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Joseph & Helen France Private Foundation

$31k
Granted FY2020
9
Grants FY2020
5
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Religion$91kEducation$6kInternational$3kHealth$1kArts & Culture$250Human Services$250Philanthropy$250Other$0
02FY2020 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k8 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $18k
$500
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Emmanuel Faith Community Church$18,247
Moody Bible Institute$5,000
Westmont College$5,000
Pioneers$600
NOVO$500
Y-Malawi$420
Preemptive Love Coalition$250
Bible Study Fellowship$250
Our Daily Bread Ministries$250
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 (FY17–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Free Wheelchair Mission: $500 → 10%San Clemente Pres Church: $500 → 11%The Seed Group: $250 → 12%CRU- Mktomk: $250 → 14%Westmont College: $5k → 14%716 Ministries: $500 → 13%SIL International: $1k → 14%Bible Study Fellowship: $250 → 16%Christian Motorcyclist Association: $250 → 17%Pioneers: $600 → 13%Swim Across America: $250 → 10%Cadence International: $250 → 8%Sand Point Elementary School: $250 → 9%Moody Bible Institute: $8k → 14%One Community Church: $250 → 13%NOVO: $500 → 10%Emmanuel Faith Community Church: $33k → 11%Y-Malawi: $420 → 14%Give Them Back Ministires: $250 → 13%Sand Point Elementary School: $250 → 9%Moody Bible Institute: $5k → 14%Emmanuel Faith Community Church: $18k → 11%Y-Malawi: $420 → 14%Give Them Back Ministries: $250 → 13%Sand Point Elementary School: $250 → 9%RMHC Inc: $250 → 14%Emmanuel Faith Community Church: $10k → 11%Emmanuel Faith Community Church: $250 → 11%Alternatives Medical Clinic: $250 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
MI
NY
CA
CO
VA
AR
NC
GA
TX
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 10% of Joseph & Helen France Private Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 68% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 33%.

Joseph & Helen France Private Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 50% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$77k · 5 repeat orgs$12k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2020, 2 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
15

Total granted

$77k
$6k

Still filing today

0%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
ReligionHealthEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • EF
    EMMANUEL FAITH COMMUNITY CHURCH INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $61k
  • WB
    WYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $13k
  • OD
    Our Daily Bread Ministries
    4× · 2017–2020 · $1k

Funded once

  • SI
    SIL International
    one grant, 2019 · $1k
  • MT
    Mission To The World
    one grant, 2019 · $500
  • FW
    FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $500 · revenue +97%
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
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
2
Olivet University

Providing guality Christian education to the network generation

Education
3
Mission Without Borders International

The organization is dedicated to reaching people for christ through an international network of christians who journey with the poor and marginalized, bringing practical and spiritual support with hope of a better future,(continued on…

International
4
Global Media Outreach

Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.

Religion
5
Asbury Theological Seminary

Asbury Theological Seminary is a community called to prepare theologically educated, sanctified, Spirit-filled men and women to evangelize and to spread scriptural holiness throughout the world through the love of Jesus Christ, in the…

Education
6
Charis Bible College Inc

Charis Bible Colleges, Inc. (CBC) was established to train and equip individuals to carry out the Gospel of Jesus Christ through practical application through mentoring, training, and teaching.

Religion
7
World Christian Broadcasting Corporation

World christian broadcasting exists so that people in places best served by broadcast media become aware of the good news of jesus christ and want to know more. geographic areas that cannot be easily served by missionaries are a priority.

Arts & Culture
8
Next Worldwide Inc

With a desire to see the Gospel proclaimed in all nations, we exist to make and multiply disciples of the next generation through the vehicles of church-planting missions and missional leadership training.

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9
Tyndale Bible Translators

Bible Translation and acts of Christian Services

Religion
10
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

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11
Biglife International Inc

Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.

Recreation & Sports
12
Walk Thru the Bible Ministries Inc

Walk thru the bible (wtb) ignites passion for god's word. by developing a global network of influential pastors and leaders and then resourcing them with tools and training, wtb fulfills its role in the great commission.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bible Study Fellowship; the most unlike its peers is The Preemptive Love Coalition. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the 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 26 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EMMANUEL FAITH COMMUNITY CHURCH INC: $61,247 · OtherEMMANUEL FAITH COMMUNITY CHURCH INCWYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS INC: $12,800 · OtherWYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS INC+16 more: $7,940 · Other+16 moreThe Moody Bible Institute of Chicago: $13,000 · EducationThe Moody Bible Inst…WESTMONT COLLEGE: $5,000 · EducationWESTMONT COLLEGEFREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION: $500 · HealthTHE PREEMPTIVE LOVE COALITION: $250 · HealthCHRISTIAN MOTORCYCLISTS ASSOCIATION INC: $250 · ReligionBIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP: $250 · ReligionAlternatives: $250 · ReligionSwim Across America Inc: $250 · Philanthropy
Other$81,987Education$18,000Health$750Religion$750Philanthropy$250

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Moody Bible Institute of Chicago: $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWESTMONT COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN MOTORCYCLISTS ASSOCIATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PREEMPTIVE LOVE COALITION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSwim Across America Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlternatives: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCADENCE INTERNATIONAL: $250 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 The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds WESTMONT COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN MOTORCYCLISTS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP ↗
  • Who funds THE PREEMPTIVE LOVE COALITION ↗
  • Who funds Swim Across America Inc ↗
  • Who funds Alternatives ↗
  • Who funds CADENCE INTERNATIONAL ↗

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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA9.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Joseph & Helen France Private Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joseph & Helen France Private Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%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
    0get no government money at all
    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 26 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2021) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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