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· Private foundation
JOAN W CRESS CHARITABLE TRUST TR
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$67k
Granted FY2025
9
Grants
6
Communities
$13k
Largest
01What you fund
0180% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.
Housing & Shelter$98kReligion$71kFood & Nutrition$70kHealth$65kInternational$32kOther$84k
02FY2025 · 9 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
$6,664
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
- SAMARITANS PURSE$13,328
- GREATER LANSING FOOD BANK$6,664
- PRISON FELLOWSHIP$6,664
- HOSPICE OF LANSING INC$6,664
- PEOPLES CITY MISSION$6,664
- RAFIKI FOUNDATION$6,664
- RECONCILIATION MINISTRIES$6,664
- FAIR PLAY CAMP SCHOOL$6,664
- FOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC$6,664
02The need
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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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 14%. 79% of your 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.
95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$401k · 11 repeat orgs$20k to everyone else
11 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
11
3
Total granted
$401k
$20k
Still filing today
73%
0%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
ReligionFood & NutritionHealthHousing & ShelterInternationalOther
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
- PCPEOPLES CITY MISSION6× · 2020–2025 · $98k · revenue +55%
- SPSAMARITANS PURSE5× · 2020–2025 · $45k · revenue +134%
- GLGREATER LANSING FOOD BANK6× · 2020–2025 · $39k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- DWDOCTORSW WITHOUT BORDERSone grant, 2022 · $7k
- RRAFIKIone grant, 2020 · $6k
- FOFOODBANK OF LINCOLNone grant, 2020 · $6k
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.
1
Message to All Nations Man
To reach out with the message of the gospel of jesus to the last, least, and the lost
Human Services
2
Barnabas Leadership Ministries
Ministry
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3
Gods Promise Ministries International
Religious Purposes
Housing & Shelter
4
The Porch Ministries
Our ultimate mission at the porch is clear and simple: to raise up mighty sons of god who will carry the authority of the kingdom of heaven, and make jesus known in the earth. we desire to raise up men of god who will love his truth with…
Religion
5
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
6
Elim International Ministries
Reaching the unreachable through gospel
Religion
7
Fountain of Hope Ame Church
Church of christ for prayers
Religion
8
Bread of Life Mission
Provide shelter, meals, case management, spiritual guidance and vocational training to homeless men, women and women with children
Religion
9
Christian Apologetics and Research
To glorify god by equipping the church with proper christian doctrine and to help non-believers come to a saving knowledge of jesus christ.
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10
Face to Faith Ministry
Our mission is to make disciples of jesus christ by engaging indigenous pastors around the world. our vision is to train pastors and their congregants to share the gospel in a friendly, non-denominational approach across all ethnicities,…
Religion
11
Living Way Christian Fellowship
Ministry of jesus christ preaching to all members of society
Religion
12
Come to Him Ministries
To help the hungry, homeless, and the destitute receive a second chance in life by providing food, clothing, and shelter and transition them into a christ centered lifestyle.
Health
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice of Lansing and the most unlike its peers is Reconciliation Ministries Inc. 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
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
8/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Housing & Shelter$98,415Other$84,392Religion$70,990Food & Nutrition$70,400Health$64,620International$32,465
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.
Charities Aid Foundation AmericaVA11× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Charities Aid Foundation America · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 JOAN W CRESS CHARITABLE TRUST TR 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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: RECONCILIATION MINISTRIES.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~3 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 9 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
9 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +76% since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 570907646 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 RECONCILIATION MINISTRIES, 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 3 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 8% 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.
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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.
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By state
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