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Made to Flourish Inc

We equip pastors and churches to integrate faith, work, and economic wisdom for the flourishing of their communities.

$417k
Granted FY2018
6
Grants FY2018
6
States reached
$108k
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 2018.

Religion$572k
02FY2018 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2018

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $392k
$70,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CREEKSIDE CHURCH$107,580
CHURCH OF THE ADVENT ANGLICAN$79,337
AMBASSADOR CHURCH$70,000
LAKESIDE CHRISTIAN CHURCH$70,000
REAL LIFE CHURCH$64,905
MACEDONIA BAPTIST CHURCH$25,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 77% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%AMBASSADOR CHURCH: $70k → 10%CHURCH OF THE ADVENT ANGLICAN: $79k → 14%CREEKSIDE CHURCH: $108k → 19%MACEDONIA BAPTIST CHURCH: $30k → 15%LAKESIDE CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $70k → 13%REAL LIFE CHURCH: $65k → 7%CREEKSIDE CHURCH: $61k → 19%MACEDONIA BAPTIST CHURCH: $25k → 15%REAL LIFE CHURCH: $65k → 7%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.
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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$353k · 3 repeat orgs$219k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
3

Total granted

$353k
$219k

Still filing today

0%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $219k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • CC
    CREEKSIDE COMMUNITY CHURCH INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $168k
  • RL
    REAL LIFE CHURCH
    2× · 2017–2018 · $129k
  • MB
    MACEDONIA BAPTIST CHURCH
    2× · 2017–2018 · $55k

Funded once

  • CO
    CHURCH OF THE ADVENT ANGLICAN
    one grant, 2018 · $79k
  • AC
    AMBASSADOR CHURCH
    one grant, 2018 · $70k
  • LC
    LAKESIDE CHRISTIAN CHURCH INC
    one grant, 2018 · $70k
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
04the grantee network

0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2018.

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 2018, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 6 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
0/0
Grantees still filing
0/0
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CREEKSIDE COMMUNITY CHURCH INC: $168,480 · OtherCREEKSIDE COMMUNITY CHURCH INCREAL LIFE CHURCH: $129,405 · OtherREAL LIFE CHURCHCHURCH OF THE ADVENT ANGLICAN: $79,337 · OtherCHURCH OF THE ADVENT ANGLICANAMBASSADOR CHURCH: $70,000 · OtherAMBASSADOR CHURCHLAKESIDE CHRISTIAN CHURCH INC: $70,000 · OtherLAKESIDE CHRISTIAN CHURCH INCMACEDONIA BAPTIST CHURCH: $55,000 · OtherMACEDONIA BAPTIST CHURCH
Other$572,222

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their 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.

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.

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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.

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 6 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2018, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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