· Private foundation
Impact Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $101k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CALVARY CHURCH | $53,000 |
| BETHLEHEM COLLEGE & SEMINARY | $40,000 |
| THE NORTH CHURCH | $20,000 |
| READ MINISTRIES | $15,000 |
| MINNESOTA FAMILY INSTITUTE | $13,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE NORTHERN TWIN CITIES | $13,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| TEN20 WORDS | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| PIONEERS | $4,000 |
| HEALING HAITI | $3,000 |
| EQUIPNET INTERNATIONAL | $3,000 |
| CRU | $2,500 |
| WORLD RELIEF WISCONSIN | $2,000 |
| SHEPARDS FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 72% of your 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 14% of Impact Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 88% of the giving stays in MN; read by stated purpose it is 73% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +80% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- RMREAD MINISTRIES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $180k · revenue +158%
- MFMINNESOTA FAMILY INSTITUTE8× · 2017–2024 · $97k · revenue +92%
- EEQUIPNET5× · 2020–2024 · $20k · revenue +272%
Funded once
- TLTraining Leaders Internationalgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +25%
- JRJERICHO ROAD MINISTRIESone grant, 2021 · $1k
- GPGARFIELD PRISON CHAPLAIN MINISTRYone grant, 2018 · $1k
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.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Training pastors and leaders in christian faith
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.
Fmi works among people in areas of war, persecution, and poverty, primarily in restricted-access countries, seeking to strengthen the church, give voice to persecuted christians, and preach and publish the gospel.
Equip ministries trains overseas pastors and leaders, empowers the church, provides humanitarian aid, and attempts to reach the unreached peoples around the world by working with church leaders to fulfil
Prepare pastoral and congregational leaders of churches to impact russia with the gospel of jesus christ
Reaching and teaching pastors in the majority world.
Serving and pastoring overseas workers on their own turf and equipping nationals by training and empowering them in their work of advancing the gospel.
Raise Up Global Ministries is committed to educating Christian leaders in communities around the world. The three programs of Raise Up equip the global church by 1 Developing biblically based interactive materials and 2 Training…
International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures
Our mission is to make disciples of jesus christ by engaging indigenous pastors around the world. our vision is to train pastors and their congregants to share the gospel in a friendly, non-denominational approach across all ethnicities,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life and the most unlike its peers is Garfield Prison Chaplain Ministry. 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 36 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 READ MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA FAMILY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds EQUIPNET ↗
- Who funds HEALING HAITI ↗
- Who funds ARRIVE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE SHEPHERD'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds THE REEL HOPE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Training Leaders International ↗
- Who funds GARFIELD PRISON CHAPLAIN MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP ↗
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: Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Impact Foundation 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.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% 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.