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India Partners

International relief, development and education.

$1.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$499k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

International$667kEmployment$601kReligion$377kArts & Culture$74kHuman Services$68k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $548,849, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,773,669 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,224,820 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $499k
$12,750
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INTERNATIONAL SANCTUARY$498,685
INTERLINK MINISTRIES$13,996
MOODY RADIO$12,750
247 Media Ministries$12,600
HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INC$10,818
02The need
03

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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $810k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%INTERNATIONAL SANCTUARY: $499k → 10%HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INC: $11k → 9%Helping Hands Ministries: $37k → 13%International Sanctuary: $70k → 10%Helping Hands Ministries: $14k → 13%International Sanctuary: $54k → 10%Helping Hands Ministries: $13k → 13%International Sanctuary: $48k → 10%Helping Hands Ministries: $11k → 13%International Sanctuary: $42k → 10%International Sanctuary: $12k → 10%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

ID
IL
OR
OH
CA
AR
NC
GA
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region: $1.2M on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

South Asia$1.2M · 100% · 15 grants
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 25% of India Partners’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 12% of the giving stays in OR; by stated purpose, 5%.

India Partnerslessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 14% 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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 5 repeat orgs$88k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +103% since the first grant, against -6% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
5

Total granted

$1.2M
$88k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+103%
-6%

Still filing today

80%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesReligionArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • IS
    INTERNATIONAL SANCTUARY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $725k · revenue -30% · 56% of their budget
  • 2M
    247 MEDIA MINISTRIES
    5× · 2019–2025 · $272k · revenue ×15 · 38% of their budget
  • BR
    BLUE RIDGE BROADCASTING CORPORATION
    5× · 2017–2022 · $105k

Funded once

  • HM
    HOPE MEDIA GROUPgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $31k · revenue +109%
  • FM
    FOREIGN MISSION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -22%
  • TT
    THE THOMAS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $11k · revenue -52%
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
Euromedia Missions
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2
Missions Ministry and Media Foundation
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3
Global Faith Network
Human Services
4
Faith Speaks World Outreach

World outreach

Religion
5
Mr Mike Ministries
Religion
6
Explore God Network
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7
International Impact Ministries in
Religion
8
Faith to Faith Ministry Faith to Fatih Ministry

Radio braodcast

Religion
9
Jubal Band Ministries

Jubal band ministries mission is to invite people to become disciples of christian life with jesus.

Religion
10
Emanual Ministries International
Religion
11
Todd Worldwide Ministries
Housing & Shelter
12
Inter-America Mission
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope Media Group; the most unlike its peers is The Thomas Foundation. 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

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 11 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INTERNATIONAL SANCTUARY: $724,727 · Human ServicesINTERNATIONAL SANCTUARYHELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INC: $84,929 · Human ServicesHELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INCThe Moody Bible Institute of Chicago: $471,400 · EducationThe Moody Bible Institute of …247 MEDIA MINISTRIES: $271,813 · Religion247 MEDIA MINISTR…The Christian Broadcasting Network Inc: $10,500 · ReligionBLUE RIDGE BROADCASTING CORPORATION: $105,359 · OtherBLUE RIDGE …INTERLINK MINISTRIES INC: $40,498 · OtherINTERLINK M…FOREIGN MISSION FOUNDATION: $24,945 · OtherFOREIGN MIS…ANTIOCH CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: $10,940 · OtherANTIOCH CHR…HOPE MEDIA GROUP: $30,670 · Arts & CultureTHE THOMAS FOUNDATION: $11,315 · Philanthropy
Human Services$809,656Education$471,400Religion$282,313Other$181,742Arts & Culture$30,670Philanthropy$11,315

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINTERNATIONAL SANCTUARY: $724,727 over 6y, 56% of budgetThe Moody Bible Institute of Chicago: $471,400 over 3y, 0.4% of budget247 MEDIA MINISTRIES: $271,813 over 5y, 38% of budgetHELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INC: $84,929 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetINTERLINK MINISTRIES INC: $40,498 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetHOPE MEDIA GROUP: $30,670 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE THOMAS FOUNDATION: $11,315 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetThe Christian Broadcasting Network Inc: $10,500 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.

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.

Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA9.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 India Partners funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from India Partners. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to India Partners?

    Find your warmest path to India Partners 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 11 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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