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Grounds for Grace Inc
To provide funding to charities in fulfillment of the exempt purposes of national christian charitable foundation, inc.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $173k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $925k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATERS INC | $250,000 |
| JESUS FILM PROJECT | $235,000 |
| ASBURY SEMINARY | $200,000 |
| WORLD RELIEF | $125,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF INDIAN ROCKS | $100,000 |
| A DOOR OF HOPE | $100,000 |
| EVANGELISM EXPLOSION INTERNATIONAL | $92,000 |
| SHEPHERD'S VILLAGE INC | $73,000 |
| WOVEN ANEW | $45,000 |
| NEW LIFE SOLUTIONS | $35,000 |
| NATIONAL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC | $30,236 |
| YOUNG CHRISTIAN LEADERS | $25,000 |
| MISSIONARY VENTURES THREADS OF HOPE INC | $22,500 |
| CRUCAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST | $15,000 |
| THE NAVIGATORS | $5,500 |
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 (FY20–25, $345k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k 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
- ATASBURY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY6× · 2020–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +53%
- TCTRINITY COLLEGE OF FLORIDA INC5× · 2020–2024 · $763k · revenue +7%
- WRWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS6× · 2020–2025 · $651k · revenue +191%
Funded once
- RMREYNOLDS MOUNTAIN CHRISTIAN ACADEMYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $130k · revenue +90%
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSEone grant, 2024 · $36k · revenue 0%
- TBTOP BUTTONS ST PETEone grant, 2024 · $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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Life Solutions Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mustard Seed Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 53 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
16 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. 16 of the 28 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 ASBURY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds TRINITY COLLEGE OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD'S VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds A DOOR OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ↗
- Who funds Designed For Joy ↗
- Who funds NEW LIFE SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Hope International Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds REYNOLDS MOUNTAIN CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THREADS OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FIRST PRIORITY OF TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds TOP BUTTONS ST PETE ↗
- Who funds MUSTARD SEED PROJECT ↗
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 Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Duke Energy Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Grounds for Grace Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% 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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