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Interest Ministries

To equip and encourage those who serve God in difficult places among the poor, marginalized and spiritually unreached.

$735k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$40k
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.

Housing & Shelter$738kHuman Services$640kInternational$583kHealth$457kFood & Nutrition$375kCrime & Legal$158kCommunity Improvement$150kYouth Development$139kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 15 grants below total $398,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $734,801 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $336,301 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.
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Bright Hope International$40,000
Nourish Phoenix$35,000
Harvest Compassion Center$35,000
Saving Amy$30,000
First Place Phoenix$30,000
Central Arizona Shelter Services$30,000
Jacob's Hope$25,000
Center For The Rights of Abused Children$25,000
Arizona Cancer Foundation$25,000
Teen Lifeline$25,000
Foster Arizona$25,000
SW Autism Research & Resource$25,000
Treasures 4 Teachers$25,000
University of the Nations Kona$13,500
YATOM Jewish Fostering$10,000
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 (FY17–25, $631k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Saving Amy: $35k → 11%Westlawn Youth Ntwk: $9k → 14%Saving Amy: $30k → 11%Westlawn Youth Ntwk: $7k → 14%Saving Amy: $30k → 11%Westlawn Youth Ntwk: $6k → 14%Westlawn Youth Ntwk: $6k → 14%Westlawn Youth Ntwk: $6k → 14%Westlawn Youth Network: $5k → 14%Saving Amy: $10k → 11%Arizona Foundation For Women: $10k → 11%Chrysalis: $20k → 11%Chrysalis: $20k → 11%Chrysalis: $20k → 11%Chrysalis: $20k → 11%Chrysalis: $15k → 11%Chrysalis: $15k → 11%AASK: $23k → 11%AASK: $18k → 11%AASK: $15k → 11%Singleton Moms: $15k → 11%Ronald McDonald House Charities: $20k → 11%Ronald McDonald House Charities: $18k → 11%Ronald McDonald House Charities: $15k → 11%Arizona Sunshine Angels: $10k → 11%Cortney's Place: $30k → 11%Cortney's Foundation: $15k → 11%Cortney's Place: $15k → 11%Cortney's Foundation: $15k → 11%Cortney's Foundation: $15k → 11%Arizonans For Children Inc: $15k → 11%Arizonans For Children: $10k → 11%Asst League of Phoenix: $15k → 11%BOOST a Foster Family Inc: $10k → 11%YATOM Jewish Fostering: $10k → 11%Sunshine Acres Childrens Home: $18k → 11%YATOM Jewish Fostering: $10k → 11%Sunshine Acres Childrens Home: $15k → 11%YATOM Jewish Fostering: $10k → 11%Sunshine Acres Childrens Home: $15k → 11%Sunshine Acres Childrens Home: $15k → 11%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.

Grants abroad, by region: $257k on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 4 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Middle East and North Africa$129k · 50% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: General Support

Russia and Neighboring States$58k · 23% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: General Support

South Asia$52k · 20% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: General Support

Sub-Saharan Africa$17k · 7% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: General Support

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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.4M · 30 repeat orgs$196k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

30 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
15

Total granted

$3.4M
$182k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
0%

Still filing today

93%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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 ServicesHousing & ShelterReligionEducationHealthCrime & LegalOther
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

  • CA
    CENTRAL ARIZONA SHELTER SERVICES INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $233k · revenue +72%
  • FP
    FIRST PLACE AZ
    7× · 2017–2025 · $190k · revenue +89%
  • N
    NOURISHPHX
    7× · 2019–2025 · $185k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • UF
    United Food Bankgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +29%
  • HB
    HOMEWARD BOUND
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue -69%
  • FP
    FAMILY PROMISE - GREATER PHOENIX
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -10%
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
La Paloma Family Services Inc

We build relationships that enhance the development of skills, foster a sense of worth and enhance a belief in each child's individual potential.

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2
Foster 360

Foster360 equips former clients of the foster care system to break the cycle of homelessness and abuse.

Human Services
3
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. in 2024 az wins substantially reduced its…

Civil Rights
4
Our Family Services Inc

Our Family's mission is to eliminate homelessness and strengthen our community. We do this by providing stability in times of crisis, linking people to support and resources, supporting social connectedness, engaging our neighbors to…

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5
Child Crisis Arizona

To provide children and youth in arizona a safe environment, free from abuse and neglect, by creating strong and successful families.

Crime & Legal
6
Against Abuse Inc

To provide services, support, and education to all who experience the effects of family dysfunction and/or violence, past and present.

Human Services
7
Hope House of Sedona

Hope House of Sedona provides families experiencing homelessness access to safe haven, support, and tools for lasting stability.

Housing & Shelter
8
Arizona's Children Association

The mission of arizona's children association is to protect children, empower youth, and strengthen families.

Human Services
9
Christian Family Care Agency Inc

The mission of christian family care is to strengthen families and serve at-risk children in the name of jesus christ. the outcome of our work results in building flourishing families and communities focusing on three pillars: preserve,…

Human Services
10
Arizona Faith and Families

It is the mission of Arizona Faith and Families to recruit foster and adoptive parents from within the Christian church, to train and license them within a biblical world view, and to equip them to serve their Savior, home, church, and…

Human Services
11
Azcend

AZCEND nourishes minds and bodies so that neighbors in need experience a brighter future.

