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Grey Sparrow Foundation
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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $145k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW HOPE ASSEMBLY OF GOD | $100,000 |
| VALLEY CHURCH | $100,000 |
| DES MOINES CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| CHRIST UNLIMITED MINISTRIES | $20,000 |
| MATT AND JAKKI ESTOCK | $20,000 |
| AGAPE PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER | $20,000 |
| SAMARITANS PURSE | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| INTL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEW | $10,000 |
| GARDEN GATE RANCH INC | $10,000 |
| FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| MARTHAS HOUSE OF HOPE INC | $5,000 |
| LIFE 1071 | $5,000 |
| GODSPEED EQUINE | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $155k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 81% 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.
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.
16 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 5 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- FRFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL4× · 2021–2024 · $125k · revenue +16%
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE5× · 2019–2024 · $110k · revenue +151%
- DMDES MOINES CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS4× · 2021–2024 · $110k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- ATADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE OF THEone grant, 2019 · $100k
- HMHOPE MINISTRIESone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -15%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $25k
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.
The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…
Our ultimate mission at the porch is clear and simple: to raise up mighty sons of god who will carry the authority of the kingdom of heaven, and make jesus known in the earth. we desire to raise up men of god who will love his truth with…
To glorify god by equipping the church with proper christian doctrine and to help non-believers come to a saving knowledge of jesus christ.
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To strengthen marriages and families, to encourage Christian fellowship as we evangelize the lost around us and minister to the needy with the resources God has blessed us.
This church will be that place of emergency where people can come any time of day or night. We will be a place that will lead people back to health both spiritually and naturally.
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.
Organization's mission: courage for life exists to encourage individuals to embrace their god-given courage for life. we create emotional health, spiritual growth, and bible study resources to disciple individuals to grow in their…
We are a k-12 christian school founded under the following (4) pillars: academics: we provide an amazing accredited academic program utilizing 100% certified teachers. schedule: we provide our students and their families an opportunity on…
Biblical counseling
The mission of portersville christian school is to glorify god by preparing students to serve christ and instilling high standards spiritually, academically, socially, and physically. the school provides a high-quality academic program, a…
Grace community exists to glorify jesus christ through biblically-based teaching designed to win the world for christ through heads of households, disciple the world through families, equip christian families to live the christian life…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save the Storks and the most unlike its peers is Garden Gate Ranch Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 42 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
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 FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds HOPE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds WOODSON CENTER ↗
- Who funds JOPPA ↗
- Who funds GRAND VIEW CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BIBLEPROJECT ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CORNERSTONE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Save the Storks ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC ↗
- Who funds GARDEN GATE RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds GODSPEED EQUINE ↗
- Who funds MARTHAS HOUSE OF HOPE INC ↗
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: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Meredith Corporation Foundation · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · United Way Worldwide · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Grey Sparrow Foundation 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.
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.