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Maranatha Bible and Missionary Conf

Maranatha Bible and Missionary Conference has a mission to provide spiritual renewal in a recreational setting emphasizing Bible teaching and worldwide missions.

$365k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$61k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Religion$1.1MYouth Development$111kPublic Safety & Disaster$110kInternational$92kHuman Services$58kHousing & Shelter$33kCommunity Improvement$5k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $346,051, the rows itemized in this filing. The $364,761 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $18,710 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 · FY2025

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $173k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $173k
$44,438
Median grant
4
States reached
$31M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
International Needs$61,041
TACTICA Ministries$56,651
Jews for Jesus$55,656
West Michigan Youth for Christ$44,438
Alpha Ministries$37,430
CURE International$32,791
Moody Bible Institute$32,211
Our Daily Bread Ministries$25,833
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 (FY18–24, $90k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 43% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%Alpha Grand Rapids: $52k → 11%Life Builders - Detroit: $6k → 21%LifeBUILDERS: $33k → 21%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

IL
MI
IN
PA
CA
CO
MO
VA
AR
GA
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 99% of Maranatha Bible and Missionary Conf’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 44% of the giving stays in MI; by stated purpose, 1%.

Maranatha Bible and Missionary Conflessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 19 repeat orgs$547k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
15

Total granted

$1.2M
$431k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+19%

Still filing today

79%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $117k 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
ReligionInternationalHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • T
    TACTICA
    4× · 2019–2025 · $167k · revenue +251% · 82% of their budget
  • ME
    MISSION EURASIA
    2× · 2019–2022 · $127k · revenue +160%
  • HM
    HUTCHCRAFT MINISTRIES INC
    2× · 2018–2022 · $98k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • OW
    ONE WAY MINISTRIESgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $83k · revenue +35%
  • AG
    Alpha Grand Rapidsgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $52k · revenue +76%
  • KF
    Keys for Kids Ministries Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $48k · revenue +19%
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
Global Radio Outreach

Our Gospel Radio Program in Arabic was inaugurated in 1993, broadcast from the Middle East on 5 transmitters and on the internet. Approximately 350 million Arabs can receive the programs. Our Farsi Gospel Radio Program was inaugurated in…

Religion
2
Heart Bridge International

Heart Bridge International exists to equip and empower Christians around the world to fulfill the Great Commission. The organization provides free ministry training, discipleship resources, and practical coaching to under-resourced…

Religion
3
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
4
International Impact Ministries in
Religion
5
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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6
Global City Missions Initiative Incorporated

Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…

Religion
7
Explore God Network
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8
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
9
Raise Up Global Ministries

Raise Up Global Ministries is committed to educating Christian leaders in communities around the world. The three programs of Raise Up equip the global church by 1 Developing biblically based interactive materials and 2 Training…

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10
Reconciliation Ministries International Inc

Reconciliaton Ministries Intl. is a Christian evangelical organization preaching and teaching the Word of God in over 60 countries. The ministry equips and encourages Christians everywhere to be saved, healed, and delivered according to…

Religion
11
Reach Ministries International

Rmi's activities include evangelism, discipleship, leadership training & other activities to spread the christian gospel in asia.

