· Private foundation
Inspirational Giving
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $72k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $492k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $376k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Good Shepherd Ministries | $133,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $98,000 |
| Journey International | $94,500 |
| Shepherd's House Ministries | $50,000 |
| Madras Community Food Pantry | $33,736 |
| Smith Rock Church | $33,061 |
| House of Hope | $32,921 |
| Individual grant recipient | $29,694 |
| Salvation Army | $27,426 |
| Individual grant recipient | $27,356 |
| Shepherd's House Ministries | $27,006 |
| PATH Ministries International | $26,500 |
| Giving Plate | $26,404 |
| Pregnancy Resource Center | $26,000 |
| Furnish Hope | $25,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $78k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 13% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $97k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- JIJOURNEY INTERNATIONAL5× · 2021–2025 · $583k · revenue +344% · 53% of their budget
- SHSHEPHERD'S HOUSE MINISTRIES4× · 2022–2025 · $132k · revenue +123%
- PRPregnancy Resource Center INC dba Hope Pregnancy Center4× · 2022–2025 · $86k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $35k
- EAeastmont and other religiousone grant, 2021 · $17k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $13k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Education, Humanitarian, Community outreach and evangelism ministry. Provide Orphan Care, Train Youth in Career Paths, Train Pastors and Others in Bible School, Prison Ministry, Provide Elementary School for about 300 Children
Religious
Church ministry
Reaching Out To The Nations' mission is to both preach and demonstrate the love of Go through its projects and programs which include preaching, food distribution, widow and orphan assistance and leadership training.
Nourishing the Nations exists to provide nourishing meals to the children of Kisumu County in western Kenya. These meals are provided through partherships with local Kenyan pastors.
Ministries
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Journey International and the most unlike its peers is The Unforgettables Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 58 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds JOURNEY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD'S HOUSE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds BOLD VENTURES ↗
- Who funds Pregnancy Resource Center INC dba Hope Pregnancy Center ↗
- Who funds VISIONS OF HOPE ORG ↗
- Who funds THE GIVING PLATE ↗
- Who funds MADRAS COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds PATH International ↗
- Who funds REDEMPTION HOUSE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds JERICHO ROAD INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds REAP INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds FURNISH HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds ANSWERS IN GENESIS INC ↗
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.
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
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 Inspirational Giving 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Redemption House Ministries — 14% of income from government
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.