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Melchizedek Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $5k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $46k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $349k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| REDEEMER BIBLE CHURCH | $95,100 |
| VALERIE'S VICTORY FOR VETERANS INC | $72,945 |
| Individual grant recipient | $71,500 |
| SHEPHERD'S HOUSE BIBLE CHURCH | $55,500 |
| GILBERT CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS | $53,972 |
| MT NEBO MINISTRIES | $35,800 |
| CENTER FOR RENEWING AMERICA | $10,000 |
| THE CHURCH | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSAL LIFE CHURCH | $98 |
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 (FY20–23, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +66% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $139k 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
- ANARIZONA NEXT LEVEL BASKETBALL FOUND5× · 2017–2021 · $167k · revenue +85% · 33% of their budget
- AIAESOP INC2× · 2019–2020 · $110k · revenue +66%
- GCGilbert Christian Schools Inc5× · 2017–2025 · $104k · revenue +100%
Funded once
- JCJOY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $30k
- CICHILDHELP INCone grant, 2020 · $26k · revenue -6%
- ASARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $25k
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.
The mission of christian family care is to strengthen families and serve at-risk children in the name of jesus christ. the outcome of our work results in building flourishing families and communities focusing on three pillars: preserve,…
Dedicated to igniting personal transformation by affirming faith, inspiring hope, and equipping individuals, to live an intentional life in christ.
The family research council's primary exempt purpose is to reaffirm and promote nationally, and particularly in washington, dc, the traditional family unit and the judeo-christian value system upon which it is built. frc's activities in…
The Center of Theological Inquiry is an independent research institution with an international visiting scholar program which convenes researchers in an ideal setting for interdisciplinary inquiries where theology casts light on global…
The mission of the ankerberg theological research institute is to reach viewers and listeners for the gospel of christ through radio tv, and internet evangelism via the john ankerberg show.
To glorify god by equipping the church with proper christian doctrine and to help non-believers come to a saving knowledge of jesus christ.
Fostering the christian faith
Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…
None
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is House of Refuge Inc and the most unlike its peers is Arizona Next Level Basketball Found. 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 25 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 41 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 CELEBRITY FIGHT NIGHT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA NEXT LEVEL BASKETBALL FOUND ↗
- Who funds AESOP INC ↗
- Who funds Gilbert Christian Schools Inc ↗
- Who funds MAN IN THE MIRROR INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDHELP INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ARIZONA POLICY INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF REFUGE INC ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AWAKENED HEART MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Center for Renewing America Inc ↗
- Who funds DREAM CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LARRY AND MARTHA DAY CHARITABLE TRU ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN BIBLE COLLEGES INC ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX SEMINARY INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds IN TOUCH MISSION INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds JUNDT FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CASA HOGAR ↗
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: Servant Foundation · Arizona Community Foundation · Larry and Martha Day Charitable Tru · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Jpmorgan Chase 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 Melchizedek 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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