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Manthei Charitable Trust

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.

$304k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$304k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Human Services$438kReligion$285kEducation$256kInternational$157kPhilanthropy$50kRecreation & Sports$12kHousing & Shelter$3kEnvironment$1k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$304,370
Median grant
1
States reached
$139k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LITTLE ROOTS CHILD CARE$304,370
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $305k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%OVERLAND MISSIONS: $300 → 10%LITTLE ROOTS CHILD CARE: $304k → 9%OVERLAND MISSIONS: $300 → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$837k · 17 repeat orgs$365k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
3

Total granted

$837k
$61k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+118%
+10158%

Still filing today

71%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $304k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
InternationalReligionHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • OH
    ORPHAN HELPERSINC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $128k · revenue +166%
  • AI
    ANSWERS IN GENESIS INC
    2× · 2017–2022 · $36k · revenue +100%
  • P
    PLIES
    2× · 2020–2021 · $23k · revenue +252%

Funded once

  • NC
    NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue ×103
  • FO
    FAMILY OF CHRIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • BL
    BIG LIFE FOUNDATION USAgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +133%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
International Leadership Institute

The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…

Religion
2
Christianity Today International

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.

Religion
3
Tyndale Bible Translators

Bible Translation and acts of Christian Services

Religion
4
Institute of Chinese Studies

ChinsSource is a trusted partner and platform for educating the global church on critical issues facing the church and ministries in China and for connecting Christians inside and outside China to advance the kingdom of God globally

International
5
Timothy Two Project International

Reaching and teaching pastors in the majority world.

Religion
6
Youth for Christ International Ministries

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.

Religion
7
Next Worldwide Inc

With a desire to see the Gospel proclaimed in all nations, we exist to make and multiply disciples of the next generation through the vehicles of church-planting missions and missional leadership training.

8
Leadership Resources International

International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures

Religion
9
CrossTalk Global

CrossTalk Global is a Christian educational organization that empowers and trains global church leaders to effectively communicate the Scriptures and share the hope of Christ in their communities. These projects are carried out in the USA…

Religion
10
New Life International Christian Ministry Inc

Our mission is proclaiming the message of salvation through the saving power of the Holy Spirit to reach the unreached by evangelizing; motivating, mobilizing and organizing the body of Christ.

Religion
11
Chinese Christian Life Fellowship Inc

To edify and make disciples of mainland china and overseas chinese christians to become devoted to only one great person: jesus christ the lord and savior and be motivated by only one greater purpose: building up his church for his glory

Religion
12
Tellasia Ministries Inc

Tellasia brings christ and establishes communities of faith where he is not yet known. win life mentors new disciples, establishes self-supporting churches, trains pastors, and catalyzes church planting movements.

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Biglife International Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lifestream Foundtion. 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

16 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 21 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
11/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LIFT UP AMERICA — $157,000 · OtherLIFT UP AMERICACAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST — $136,000 · OtherCAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRISTCAMPUS CRUSADE MILITARY MINISTRY — $37,000 · OtherCAMPUS CRUSADE MILITARY MINISTRYGENESIS CHURCH — $22,000 · OtherGENESIS CHURCHCHURCH DOCTOR MINISTRIES — $20,000 · Other+4 more — $19,000 · OtherLittle Roots Childcare — $304,370 · Human ServicesLittle Roots Childcare+1 more — $600 · Human ServicesTHORNSTON EDUCATIONAL FUND — $217,360 · EducationTHORNSTON EDUCATIONAL …PLIES — $22,500 · EducationPLIESORPHAN HELPERSINC — $128,000 · InternationalORPHAN HELPERS…ENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTITUTE IN CHINA — $16,000 · InternationalENGLISH LANGUA…Pacific Island Ministries — $8,000 · InternationalANSWERS IN GENESIS INC — $35,595 · ReligionSEMILLA INC — $16,000 · ReligionEmbracing the Journey — $5,500 · ReligionNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC — $49,708 · PhilanthropyFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $7,000 · Youth Development
Other$391,000Human Services$304,970Education$239,860International$152,000Religion$57,095Philanthropy$49,708Youth Development$7,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLittle Roots Childcare — $304,370 over 1y, 40% of budgetTHORNSTON EDUCATIONAL FUND — $217,360 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetLIFT UP AMERICA — $157,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetORPHAN HELPERSINC — $128,000 over 5y, 6.5% of budgetANSWERS IN GENESIS INC — $35,595 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPLIES — $22,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTITUTE IN CHINA — $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Island Ministries — $8,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEmbracing the Journey — $5,500 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetBIGLIFE INTERNATIONAL INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBIG LIFE FOUNDATION USA — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOVERLAND MISSIONS INC — $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Christian Community Foundation IncCO12.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Manthei Charitable Trust 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Manthei Charitable Trust?

    Find your warmest path to Manthei Charitable Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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