How much does Homer Vinson Foundation give?

Homer Vinson Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $56,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 36 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Homer Vinson Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (62%), International (13%), Human Services (9%).

Who are Homer Vinson Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Entrusted Hope Ministries ($28k), Bibles For The World ($18k), Global Outreach International Inc ($17k).

Does Homer Vinson Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Homer Vinson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Homer Vinson Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Horizons, Christian Community Foundation Inc, Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund.

Where is Homer Vinson Foundation based?

Homer Vinson Foundation is based in AL.

Homer Vinson Foundation

Homer Vinson Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Homer Vinson Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$57k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$8k

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, FY2018 to 2025.

Religion$225kInternational$46kHuman Services$34kHealth$23kHousing & Shelter$13kEducation$8kFood & Nutrition$7kCivil Rights$6kOther$0

02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.2M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
PLACE OF GRACE	$7,500
ENTRUSTED HOPE MINISTRIES	$7,400
CRU	$3,500
MONTANA MISSION	$3,000
GLOBAL 504	$2,500
Individual grant recipient	$2,500
GLOBAL OUTREACH INTERNATI	$2,500
SAMARITANS PURSE	$2,500
Individual grant recipient	$2,000
BILLY GRAHAM EVANG ASSOC	$2,000
EL ROI	$1,900
Individual grant recipient	$1,500
LIGHTHOUSE PRISON MINISTRIES	$1,500
AMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION	$1,500
SLAVIC GOSPEL ASSOCIATION	$1,500

02The need

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 (FY24–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of Homer Vinson Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Homer Vinson Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 2.8% directed abroad (not shown)

How this is measured

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$351k · 41 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

41 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$351k

$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%

+9%

Still filing today

32%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

ReligionCivil RightsHealthHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesInternationalOther

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

EH
ENTRUSTED HOPE MINISTRIES
5× · 2021–2025 · $28k · revenue +74%
BF
Bibles For The World
8× · 2018–2025 · $18k · revenue +63%
GLOBAL OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL INC
8× · 2018–2025 · $17k · revenue +54%

Funded once

DT
Dallas Theological Seminary
one grant, 2024 · $4k · revenue +9%
RC
RESOURCING CHRISTIAN EDUCATION
one grant, 2022 · $2k
AO
ASSOCIATION OF MISSIONS
one grant, 2021 · $1k

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.

Refuge for Prodigals International Bible Ministries Inc

Religion

House of Refuge Faith Based

Human Services

The Rock Ministries

To preach the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ to the Nations

Human Services

Free to Worship Ministries

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.

Religion

Gods Promise Ministries International

Religious Purposes

Housing & Shelter

Jesus in Vietnam Ministries

Religion

Spirit Invasion Ministries

Spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ

Religion

Oasis Ministries

Religion

Grace of Deliverance Inc

Chruch

Religion

Global Gospel Initiative Inc

Religion

Intimate Life Ministries

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World Outreach Conference Center

Providing shelter for the homeless

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Global Outreach International Inc; the most unlike its peers is Global 504. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

24 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. 24 of the 56 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

21/24

Grantees still filing

17/24

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$209,090Religion$97,600International$17,300Health$17,000Housing & Shelter$9,200Community Improvement$7,200Civil Rights$6,500

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

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.

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.

Greater HorizonsMO12.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Horizons · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Shell USA Company Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Homer Vinson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Homer Vinson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get 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 · 0–10%

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.

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The camps

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