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Marvin Buzz Oates Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $255k
- $250k+5 grants · $2.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DESTINY COMMUNITY SERVICES | $930,000 |
| DESTINY CHRISTIAN CHURCH ASSEMBLY OF GOD | $550,000 |
| DESTINY CHRISTIAN CHURCH ASSEMBLY OF GOD | $500,000 |
| DESTINY CHRISTIAN CHURCH ASSEMBLY OF GOD | $450,000 |
| MARK 4 | $375,000 |
| WESTERN STATES FELLOWSHIP | $47,500 |
| INCARNATION MINISTRIES CORP | $25,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF CHURCHES AND MINISTERS | $25,000 |
| DOXA CHURCH | $25,000 |
| SAT-7 EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENT INC | $20,000 |
| DON NAVA KINGDOM MINISTRIES INC | $15,000 |
| POWERHOUSE MINISTRIES INC | $15,000 |
| THE PLAYMAKERS ORGANIZATION | $15,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP FOUNDATION INC | $15,000 |
| WESTMONT COLLEGE | $12,500 |
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 (FY18–23, $62k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 84% 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
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.
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.
37 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 3 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $390k 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
- DCDestiny Community Services7× · 2017–2024 · $3.9M · revenue +11% · 67% of their budget
- APAlternatives Pregnancy Center5× · 2018–2023 · $259k · revenue +145%
- MMMERCY MULTIPLIED AMERICA INC6× · 2017–2023 · $205k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- DCDESTINY CHRISTIAN CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $850k
- M4MARK 4 PROJECTSone grant, 2020 · $150k
- AFALLIANCE FOR COMPASSION & EDUCATIONone grant, 2017 · $133k
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.
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.
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…
Ambassadors for Christ International - USA is a fellowship of gospel preachers and teachers whose mission is to preach Christ, edify the Church, and to glorify God and serve as a catalyst for revival, evangelism, and training of Christians…
To provide resources, training, and continuing support to leaders in the us and around the world in order that they may help others find freedom in christ.
To present the gospel by providing life-long opportunities to integrate faith and learning through balanced, biblically based scholarship, training people to love god by renewing their minds and equipping the church to engage the world for…
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
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…
Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.
The King's University integrates Biblical education and practical ministry to shape Spirit-formed individuals who follow Jesus, serve His Church, and are sent to impact the world.
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.
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…
Assisting national Christian leaders around the world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fellowship Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is City of Refuge Sacramento. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
64 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. 64 of the 94 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 Destiny Community Services ↗
- Who funds The New Horizons Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Mark 4 ↗
- Who funds Alternatives Pregnancy Center ↗
- Who funds KATINA MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY MULTIPLIED AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN STATES FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAT-7 Education & Development Inc ↗
- Who funds WESTMONT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CURE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds VANGUARD UNIVERSITY OF SO CAL ↗
- Who funds DON NAVA KINGDOM MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE PLAYMAKERS ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds BANNER COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Praxis Inc ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE TRACK ↗
- Who funds FAITH MEDICAL MISSIONS INC ↗
- Who funds BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP ↗
- Who funds PROJECT RESCUE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Agape International Missions ↗
- Who funds INCARNATION MINISTRIES CORP ↗
- Who funds Witherspoon Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FOSTERALL ↗
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: Oates Family Foundation · Servant Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Greater Horizons · Biddle Family Foundation Inc · Ten Talents Foundation · The New Horizons Foundation Inc · Sacramento Region Community Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Marvin Buzz Oates Charitable Foundation 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.
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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