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Grateful Family Charitable Trust

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.

$3k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Religion$11kPhilanthropy$4kInternational$2kHuman Services$800Crime & Legal$750
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$34k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE OASIS MINISTRIES INC$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
MISSIONARY AVIATION REPAIR CENTER$1,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%GRACE CHURCH: $1k → 11%ABIDE OMAHA: $1k → 12%KEARNEY AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2k → 13%EQUIPNET: $750 → 9%THE SALVAGE YARD: $800 → 8%GOSPEL FOR ASIA: $1k → 14%Tim Tebow Foundation: $1k → 6%SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $1k → 21%THE OASIS MINISTRIES INC: $1k → 11%MISSIONARY AVIATION REPAIR CENTER: $1k → 11%EUQIPPING LEADERS INTERNATIONAL: $1k → 7%GOOD NEWS JAIL & PRISON MINISTRY: $750 → 9%ABIDE OMAHA: $1k → 12%KEARNEY AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1k → 13%GFA WORLD: $1k → 14%THE OASIS MINSITRIES: $800 → 11%MISSIONARY AVIATION REPAIR CENTER: $1k → 11%ABIDE OMAHA: $750 → 12%Water4Haiti Kearney Area Communit: $1k → 13%OASIS MINISTRIES: $500 → 11%MISSIONARY AVIATION REPAIR CENTER: $1k → 11%MISSIONARLY AVIATION REPAIR CENTER: $800 → 11%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

AK
CA
CO
NE
VA
NC
TX
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.

46%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9k · 3 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +129% since the first grant, against +62% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
10

Total granted

$9k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+129%
+62%

Still filing today

67%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionPhilanthropyInternationalOther
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

  • MA
    Missionary Aviation Repair Center
    4× · 2021–2025 · $4k · revenue +129%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    3× · 2019–2021 · $3k
  • TO
    THE OASIS MINISTRIES INC
    3× · 2019–2025 · $2k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • EG
    ELEVATE GLOBAL
    one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue -40%
  • GC
    GRACE CHURCH
    one grant, 2020 · $1k
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%
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
Message to All Nations Man

To reach out with the message of the gospel of jesus to the last, least, and the lost

Human Services
2
Global Mission

To bring the gospel of jesus christ to those who have never heard it and take care of orphans

Religion
3
Samaritan Air Inc

Emergency air transport

Human Services
4
Destiny Ministries International Inc

Provide oversight spititual support, evangelize the word help the poor and needy including aid in the translation of the nible

Religion
5
Samaritan Servants International

Samaritan servants international endeavors to rescue people as jesus mandated in luke 10 by ministering to people in destitute countries that have both physical and other needs for survival by offering food,water, shelter and hope through…

International
6
Activation International Ministries

Teaching and ministering to pastors internationally and in the usa.

Religion
7
Angels in Africa
International
8
Oil of Joy Ministries

Christian services which include praise and worship to the lord jesus through songs and music, prayer, teaching and preaching of the gospel. the ministry built churches, orphanages, and drilled wells in india. the ministry has found…

Religion
9
Reach the Lost

To provide bibles, other religous materials, and related items and services, building churches and homes according to need, providing medical aide, and support the local church in disadvantaged regions of africa.

Religion
10
Gospel Care Collective

Provide resources for global orphan care

Human Services
11
Everything Laid Down Ministries

To give the gospel of Jesus Christ of Nazareth to the poor and dejected of the world. We do this by caring for widows, orphans, and broken people around the world. We care for hem by feeding, clothing, and encouraging them in Jesus by His…

Religion
12
Believers Edge

The organization was formed to train, equip and send people to the nations in order to make a difference in the lives of poor and unreached peoples by ministering God's love and truth through His Word and by practical works, including the…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tim Tebow Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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

8 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. 8 of the 15 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $2,750 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGRACE CHURCH: $1,000 · OtherGRACE CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $1,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGOSPEL FOR ASIA INC: $1,000 · OtherGOSPEL FOR ASIA INCWater4Haiti Kearney Area Communit: $1,000 · OtherWater4Haiti Kearney Area CommunitGFA WORLD: $1,000 · OtherGFA WORLDGOOD NEWS JAIL & PRISON MINISTRY: $750 · OtherGOOD NEWS JAIL & PRISON MINISTRYMissionary Aviation Repair Center: $3,800 · ReligionMissionary Aviation Repair CenterTHE OASIS MINISTRIES INC: $2,300 · ReligionTHE OASIS MINISTRIES INCSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $1,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSEEQUIPNET: $750 · ReligionEQUIPNETKEARNEY AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,500 · PhilanthropyKEARNEY AREA COMMUNITY…TIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · PhilanthropyTIM TEBOW FOUNDATION I…THE SALVAGE YARD INC: $800 · PhilanthropyTHE SALVAGE YARD INCELEVATE GLOBAL: $1,250 · International
Other$8,500Religion$7,850Philanthropy$4,300International$1,250

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMissionary Aviation Repair Center: $3,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKEARNEY AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OASIS MINISTRIES INC: $2,300 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetELEVATE GLOBAL: $1,250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SALVAGE YARD INC: $800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEQUIPNET: $750 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.

  • Who funds Missionary Aviation Repair Center ↗
  • Who funds KEARNEY AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE OASIS MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds ELEVATE GLOBAL ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds TIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SALVAGE YARD INC ↗
  • Who funds EQUIPNET ↗

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.

Renaissance Charitable Foundation IncIN10.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Grateful Family Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Grateful Family Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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 · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Grateful Family Charitable Trust?

    Find your warmest path to Grateful Family Charitable Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 15 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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