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Joy To The World Foundation

To help individuals accomplish their charitable objectives in religious, educational, scientific, benevolent and health related activities.

$738k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2024
1
Organizations funded FY2019
0%
First-time grantees FY2019
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Median grant, FY2024
$80,114
Largest grant, FY2024
$300,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 3
FY2017 to FY2019
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$109M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 0% of the organizations Joy To The World Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19
RenewedFirst-time
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
FY2024still arriving4$658k100%
FY20191$15k0%
FY20183$65k100%
FY20171$6kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$722kPhilanthropy$344kHousing & Shelter$12kEducation$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Bethel Bible Church of Tyler$300,0001n/a
Hope for Brighter Tomorrows formerly Purpose Driven Publishing$300,000122%
Lifebridge Christian Church$45,5001n/a
General Conference of the Church of God -Seventh Day-$40,0002n/a
Saint John Vianney Theological Seminary$30,0001n/a
The Myron Stratton Home$12,00010%
United States Catholic Conference$10,0001n/a
Spirit of Christ Catholic Community$6,0001n/a

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.

The New Horizons Foundation IncCO13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The New Horizons Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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.

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How do I get to Joy To The World Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Joy To The World Foundation 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 Joy To The World Foundation

How much does Joy To The World Foundation give?
Joy To The World Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $737,614 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 3 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2019.
What does Joy To The World Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (66%), Philanthropy (32%), Housing & Shelter (1%).
Who are Joy To The World Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Bethel Bible Church of Tyler ($300k), Hope for Brighter Tomorrows formerly Purpose Driven Publishing ($300k), Lifebridge Christian Church ($46k).
Does Joy To The World Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Joy To The World Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The New Horizons Foundation Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Joy To The World Foundation based?
Joy To The World Foundation is based in CO.

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 9 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 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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