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James a Brown Private Foundation T/A Mustard Seed Ministries

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$5k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Religion$76kEducation$22kInternational$22kHealth$13kYouth Development$2k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRE MINISTRIES$5,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 55% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 8%NEW HOPE FELLOWSHIP CHURCH: $11k → 11%GLOBAL SERVE INTERNATIONAL: $1k → 11%AMG INTERNATIONAL: $2k → 12%HESHIMA CHILDREN'S CENTRE: $5k → 7%MARANATHA CRUSADES USA INC: $1k → 12%SIOUX FALLS CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: $10k → 5%SIOUX FALLS SEMINARY: $300 → 9%KAIROS INTERNATIONAL: $2k → 8%NEW HOPE FELLOWSHIP CHURCH: $5k → 11%FORUM OF CHRISTIAN LEADERS: $5k → 7%SIOUX FALLS CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: $7k → 5%KINGDOM CAPITAL: $20k → 9%NEW HOPE FELLOWSHIP CHURCH: $3k → 11%SIOUX FALLS CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: $5k → 5%KINGDOM CAPITAL FUND: $5k → 9%HOPE HAS ARRIVED: $3k → 5%TRE MINISTRIES: $5k → 9%HOPE HAS ARRIVED: $2k → 5%HOPE HAS ARRIVED: $2k → 5%HOPE HAS ARRIVED: $2k → 5%HOPE HAS ARRIVED: $2k → 5%HOPE HAS ARRIVED: $2k → 5%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
WY
SD
CO
KY
AZ
TN
FL
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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$81k · 5 repeat orgs$54k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +102% since the first grant, against +38% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
11

Total granted

$81k
$49k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+102%
+38%

Still filing today

40%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
ReligionInternationalEducationOther
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

  • SF
    SIOUX FALLS CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION
    3× · 2017–2023 · $22k · revenue +102%
  • II
    IFCA INTERNATIONAL INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $22k
  • NH
    NEW HOPE FELLOWSHIP CHURCH
    3× · 2017–2020 · $18k

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • FO
    Forum of Christian Leaders
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -10%
  • KC
    KINGDOM CAPITAL FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +203%
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
More International Ministries

To spread the gospel of jesus christ through crusades

Religion
2
Asia Us Impact

Religious

Religion
3
Encounter Church

Church

Religion
4
Thrive Church Planting
Religion
5
Leadership Resources International

International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures

Religion
6
Equippers Group International

To produce and publish training materials for church leadership and development. To facilitate churches groups and individual participation in world mission.

Religion
7
Dozen Ministries

Religious

Religion
8
Alongside Education Ministries Inc

Pastor training

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9
International Impact Ministries in
Religion
10
G2G Center

Curriculum development and distribution & Christian Leadership Training

Religion
11
Evangelism Partners International
Religion
12
China Partner

Help churches in china fulfill the great commission through training emerging christian leaders. train leaders in evangelism, evangelistic preaching, pastoral care and leadership through seminaries and bible school in china. distribute…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Entrust; the most unlike its peers is Hope Has Arrived Llc. 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

9 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. 9 of the 17 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

IFCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $21,500 · OtherIFCA INTERNATIONAL INCIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNEW HOPE FELLOWSHIP CHURCH: $18,200 · OtherNEW HOPE FELLOWSHIP CHURCHCAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST: $5,800 · OtherCAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRISTENTRUST MINISTRY: $5,000 · OtherENTRUST MINISTRYHESHIMA CHILDREN'S CENTRE: $5,000 · OtherHESHIMA CHILDREN'S CENTREENTRUST: $3,000 · Other+2 more: $1,300 · OtherHOPE HAS ARRIVED LLC: $13,000 · ReligionHOPE HAS ARRIVED LLCForum of Christian Leaders: $5,000 · ReligionForum of Christian Leade…KINGDOM CAPITAL FUND: $5,000 · ReligionKINGDOM CAPITAL FUNDTRE MINISTRIES: $5,000 · ReligionTRE MINISTRIESGLOBAL SERVE INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,000 · ReligionSIOUX FALLS CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION: $22,000 · EducationSIOUX FALLS CHRIST…AMG INTERNATIONAL INC: $2,000 · InternationalKAIROS INTERNATIONAL: $2,000 · International
Other$79,800Religion$29,000Education$22,000International$4,000

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 budgetSIOUX FALLS CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION: $22,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE HAS ARRIVED LLC: $13,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetForum of Christian Leaders: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKINGDOM CAPITAL FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTRE MINISTRIES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetENTRUST: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMG INTERNATIONAL INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 SIOUX FALLS CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds HOPE HAS ARRIVED LLC ↗
  • Who funds Forum of Christian Leaders ↗
  • Who funds KINGDOM CAPITAL FUND ↗
  • Who funds TRE MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds ENTRUST ↗
  • Who funds AMG INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds KAIROS INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL SERVE INTERNATIONAL 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.

Sioux Falls Area Comm…Christian Community F…American Endowment Fo…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation IncSD13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 James a Brown Private Foundation T/A Mustard Seed Ministries funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James a Brown Private Foundation T/A Mustard Seed Ministries. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 17 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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