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Messiah Project Inc

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.

$51k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$21k
Largest
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$1.1MHuman Services$189kEducation$94kCrime & Legal$20kFood & Nutrition$11kHealth$5k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $41k
$20,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WORLD MISSIONARY PRESS$20,700
STARBRIGHT FOUNDATION$20,000
HARVEST PROJECT$5,000
ST JUDES CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$5,000
02The need
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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 (FY17–23, $182k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE GRACE CENTER OF FREDERICKSBURG: $10k → 10%SAMARITANS INTERNATIONAL: $68k → 9%THE GRACE CENTER OF FREDERICKSBURG: $10k → 10%SAMARITANS INTERNATIONAL: $30k → 9%SAMARITANS INTERNATIONAL: $22k → 9%SAMARITANS INTERNATIONAL: $16k → 9%SAMARITANS INTERNATIONAL: $16k → 9%MARBRIDGE FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%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.
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 84% of Messiah Project Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 86% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 13%.

Messiah Project Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 77% directed abroad (not shown)
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 4 repeat orgs$74k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
4

Total granted

$1.3M
$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-22%
+40%

Still filing today

75%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k 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
Human ServicesEducationReligionCrime & LegalInternationalOther
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

  • MP
    MESSIAH PROJECT - NICARAGUA
    7× · 2017–2023 · $1.1M
  • SI
    SAMARITANS INTERNATIONAL
    5× · 2017–2021 · $152k · revenue -22% · 32% of their budget
  • VA
    VERITAS ACADEMY
    5× · 2018–2022 · $94k · revenue +108%

Funded once

  • MF
    MARBRIDGE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +19%
  • FM
    FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +40%
  • HC
    HILL COUNTRY COMMUNITY NEEDS COUNCILgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +49%
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
Missions International

Provide assistance to persons in foreign countries

International
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
Samaritan Servants International

Samaritan servants international endeavors to rescue people as jesus mandated in luke 10 by ministering to people in destitute countries that have both physical and other needs for survival by offering food,water, shelter and hope through…

International
4
Salina Rescue Mission Inc

To be the body of christ in our community providing food, shelter, clothing and other basic needs to those are struggling and offer rehabilitative services in the name of jesus christ

Housing & Shelter
5
World Harvest Mission Inc

To meet the needs of people here at home as well as around the world.

International
6
247 Media Ministries

The mission of worship 24/7 is to ignite a passion for god through worship that results in a life of generosity, discipleship, evangelism, generosity and service.

Religion
7
Harvest Connection

Bring connection to churches for ministry and education in local and global mission

Religion
8
Lifechangers Inc

Distribution of newsletters, production of dvds, cds and publications carrying the message of jesus christ and the kingdom of god to the people throughout the world.

Arts & Culture
9
Christ's Servants Abroad

Ministry work abroad

Religion
10
Samaritan Counseling Center

Provide pastoral counseling

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11
Samaria Global Ministries

Religious and counselling

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12
Global Mission

To bring the gospel of jesus christ to those who have never heard it and take care of orphans

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is Samaritans International. 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

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 12 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MESSIAH PROJECT - NICARAGUA: $1,069,850 · OtherMESSIAH PROJECT - NICARAGUA+4 more: $17,600 · OtherSAMARITANS INTERNATIONAL: $151,575 · Human ServicesSAMARITANS INT…THE GRACE CENTER: $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE GRACE CENT…MARBRIDGE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesMARBRIDGE FOUN…VERITAS ACADEMY: $94,141 · EducationWORLD MISSIONARY PRESS INC: $20,700 · ReligionSTARBRIGHT FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Crime & LegalFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $6,150 · International
Other$1,087,450Human Services$181,575Education$94,141Religion$20,700Crime & Legal$20,000International$6,150

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAMARITANS INTERNATIONAL: $151,575 over 5y, 32% of budgetVERITAS ACADEMY: $94,141 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetWORLD MISSIONARY PRESS INC: $20,700 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GRACE CENTER: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSTARBRIGHT FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetMARBRIDGE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $6,150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILL COUNTRY COMMUNITY NEEDS COUNCIL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

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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 Messiah Project Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Messiah Project Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 12 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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