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Joyce Family Foundation

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.

$8k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0175% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$165kInternational$137kHuman Services$16kRecreation & Sports$14kHealth$3kYouth Development$2kFood & Nutrition$200Other$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NAVIGATORS$5,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
SALVATION ARMY$500
Individual grant recipient$350
TREE HOUSE MINISTRIES$300
02The need
03

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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 72% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CENTRAL BAPTIST CHURCH: $1k → 6%SCHAEFFER ACADEMY: $5k → 9%READ MINISTRIES: $2k → 9%SALVATION ARMY: $500 → 14%GOSPEL IN LIFE: $1k → 13%BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP: $511 → 16%SHEPHERD STAFF MISSION FACILITATORS INC: $2k → 14%FRIENDS OF TENWEK: $1k → 11%AFRICAN MISSION HEALTHCARE: $25k → 12%CROSSWAY CHURCH: $15k → 6%KATHYS HOUSE: $2k → 17%CMDS: $11k → 15%SAMARITANS PURSE: $28k → 21%WORLD GOSPEL MISSION: $70k → 19%ATHLETES IN ACTION: $2k → 9%SOCIETY OF CRITICAL CARE: $623 → 14%AFRICAN MISSIONS: $50k → 7%READ MINISTRIES: $1k → 9%SALVATION ARMY: $500 → 14%GOSPEL IN LIFE: $1k → 13%BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP: $511 → 16%SHEPHERD STAFF MISSION FACILITATORS INC: $1k → 14%NEPALI MISSIONS: $794 → 11%SAMARITANS PURSE: $26k → 21%WORLD GOSPEL MISSION: $28k → 19%ATHLETES IN ACTION: $2k → 9%SALVATION ARMY: $500 → 14%GOSPEL IN LIFE: $1k → 13%SEPHERDS STAFF MISSION FACILITATORS INC: $1k → 14%SAMARITANS PURSE: $6k → 21%WORLD GOSPEL MISSION: $14k → 19%ATHLETES IN ACTION: $2k → 9%SALVATION ARMY: $500 → 14%WORLD GOSPEL MISSION: $14k → 19%ATHLETES IN ACTION: $2k → 9%SALVATION ARMY: $500 → 14%WORLD GOSPEL MISSION: $5k → 19%ATHLETES IN ACTION: $2k → 9%SALVATION ARMY: $500 → 14%WORLD GOSPEL MISSION: $3k → 19%ATHLETES IN ACTION: $2k → 9%SALVATION ARMY: $500 → 14%ATHLETES IN ACTION: $2k → 9%SALVATION ARMY: $500 → 14%ATHLETES IN ACTION: $2k → 9%ATHLETES IN ACTION: $2k → 9%ATHLETES IN ACTION: $2k → 9%WOODDALE CHURCH: $1k → 11%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

MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
IA
IN
OH
NJ
CO
VA
NM
TN
NC
SC
TX
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$265k · 13 repeat orgs$116k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
18

Total granted

$265k
$116k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+16%

Still filing today

31%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthReligionInternationalYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • WG
    WORLD GOSPEL MISSION
    6× · 2018–2023 · $134k
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    3× · 2017–2019 · $60k · revenue +106%
  • TN
    THE NAVIGATORS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $35k

Funded once

  • AM
    AFRICAN MISSIONS
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
  • AM
    African Mission Healthcare Foundation
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -49%
  • CW
    CROSS WAY CHURCH INC
    one grant, 2019 · $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
Medical Teams International

Medical teams international is a christian humanitarian relief agency focused on providing life-saving medical care for people in crisis.

International
2
Jubal Band Ministries

Jubal band ministries mission is to invite people to become disciples of christian life with jesus.

Religion
3
American Bible Society

Since 1816, american bible society has been fulfilling its mission of making the bible available to every person in a language and format each can understand and afford so all people may experience its life-changing message.

Religion
4
Amazing Facts International

To proclaim to the world the everlasting gospel of revelation 14:6-12 and to encourage revival in the remnant church by leading people to embrace salvation by faith in jesus, to establish them in the church, and to disciple all believers…

Religion
5
Bible Mission Global

Bible mission's purpose and vision is to win people for christ through cooperation and partnership of local churches. bmg strategically serves with, and through the local churches. our purpose is to help the local churches (through…

Religion
6
The Christian Broadcasting Network Inc

The christian broadcasting network's mission is preaching the gospel of jesus christ into all the world. cbn's mission is preaching the gospel of jesus christ into all the world. the mission of cbn and its affiliated organizations is to…

Religion
7
Tamarind Inc

Collaborating for christ across the nations by equipping pastors and leaders, ministering compassion, reaching youth, and funding projects.

Human Services
8
Twelve21 Global Inc

We engage the far-off, forgotten, abandoned people-the least of these-by building genuine trust through relationships and sharing Christs gospel of grace and great hope. We come alongside and support local churches that disciple their…

Religion
9
Connectree

Connectree's vision is to help missionaries have the care and support they need, financially, physically, emotionally and spiritually, to carry out the ministry that god has called them to do. our 5 distinctives are: missionary care,…

Community Improvement
10
Mission Eurasia

To train, equip, mobilize christian leadership throughout eurasia to engage in indigenous evangelism, church-planting, holistic ministries, and church growth by developing creative, strategic ministries and by facilitating partnerships…

Religion
11
Lighthouse for Christ Mission

To minister to peoples physical and spiritual needs

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12
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 31 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WORLD GOSPEL MISSION: $134,000 · OtherWORLD GOSPEL MISSIONAFRICAN MISSIONS: $50,000 · OtherAFRICAN MISSIONSTHE NAVIGATORS: $34,500 · OtherTHE NAVIGATORSIndividual grant recipient: $16,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCROSS WAY CHURCH INC: $15,000 · OtherCMDS: $10,956 · Other+15 more: $26,117 · Other+15 moreSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $60,374 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSEREAD MINISTRIES INC: $2,552 · Religion+1 more: $1,022 · ReligionAfrican Mission Healthcare Foundation: $25,000 · International+1 more: $200 · InternationalKathy's House Inc: $1,500 · HealthFRIENDS OF TENWEK INC: $1,030 · HealthTREEHOUSE INC: $600 · Health+1 more: $100 · HealthYOUNG LIFE: $2,070 · Youth Development
Other$286,573Religion$63,948International$25,200Health$3,230Youth Development$2,070

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $60,374 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAfrican Mission Healthcare Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSCHAEFFER ACADEMY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetREAD MINISTRIES INC: $2,552 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $2,070 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF TENWEK INC: $1,030 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP: $1,022 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTREEHOUSE INC: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $100 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 SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds African Mission Healthcare Foundation ↗
  • Who funds SCHAEFFER ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds READ MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
  • Who funds Kathy's House Inc ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF TENWEK INC ↗
  • Who funds BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP ↗
  • Who funds TREEHOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗

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 Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA11.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Joyce Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joyce Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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 31 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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