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Impact Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$192k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
20
Grants FY2024
21
Organizations funded FY2023
14%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$4,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$53,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 23
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$1.3M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 14% of the organizations Impact Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
ReligionYouth DevelopmentInternationalHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving20$192k0%
FY202321$188k14%
FY202222$194k14%
FY202122$140k14%
FY202023$130k52%
FY201914$129k43%
FY20187$199k43%
FY20176$57kn/a
82% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$781kEducation$150kYouth Development$122kInternational$40kHuman Services$17kHealth$12kHousing & Shelter$9kRecreation & Sports$4kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
WI
PA
CA
CO
NC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Read Ministries Inc$180,000817%
Bethlehem College & Seminary$149,6806n/a
Minnesota Family Institute$96,75081%
Bethlehem Baptist Church$91,5214n/a
North Church$60,0002n/a
Pioneers$27,0006n/a
Equipnet$20,00050%
Healing Haiti$15,00040%
United Fellowship Worship Center$14,7653n/a
Arrive Ministries$14,00060%
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All grantees of Impact Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Read Ministries Inc$180,000817%
Bethlehem College & Seminary$149,6806n/a
Minnesota Family Institute$96,75081%
Bethlehem Baptist Church$91,5214n/a
North Church$60,0002n/a
Pioneers$27,0006n/a
Equipnet$20,00050%
Healing Haiti$15,00040%
United Fellowship Worship Center$14,7653n/a
Arrive Ministries$14,00060%
The Shepherd's Foundation$14,00032%
Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc$12,00050%
World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals$4,50020%
Young Life$4,00020%
Fellowship of Christian Athletes$4,00020%
The Reel Hope Project$2,20020%
Training Leaders International$1,00010%
Garfield Prison Chaplain Ministry$1,0001n/a
Bible Study Fellowship$70010%

Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($516k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Impact Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRead Ministries Inc: $180,000 over 8y, 17% of budgetMinnesota Family Institute: $96,750 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetEquipnet: $20,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHealing Haiti: $15,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetArrive Ministries: $14,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetThe Shepherd's Foundation: $14,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetMinnesota Teen Challenge Inc: $12,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Life: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFellowship of Christian Athletes: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Reel Hope Project: $2,200 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTraining Leaders International: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBible Study Fellowship: $700 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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.

Thrivent Charitable Impact & InvestingWI16× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Impact Foundation

How much does Impact Foundation give?
Impact Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $192,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 23 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Impact Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (64%), Education (12%), Youth Development (10%).
Who are Impact Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Read Ministries Inc ($180k), Bethlehem College & Seminary ($150k), Minnesota Family Institute ($97k).
Does Impact Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Impact Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Impact Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc.
Where is Impact Foundation based?
Impact Foundation is based in MN.

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 36 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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