· Private foundation
Journey Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $227k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LISC | $30,000 |
| EARTH University | $15,000 |
| Maasai Girls Education Fund | $15,000 |
| Interfaith Action Of Central Texas | $13,000 |
| Mother Maryam Foundation | $12,000 |
| Catholic Medical Mission Board | $11,000 |
| Lift Up The Vulnerable | $10,800 |
| Caravan To Class | $10,000 |
| The Foundation For Tomorrow | $10,000 |
| MAIA Impact School | $10,000 |
| Fabretto | $10,000 |
| Angela House | $10,000 |
| KDEF | $10,000 |
| Malayaka House | $10,000 |
| Kakenyas Dream | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 51% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 22% of Journey Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +67% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TMTHE MAASAI GIRLS EDUCATION FUND5× · 2020–2024 · $63k · revenue +73%
- TFThe Foundation for Tomorrow Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $52k · revenue +43%
- LHLIMITLESS HORIZONS IXIL INC5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +223%
Funded once
LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATIONone grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +6%- HLHouston Local Initiatives Support Corporationone grant, 2020 · $30k
- CMCatholic Medical Mission Board (Mother of Mercy Hospital)one grant, 2022 · $15k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Empowering Lives International (ELI) ignites world changers. We equip families and orphans to crush poverty, embrace Christ, and share their transformation with others through their God-honoring income, their deepening relationship with…
Charity: water is a non-profit organization bringing clean and safe water to people around the world. continued on schedule o.
Zoe Empowers is a global network of local organizations throughout Africa and India providing a replicable and scalable framework whereby youth led or resourced families are provided the training, resources, and community support to become…
Women in Progress dba Global Mamas works to achieve economic independence of African women and alleviate poverty at a grassroots level by creating jobs and income generation opportunities that generate a sustainable, living wage and at the…
The Alta Project is dedicated to addressing the fundamental challenges faced by the Turkana and Maasai tribes, including access to clean water, providing access to feminine hygiene products, nutritious meals, and investing in banking…
Mothers Without Borders is dedicated to fostering resilience and self-sufficiency in developing countries through a holistic approach to community empowerment, particularly focusing on the most vulnerable women, youth, and children. Our…
Health Poverty Action USA acts in solidarity with health workers, activists & communities worldwide to improve health & challenge the causes of poverty. We do this in 3 distinct ways: 1. We approach health as an issue of social justice. We…
Community Assistance - Constructions, water, education
Mother Africa supports African immigrant and refugee women and their families to reach their highest potential. Committed to building leadership, advocacy and community action capacity to reduce barriers to health, education.....
Mali Health improves maternal and child health by supporting women, communities, and the community health system to develop local solutions that ensure every mother and child has access to quality primary care. We aim to end preventable…
Strategies for International Development (SID) develops, applies, and promotes better methods for eradicating rural poverty. We help small farmers make the transition from subsistence to successful commercial farming. We carryout programs…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lift Up the Vulnerable Inc and the most unlike its peers is DriButts Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 20 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 50 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds THE MAASAI GIRLS EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds The Foundation for Tomorrow Inc ↗
- Who funds LIMITLESS HORIZONS IXIL INC ↗
- Who funds Mother Maryam Foundation ↗
- Who funds MALAYAKA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Kula Project Inc ↗
- Who funds Caravan to Class ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER WOMEN RISE ↗
- Who funds KAKENYA CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE ↗
- Who funds Every Shelter Inc ↗
- Who funds FLYING KITES INC ↗
- Who funds LIFT UP THE VULNERABLE INC ↗
- Who funds LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FLORESTA USA INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INC ↗
- Who funds Kenya Drylands Education Fund KDEF Formerly The Kura Project Inc ↗
- Who funds MAIA ↗
- Who funds Children's Assessment Center Foundation ↗
- Who funds EARTH University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FABRETTO CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds APPALSHOP INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR REFUGEE INITIATIVES ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds CALVARY CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds TERRAMICA ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Together Women Rise · Circle of Sisterhood Foundation Inc · One Days Wages · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Globalgiving Foundation Inc · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Shell USA Company Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Ge Aerospace 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 organization Journey Charitable Foundation 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.
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 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.