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Hunsberger Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2019 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.7M
Granted FY2019
12
Grants FY2019
8
States reached
$4.5M
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172019.

Philanthropy$4.5MHuman Services$250kInternational$120kEducation$73kReligion$68kHealth$10kRecreation & Sports$8k
02FY2019 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k2 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $150k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $4.5M
$20,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION$4,526,643
DELMARVA TEEN CHALLENGE$50,000
BETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
CHARIOTS FOR HOPE$25,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$20,000
CHRIST'S HOME$20,000
DELMARVA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS$12,500
MISSION AVIATION FELLOWSHIP$12,500
BETHEL UNIVERSITY$10,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$5,000
FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES$2,500
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $150k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%DELMARVA TEEN CHALLENGE: $50k → 10%CHRIST'S HOME: $20k → 6%DELMARVA TEEN CHALLENGE: $35k → 10%CHRIST'S HOME: $10k → 6%DELMARVA TEEN CHALLENGE: $25k → 10%CHRIST'S HOME: $10k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

ID
MN
NY
PA
MO
VA
DE
NC
GA
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

9%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$463k · 11 repeat orgs$4.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +82% since the first grant, against +53% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2019, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
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Total granted

$463k
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+82%
+53%

Still filing today

73%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.6M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
InternationalEducationHuman ServicesReligionPhilanthropyHealthOther

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

  • DT
    DELMARVA TEEN CHALLENGE INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $110k · revenue +72%
  • CF
    CHARIOTS FOR HOPE INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $65k · revenue +82%
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    3× · 2017–2019 · $40k · revenue +134%

Funded once

  • WM
    WINGFIELD MINISTRIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +53%
  • ES
    EASTER SEALS DELAWARE & MARYLAND'S EASTERN SHORE INC
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -17%
  • Mercy Ships Internationalgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +303%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Portersville Christian School

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…

Education
2
Faith School of Theology

Faith's purpose is to mentor students for spirit-filled leadership in ministry, in light of the great commission. while academics are important, the classrooms are not the only learning place. through a combination of formal instruction,…

3
Tri-State Christian Academy Inc

Our desire is to provide balanced, biblical direction to the child as a support to the home and to train each student to be self-disciplined and biblically directed in their walk with god and their fellow man. it is also our desire to meet…

Education
4
Walnut Grove Christian School

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…

Education
5
Freedom in Christ Ministries

To provide resources, training, and continuing support to leaders in the us and around the world in order that they may help others find freedom in christ.

Religion
6
Christian Union Inc

To transform our nation and world by developing and connecting bold christian leaders.

Religion
7
Welch College

Welch college is a christian higher education institution that educates leaders to serve christ, his church, and his world through biblical thought and life

Education
8
Christians in Commerce Intl

To encourage and equip christians to be god's presence in the workplace by the power of the holy spirit, exercising faith, integrity, and excellence.

Philanthropy
9
Evangel University

Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.

Education
10
Christ's Hospital
11
Blue Letter Bible

The specific purpose of this corporation is to present a biblical, christian ministry of the gospel, hope, encouragement and strength to as many people as possible. the intent of those who will conduct this corporation's work is to present…

12
Christian Healthcare Ministries Inc

To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christs Home and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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

13 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC — $4,526,643 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INCBETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES — $75,000 · OtherMISSION AVIATION FELLOWSHIP — $32,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $25,000 · Other887 FM THE BRIDGE — $20,000 · Other+1 more — $5,000 · OtherDELMARVA TEEN CHALLENGE INC — $110,000 · Human ServicesCHRISTS HOME — $40,000 · Human ServicesCHARIOTS FOR HOPE INC — $65,000 · InternationalMercy Ships International — $10,000 · InternationalSUSTAINED ACTS INC — $5,000 · InternationalDELMARVA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC — $32,500 · EducationBETHEL UNIVERSITY — $20,000 · EducationLIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC — $20,000 · EducationSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $40,000 · ReligionWINGFIELD MINISTRIES INC — $10,000 · ReligionEASTER SEALS DELAWARE & MARYLAND'S EASTERN SHORE INC — $10,000 · HealthFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $7,500 · Youth Development
Philanthropy$4,526,643Other$157,500Human Services$150,000International$80,000Education$72,500Religion$50,000Health$10,000Youth Development$7,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDELMARVA TEEN CHALLENGE INC — $110,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetCHARIOTS FOR HOPE INC — $65,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTS HOME — $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDELMARVA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC — $32,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBETHEL UNIVERSITY — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWINGFIELD MINISTRIES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetEASTER SEALS DELAWARE & MARYLAND'S EASTERN SHORE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSUSTAINED ACTS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budget
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.

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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA11.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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 Hunsberger Family Foundation 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.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Delmarva Christian Schools Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report 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, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Hunsberger Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Hunsberger Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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