Religion
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is One Way Ministries; the most unlike its peers is Mona Lake Improvement Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 37 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/29
Grantees still filing
22/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MISSION EURASIA: $127,350 · ReligionMISSION EURASIAHUTCHCRAFT MINISTRIES INC: $97,865 · ReligionHUTCHCRAFT MINISTRIES INCHOWTOLIFE MOVEMENT: $92,360 · ReligionHOWTOLIFE MOVEMENTONE WAY MINISTRIES: $82,915 · ReligionONE WAY MINISTRIESALPHA MINISTRIES INC: $56,585 · ReligionALPHA MINISTRIES INCOur Daily Bread Ministries Trust: $52,394 · ReligionOur Daily Bread Ministries TrustWALK THRU THE BIBLE MINISTRIES INC: $50,154 · ReligionWALK THRU THE BIBLE MINISTRIES INCKeys for Kids Ministries Inc: $47,741 · ReligionKeys for Kids Ministries IncSONSET SOLUTIONS INC: $28,970 · Religion+2 more: $18,273 · ReligionMISSION INDIA: $89,128 · OtherMISSION INDIACROSS ROAD CORRECTIONAL MINISTRIES: $78,268 · OtherCROSS ROAD CORRECTIONAL MINISTRIESINTERNATIONAL NEEDS: $61,041 · OtherINTERNATIONAL NEEDSSLAVIC GOSPEL ASSOCIATION: $59,442 · OtherSLAVIC GOSPEL ASSOCIATIONWORLD RADIO MISSIONARY FELLOWSHIP INC: $56,360 · OtherWORLD RADIO MISSIONARY FELLOWSHIP IN…JEWS FOR JESUS: $55,656 · OtherJEWS FOR JESUSFAITH BIBLE SEMINARY INC: $41,457 · OtherFAITH BIBLE SEMINARY INCHaggai International: $33,435 · OtherHaggai InternationalD O O R INTERNATIONAL: $29,908 · OtherSEND INTERNATIONAL OF THE UNITED STATES INC: $29,509 · OtherALIVE ON THE LAKESHORE: $21,355 · Other+5 more: $52,640 · Other+5 moreTACTICA: $166,812 · Crime & LegalTACTICAGood News Nepal: $93,659 · InternationalCURE INTERNATIONAL INC: $40,120 · InternationalEXTREME RESPONSE INTERNATIONAL INC: $8,421 · InternationalKids Alive International Inc: $6,746 · InternationalGrand Rapids Youth for Christ Inc: $78,681 · Youth DevelopmentCHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP INC: $46,849 · Youth DevelopmentAlpha Grand Rapids: $51,841 · Human ServicesLifeBUILDERS: $38,549 · Human ServicesThe Moody Bible Institute of Chicago: $89,781 · Education
Religion$654,607Other$608,199Crime & Legal$166,812International$148,946Youth Development$125,530Human Services$90,390Education$89,781

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 budgetTACTICA: $166,812 over 4y, 82% of budgetMISSION EURASIA: $127,350 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHUTCHCRAFT MINISTRIES INC: $97,865 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetGood News Nepal: $93,659 over 2y, 25% of budgetHOWTOLIFE MOVEMENT: $92,360 over 2y, 18% of budgetThe Moody Bible Institute of Chicago: $89,781 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetONE WAY MINISTRIES: $82,915 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetGrand Rapids Youth for Christ Inc: $78,681 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetCROSS ROAD CORRECTIONAL MINISTRIES: $78,268 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetALPHA MINISTRIES INC: $56,585 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetWORLD RADIO MISSIONARY FELLOWSHIP INC: $56,360 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetOur Daily Bread Ministries Trust: $52,394 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetAlpha Grand Rapids: $51,841 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetWALK THRU THE BIBLE MINISTRIES INC: $50,154 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetKeys for Kids Ministries Inc: $47,741 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP INC: $46,849 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCURE INTERNATIONAL INC: $40,120 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLifeBUILDERS: $38,549 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSONSET SOLUTIONS INC: $28,970 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetALIVE ON THE LAKESHORE: $21,355 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetJONI AND FRIENDS: $15,506 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBy The Hand Club For Kids: $12,472 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHAGGAI INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED LEADERSHIP TRAINING INC: $11,665 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCRESCENT PROJECT INC: $11,096 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEXTREME RESPONSE INTERNATIONAL INC: $8,421 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKids Alive International Inc: $6,746 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAWANA CLUBS INTERNATIONAL AND AFFILIATES: $6,608 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONA LAKE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 8.0% 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.

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.

Christian Community F…Gordon Christian TrustThe Bolick FoundationServant FoundationBarnabas FoundationInternational Generos…Tyndale House Ministr…The Signatry Charitab…Natl Christian Charit…The Drew and Colleen …The Modglin Family Fo…From His Hand Foundat…
Christian Community Foundation IncCO27.5× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Gordon Christian Trust · The Bolick Foundation · Servant Foundation · Barnabas Foundation · International Generosity Foundation Trust · Tyndale House Ministries · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Drew and Colleen Wolford Foundation · The Modglin Family Foundation · From His Hand 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 Maranatha Bible and Missionary Conf funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Maranatha Bible and Missionary Conf. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–20%
    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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    Find your warmest path to Maranatha Bible and Missionary Conf 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 37 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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