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Micah 68 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 $10k4 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $639k
- $50k–250k22 grants · $1.5M
- $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WE RUN WE RISE | $1,031,000 |
| WORLD RELIEF | $186,265 |
| UNTOLD INC | $125,000 |
| THE NEW AFRICA INC | $100,000 |
| LIFT UP THE VULNERABLE | $78,785 |
| PLANT WITH PURPOSE | $70,000 |
| MYRIAD USA | $65,000 |
| CAPABLE | $65,000 |
| KUPENDA FOR THE CHILDREN | $60,502 |
| JUSTICE RISING INTERNATIONAL | $60,000 |
| SEED EFFECT | $60,000 |
| BUILDING TOMORROW | $60,000 |
| SINAPIS | $60,000 |
| REDEEM INTERNATIONAL | $60,000 |
| IMAGINE HER | $55,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $341k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% 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 +55% since the first grant, against -21% for the ones you funded once.
59 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 7 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, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M 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
- WRWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS6× · 2018–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +214%
- FUFLORESTA USA INCORPORATED7× · 2017–2025 · $570k · revenue +280%
- 44AFRICA6× · 2019–2025 · $540k · revenue +91%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF ITHEMBAone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -79% · 46% of their budget
- LLaOlamone grant, 2023 · $51k · revenue -15%
- MAMIGHTY ALLY INSTITUTEone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -21% · 29% of their budget
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.
Empowering Lives International (ELI) ignites world changers. We equip families and orphans to crush poverty, embrace Christ, and share their transformation with others through their God-honoring income, their deepening relationship with…
Zoe Empowers is a global network of local organizations throughout Africa and India providing a replicable and scalable framework whereby youth led or resourced families are provided the training, resources, and community support to become…
Hope Unlimited inspires hope and renews lives in Kenya and Cameroon by providing access to quality healthcare, clean water, education, economic development and Christian resources for spiritual growth.
Water to Thrive transforms lives in rural Africa by working with partners and beneficiaries to bring the blessing of clean, safe water, connecting communities in need with supporters who have the heart and spirit to make a difference
We engage the far-off, forgotten, abandoned people-the least of these-by building genuine trust through relationships and sharing Christs gospel of grace and great hope. We come alongside and support local churches that disciple their…
We are a global Christian organization committed to partnering with indigenous peoples, local churches, and community-based organizations to make disciples of Jesus Christ and help end extreme poverty. We serve indigenous pygmies,…
Action In Africa is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization in the United States, and community based organization that operates a thriving community center in Nakuwadde, Uganda. Our mission is to advance the social, personal, and economic…
Partnering with Indigenous Leaders to Spread the Gospel, Serve Others, and Build Community
To create transformative and globally connected learning experiences, preparing orphaned and vulnerable children for a lifetime of influence.
The mission of ja africa is to inspire and prepare young people in africa to succeed in a global economy.
Promote peace, democracy and economic prosperity in Africa.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lift Up the Vulnerable Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mighty Ally Institute. 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 17 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 12% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
56 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. 56 of the 80 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 WORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS ↗
- Who funds FLORESTA USA INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds 4AFRICA ↗
- Who funds ECHO Inc ↗
- Who funds LIFENET INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SEED EFFECT ↗
- Who funds EXILE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds LIFT UP THE VULNERABLE INC ↗
- Who funds Untold Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds MANY HOPES INC ↗
- Who funds VSI ↗
- Who funds KOMERA INC ↗
- Who funds THESE NUMBERS HAVE FACES ↗
- Who funds Redeem International ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE RISING INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds HOPE WALKS INC ↗
- Who funds URBANPROMISE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds World Renew ↗
- Who funds CAPABLE ↗
- Who funds OneWorld Health ↗
- Who funds BUILDING TOMORROW INC ↗
- Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE SPEAKS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds KUPENDA FOR THE CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds HIINGA INC ↗
- Who funds Praxis Inc ↗
- Who funds WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds THE HUMAN TRAFFICKING INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds RED KNOT DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds FLYING KITES INC ↗
- Who funds ASPIRE FOR HUMANITY INITIATIVES ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOR ALL CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds AKOLA PROJECT INC ↗
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: The Maclellan Foundation Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Dovetail Impact Foundation (Fka David Weekley Family Foundation) · First Fruit Inc · International Generosity Foundation Trust · Servant Foundation · Larry and Karen Mulder Foundation · Tyndale House Ministries · The Pilgrim Foundation · Ten Talents Foundation · Henry P & Susan C Crowell Trust · Stewardship 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 Micah 68 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% of income from government
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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