Human Services
12
Arizona Women's Recovery Center

Arizona women's recovery center (awrc) offers treatment and program support to substance abusing women. awrc has an intensive outpatient program, a supportive housing program for families, and a healthy connections program for pregnant…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is First Place Az; 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.
04the grantee network

42 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. 42 of the 46 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/42
Grantees still filing
25/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NOURISHPHX: $185,000 · Human ServicesNOURISHPHXChrysalis Shelter for Victims of Domestic Violence Inc: $110,000 · Human ServicesChrysalis Shelter for Vic…SAVING AMY INC: $105,000 · Human ServicesSAVING AMY INCCORTNEYS PLACE: $90,000 · Human ServicesCORTNEYS PLACESUNSHINE ACRES CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $63,000 · Human ServicesSUNSHINE ACRES CHILDREN'S…AID TO ADOPTION OF SPECIAL KIDS AASK ARIZONA: $56,000 · Human ServicesAID TO ADOPTION OF SPECIA…RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ARIZONA: $53,000 · Human ServicesRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHA…Westlawn Youth Network: $38,950 · Human ServicesYATOM THE JEWISH FOSTER & ADOPTION NETWORK: $30,000 · Human Services+6 more: $85,000 · Human Services+6 moreCENTRAL ARIZONA SHELTER SERVICES INC: $233,000 · Housing & ShelterCENTRAL ARIZONA SHEL…FIRST PLACE AZ: $190,000 · Housing & ShelterFIRST PLACE AZUMOM NEW DAY CENTERS INC: $120,000 · Housing & ShelterUMOM NEW DAY CENTERS…ARIZONA HOUSING INC: $75,000 · Housing & ShelterARIZONA HOUSING INC+1 more: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterBRIGHT HOPE INTERNATIONAL: $531,325 · ReligionBRIGHT HOPE INTER…+2 more: $27,186 · ReligionCITY HOPE: $165,000 · OtherCITY HOPETHE WHISPERING HOPE RANCH FOUNDATION: $90,000 · OtherTHE WHISPERING HOPE RANCH…TMC International: $33,735 · OtherArizona Cancer Foundation for Children Inc: $125,000 · OtherArizona Cancer Foundation…FOSTER ARIZONA: $60,000 · OtherFOSTER ARIZONATeen Lifeline Inc: $80,000 · OtherTeen Lifeline IncCENTER FOR THE RIGHTS OF ABUSED CHILDREN: $80,000 · OtherCENTER FOR THE RIGHTS OF …STREETLIGHTUSA: $68,000 · OtherSTREETLIGHTUSA+8 more: $105,008 · Other+8 moreTHE FOSTER ALLIANCE: $174,500 · EducationTHE FOSTE…TREASURES 4 TEACHERS INC: $125,000 · EducationTREASURES…UNIVERSITY OF THE NATIONS KONA INC: $13,500 · EducationSOUTHWEST AUTISM RESEARCH AND RESOURCE CENTER: $165,000 · HealthSOUTHWEST…JACOBS HOPE: $80,000 · HealthJACOBS HO…UPWARD COMMUNITY SERVICES: $42,050 · HealthUPWARD CO…Tempe Community Action Agency Inc: $150,000 · Community Improvement
Human Services$815,950Housing & Shelter$633,000Religion$558,511Other$806,743Education$313,000Health$287,050Community Improvement$150,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBRIGHT HOPE INTERNATIONAL: $531,325 over 9y, 2.9% of budgetCENTRAL ARIZONA SHELTER SERVICES INC: $233,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetFIRST PLACE AZ: $190,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetNOURISHPHX: $185,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetTHE FOSTER ALLIANCE: $174,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetSOUTHWEST AUTISM RESEARCH AND RESOURCE CENTER: $165,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTempe Community Action Agency Inc: $150,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetArizona Cancer Foundation for Children Inc: $125,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetTREASURES 4 TEACHERS INC: $125,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetUMOM NEW DAY CENTERS INC: $120,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetChrysalis Shelter for Victims of Domestic Violence Inc: $110,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetSAVING AMY INC: $105,000 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetCORTNEYS PLACE: $90,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetTHE WHISPERING HOPE RANCH FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetTeen Lifeline Inc: $80,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetCENTER FOR THE RIGHTS OF ABUSED CHILDREN: $80,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetJACOBS HOPE: $80,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetARIZONA HOUSING INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSTREETLIGHTUSA: $68,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSUNSHINE ACRES CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $63,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFOSTER ARIZONA: $60,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetAID TO ADOPTION OF SPECIAL KIDS AASK ARIZONA: $56,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ARIZONA: $53,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetUPWARD COMMUNITY SERVICES: $42,050 over 6y, 8.0% of budgetWestlawn Youth Network: $38,950 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetYATOM THE JEWISH FOSTER & ADOPTION NETWORK: $30,000 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetArizonans for Children Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetHomeless Youth Connection Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetUnited Food Bank: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOMEWARD BOUND: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE - GREATER PHOENIX: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE SINGLETONS: $15,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetFLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF ARIZONA INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDelivering Dreams of Arizona: $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE NATIONS KONA INC: $13,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWorld In Need International Inc: $12,186 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetARIZONA SUNSHINE ANGELS: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPREVENT CHILD ABUSE ARIZONA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBOOST A FOSTER FAMILY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetARIZONA FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE JEWISH ENSEMBLE THEATRE: $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetWORLD ASSISTANCE AND DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $5,700 over 1y, 3.2% 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.

Arizona Community Fou…Thunderbirds CharitiesNina Mason Pulliam Ch…Phoenix Suns Charitie…Virginia G Piper Char…American Express Foun…John F Long Foundatio…The Diane and Bruce H…Executive Council Cha…The Foundation for Co…BHHS Legacy FoundationFiesta Events Inc
Arizona Community FoundationAZ49.9× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · Thunderbirds Charities · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Phoenix Suns Charities Inc · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · American Express Foundation · John F Long Foundation Inc · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · Executive Council Charities · The Foundation for Community and Health Advancement · BHHS Legacy Foundation · Fiesta Events Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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 Interest Ministries?

    Find your warmest path to Interest Ministries 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 46 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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