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Heaven Sent Foundation

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.

$24k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it funds
0161% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$147kArts & Culture$51kEducation$11kRecreation & Sports$9kHealth$3kCommunity Improvement$3kHousing & Shelter$2kInternational$800Other$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k22 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
$430
Median grant
6
States reached
$111k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GOSPEL PROJECT$12,788
Individual grant recipient$1,784
LIVING HOPE$1,544
Individual grant recipient$1,500
Individual grant recipient$800
Individual grant recipient$500
Individual grant recipient$500
Individual grant recipient$500
Individual grant recipient$500
Individual grant recipient$500
Individual grant recipient$500
COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL$430
Individual grant recipient$300
Individual grant recipient$300
NAVIGATORS$300
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 25%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%GOOD NEIGHBOR: $500 → 26%GOOD NEIGHBORS INC: $500 → 26%GOOD NEIGHBOR: $300 → 26%GOOD NEIGHBORS INC: $300 → 26%BREAKING FREE: $200 → 14%GOOD NEIGHBORS INC: $100 → 26%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

MN
WI
MI
OR
IA
IN
OH
PA
CA
CO
MO
KY
WV
VA
AR
TN
NC
OK
GA
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$238k · 35 repeat orgs$54k to everyone else

35 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
85

Total granted

$238k
$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+70%

Still filing today

29%
7%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesReligionInternationalArts & CultureOther
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

  • 5S
    5 Stone Media
    4× · 2019–2022 · $51k · revenue +68%
  • UC
    UNITED CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
    2× · 2020–2021 · $9k · revenue +130%
  • AW
    AMNION WOMEN'S CENTER
    4× · 2021–2025 · $2k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
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
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

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…

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2
United Saints Worldwide

United Saints is committed to taking the Gospel to both major cities and the most remote regionsreaching places like the Amazon Jungle and beyondwith the power and love of Jesus.

Religion
3
Christian Heritage Broadcastinginc

Chb's (praisefm) vision is to see every tribe and nation experience jesus together. our mission is simple: together we help people discover and worship jesus. more than a radio station, praisefm is a place where passionate lovers of jesus…

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4
Christian Harvest International Min

To provide strategic teaching about prayer, prophecy, and intercession in the US and abroad. Books, manuals, and audio teachings are also used to equip Christians in strategic level spiritual prayer and warfare.

Religion
5
Hope Media Group

Hope media group's (hmg) mission is engaging people to love jesus, serve others, and spread hope.

Arts & Culture
6
World Hope International Inc

The purpose of world hope international, inc. (whi) includes providing assistance to economically disadvantaged people through long-term social transformation projects, including anti-trafficking protection, clean water, economic…

International
7
Christian Mens Network

CMN works to stop fatherlessness, child abuse, and human trafficking by equipping and training men and pastors in a global movement that for over 40 years has restored families and built churches.

Religion
8
Messenger Media Inc

Production of christian-themed films that present the gospel to people around the world.

Arts & Culture
9
Hope International

Spread the teachings and doctrines of the seventh day adventist church

Religion
10
Advocate Health Care Network

The mission of advocate health care is to serve the health needs of individuals, families and communities through a wholistic philosophy rooted in our fundamental understanding of human beings as created in the image of god.

Health
11
Mercy House Minneapolis
Human Services
12
Commission Mankind Inc

Reaching all mankind for Christ.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc; the most unlike its peers is United Christian Academy. 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

17 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. 17 of the 132 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRINITY CHURCH: $45,300 · OtherTRINITY CHURCHGOSPEL PROJECT: $29,003 · OtherGOSPEL PROJECTLIVING HOPE: $23,157 · OtherLIVING HOPEIndividual grant recipient: $16,020 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNETTLES CHURCH: $13,650 · OtherNETTLES CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $7,800 · Other+111 more: $88,549 · Other+111 more5 Stone Media: $51,055 · Arts & Culture5 Stone MediaUNITED CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $9,441 · EducationHOPE ACADEMY INC: $1,100 · EducationAMNION WOMEN'S CENTER: $2,000 · HealthCaringBridge: $455 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $200 · Health+2 more: $105 · HealthGOOD NEIGHBORS INC: $1,700 · Human ServicesBreaking Free Inc: $200 · Human ServicesCHRISTIAN MOTORCYCLISTS ASSOCIATION INC: $750 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $70 · ReligionSTUDIO-180: $800 · Science & TechCompassion International Incorporated: $430 · InternationalHONDURAS FOUNTAIN OF LIFE: $300 · International
Other$223,479Arts & Culture$51,055Education$10,541Health$2,760Human Services$1,900Religion$820Science & Tech$800International$730

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 budget5 Stone Media: $51,055 over 4y, 9.9% of budgetUNITED CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $9,441 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMNION WOMEN'S CENTER: $2,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetURBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $1,732 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD NEIGHBORS INC: $1,700 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE ACADEMY INC: $1,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTUDIO-180: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN MOTORCYCLISTS ASSOCIATION INC: $750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCaringBridge: $455 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHONDURAS FOUNTAIN OF LIFE: $300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $70 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $55 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $50 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION INC: $50 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 5 Stone Media ↗
  • Who funds UNITED CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds AMNION WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
  • Who funds URBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GOOD NEIGHBORS INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE ACADEMY INC ↗

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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA11.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Heaven Sent Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Heaven Sent Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.

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 132 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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