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Joshua Mission

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.

$211k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2025
16
Organizations funded FY2024
19%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 18
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$2.9M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 19% of the organizations Joshua Mission funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionPhilanthropyHuman ServicesFood & NutritionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving19$211k37%
FY202416$171k19%
FY202318$140k28%
FY202216$175k38%
FY20215$40k20%
FY202016$148k19%
FY201917$140k29%
FY201813$126k38%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$1.2MPublic Safety & Disaster$41kRecreation & Sports$15kHealth$14kCommunity Improvement$10kInternational$10kEducation$5kFood & Nutrition$4kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
WI
MA
OR
OH
PA
CA
CO
DC
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 33 grantees
All grantees of Joshua Mission by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Village Gospel Mission$110,00083%
Christian Leadership Institute$85,00073%
Industrial Evangelical Missions Inc$70,000611%
Christian Witness Theological Seminary$70,00071%
Logos Evangelical Seminary$66,00060%
Touch Life Mission Dr Gordon S Lee$62,60069%
America Chinese Evangelical Seminary$62,00075%
Training & Resource Institute$56,000525%
Global Fellowship Inc$24,0002n/a
China Soul for Christ Foundation$20,500313%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$20,00020%
Army of Christ$18,5003n/a
Christian & Missionary Alliance$15,0002n/a
Redwood Gospel Missions$15,00010%
Operation Dawn$14,00012%
Africa Inland Mission International Incorporated$10,0001n/a
Eternal Global Enterprise$10,000183%
Serving Others Worldwide$10,00014%
Minorities for Christ International$10,00011%
Worldwide Bible Society$9,00031%
Overseas Campus Ministries Inc$9,00030%
Ambassadors for Christ Inc$8,00010%
Salvation Nissi Inc$6,000143%
Silicon Valley Church$5,0001n/a
Our Common Road Inc$5,0001n/a
China Evangelical Seminary Association Inc$5,0001n/a
Tien Dao Christian Media Association$5,00011%
Second Harvest of Silicon Valley$4,00030%
Campus Evangelical Fellowship Inc$2,00010%
Standing Stone Ministries Inc$2,0001n/a
Child Evangelism Fellowship Of Southern California Inc$2,0001n/a
Wycliffe Bible Translators Inc$1,5001n/a
Nuguna Mission International$1,00011%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($477k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Joshua Mission supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVillage Gospel Mission: $110,000 over 8y, 3.4% of budgetChristian Leadership Institute: $85,000 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetIndustrial Evangelical Missions Inc: $70,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetChristian Witness Theological Seminary: $70,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetLogos Evangelical Seminary: $66,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTouch Life Mission Dr Gordon S Lee: $62,600 over 6y, 8.6% of budgetAmerica Chinese Evangelical Seminary: $62,000 over 7y, 4.7% of budgetTraining & Resource Institute: $56,000 over 5y, 25% of budgetChina Soul for Christ Foundation: $20,500 over 3y, 13% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRedwood Gospel Missions: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOperation Dawn: $14,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetEternal Global Enterprise: $10,000 over 1y, 83% of budgetServing Others Worldwide: $10,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetMinorities for Christ International: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWorldwide Bible Society: $9,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetOverseas Campus Ministries Inc: $9,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAmbassadors for Christ Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSalvation Nissi Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 43% of budgetTien Dao Christian Media Association: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSecond Harvest of Silicon Valley: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCampus Evangelical Fellowship Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNuguna Mission International: $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 23.

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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.

Nehemiah International Service Incorporation NisCA17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nehemiah International Service Incorporation Nis · The Hsieh Christian Foundation · Min and Haifeng Chen Foundation · The Reverend Geng Ming Shih Foundation Inc · Salvation Nissi Inc · Pysf Family Foundation · Freshwind Foundation · Adonai Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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.

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How do I get to Joshua Mission?

Find your warmest path to Joshua Mission 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.

About Joshua Mission

How much does Joshua Mission give?
Joshua Mission reported 19 grants totaling $211,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Joshua Mission fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (92%), Public Safety & Disaster (3%), Recreation & Sports (1%).
Who are Joshua Mission's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Village Gospel Mission ($110k), Christian Leadership Institute ($85k), Industrial Evangelical Missions Inc ($70k).
Does Joshua Mission fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Joshua Mission accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Joshua Mission?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Nehemiah International Service Incorporation Nis, The Hsieh Christian Foundation, Min and Haifeng Chen Foundation.
Where is Joshua Mission based?
Joshua Mission is based in CA.

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 53 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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