· Public charity
Illuminations Foundation Inc
To grant to bible translation collaboration across various ministry partners in order to eradicate bible poverty in this generation.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $58k
- $250k+11 grants · $47M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SEED COMPANY | $22,942,210 |
| NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC | $10,875,511 |
| BIBLICA | $3,087,057 |
| WYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS | $2,668,415 |
| FAITH COMES BY HEARING | $2,184,925 |
| SPOKEN WORLDWIDE | $2,088,196 |
| THE WORD FOR THE WORLD | $720,210 |
| DEAF BIBLE SOCIETY | $642,826 |
| UNFOLDING WORD | $640,826 |
| AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY | $621,637 |
| PIONEER BIBLE TRANSLATORS | $460,038 |
| SUMMER INSTITUTE OF LIGUISTICS BRANCH | $57,969 |
| LUTHERAN BIBLE TRANSLATORS | $5,300 |
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 (FY22–25, $2.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +58% since the first grant, against +54% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k 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
- BIBIBLICA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $14M · revenue +75%
- TGT4 Global Inc4× · 2022–2025 · $2.8M · revenue +64%
- HHOSANNA3× · 2023–2025 · $2.7M · revenue +58%
Funded once
- SISummer Institute of Linguistics Inc dba SIL Globalgraduatedone grant, 2025 · $58k · revenue +54%
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.
Bible Translation and acts of Christian Services
We do bible translation with the kingdom perspective, therefore we go beyond making "a" new chinese translation for the chinese only; we strive to serve the ethnic minority groups in china and other countries as well. crossing national and…
The distribution of Talking Bibles worldwide in as many different languages as possible.
To join in the completion of the Great Commission through Scripture Engagement in all languages and every people group.
In communion with God and with the worldwide church Wycliffe Global Alliance contributes to the holistic transformation of all peoples through Bible transalation and compassionate services.
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.
Crossway is a not-for-profit Christian publishing ministry of Good News Publishers that exists to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ through publishing and other means, in order, by God's grace: to bring people to Christ as their Lord and…
To equip and train oral people to make disciples who experience God through His Word in their own heart language and culture.
The organization is dedicated to reaching people for christ through an international network of christians who journey with the poor and marginalized, bringing practical and spiritual support with hope of a better future,(continued on…
The objective of the association is to promote the widest possible effective distribution and use of the bible or any parts of the bible throughout the world, including translation into any language or languages, printing and publication…
Proclamation of the christian gospel
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Biblica Inc and the most unlike its peers is Igft Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 16 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 NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ↗
- Who funds BIBLICA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds T4 Global Inc ↗
- Who funds HOSANNA ↗
- Who funds DEAF BIBLE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds The Word for the World USA ↗
- Who funds unfoldingWord ↗
- Who funds Pioneer Bible Translators ↗
- Who funds STRATEGIC RESOURCE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN BIBLE TRANSLATORS INC ↗
- Who funds IGFT Corporation ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL GENEROSITY FOUNDATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds Summer Institute of Linguistics Inc dba SIL Global ↗
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: Servant Foundation · Global Generosity Inc · G II Charities · The Signatry Charitable Trust · American Bible Society · Tyndale House Ministries · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Gordon Christian Trust · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Project42
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 Illuminations 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 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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