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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.

$86k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$180kReligion$176kArts & Culture$108kInternational$34kHuman Services$19kHealth$14kEducation$6kHousing & Shelter$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RAZORBACK FOUNDATION INC$40,000
REFORMATION BAPTIST CHURCH$25,450
EAGLE FAMILY MINISTRIES$10,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
OAKS INTERNATIONAL$3,500
THE NAVIGATORS$2,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 28% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HORSES FOR HEALING: $1k → 6%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%UNBOUND: $1k → 16%HORSES FOR HEALING: $1k → 6%UNBOUND: $1k → 16%HORSES FOR HEALING: $1k → 6%UNBOUND: $1k → 16%HORSES FOR HEALING: $1k → 6%UNBOUND: $1k → 16%HORSES FOR HEALING: $1k → 6%UNBOUND: $1k → 16%EAGLE FAMILY MINISTRIES: $10k → 8%HAVENWOOD: $1k → 8%HAVENWOOD: $1k → 8%HAVENWOOD: $1k → 8%HAVENWOOD: $1k → 8%EAGLE FAMILY MINISTRIES: $1k → 8%HAVENWOOD: $1k → 8%EAGLE FAMILY MINISTRIES: $1k → 14%EAGLE FAMILY MINISTRIES: $1k → 14%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

NH
IL
OH
CT
CA
CO
MO
KS
AR
TN
DC
OK
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$529k · 20 repeat orgs$20k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
7

Total granted

$529k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+9%

Still filing today

30%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
Human ServicesEducationInternationalRecreation & SportsReligionHealthOther
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

  • RF
    RAZORBACK FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $180k · revenue +67%
  • Compassion International Incorporated
    5× · 2017–2021 · $8k · revenue +16%
  • U
    Unbound
    5× · 2017–2021 · $5k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • RM
    RESOLVED MINISTRIES FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -16%
  • PP
    PINEY POINT BAPTIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2024 · $2k
  • CC
    CROWDER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +8%
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
World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals

To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.

International
2
Global Commission Partners Inc

Global commission partners is an evangelical missionary not for profit organization dedicated to evaluate and support native ministries who are planting the gospel of jesus christ among unreach people groups in poor countries.

Philanthropy
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
Floresta Usa Incorporated

Plant with purpose, a christian nonprofit organization, reverses deforestation and poverty around the world by transforming the lives of the rural poor. we do this through: - watershed restoration & regenerative agriculture - savings…

International
5
International Impact Ministries in
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
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
8
International Needs

International needs has the vision to transform lives and change communities by helping christian nationals serve both god and neighbor within their own countries.

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9
Foreign Mission Foundation
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10
United Saints Worldwide

United Saints is committed to taking the Gospel to both major cities and the most remote regionsreaching places like the Amazon Jungle and beyondwith the power and love of Jesus.

Religion
11
Charity Global Inc

Charity: water is a non-profit organization bringing clean and safe water to people around the world. continued on schedule o.

Human Services
12
Eyewitness Missions
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save the Children Federation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Resolved Ministries 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

12 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. 12 of the 28 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE NAVIGATORS: $98,700 · OtherTHE NAVIGATORSMETRO CHURCH: $89,000 · OtherMETRO CHURCHREFORMATION BAPTIST CHURCH: $65,450 · OtherREFORMATION BAPTIST CHURCHOAKS INTERNATIONAL: $16,000 · Other+12 more: $36,150 · Other+12 moreRAZORBACK FOUNDATION INC: $180,000 · EducationRAZORBACK FOUNDATION INC+1 more: $1,000 · EducationEAGLE FAMILY MINISTRIES INC: $13,000 · Human ServicesUnbound: $5,100 · Human ServicesHORSES FOR HEALING INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesHAVENWOOD INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,000 · Human ServicesCompassion International Incorporated: $8,174 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc: $4,944 · InternationalBACK TO BETHEL MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 · ReligionRESOLVED MINISTRIES FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $200 · Health
Other$305,300Education$181,000Human Services$29,100International$13,118Religion$10,000Recreation & Sports$10,000Health$200

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRAZORBACK FOUNDATION INC: $180,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetEAGLE FAMILY MINISTRIES INC: $13,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBACK TO BETHEL MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetRESOLVED MINISTRIES FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetCompassion International Incorporated: $8,174 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUnbound: $5,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHORSES FOR HEALING INC: $5,000 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetHAVENWOOD INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $4,944 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCROWDER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $200 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 RAZORBACK FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds EAGLE FAMILY MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds BACK TO BETHEL MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds RESOLVED MINISTRIES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds Unbound ↗
  • Who funds HORSES FOR HEALING INC ↗
  • Who funds HAVENWOOD INC ↗
  • Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
  • Who funds CROWDER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL 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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ledee Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ledee Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% 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 · 0–40%
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 28 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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