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Inspirational Giving

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$940k
Granted FY2025still arriving
37
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$133k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Religion$1.7MInternational$747kEducation$193kFood & Nutrition$154kHuman Services$132kHousing & Shelter$112kHealth$92kArts & Culture$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $72k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $492k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $376k
$20,678
Median grant
4
States reached
$4k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%The Unforgettables Foundation: $10k → 14%Redemption House Ministries: $23k → 11%Redemption House Ministries: $15k → 11%Redemption House Ministries: $5k → 11%Furnish Hope: $25k → 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.
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.
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.
$3.0M · 35 repeat orgs$225k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
17

Total granted

$3.0M
$128k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+12%

Still filing today

37%
12%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $97k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionHealthInternationalOther
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

  • JI
    JOURNEY INTERNATIONAL
    5× · 2021–2025 · $583k · revenue +344% · 53% of their budget
  • SH
    SHEPHERD'S HOUSE MINISTRIES
    4× · 2022–2025 · $132k · revenue +123%
  • PR
    Pregnancy Resource Center INC dba Hope Pregnancy Center
    4× · 2022–2025 · $86k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • GS
    good shephard
    one grant, 2021 · $35k
  • EA
    eastmont and other religious
    one grant, 2021 · $17k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $13k
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
House of Refuge Faith Based
Human Services
2
Refuge for Prodigals International Bible Ministries Inc
Religion
3
Prepare the Way Ministry

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

International
4
Dozen Ministries

Religious

Religion
5
House of Prayer for All Nations

Church ministry

Religion
6
Reaching Out to the Nations Inc

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.

Religion
7
Orphans Hope International
—
8
International Impact Ministries in
Religion
9
Jesus in Vietnam Ministries
Religion
10
Nourishing the Nations

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.

Food & Nutrition
11
Hope Christian Ministries International

Ministries

Religion
12
Abbas House
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Journey International; 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.
04the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 58 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
13/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JOURNEY INTERNATIONAL: $583,442 · OtherJOURNEY INTERNATIONALGood Shepherd Ministries: $548,500 · OtherGood Shepherd MinistriesIndividual grant recipient: $356,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $136,632 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+41 more: $904,180 · Other+41 moreBOLD VENTURES: $93,980 · ReligionPATH International: $55,100 · ReligionANSWERS IN GENESIS INC: $23,500 · ReligionACROSS NATIONS: $10,000 · ReligionSHEPHERD'S HOUSE MINISTRIES: $131,742 · Housing & ShelterJERICHO ROAD INC: $34,038 · Housing & ShelterTHE GIVING PLATE: $63,235 · Food & NutritionMADRAS COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $55,697 · Food & NutritionPregnancy Resource Center INC dba Hope Pregnancy Center: $85,500 · HealthVISIONS OF HOPE ORG: $83,250 · InternationalREDEMPTION HOUSE MINISTRIES: $43,089 · Human ServicesFURNISH HOPE INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE UNFORGETTABLES FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human Services
Other$2,528,754Religion$182,580Housing & Shelter$165,780Food & Nutrition$118,932Health$85,500International$83,250Human Services$78,089

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJOURNEY INTERNATIONAL: $583,442 over 5y, 53% of budgetSHEPHERD'S HOUSE MINISTRIES: $131,742 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetBOLD VENTURES: $93,980 over 3y, 23% of budgetPregnancy Resource Center INC dba Hope Pregnancy Center: $85,500 over 4y, 13% of budgetVISIONS OF HOPE ORG: $83,250 over 4y, 85% of budgetTHE GIVING PLATE: $63,235 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetMADRAS COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $55,697 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetPATH International: $55,100 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetREDEMPTION HOUSE MINISTRIES: $43,089 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetJERICHO ROAD INC: $34,038 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetCENTRAL CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: $30,742 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetREAP INTERNATIONAL: $25,000 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetANSWERS IN GENESIS INC: $23,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNFORGETTABLES FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetACROSS NATIONS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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 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 FURNISH HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds REAP INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds ANSWERS IN GENESIS INC ↗

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.

The Oregon Community …First Interstate Banc…Central Oregon Health…St Charles Health Sys…The Anjulicia Foundat…Maybelle Clark Macdon…Washington Federal Fo…The Autzen FoundationNatl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …
The Oregon Community FoundationOR15.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • Redemption House Ministries: 14% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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 58 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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