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K2M Foundation at a glance

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K2M 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.

$3k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$1k
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 2025.

Religion$25kHuman Services$500Education$307Health$104
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,146
Median grant
4
States reached
$10k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
One Soma Global$1,200
Creative Lab Collective$1,146
Mission Kindgom Ministries$570
Movember Foundation$104
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 63% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%A Transforming Word Ministries: $2k → 13%Calyx Institute: $307 → 20%European Initiative: $750 → 11%Commission Ministers: $500 → 13%One Soma Global: $1k → 16%Mission Kindgom Ministries: $570 → 6%Project AP: $100 → 9%FoundNations: $200 → 17%A Transforming Word Ministries: $1k → 13%One Soma Global: $1k → 16%Mission Kindgom Ministries: $570 → 6%Project AP New Horizons: $100 → 9%A Transforming Word Ministries: $1k → 13%One Soma Global: $1k → 16%Mission Kindgom Ministries: $518 → 6%Foundnations: $1k → 9%A Transforming Word Ministries: $1k → 13%One Soma Global: $1k → 16%Foundnations: $500 → 9%One Soma Global: $1k → 16%Creative Lab Collective: $1k → 9%Creative Lab Collective: $1k → 9%Creative Lab Collective: $833 → 9%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

NY
WY
CA
CO
NE
OK
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$24k · 7 repeat orgs$2k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +99% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
6

Total granted

$24k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+99%
+33%

Still filing today

43%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $104 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’25
ReligionEducationHealthOther
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

  • AT
    A Transforming Word Ministries
    6× · 2020–2025 · $6k
  • OS
    One Soma Global Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $6k
  • CM
    Crossroads Ministry
    6× · 2020–2025 · $4k

Funded once

  • EI
    EUROPEAN INITIATIVEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $750 · revenue +33%
  • CM
    Commission Ministers
    one grant, 2020 · $500
  • CI
    CALYX INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $307 · revenue +113%
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
Disciple Maker Ministries

Disciple Maker Ministries is devoted to fulfilling the Great Commission through evangelism and reproducing discipleship.

Religion
2
Verticle Living Ministries

To equip disciples of Jesus Christ to balance and live their lives to glorify God in every area of life; spirituall, personally, communally and physically by

Religion
3
International Impact Ministries in
Religion
4
Dozen Ministries

Religious

Religion
5
Transform Ministries
—
6
Gospel Joy International

Gospel Joy's Mission is to passionately proclaim the cross-centered, Christ-treasuring Gospel and to make disciples who live for the glory of God by striving to maximize their joy and the joy of others in Him. Its vision is to contribute…

International
7
African Ministries International

Spread the gospel of Jesus Christ the Word of God as contained in the Bible

Food & Nutrition
8
Euromedia Missions
—
9
Teaching Missions International Inc

Provide theological education in mostly developing nations, for those pastors, church planters and other church leaders who do not have access to theological education, whether for lack of time or money. The curriculum is typically what…

Religion
10
Barnabas Leadership Ministries

Ministry

—
11
Emanual Ministries International
Religion
12
Exciting Word Ministries

Evangelism and Church Establishment in Northern India

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ekko Worship Alliance; the most unlike its peers is Movember Foundation. 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

8 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. 8 of the 14 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

A Transforming Word Ministries: $5,879 · ReligionA Transforming Word MinistriesOne Soma Global Inc: $5,800 · ReligionOne Soma Global IncMISSION KINGDOM MINISTRIES INC: $1,658 · ReligionMISSION KINGDOM MINISTRIES INCEUROPEAN INITIATIVE: $750 · ReligionCrossroads Ministry: $3,900 · OtherCrossroads MinistryFoundnations: $1,800 · OtherFoundnationsIndividual grant recipient: $1,708 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCommission Ministers: $500 · OtherCommission Ministers+3 more: $400 · OtherEKKO WORSHIP ALLIANCE: $3,229 · EducationEKKO WORSHIP AL…CALYX INSTITUTE: $307 · EducationCALYX INSTITUTEMOVEMBER FOUNDATION: $104 · Health
Religion$14,087Other$8,308Education$3,536Health$104

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetA Transforming Word Ministries: $5,879 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetOne Soma Global Inc: $5,800 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetEKKO WORSHIP ALLIANCE: $3,229 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetMISSION KINGDOM MINISTRIES INC: $1,658 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetEUROPEAN INITIATIVE: $750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCALYX INSTITUTE: $307 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTerradez Ministries: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOVEMBER FOUNDATION: $104 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 A Transforming Word Ministries ↗
  • Who funds One Soma Global Inc ↗
  • Who funds EKKO WORSHIP ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds MISSION KINGDOM MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds EUROPEAN INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds CALYX INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Terradez Ministries ↗
  • Who funds MOVEMBER FOUNDATION ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization K2M Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from K2M 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%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s 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 · 0–5%
    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 14 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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