Oregon · Private foundation
Inspirational Giving
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $940k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 37
- Grants FY2025
- 35
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,678
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $133,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 36
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations Inspirational Giving funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 35 | $940k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 35 | $972k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 34 | $872k | 26% |
| FY2022 | 36 | $360k | 94% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $99k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Journey International | $583,442 | 5 | 53% |
| Shepherd's House Ministries | $131,742 | 4 | 1% |
| Bold Ventures | $93,980 | 3 | 23% |
| Pregnancy Resource Center INC dba Hope Pregnancy Center | $85,500 | 4 | 13% |
| Visions of Hope Org | $83,250 | 4 | 85% |
| The Giving Plate | $63,235 | 3 | 1% |
| Madras Community Food Pantry | $55,697 | 3 | 7% |
| PATH International | $55,100 | 3 | 1% |
| Redemption House Ministries | $43,089 | 3 | 3% |
| Wellhouse Church Inc | $36,449 | 3 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Journey International | $583,442 | 5 | 53% |
| Shepherd's House Ministries | $131,742 | 4 | 1% |
| Bold Ventures | $93,980 | 3 | 23% |
| Pregnancy Resource Center INC dba Hope Pregnancy Center | $85,500 | 4 | 13% |
| Visions of Hope Org | $83,250 | 4 | 85% |
| The Giving Plate | $63,235 | 3 | 1% |
| Madras Community Food Pantry | $55,697 | 3 | 7% |
| PATH International | $55,100 | 3 | 1% |
| Redemption House Ministries | $43,089 | 3 | 3% |
| Wellhouse Church Inc | $36,449 | 3 | n/a |
| Jericho Road Inc | $34,038 | 3 | 6% |
| Central Christian Schools | $30,742 | 4 | 0% |
| Furnish Hope Inc | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Reap International | $25,000 | 4 | 6% |
| Answers in Genesis Inc | $23,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Bend Church of the Nazarene | $12,061 | 2 | n/a |
| The Unforgettables Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Across Nations | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Christian Life Center | $5,676 | 1 | n/a |
| Inner Anvil Ministries | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| La Pine Foursquare Church | $4,350 | 1 | n/a |
| Trans World Radio | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Inspirational Giving supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 15 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Central Oregon Health Council · St Charles Health System Inc · The Anjulicia Foundation · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · Washington Federal Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About Inspirational Giving
- How much does Inspirational Giving give?
- Inspirational Giving reported 37 grants totaling $940,042 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 36 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Inspirational Giving fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (53%), International (23%), Education (6%).
- Who are Inspirational Giving's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Journey International ($583k), Shepherd's House Ministries ($132k), Bold Ventures ($94k).
- Does Inspirational Giving fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Inspirational Giving accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Inspirational Giving?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Oregon Community Foundation, First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc, Central Oregon Health Council.
- Where is Inspirational Giving based?
- Inspirational Giving is based in OR.
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