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K2 Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $120k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $300k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HAITI CHRISTIAN DEVELOPMENT FUND | $1,032,500 |
| NEW HORIZONS MINISTRIES | $407,500 |
| FREEDOM FOR YOUTH | $269,000 |
| AGAPE PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER | $150,000 |
| OPEN BIBLE CHURCH | $82,000 |
| JOHN & VERA MAE PERKINS FOUNDATION | $67,500 |
| JOPPA | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $35,000 |
| THE MENDENHALL MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| SCALPEL AT THE CROSS | $20,000 |
| DES MOINES REFUGEE SUPPORT | $2,000 |
| HOLY CROSS CHURCH | $2,000 |
| HIDDEN ACRES CHRISTIAN CENTER | $2,000 |
| VARIETY - THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF IOWA | $2,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $1,500 |
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 (FY18–25, $87k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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 +105% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k 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
- NHNEW HORIZONS MINISTRIES INC4× · 2022–2025 · $920k · revenue +18%
- NMNeighborhood Ministries Inc5× · 2017–2021 · $541k · revenue +311%
- CCCREIGHTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION4× · 2018–2024 · $216k · revenue ×14
Funded once
- NYNot Your Average Joegraduatedone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +122%
- VOVOICE OF CALVARY MINISTRIESone grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue 0%
- CMCALVARY MINISTRIESone grant, 2018 · $5k
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.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Our purpose is to show the love of god by developing and equipping strong christian leaders in haiti for the cause of christ.
The organization provides direct assistance and support services to residents of champlin, corcoran, dayton, maple grove, osseo and rogers, mn targeting households with low incomes and those faced with financial crisis.
A Jesus Mission creates unique opportunities for individuals or teams to serves as Christian missionaires around the world through traditional evangelism, discipleship training, and outreach.
Evanjafrica ministries is a non-profit christian organization located in nampula, mozambique. evanjafrica is registered with the ministry of justice republic of mozambique at the department of religious affairs under number 127/2004. our…
Habitat for humanity of central iowa, inc. works in partnership with god and people everywhere, from all walks of life, to develop communities with god's people in need by building houses, so that there are decent houses in decent…
Freedom for youth offers the love of jesus christ to at-risk inner city youth and homeless young adults which empowers them to break bondages in their lives, discover their god given purpose and lead a life filled with faith, hope & love.…
To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…
To lift people out of poverty by responding to human need with the love of christ.
The organization exists to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ while providing support and serving the poor through benevolent assistance, medical services, education, orphan care, church planting, etc.
Miracle hill ministries is committed to life transformation for children and adults experiencing homelessness. more information and program outcomes may be found at www.miraclehill.org.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Horizons Ministries Inc and the most unlike its peers is Not Your Average Joe. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 38 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 Haiti Christian Development Fund ↗
- Who funds NEW HORIZONS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds CREIGHTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MENDENHALL MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Not Your Average Joe ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN ↗
- Who funds JOPPA ↗
- Who funds VOICE OF CALVARY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds SCALPEL AT THE CROSS INC ↗
- Who funds ETERNAL ANCHOR ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP ↗
- Who funds ART FOR ALL MISSISSIPPI ↗
- Who funds Des Moines Refugee Support ↗
- Who funds ARRIVE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds JOSHUA CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds Christ-Life Ministries Inc ↗
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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 K2 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.
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