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Journey Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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.

$241k
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$30k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

International$514kEducation$197kCommunity Improvement$103kHuman Services$85kFood & Nutrition$60kHousing & Shelter$45kYouth Development$43kCrime & Legal$43kOther$0
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $227k
$10,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$4.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LISC$30,000
Maasai Girls Education Fund$15,000
EARTH University$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
Fabretto$10,000
Kula Project$10,000
KDEF$10,000
Caravan To Class$10,000
Malayaka House$10,000
Angela House$10,000
Every Shelter$10,000
Flying Kites$10,000
02The need
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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:

Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%Fund For Refugee Initiatives: $10k → 14%TerraMica: $6k → 5%DriButts: $3k → 13%Calvary Childrens Home: $6k → 8%Calvary Childrens Home: $3k → 8%Northwest Assistance Ministries: $3k → 16%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

VT
IL
NY
MA
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 22% of Journey Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Journey Charitable Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 36% 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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 29 repeat orgs$183k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +6% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
19

Total granted

$1.0M
$167k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+6%

Still filing today

62%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalHuman ServicesEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyCrime & LegalOther
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

  • TM
    THE MAASAI GIRLS EDUCATION FUND
    5× · 2020–2024 · $63k · revenue +73%
  • TF
    The Foundation for Tomorrow Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $52k · revenue +43%
  • LH
    LIMITLESS HORIZONS IXIL INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +142%

Funded once

  • LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION
    one grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +6%
  • HL
    Houston Local Initiatives Support Corporation
    one grant, 2020 · $30k
  • CM
    Catholic Medical Mission Board (Mother of Mercy Hospital)
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
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
Empowering Lives International

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…

Religion
2
Charity Global Inc

Charity: water is a non-profit organization bringing clean and safe water to people around the world. continued on schedule o.

Human Services
3
Zoe Empowers

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…

International
4
Women in Progress Inc

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…

Community Improvement
5
The Alta Project

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…

International
6
Mothers Without Borders

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
7
Health Poverty Action Usa

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…

International
8
Drops of Grace Inc

Community Assistance - Constructions, water, education

International
9
Mother Africa

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.....

Human Services
10
Mali Health Organizing Project Inc

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…

Community Improvement
11
Direct Action for Women Now World-Wide Inc Formerly Indias Daughters Inc
Philanthropy
12
Strategies for International Development

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…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lift Up the Vulnerable Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

29 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. 29 of the 50 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/29
Grantees still filing
21/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LISC: $90,000 · OtherLISCEARTH University: $45,000 · OtherEARTH UniversityANGELA HOUSE: $42,500 · OtherANGELA HOUSEKDEF: $33,000 · OtherKDEFHouston Local Initiatives Support Corporation: $30,000 · OtherHouston Local Initiatives Support CorporationFabretto: $30,000 · OtherFabrettoFull Dimension Ministry: $29,000 · OtherFull Dimension MinistryMAIA Impact School: $20,000 · OtherTahirih Justice Center: $20,000 · OtherLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $30,000 · OtherLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATIONChildren's Assessment Center Foundation: $20,000 · Other+15 more: $108,263 · Other+15 moreMother Maryam Foundation: $48,500 · InternationalMother Maryam Foundat…FLYING KITES INC: $36,900 · InternationalFLYING KITES INCLIFT UP THE VULNERABLE INC: $33,800 · InternationalLIFT UP THE VULNERABL…FLORESTA USA INCORPORATED: $27,000 · InternationalFLORESTA USA INCORPOR…CATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INC: $23,000 · InternationalCATHOLIC MEDICAL MISS…Kenya Drylands Education Fund KDEF Formerly The Kura Project Inc: $20,000 · InternationalKenya Drylands Educat…MAIA: $20,000 · InternationalMAIAFABRETTO CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · InternationalEARTH University Foundation Inc: $10,000 · InternationalThe Foundation for Tomorrow Inc: $51,800 · EducationThe Foundation fo…LIMITLESS HORIZONS IXIL INC: $50,000 · EducationLIMITLESS HORIZON…KAKENYA CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE: $40,000 · EducationKAKENYA CENTER FO…Every Shelter Inc: $40,000 · EducationEvery Shelter IncCaravan to Class: $42,000 · PhilanthropyTOGETHER WOMEN RISE: $41,000 · PhilanthropyMALAYAKA HOUSE INC: $47,000 · Human ServicesFUND FOR REFUGEE INITIATIVES: $10,000 · Human ServicesCALVARY CHILDREN'S HOME: $8,813 · Human ServicesTERRAMICA: $5,500 · Human Services+2 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE MAASAI GIRLS EDUCATION FUND: $62,672 · Arts & CultureAPPALSHOP INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureKula Project Inc: $44,400 · Environment
Other$497,763International$229,200Education$181,800Philanthropy$83,000Human Services$76,313Arts & Culture$72,672Environment$44,400

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE MAASAI GIRLS EDUCATION FUND: $62,672 over 5y, 6.7% of budgetThe Foundation for Tomorrow Inc: $51,800 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetLIMITLESS HORIZONS IXIL INC: $50,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetMother Maryam Foundation: $48,500 over 5y, 23% of budgetMALAYAKA HOUSE INC: $47,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetKula Project Inc: $44,400 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetCaravan to Class: $42,000 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetTOGETHER WOMEN RISE: $41,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetKAKENYA CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE: $40,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetEvery Shelter Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetFLYING KITES INC: $36,900 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetLIFT UP THE VULNERABLE INC: $33,800 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLORESTA USA INCORPORATED: $27,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INC: $23,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKenya Drylands Education Fund KDEF Formerly The Kura Project Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetMAIA: $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetChildren's Assessment Center Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFUND FOR REFUGEE INITIATIVES: $10,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetFABRETTO CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEARTH University Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAPPALSHOP INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCALVARY CHILDREN'S HOME: $8,813 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTERRAMICA: $5,500 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTABLE ON DELK INC: $3,375 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetLIVE ACTION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDriButts Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNORTHWEST ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $2,500 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 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 FUND FOR REFUGEE INITIATIVES ↗
  • Who funds FABRETTO CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds EARTH University Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds APPALSHOP INC ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds CALVARY CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
  • Who funds TERRAMICA ↗

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.

Together Women RiseCircle of Sisterhood …One Days WagesThe Ayco Charitable F…Greater Houston Commu…Globalgiving Foundati…Greater Washington Co…The San Francisco Fou…National Philanthropi…Shell USA Company Fou…Vanguard Charitable E…Ge Aerospace Foundati…
Together Women RiseSC17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Journey Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Journey Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 50 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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