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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.

$3.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$930k
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$7.3MCommunity Improvement$4.0MPhilanthropy$675kInternational$637kEducation$433kHuman Services$314kHealth$279kYouth Development$215kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $255k
  • $250k+5 grants · $2.8M
$15,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$29M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF CHURCHES AND MINISTERS$25,000
DOXA CHURCH$25,000
INCARNATION MINISTRIES CORP$25,000
SAT-7 EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENT INC$20,000
DON NAVA KINGDOM MINISTRIES INC$15,000
POWERHOUSE MINISTRIES INC$15,000
FELLOWSHIP FOUNDATION INC$15,000
THE PLAYMAKERS ORGANIZATION$15,000
WESTMONT COLLEGE$12,500
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%PROJECT RESCUE FOUNDATION: $40k → 15%CITY OF REFUGE SACRAMENTO: $10k → 12%JOY TO THE WORLD FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%PROVIDENCE WORLD MINISTRIES INC: $2k → 14%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

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DC
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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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 37 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
49

Total granted

$11M
$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
+53%

Still filing today

65%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $390k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionEducationInternationalYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesCivil RightsOther
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

  • AP
    Alternatives Pregnancy Center
    5× · 2018–2023 · $259k · revenue +145%
  • MM
    MERCY MULTIPLIED AMERICA INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $205k · revenue +10%
  • WC
    WESTMONT COLLEGE
    6× · 2017–2024 · $108k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • DC
    DESTINY CHRISTIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2017 · $850k
  • M4
    MARK 4 PROJECTS
    one grant, 2020 · $150k
  • AF
    ALLIANCE FOR COMPASSION & EDUCATION
    one grant, 2017 · $133k
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
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
2
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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3
Ambassadors for Christ International - Usa Inc

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…

Religion
4
Freedom in Christ Ministries

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.

Religion
5
Probe Ministries International

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…

Religion
6
Regent University

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.

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7
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
8
Global Media Outreach

Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.

Religion
9
The King's University

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.

Education
10
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
11
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
12
Ason International Inc

Assisting national Christian leaders around the world.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fellowship Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

64 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. 64 of the 94 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/64
Grantees still filing
37/64
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DESTINY CHRISTIAN CHURCH ASSEMBLY OF GOD: $4,210,000 · OtherDESTINY CHRISTIAN CHURCH ASSEMBLY OF GODDESTINY CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $850,000 · OtherDESTINY CHRISTIAN CHURCHCAPITAL CHRISTIAN CENTER: $475,000 · OtherCAPITAL CHRISTIAN CENTERAlternatives Pregnancy Center: $259,000 · Other+50 more: $1,972,050 · Other+50 moreDestiny Community Services: $3,930,000 · Community ImprovementDestiny Community ServicesMark 4: $375,000 · ReligionKATINA MINISTRIES INC: $250,000 · ReligionWESTERN STATES FELLOWSHIP INC: $167,500 · ReligionDON NAVA KINGDOM MINISTRIES INC: $70,000 · ReligionPraxis Inc: $50,000 · ReligionBIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP: $45,000 · Religion+12 more: $163,750 · ReligionThe New Horizons Foundation Inc: $625,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $10,000 · PhilanthropyWESTMONT COLLEGE: $107,500 · EducationVANGUARD UNIVERSITY OF SO CAL: $90,000 · EducationCOLLEGE TRACK: $50,000 · EducationBIOLA UNIVERSITY INC: $30,000 · EducationWitherspoon Institute Inc: $30,000 · EducationSACRAMENTO COUNTY AG FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $30,000 · EducationCS Lewis Institute: $25,000 · EducationNorth Central University: $20,000 · Education+2 more: $12,500 · EducationCURE INTERNATIONAL INC: $90,000 · InternationalAMERICAN INITIATIVES FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $30,000 · InternationalHOPE INTERNATIONAL: $25,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $5,000 · InternationalTHE PLAYMAKERS ORGANIZATION INC: $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentFORNGO INC: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $10,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $1,000 · Youth Development
Other$7,766,050Community Improvement$3,930,000Religion$1,121,250Philanthropy$635,000Education$425,000International$150,000Youth Development$96,000

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 budgetDestiny Community Services: $3,930,000 over 7y, 67% of budgetThe New Horizons Foundation Inc: $625,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMark 4: $375,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetAlternatives Pregnancy Center: $259,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetKATINA MINISTRIES INC: $250,000 over 5y, 7.9% of budgetMERCY MULTIPLIED AMERICA INC: $204,800 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetWESTERN STATES FELLOWSHIP INC: $167,500 over 7y, 20% of budgetFELLOWSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $157,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetSAT-7 Education & Development Inc: $120,000 over 6y, 33% of budgetWESTMONT COLLEGE: $107,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVANGUARD UNIVERSITY OF SO CAL: $90,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCURE INTERNATIONAL INC: $90,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDON NAVA KINGDOM MINISTRIES INC: $70,000 over 7y, 12% of budgetTHE PLAYMAKERS ORGANIZATION INC: $60,000 over 7y, 10.0% of budgetBANNER COMMUNICATIONS INC: $55,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetPraxis Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCOLLEGE TRACK: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFAITH MEDICAL MISSIONS INC: $45,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetBIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP: $45,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT RESCUE FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAgape International Missions: $37,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetINCARNATION MINISTRIES CORP: $35,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetGOOD NEWS FOR INDIA - TEXAS INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBIOLA UNIVERSITY INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWitherspoon Institute Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSACRAMENTO COUNTY AG FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 6y, 24% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN INITIATIVES FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetSAT-7 NORTH AMERICA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOPE INTERNATIONAL: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCS Lewis Institute: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetThe American Council Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetWILLIAM JESSUP UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Central University: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITY OF REFUGE: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBAY AREA SCHOOL OF MINISTRY INC: $12,500 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetServant Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCity of Refuge Sacramento: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKardia: $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetCHRISTS HOPE U S A INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJoy To The World Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPETRA ACADEMY INC: $6,250 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetREFUGE FOUNDATION: $6,250 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGRACE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY OF LEIPERS: $6,250 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • 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 VANGUARD UNIVERSITY OF SO CAL ↗
  • Who funds CURE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • 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 GOOD NEWS FOR INDIA - TEXAS INC ↗
  • Who funds BIOLA UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds Witherspoon Institute Inc ↗

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.

Oates Family Foundati…Servant FoundationChristian Community F…The Signatry Charitab…Greater HorizonsBiddle Family Foundat…Ten Talents FoundationThe New Horizons Foun…Sacramento Region Com…The US Charitable Gif…Natl Christian Charit…Renaissance Charitabl…
Oates Family FoundationDE28.2× affinity11 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Marvin Buzz Oates Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marvin Buzz Oates Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    8report 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, 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Marvin Buzz Oates Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Marvin Buzz Oates Charitable Foundation 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 94 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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