How much did Interest Ministries grant in FY2025?

Human Services$681kHousing & Shelter$565kReligion$394kEducation$287kHealth$281kCommunity Improvement$135kPublic Benefit$125kYouth Development$85kPublic Safety & Disaster$80kOther$472k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

girlsranchdesignednon-profitabusepovertytcaa's

2020

abusetcaa'spovertycancer

2021

homelessranchahiabuseplacenon-profitneglect

2022

homelesscreateahispecialranchhousingplace

2023

ahihousingensuretcaa'ssupportivecancer

2024

tcaa'ssupportivecancer

2025

educateskillscancersupportive

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.5M

Total assets

Largest grants

Bright Hope International$40,000
Harvest Compassion Center$35,000
Nourish Phoenix$35,000
First Place Phoenix$30,000
Saving Amy$30,000
Central Arizona Shelter Services$30,000
Arizona Cancer Foundation$25,000
Treasures 4 Teachers$25,000
SW Autism Research & Resource$25,000
Center For The Rights of Abused Children$25,000
Foster Arizona$25,000
Jacob's Hope$25,000
Teen Lifeline$25,000
University of the Nations Kona$13,500
YATOM Jewish Fostering$10,000

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $496k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.9M · 29 repeat orgs$176k to everyone else

29 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.9M

$162k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%

+60%

Still filing today

93%

79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHousing & ShelterReligionHealthEducationCrime & LegalOther

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

CA
Central Arizona Shelter Services
8× · 2018–2025 · $210k · revenue +193%
NP
Nourish Phoenix
7× · 2019–2025 · $185k · revenue +25%
FP
First Place Phoenix
6× · 2020–2025 · $175k · revenue +89%

Funded once

UF
United Food Bankgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +32%
HB
Homeward Bound
one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +5%
FC
Florence Crittenton Svcs
one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue -66%

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.

Arizona Wins

Az wins is a coalition of organizations dedicated to achieving public policies that benefit working arizona families and advancing an inclusive, engaged, just and equitable state for all arizonans.

Civil Rights

Arizona Friends of Foster Children

Arizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation creates opportunities to build self-esteem and empower children and youth in foster care by funding social, athletic and educational activities and services to enrich their life experiences and…

Human Services

Arizona Baptist Children's Services

Serving families in their most pressing needs

Human Services

Arizona Housing Coalition

The arizona housing coalition is a collaborative association that leads in the efforts to end homelessness and advocate for safe, affordable homes for all arizonans.

Human Services

Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting

AZCIR holds powerful people and institutions accountable by exposing injustice and systemic inequities through investigative journalism.

Arts & Culture

Pro-Choice Arizona

Pro-Choice Arizona centers abolition and reproductive justice values to prioritize community needs. We advance reproductive equity, pregnancy and family justice, and abortion access for all folks living in Arizona through direct service…

Health

Arizona Women's Recovery Center

The organization provides community education, information, and counseling on alcoholism and drug dependence. the agency also provides supportive housing to women and children in recovery as well as emergency housing for pregnant women…

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Habitat for Humanity Tucson Inc

Serving low income families by developing and preserving affordable housing in Southern Arizona.

Housing & Shelter

Arizona Family Health Partnership

To make sexual and reproductive healthcare accessible to everyone

—

Arizona Youth Partnership

Arizona youth partnership (azyp) builds solid foundations for youth and families by partnering with arizona communities to provide youth services, prevention programs and health education related to substance abuse, homelessness, human…

Health

Grace Retreat Fostercare and Adoption

We are a licensing agency contracted by the state of arizona. we are committed to support families through the process of becoming licensed and providing a home for children. we believe that by supporting the families, they are able to…

Human Services

Arizona Council of Human Service Providers

Member advocacy and business development

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Foster Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Jacobs Hope. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2/44

the rest of the field

14%

6,779/48,519

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

40 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

39/40

Grantees still filing

33/40

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Human Services$681,350Housing & Shelter$565,000Religion$393,511Other$762,243Education$287,000Health$281,050Community Improvement$135,000

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.

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.

Arizona Community FoundationAZ49.1× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · Thunderbirds Charities · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · American Express Foundation · Phoenix Suns Charities Inc · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Executive Council Charities · Garcia Family Foundation · Sundt Foundation · John F Long Foundation Inc · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · BHHS Legacy 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 organisation Interest Ministries 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Jacob's Hope.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~0 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 11.0× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 371828794 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Jacob's Hope, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 0 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 13% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Interest Ministries?

Find your warmest path to Interest Ministries through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Interest Ministries

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

40 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Interest Ministries?

More from the funding graph

Interest Ministries

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

40 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Interest Ministries?

More from the funding graph