inc

Covenant house georgia provides shelters, protects and advocates on behalf of homeless, trafficked, runaway and sexually exploited youth.

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11
Covenant House Washington Dc

Covenant house washington, dc ("chw") provides shelter, crisis care, community services, and outreach services to youth in the washington dc area.

Human Services
12
Union Mission Ministries Inc

Union mission ministries, inc. is set apart by the spirit of god to preach the gospel and meet physical and emotional needs through out west virginia through the provision of shelter, clothing, food, counseling, and structured programs for…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grove Christian Outreach Center; the most unlike its peers is Serve the City Peninsula. 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, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 27 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
15/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PENINSULA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF VIRGINIA INC: $1,010,000 · PhilanthropyPENINSULA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF VIRGINIA INCThe Rosser Foundation dba International Cooperating Ministries: $150,000 · PhilanthropyThe Rosser Foundation dba International Cooperating MinistriesYOUTH CHALLENGE INC: $75,000 · OtherYOUTH CHALLENGE INCIndividual grant recipient: $66,000 · OtherIndividual grant reci…ELIJAH HOUSE ACADEMY: $51,000 · OtherELIJAH HOUSE ACADEMYIndividual grant recipient: $45,300 · OtherIndividual grant reci…YOUNG LIFE CAPERNAUM: $30,000 · OtherYOUNG LIFE CAPERNAUMHAMPTON ECUMENICAL LODGING AND PROVISIONS INC: $12,560 · Other+8 more: $55,050 · Other+8 moreThe Orphanetwork: $99,000 · Human ServicesThe Orpha…OLIVET MEDICAL MINISTRY INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesOLIVET ME…GROVE CHRISTIAN OUTREACH CENTER: $15,000 · Human ServicesGROVE CHR…SERVE THE CITY PENINSULA: $5,000 · Human Services+1 more: $4,390 · Human ServicesHERE FOR THE GIRLS INC: $25,000 · HealthPREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER OF RICHMOND: $5,000 · HealthNEWSOME-BAILEY PROJECT INC: $25,000 · EducationPENINSULA RESCUE MISSION INC: $20,500 · Housing & ShelterGOOD NEWS PARTNERS: $3,000 · Housing & ShelterBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE VIRGINIA PENINSULA INC: $21,100 · Youth Development
Philanthropy$1,160,000Other$334,910Human Services$138,390Health$30,000Education$25,000Housing & Shelter$23,500Youth Development$21,100

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPENINSULA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF VIRGINIA INC: $1,010,000 over 5y, 9.7% of budgetThe Rosser Foundation dba International Cooperating Ministries: $150,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetThe Orphanetwork: $99,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetYOUTH CHALLENGE INC: $75,000 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetELIJAH HOUSE ACADEMY: $51,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetHERE FOR THE GIRLS INC: $25,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE VIRGINIA PENINSULA INC: $21,100 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPENINSULA RESCUE MISSION INC: $20,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetOLIVET MEDICAL MINISTRY INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGROVE CHRISTIAN OUTREACH CENTER: $15,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSERVANT PARTNERS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHANDS UP MINISTRIES: $9,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN FRONTIER FELLOWSHIP: $8,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER OF RICHMOND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetShepherds Way Relief Center Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetLINK OF HAMPTON ROADS INCORPORATED: $4,390 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGOOD NEWS PARTNERS: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Peninsula Community F…Langley for Families …Sentara HealthThe Community Foundat…United Way of the Vir…Dominion Energy Chari…Bernardine Franciscan…Virginia Peninsula Fo…Carmax FoundationChristian Community F…Vanguard Charitable E…Gs Donor Advised Phil…
Peninsula Community Foundation of Virginia IncVA32.6× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Peninsula Community Foundation of Virginia Inc · Langley for Families - the Foundation of Lfcu · Sentara Health · The Community Foundation Inc · United Way of the Virginia Peninsula · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Bernardine Franciscan Sisters Foundation Inc · Virginia Peninsula Foodbank · Carmax Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management 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 Good News Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Good News Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 27 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.

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