· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k25 grants · $710k
- $50k–250k86 grants · $9.0M
- $250k+15 grants · $5.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $769,206 |
| WORLD RELIEF CORPORATION | $500,000 |
| SPARK MICROGRANTS | $400,000 |
| POLARIS PROJECT | $400,000 |
| PRAXIS | $333,334 |
| TEARFUND | $333,334 |
| WORLD VISION | $333,334 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $333,334 |
| BEYOND BORDERS | $300,000 |
| FLORESTA USA INC (PLANT WITH PURPOSE) | $300,000 |
| EMERGENCY FUND | $291,000 |
| EMMANUEL GOSPEL CENTER | $285,000 |
| LWALA COMMUINITY ALLIANCE | $266,666 |
| AFRICAN ROAD | $260,000 |
| TOSTAN | $250,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $3.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% 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 +24% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
150 repeat relationships — 97 still active in FY2024, 53 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.8M 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
- WRWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS5× · 2020–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +191%
- SMSPARK MICROGRANTS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +115%
- BBBEYOND BORDERS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +34%
Funded once
- ECEPISCOPAL CITY MISSIONone grant, 2021 · $200k
- CRCHILDREN'S RIGHTS INNOVATION FUNDone grant, 2021 · $200k
- MAMONSOON ASIANS & PACIFIC ISLANDERS IN SOLIDARITYone grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue -43%
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.
To achieve legal and systematic change that addresses violence and discrimination against women and girls around the world.
Devworks international is dedicated to a society where all people enjoy the freedom to pursue their own sustainable development. we contribute to this by strengthening the capacity of local organizations.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
World Pulse is a global social impact network connecting women from 227 countries to accelerate social change. We provide a safe and supportive online space where women can speak for themselves, make powerful connections, and access the…
See schedule o for a more detailed description of ide's mission statement and achievements.
MAIA is creating a generation of empowered leaders who have the knowledge and resources they need to lead choice-filled lives, break cycles of poverty, and ignite transformational change in their communities.
We envision a world where women and girls flourish as they fulfil the potential with which god created them. we partner with women leaders in their own nations to combat poverty, exclusion from education, modern-day slavery, hiv/aids and…
Asylee Women Enterprise (AWE), journeys with asylum seekers and other forced migrants as they navigate the immigration legal process, begin to heal from past trauma, and rebuild their lives in Baltimore.
She Is Safe prevents, rescues and restores women and girls from abuse and exploitation in high risk communities across the globe, equipping them to build lives of freedom and faith for a strong future. We accomplish our work in partnership…
Zoe Empowers is a global network of local organizations throughout Africa and India providing a replicable and scalable framework whereby youth led or resourced families are provided the training, resources, and community support to become…
Women in Progress dba Global Mamas works to achieve economic independence of African women and alleviate poverty at a grassroots level by creating jobs and income generation opportunities that generate a sustainable, living wage and at the…
Empowering Lives International (ELI) ignites world changers. We equip families and orphans to crush poverty, embrace Christ, and share their transformation with others through their God-honoring income, their deepening relationship with…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Opportunity International Inc D/B/a Opportunity International-Us and the most unlike its peers is Womens Justice Now. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 17 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
126 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. 126 of the 221 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 WORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds TOSTAN INC ↗
- Who funds SPARK MICROGRANTS INC ↗
- Who funds BEYOND BORDERS INC ↗
- Who funds Lwala Community Alliance ↗
- Who funds Praxis Inc ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN ROAD INC ↗
- Who funds STRONGMINDS INC ↗
- Who funds POLARIS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds NYAKA INC ↗
- Who funds FLORESTA USA INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE RESOURCE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Willow International Everfree ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE ENTERPRISE FUND ↗
- Who funds One World Childrens Fund ↗
- Who funds BUILDING TOMORROW INC ↗
- Who funds COMPASS WORKING CAPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIANS FOR BIBLICAL EQUALITY ↗
- Who funds ASIAN TASK FORCE AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SCHOOLS FUND ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
- Who funds RefuSHE Inc ↗
- Who funds HAGAR'S SISTERS INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL GENEROSITY FOUNDATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US ↗
- Who funds Found in Translation Inc ↗
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: 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
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 Imago Dei Fund 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.
- Health Imperatives Inc — 79% of income from government
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% of income from government
- Association of Haitian Women Inc — 51% of income from government
- Justice Resource Institute Inc — 48% of income from government
- Mothers for Justice and Equality Inc — 43% of income from government
- Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence Inc — 32% of income from government
- Fathers Uplift Incorporated — 22% of income from government
- Bma Tenpoint Inc — 7% of income from government
- Compass Working Capital Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wheaton College — 0% of income from government
- Boston Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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.