How much does Madala give?

Madala reported 12 itemized grants totaling $2,393,239, out of $3,176,646 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Madala fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (77%), Religion (18%), Employment (2%).

Who are Madala's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Cure International Inc ($9.2M), Sim USA Incorporated ($1.6M), Hope Walks Inc ($568k).

Does Madala fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Madala?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tyndale House Ministries, Servant Foundation, Christian Community Foundation Inc.

Madala

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· Public charity

Madala

Enable the National Christian Foundation to strengthen the Christian Church and ministries in West Africa.

$3.2M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$1.5M

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

International$11MReligion$2.5MEmployment$318kHuman Services$277kEducation$153kCommunity Improvement$50kPhilanthropy$15k

02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 12 grants below total $2,393,239, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,176,646 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $783,407 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1 grant · $5k
$10k–50k2 grants · $68k
$50k–250k7 grants · $514k
$250k+2 grants · $1.8M

$65,500

Median grant

States reached

$201k

Total assets

Largest grants
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

02The need

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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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

Sub-Saharan Africa$625k · 100% · 4 grants

Stated purpose: evanglism · education · healthcare

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. 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.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$14M · 21 repeat orgs$284k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +32% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$14M

$229k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%

+32%

Still filing today

76%

60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalReligionEmploymentEducationHuman ServicesHealthOther

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

CURE INTERNATIONAL INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $9.2M · revenue +4%
HW
HOPE WALKS INC
6× · 2019–2024 · $568k · revenue +42%
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Edify
4× · 2020–2024 · $420k · revenue +95%

Funded once

GE
GLOBAL EYE MISSIONgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $70k · revenue +32% · 63% of their budget
CA
CROSSROADS AMERICAN BAPTIST CHURCH BAPTIST CHURCH
one grant, 2020 · $65k
HI
HOSANNA INSTITUTE OF THE SAHEL INC
one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +14%

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.

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

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…

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Christian Ministries International

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Joshua Nations International

Spreading christianity worldwide.

Religion

Serving Beyond Borders

Serving and pastoring overseas workers on their own turf and equipping nationals by training and empowering them in their work of advancing the gospel.

Human Services

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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Christian Outreach for Africa

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.

Education

Worldserve Ministries

To advance the gospel in closed and hard-to-reach nations and to impact those nations for christ.

International

Vision International Missions

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…

Religion

International Training and Equipping Ministries

Training the untrained church leaders in africa in order to deepen the church and to advance the gospel of christ through vibrant, healthy churches.

Religion

North America Bible Institute

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…

Education

Vision Africa Ministries Inc

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

Religion

Commission to Every Nation

To advance the gospel of jesus christ to every nation through pastoral care and missionary support.

Religion

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chalmers Center for Economic Development; 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.

04the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 33 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

23/23

Grantees still filing

20/23

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

International$10,866,352Other$2,091,088Religion$426,967Human Services$347,123Employment$317,910Education$110,101Health$57,000

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

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.

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.

Tyndale House MinistriesIL17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Madala funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Madala. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

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The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home