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GuideStream Charitable Gift Fund
GSCGF assists qualified charitable organizations by accepting contributions from donors for charitable grant-making purposes.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 50 grants below total $2,190,869 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,112,212 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $921,343 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k41 grants · $872k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $738k
- $250k+1 grant · $580k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Free Methodist ChurchUSA | $580,090 |
| Free Methodist Foundation | $153,474 |
| GenerationsGrace Church | $126,500 |
| Light & Life Lakeland | $103,500 |
| Oakdale Christian Academy | $90,300 |
| Central Africa Healthcare | $85,076 |
| Wabash Park Camp | $63,500 |
| Crossroads Comm FM Church | $60,000 |
| Aldersgate FM Church | $56,000 |
| Spring Arbor University | $42,050 |
| Jackson FM Church | $41,600 |
| Camp Timberledge | $35,444 |
| The Baptist Conv of Penn | $35,000 |
| The Arbor FM Church | $34,150 |
| In Better Hands | $31,200 |
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 (FY17–22, $117k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
Grants abroad, by region — $444k on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: General Support for Agape · General Support for Umri · Gen Support for AIM Asia
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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.
71 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 9 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; $303k 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
- SASpring Arbor University8× · 2017–2024 · $613k · revenue +4%
- CACENTRAL AFRICA HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION8× · 2017–2024 · $554k · revenue +53%
- ATASBURY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY8× · 2017–2024 · $298k · revenue +106%
Funded once
- CGCHARLES G FINNEY HIGH SCHOOL INCone grant, 2017 · $285k
- AMAlabama-Georgia Mission Coone grant, 2018 · $200k
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTERgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $105k · revenue +81%
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.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
Provide education in theology, divinity, religious education, ministerial training, business and organizational leadership.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
Reaching and teaching pastors in the majority world.
Providing guality Christian education to the network generation
Manna University is a biblical higher education institution dedicated to educating, equipping, and empowering emerging leaders to change the world.
Bible Translation and acts of Christian Services
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Convoy of Hope and the most unlike its peers is The Lloyd Ganton Auto Museum Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
65 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. 65 of the 146 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 Spring Arbor University ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL AFRICA HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds ASBURY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds Greenville College ↗
- Who funds CAMP TIMBERLEDGE INC ↗
- Who funds GuideStream Charitable Gift Fund ↗
- Who funds IMPACT MIDDLE EAST INC ↗
- Who funds CONVOY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds In Better Hands Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds RIGHT TO LIFE OF MICHIGAN EDUC FUND ↗
- Who funds ROYAL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Maranatha Bible and Missionary Conf ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN SUDAN HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds Impact Latin America ↗
- Who funds ROBERTS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
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: The White Foundation · Butterfield Memorial Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Gordon Christian Trust · The Chatlos Foundation Inc · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Lilly Endowment Inc · Lrg Impact · It's God's Business Spirit Give · Maranatha Bible and Missionary Conf
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 GuideStream Charitable Gift Fund 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.
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