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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 it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

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 (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 its 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
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

ID
MN
NY
PA
MO
VA
DE
NC
GA
TX
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +82% since the first grant, against +53% for those 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
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

  • 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

  • Mercy Ships Internationalgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +251%
  • ES
    EASTER SEALS DELAWARE & MARYLAND'S EASTERN SHORE INC
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -17%
  • WM
    WINGFIELD MINISTRIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +53%
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
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,…

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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
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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…

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christs Home; 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 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. 13 of the 18 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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 budgetMercy Ships International: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEASTER SEALS DELAWARE & MARYLAND'S EASTERN SHORE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWINGFIELD MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSUSTAINED ACTS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.4% 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.

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

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

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Delmarva Christian Schools Inc: 0% 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, 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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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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