· Public charity
Madala
Enable the National Christian Foundation to strengthen the Christian Church and ministries in West Africa.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 12 grants below total $2,393,239 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,176,646 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $783,407 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $68k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $514k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Cure International | $1,515,000 |
| SIM | $291,064 |
| GEM for Niger | $115,000 |
| Hope Walks | $90,000 |
| Edify | $80,000 |
| EMI | $65,500 |
| Helping Hands Ministries | $63,240 |
| Tech Serve Intl Inc | $50,125 |
| PAACS | $50,000 |
| Christian World Outreach | $48,260 |
| Prison Fellowship International | $20,000 |
| RUN International | $5,050 |
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 (FY22–24, $347k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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
Grants abroad, by region — $625k on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: evanglism · education · healthcare
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 +34% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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
CURE INTERNATIONAL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $9.2M · revenue +4%- HWHOPE WALKS INC6× · 2019–2024 · $568k · revenue +42%
- EEdify4× · 2020–2024 · $420k · revenue +95%
Funded once
- GEGLOBAL EYE MISSIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $70k · revenue +32% · 63% of their budget
- CACROSSROADS AMERICAN BAPTIST CHURCH BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $65k
- HIHOSANNA INSTITUTE OF THE SAHEL INCone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +14%
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…
Spreading christianity worldwide.
Serving and pastoring overseas workers on their own turf and equipping nationals by training and empowering them in their work of advancing the gospel.
International needs has the vision to transform lives and change communities by helping christian nationals serve both god and neighbor within their own countries.
To promote the gospel of jesus christ by developing u.s. collaborative support for african christian outreach ministries, including education, job creation, health initiatives and acts of mercy.
To advance the gospel in closed and hard-to-reach nations and to impact those nations for christ.
To propagate the gospel of jesus christ; to examine candidates and appoint missionaries. to endorse missionary programs according to standards set forth in the new testament, to establish churches, church schools & mission societies in…
Training the untrained church leaders in africa in order to deepen the church and to advance the gospel of christ through vibrant, healthy churches.
North America Bible Institute (NABI) is an evangelical graduate school, made up of students who are diverse in both ethnicity and ministry aims -- but united in great love for Jesus and his gospel. As a graduate school, NABI offers them…
Vision africa is a god centetred ministry and mission organization whose purpose is to share gods love with the african people empowering africans to develop, staff, and manage life-saving, life changing
To advance the gospel of jesus christ to every nation through pastoral care and missionary support.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chalmers Center for Economic Development and the most unlike its peers is Prison Fellowship International. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
23 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. 23 of the 33 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 CURE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE WALKS INC ↗
- Who funds Edify ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN WORLD OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds GRACE EDUCATION MINISTRIES FOR NIGER ↗
- Who funds EFFECTIVE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN MEDICAL & DENTAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Development Assoc International ↗
- Who funds CHALMERS CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds OASIS INTERNATIONAL LTD NFP ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL EYE MISSION ↗
- Who funds VISION OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds ORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PRISON FELLOWSHIP INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds JOHN BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TECH SERVE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds HOSANNA INSTITUTE OF THE SAHEL INC ↗
- Who funds REMEMBER NIGER COALITION ↗
- Who funds REACHING UNREACHED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds CAMEROON HEALTH AND EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds SOAR GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
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: Tyndale House Ministries · Servant Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · First Fruit Inc · Gordon Christian Trust · International Generosity Foundation Trust · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · G II Charities · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Signatry Charitable Trust
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 Madala 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.
- Oral Roberts University — 0% of income from government
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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