Massachusetts · Private foundation
Imago Dei Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $15M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 126
- Grants FY2024
- 141
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $83,332
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $769,206
- Organizations funded a year
- 117 to 141
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 26
- Total assets, FY2024
- $61M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 21% of the organizations Imago Dei Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 120 | $14M | 19% |
| FY2023 | 141 | $12M | 21% |
| FY2022 | 125 | $11M | 18% |
| FY2021 | 118 | $11M | 17% |
| FY2020 | 117 | $10M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals | $2,410,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Emmanuel Gospel Center Inc | $1,430,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Tostan Inc | $1,426,666 | 5 | 4% |
| Spark Microgrants Inc | $1,367,000 | 5 | 6% |
| Beyond Borders Inc | $1,324,000 | 5 | 19% |
| Lwala Community Alliance | $1,216,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Praxis Inc | $1,143,334 | 5 | 5% |
| African Road Inc | $1,107,233 | 5 | 21% |
| Strongminds Inc | $1,016,250 | 5 | 4% |
| Polaris Project | $950,000 | 4 | 4% |
Show all 130 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 82 recipients with no EIN on record ($16M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Imago Dei Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 116 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Segal Family Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Dovetail Impact Foundation (Fka David Weekley Family Foundation) · Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · One Days Wages · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Impactassetsinc
How this is measured
About Imago Dei Fund
- How much does Imago Dei Fund give?
- Imago Dei Fund reported 126 grants totaling $15,105,440 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 117 and 141 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Imago Dei Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (41%), Religion (11%), Human Services (8%).
- Who are Imago Dei Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals ($2.4M), Emmanuel Gospel Center Inc ($1.4M), Tostan Inc ($1.4M).
- Does Imago Dei Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Imago Dei Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Imago Dei Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Segal Family Foundation Inc, United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc.
- Where is Imago Dei Fund based?
- Imago Dei Fund is based in MA.
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