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Grace Pepper Smith Foundation

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$26k
Granted FY2020
20
Grants FY2020
20
Organizations funded FY2020
45%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Median grant, FY2020
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2020
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
15 to 30
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
11
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 45% of the organizations Grace Pepper Smith Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 40% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20
ReligionEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202020$26k45%
FY201915$9k13%
FY201817$12k0%
FY201730$30kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$72kEducation$2kInternational$1kRecreation & Sports$1kHuman Services$600Civil Rights$350Housing & Shelter$300

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Asbury Theological Seminary$7,00010%
Christ for the City International Inc$4,2003n/a
Far East Broadcasting Company$2,77540%
Campus Crusade for Christ Inc$2,3004n/a
Every Generation Ministries Inc$2,16110%
Mission Aviation Fellowship$1,8113n/a
Commission to Every Nation$1,65030%
Bibles For The World$1,46120%
Samaritan's Purse$1,40020%
Thehopeline Inc$1,16110%
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All grantees of Grace Pepper Smith Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Asbury Theological Seminary$7,00010%
Christ for the City International Inc$4,2003n/a
Far East Broadcasting Company$2,77540%
Campus Crusade for Christ Inc$2,3004n/a
Every Generation Ministries Inc$2,16110%
Mission Aviation Fellowship$1,8113n/a
Commission to Every Nation$1,65030%
Bibles For The World$1,46120%
Samaritan's Purse$1,40020%
Thehopeline Inc$1,16110%
The Christian Broadcasting Network Inc$1,00020%
Life Outreach International Association of Churches Inc$1,0001n/a
Equip India Inc$1,00011%
Asbury College$1,00010%
Global School of Sports Ministry$1,00010%
Sat-7 North America$75020%
Gospel Recordings Inc$60020%
Jews for Jesus$4001n/a
Operation Mobilization$3501n/a
The Salvation Army$3001n/a
Trinity Christian Center of Santa Ana$30010%
Focus on the Family$3001n/a
Gideons International$3001n/a
Child Evangelism Fellowship Inc$30010%
Rescue Mission Alliance$30010%
Luis Palau Association$30010%

Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($42k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Grace Pepper Smith Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAsbury Theological Seminary: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFar East Broadcasting Company: $2,775 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEvery Generation Ministries Inc: $2,161 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommission to Every Nation: $1,650 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBibles For The World: $1,461 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $1,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThehopeline Inc: $1,161 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Christian Broadcasting Network Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEquip India Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAsbury College: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGlobal School of Sports Ministry: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSat-7 North America: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGospel Recordings Inc: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrinity Christian Center of Santa Ana: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChild Evangelism Fellowship Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRescue Mission Alliance: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLuis Palau Association: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 17.

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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.

Christian Community Foundation IncCO14.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About Grace Pepper Smith Foundation

How much does Grace Pepper Smith Foundation give?
Grace Pepper Smith Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $26,288 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 30 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does Grace Pepper Smith Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are Religion (93%), Education (2%), International (2%).
Who are Grace Pepper Smith Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: Asbury Theological Seminary ($7k), Christ for the City International Inc ($4k), Far East Broadcasting Company ($3k).
Does Grace Pepper Smith Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Grace Pepper Smith Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Grace Pepper Smith Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Christian Community Foundation Inc, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, American Endowment Foundation.
Where is Grace Pepper Smith Foundation based?
Grace Pepper Smith Foundation is based in CA.

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 41 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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