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In Touch Ministries Inc

In touch ministries' mission is to lead people into a growing relationship with jesus christ and to strengthen the local church.

$34M
Granted FY2021
2
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$32M
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172021.

Religion$42MEducation$55kInternational$15k
02FY2021 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$31,900,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$145M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IN TOUCH FOUNDATION$31,900,000
IN TOUCH MEDIA INC$2,000,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SOUTHWESTERN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $5k → 11%MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE INC: $100k → 16%ISLAND OUTREACH: $25k → 12%GO MINISTRIES INC: $5k → 12%RZIM: $10k → 13%IN TOUCH FOUNDATION: $31.9M → 14%EMMANUEL COLLEGE INC: $50k → 16%NATIONAL RELIGIOUS BROADCASTERS: $100k → 9%GO MINISTRIES INC: $5k → 12%IN TOUCH FOUNDATION: $8.0M → 14%NATIONAL RELIGIOUS BROADCASTERS: $10k → 9%IN TOUCH MEDIA INC: $2.0M → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$40M · 3 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2021, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
6

Total granted

$40M
$205k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-1%
+65%

Still filing today

67%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21
ReligionPhilanthropyEducationInternationalOther

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

  • IT
    IN TOUCH FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $40M · revenue -18% · 79% of their budget
  • NR
    National Religious Broadcasters
    2× · 2017–2019 · $110k · revenue +204%
  • GM
    GO MINISTRIES INC
    2× · 2017–2019 · $10k · revenue -1%

Funded once

  • MO
    MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -54%
  • EU
    EMMANUEL UNIVERSITY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +33%
  • IO
    ISLAND OUTREACH INC RANDY CROWEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +83% · 26% of their budget

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

04Your field

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.

1
International Impact Ministries in
Religion
2
More International Ministries

To spread the gospel of jesus christ through crusades

Religion
3
Encounter Church

Church

Religion
4
Christian Ministries
International
5
Spirit Invasion Ministries

Spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ

Religion
6
The Rock Ministries

To preach the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ to the Nations

Human Services
7
United in Christ

Christian evangelism and reconciliation

Religion
8
Euromedia Missions
9
Making Jesus Known Evangelistic Ministries

Preaching the message of Jesus Christ around the world through large events.

10
Emanual Ministries International
Religion
11
Walking On Water Ministries Inc

Teach the word of god

Religion
12
Influencers Global Ministries

Religious organization devoted to strengthening members' personal faith.

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is In Touch Media Inc and the most unlike its peers is Museum of the Bible. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 10 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

IN TOUCH FOUNDATION INC — $39,900,000 · PhilanthropyIN TOUCH FOUNDATION INCIN TOUCH MEDIA INC — $2,000,000 · ReligionNational Religious Broadcasters — $110,000 · Religion+2 more — $35,000 · ReligionMUSEUM OF THE BIBLE — $100,000 · OtherRAVI ZACHARIAS INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES — $10,000 · OtherSOUTHWESTERN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY — $5,000 · OtherEMMANUEL UNIVERSITY INC — $50,000 · EducationWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL — $14,805 · International
Philanthropy$39,900,000Religion$2,145,000Other$115,000Education$50,000International$14,805

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetIN TOUCH FOUNDATION INC — $39,900,000 over 2y, 79% of budgetIN TOUCH MEDIA INC — $2,000,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE BIBLE — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEMMANUEL UNIVERSITY INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetISLAND OUTREACH INC RANDY CROWE — $25,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL — $14,805 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA11.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 In Touch Ministries Inc 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.

2022
202122232425
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to In Touch Ministries Inc?

    Find your warmest path to In Touch Ministries Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 10 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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