· Public charity
Kanakuk Ministries
1) To relieve poverty by providing food, clothing, medical supplies, and other basic needs to underprivileged or impoverished children; 2) To advance the Kingdom of God and promote Christian virtue in individuals by providing support for Christian evangelistic organization and programs; 3) To educate children and advance the Kingdom of…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 14 grants below total $532,073 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,999,759 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $3,467,686 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k5 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $127k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $371k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Urban St Louis K-Life | $210,918 |
| K-Life Denver | $96,230 |
| K-Life National | $63,510 |
| Kids Across America | $37,350 |
| Kanakuk Institute | $34,045 |
| K-Life of St Louis | $15,900 |
| K-Life of Conway | $15,000 |
| K-Life of Fayetteville | $14,635 |
| H2Ozarks | $10,000 |
| K-Life of Ft Worth | $8,000 |
| Distinctly His Ministries | $7,500 |
| K-Life North Dallas | $7,085 |
| K-Life of Tulsa | $6,350 |
| K-Life of Atlanta | $5,550 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% of your 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
Grants abroad, by region — $442k on the FY2023 return
Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: Support schools in Haiti, housing, land
Stated purpose: Support Rwandan children in poverty
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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 +95% since the first grant, against -31% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2023, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- KAKIDS ACROSS AMERICA FOUNDATION6× · 2018–2023 · $294k · revenue +133%
- KMK-LIFE MINISTRIES4× · 2020–2023 · $281k · revenue +28%
- TKTHE KANAKUK INSTITUTE3× · 2018–2023 · $71k · revenue +120%
Funded once
- KMK-LIFE MINISTRIESone grant, 2022 · $29k
- EBELEVATE BRANSONone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -31%
- SCSports Catalyst Incone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -47%
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.
Kingdom advisors is a discipleship ministry serving christian financial professionals. the organization encourages, educates, and empowers christian financial professionals with biblical wisdom to be effective disciples of jesus christ in…
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
This mission of Forge is to expand Gods Kingdom by challenging people to fully devote their lives to God and equipping them to live lives of active ministry. Our goal is to set hearts on fire and lives on purpose.
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
Christian sports camp to teach biblical principles and life skills to urban youth and their mentors.
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
The Urban Alternative is a Christian Ministry that seeks to equip, empower, and unite Christians to impact individuals, families, churches, and communities for the rebuilding of lives from the inside out.
Christian ministry
1) To relieve poverty by providing food, clothing, medical supplies, and other basic needs to underprivileged or impoverished children; 2) To advance the Kingdom of God and promote Christian virtue in individuals by providing support for…
Engaging people in relationship with God through knowing His Word
To provide resources, training, and continuing support to leaders in the us and around the world in order that they may help others find freedom in christ.
Impacting lives through the message of hope through christ centered programs, activities, and services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life and the most unlike its peers is Kids Across America Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 29 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 KIDS ACROSS AMERICA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds K-LIFE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE KANAKUK INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds UPPER WHITE RIVER BASIN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PULSE OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds Dr James Dobson Family Institute ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE BRANSON ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds Sports Catalyst Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MARGIN OF CHANGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FORGE FOR FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds DISTINCTLY HIS MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Faith Community Health DBA Hope Counseling Center ↗
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: Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc · Servant Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Kanakuk Ministries 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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