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Impact Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$192k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$53k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0182% 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
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $101k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $53k
$4,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CALVARY CHURCH$53,000
BETHLEHEM COLLEGE & SEMINARY$40,000
THE NORTH CHURCH$20,000
READ MINISTRIES$15,000
YOUNG LIFE NORTHERN TWIN CITIES$13,000
MINNESOTA FAMILY INSTITUTE$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
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 72% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%UNITED FELLOWSHIP WORSHIP CENTER: $10k → 6%SHEPARDS FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%YOUNG LIFE MINNEAPOLIS: $5k → 11%TEN20 WORDS: $8k → 14%FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH: $52k → 8%READ MINISTRIES: $65k → 7%CALVARY CHURCH: $55k → 14%YOUNG LIFE EAST CENTER: $27k → 7%CALVARY CHURCH: $53k → 14%READ MINISTRIES: $25k → 7%CALVARY CHURCH: $40k → 14%READ MINISTRIES: $15k → 7%CALVARY CHURCH: $40k → 14%READ MINISTRIES: $15k → 7%YOUNG LIFE NORTHERN TWIN CITIES: $26k → 14%READ MINISTRIES: $15k → 7%CALVARY CHURCH: $14k → 14%READ MINISTRIES: $15k → 7%CALVARY CHURCH: $13k → 14%READ MINISTRIES: $15k → 7%YOUNG LIFE NORTHERN TWIN CITIES: $13k → 14%READ MINISTRIES: $15k → 7%CALVARY CHURCH: $11k → 14%YOUNG LIFE NORTHERN TWIN CITIES: $9k → 14%YOUNG LIFE NORTHERN TWIN CITIES: $9k → 14%YOUNG LIFE NORTHERN TWIN CITIES: $8k → 14%YOUNG LIFE NORTHERN TWIN CITIES: $8k → 14%MINNESOTA FAMILY INSTITUTE: $15k → 11%MINNESOTA FAMILY INSTITUTE: $13k → 11%THE NORTH CHURCH: $40k → 14%MINNESOTA FAMILY INSTITUTE: $12k → 11%THE NORTH CHURCH: $20k → 14%MINNESOTA FAMILY INSTITUTE: $12k → 11%MINNESOTA FAMILY INSTITUTE: $12k → 11%MINNESOTA FAMILY INSTITUTE: $12k → 11%MINNESOTA FAMILY INSTITUTE: $11k → 11%MINNESOTA FAMILY INSTITUTE: $11k → 11%BETHLEHEM COLLEGE & SEMINARY: $40k → 11%BETHLEHEM BAPTIST CHURCH: $33k → 11%HOPE UNITED CDC: $10k → 11%BETHLEHEM COLLEGE & SEMINARY: $27k → 11%BETHLEHEM COLLEGE & SEMINARY: $27k → 11%BETHLEHEM COLLEGE & SEMINARY: $20k → 11%BETHLEHEM BAPTIST CHURCH: $20k → 11%BETHLEHEM COLLEGE & SEMINARY: $20k → 11%BETHLEHEM BAPTIST CHURCH: $20k → 11%BETHLEHEM BAPTIST CHURCH: $19k → 11%BETHLEHEM COLLEGE & SEMINARY: $16k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
WI
PA
CA
CO
NC
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 14% of Impact Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 88% of the giving stays in MN; by stated purpose, 73%.

Impact Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 15% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 31 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +80% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

31 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
5

Total granted

$1.2M
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+80%
+25%

Still filing today

35%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • RM
    READ MINISTRIES INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $180k · revenue +158%
  • MF
    MINNESOTA FAMILY INSTITUTE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $97k · revenue +85%
  • E
    EQUIPNET
    5× · 2020–2024 · $20k · revenue +272%

Funded once

  • TL
    Training Leaders Internationalgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +25%
  • JR
    JERICHO ROAD MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2021 · $1k
  • GP
    GARFIELD PRISON CHAPLAIN MINISTRY
    one grant, 2018 · $1k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

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…

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2
Grateful Shepherd Ministries

Training pastors and leaders in christian faith

Religion
3
Christianity Today International

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.

Religion
4
International Impact Ministries in
Religion
5
Frontline Missions International

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.

Religion
6
Equip Ministries International

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

Religion
7
Russian Leadership Ministries

Prepare pastoral and congregational leaders of churches to impact russia with the gospel of jesus christ

Philanthropy
8
Timothy Two Project International

Reaching and teaching pastors in the majority world.

Religion
9
Serving Beyond Borders

Serving and pastoring overseas workers on their own turf and equipping nationals by training and empowering them in their work of advancing the gospel.

Human Services
10
Raise Up Global Ministries

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…

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11
Leadership Resources International

International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures

Religion
12
Face to Faith Ministry

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,…

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life; 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.
05the grantee network

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CALVARY CHURCH: $226,000 · OtherCALVARY CHURCHBETHLEHEM COLLEGE & SEMINARY: $149,680 · OtherBETHLEHEM COLLEGE & SEMINARYMINNESOTA FAMILY INSTITUTE: $96,750 · OtherMINNESOTA FAMILY INSTITUTEBETHLEHEM BAPTIST CHURCH: $91,521 · OtherBETHLEHEM BAPTIST CHURCHYOUNG LIFE NORTHERN TWIN CITIES: $78,100 · OtherYOUNG LIFE NORTHERN TWIN CITIESNORTH CHURCH: $60,000 · OtherNORTH CHURCHFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH: $58,000 · OtherFIRST BAPTIST CHURCHYOUNG LIFE EAST CENTER: $38,000 · Other+16 more: $171,465 · Other+16 moreREAD MINISTRIES INC: $180,000 · ReligionREAD MINISTRIES INCEQUIPNET: $20,000 · ReligionEQUIPNETTHE SHEPHERD'S FOUNDATION: $14,000 · ReligionTHE SHEPHERD'S FOUND…+3 more: $2,700 · ReligionHEALING HAITI: $15,000 · InternationalWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS: $4,500 · InternationalMinnesota Teen Challenge Inc: $12,000 · HealthYOUNG LIFE: $4,000 · Youth DevelopmentFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $4,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE REEL HOPE PROJECT: $2,200 · Youth Development
Other$969,516Religion$216,700International$19,500Health$12,000Youth Development$10,200

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 YOUNG LIFE ↗
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
  • Who funds THE REEL HOPE PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds Training Leaders International ↗
  • Who funds GARFIELD PRISON CHAPLAIN MINISTRY ↗
  • Who funds BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP ↗

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 I…Natl Christian Charit…Renaissance Charitabl…The Signatry Charitab…Christian Community F…Servant FoundationThe US Charitable Gif…The Blackbaud Giving …Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…National Philanthropi…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Impact Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Impact Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 67%
  • World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals: 67% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home