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Joy Partnership Missions

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.

$112k
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$468kInternational$87kArts & Culture$65kEducation$31kRecreation & Sports$16kEmployment$3kHuman Services$2kFood & Nutrition$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k22 grants · $74k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $38k
$3,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$87k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KCCC$12,600
Compassion International$12,598
Individual grant recipient$12,400
OLLAE SENIOR CENTER$9,500
CRU$9,200
Individual grant recipient$7,200
Barnabas Missionary Society$5,300
Fishers of Men Ministry$5,000
PIBHWPB$3,600
Aile Mission$3,600
RZM$3,600
Foreign Mission Board of KR Baptist$3,600
Nadulmok Dream Community Church$3,000
Wycliffe Bible Translators$3,000
The Paul Mission International$2,400
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.

US giving: 41% of grant dollars ($278k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 59% that went abroad ($401k) is mapped below.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–22, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 65% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%The Eugene Bell Foundation: $1k → 26%The Bridge International: $1k → 11%The Eugene Bell Foundation: $1k → 26%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
NY
PA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
MD
TN
SC
HI
AL
TX
FL

Beyond the US: 59% of all-years giving ($401k)

4 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Afghanistan$278k · 86 grants
South Korea$112k · 30 grants
Nepal$10k · 2 grants
Vietnam$1k · 1 grant
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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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 26% of Joy Partnership Missions’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Joy Partnership Missionslessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 47% 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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$610k · 47 repeat orgs$69k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +6% since the first grant, against -11% for those funded once.

47 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
37

Total granted

$610k
$68k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
-11%

Still filing today

6%
14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionInternationalHuman ServicesEmploymentOther
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

  • K
    KCCC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $72k
  • Compassion International Incorporated
    6× · 2020–2025 · $55k · revenue +16%
  • C
    CRU
    6× · 2020–2025 · $41k

Funded once

  • FM
    Foreign Mission Board of the Korea
    one grant, 2021 · $7k
  • FM
    Foreign Mission of Korea Baptist
    one grant, 2020 · $6k
  • P
    PIBHWP
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
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
Asia Us Impact

Religious

Religion
2
Heart Bridge International

Heart Bridge International exists to equip and empower Christians around the world to fulfill the Great Commission. The organization provides free ministry training, discipleship resources, and practical coaching to under-resourced…

Religion
3
Discover Your Mission Inc

Supporing missionaries worldwide

Religion
4
Global Gospel Initiative Inc
Religion
5
Global City Missions Initiative Incorporated

Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…

Religion
6
Equip Ministries International

Equip ministries trains overseas pastors and leaders, empowers the church, provides humanitarian aid, and attempts to reach the unreached peoples around the world by working with church leaders to fulfil

Religion
7
Footprints Abroad International Ministries Inc

How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news! Romans 10:15

Religion
8
More International Ministries

To spread the gospel of jesus christ through crusades

Religion
9
Rejoice Ministries International

RMI provides pastoral care ministry and support globally, with conferences, seminars, retreats, meetings and individual counseling.

Civil Rights
10
Fsi-Freedom Seekers International

Freedom seekers international is a christian organization that exists to rescue the most severely persecuted for their religious faith in hostile and restrictive countries. through collaborative partnerships we deliver those who are…

Human Services
11
Adventive Cross Cultural Initiatives

ACCI serves pioneering Christians, empowering them to proclaim the gospel, fulfill their God-given visions, and advance the kingdom of God. ACCI longs for a world where lives are transformed through the Holy Spirit, where new disciples are…

Religion
12
Global Action International

Charitable works involving evangelism, mission, and ministry in third world countries

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Footstool Missions Center; the most unlike its peers is Father's Heart Missioninc. 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 86 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
3/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KCCC: $71,980 · OtherKCCCCRU: $41,300 · OtherCRUForeign Mission Board of KR Baptist: $31,900 · OtherFishers of Men Ministry: $28,908 · OtherRZM: $28,300 · OtherAile Mission: $25,400 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $25,200 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $20,600 · Other+69 more: $333,020 · Other+69 moreCompassion International Incorporated: $55,416 · InternationalCompassio…+1 more: $1,200 · InternationalFATHER'S HEART MISSIONINC: $4,800 · ReligionYOU CAN GIVE: $2,400 · ReligionFOOTSTOOL MISSIONS CENTER: $1,000 · ReligionMIJU GMP: $1,000 · ReligionEugene Bell Foundation Inc: $2,200 · Human ServicesBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL: $1,200 · Human ServicesDESTA: $3,000 · Employment
Other$606,608International$56,616Religion$9,200Human Services$3,400Employment$3,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFATHER'S HEART MISSIONINC: $4,800 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetDESTA: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEugene Bell Foundation Inc: $2,200 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAdvocates International Inc: $1,200 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMIJU GMP: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 Compassion International Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds FATHER'S HEART MISSIONINC ↗
  • Who funds DESTA ↗

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 IncGA10.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Joy Partnership Missions funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joy Partnership Missions. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
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 86 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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