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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.

$3.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
47
Grants FY2025still arriving
21
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

International$10MCivil Rights$1.1MCommunity Improvement$941kHealth$924kReligion$535kCrime & Legal$300kEducation$238kArts & Culture$137kOther$0
02FY2025 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $639k
  • $50k–250k22 grants · $1.5M
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
$47,589
Median grant
21
States reached
$8.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
BUILDING TOMORROW$60,000
JUSTICE RISING INTERNATIONAL$60,000
SEED EFFECT$60,000
SINAPIS$60,000
REDEEM INTERNATIONAL$60,000
IMAGINE HER$55,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NEW STORY: $25k → 10%HIINGA: $46k → 10%TEARFUND USA: $25k → 8%LAOLAM: $51k → 9%NEW STORY: $25k → 10%HIINGA: $40k → 10%HIINGA: $40k → 10%HIINGA: $40k → 10%HIINGA: $25k → 10%HIINGA: $25k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

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DC
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FL
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14M · 59 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against -25% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

59
12

Total granted

$14M
$476k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
-25%

Still filing today

76%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
InternationalEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesHealthReligionOther
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

  • WR
    WORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS
    6× · 2018–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +214%
  • FU
    FLORESTA USA INCORPORATED
    7× · 2017–2025 · $570k · revenue +280%
  • 4
    4AFRICA
    6× · 2019–2025 · $540k · revenue +91%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF ITHEMBA
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -79% · 46% of their budget
  • L
    LaOlam
    one grant, 2023 · $51k · revenue -25%
  • TN
    TEARFUND - NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
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
Empowering Lives International

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…

Religion
2
Zoe Empowers

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…

International
3
Hope Unlimited

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.

Human Services
4
Water to Thrive

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

International
5
Twelve21 Global Inc

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…

Religion
6
Partnership for Indigenous Peoples -Pipes - International

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,…

International
7
Action in Africa Inc

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…

International
8
Harvesters International Ministries

Partnering with Indigenous Leaders to Spread the Gospel, Serve Others, and Build Community

Religion
9
Empower African Children

To create transformative and globally connected learning experiences, preparing orphaned and vulnerable children for a lifetime of influence.

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10
Vision for Africa
Religion
11
Ja Africa

The mission of ja africa is to inspire and prepare young people in africa to succeed in a global economy.

Education
12
Trustafrica

Promote peace, democracy and economic prosperity in Africa.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lift Up the Vulnerable Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

56 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. 56 of the 80 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/56
Grantees still filing
39/56
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS: $1,161,331 · InternationalWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALSFLORESTA USA INCORPORATED: $570,000 · InternationalFLORESTA USA INCORPORATED4AFRICA: $540,098 · International4AFRICAECHO Inc: $480,000 · InternationalECHO IncLIFENET INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION: $424,400 · InternationalSEED EFFECT: $420,000 · InternationalEXILE INTERNATIONAL INC: $418,472 · InternationalLIFT UP THE VULNERABLE INC: $404,812 · InternationalHOPE INTERNATIONAL: $400,000 · InternationalMANY HOPES INC: $343,700 · InternationalVSI: $336,632 · International+21 more: $3,314,830 · International+21 moreWE RUN WE RISE: $1,031,000 · OtherWE RUN WE RISESINAPIS: $310,000 · OtherSINAPISMYRIAD USA: $257,373 · OtherMYRIAD USAWorld Renew: $242,947 · OtherWorld RenewINTERNATIONAL GENEROSITY FOUNDATION: $206,000 · OtherAKILAH INSTITUTE: $200,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $167,500 · OtherAKOLA PROJECT INC: $155,000 · OtherIMAGINE HER: $136,619 · OtherTHE HUMAN TRAFFICKING INSTITUTE: $200,000 · Other+21 more: $1,114,081 · Other+21 moreKOMERA INC: $307,901 · EducationTHESE NUMBERS HAVE FACES: $260,000 · EducationJUSTICE RISING INTERNATIONAL: $247,950 · EducationKUPENDA FOR THE CHILDREN: $219,126 · EducationCTC INTERNATIONAL INC: $139,700 · EducationUntold Inc: $400,000 · HealthHOPE SPEAKS INTERNATIONAL INC: $230,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF ITHEMBA: $100,000 · HealthHIINGA INC: $215,500 · Human ServicesLaOlam: $50,825 · Human ServicesNEW STORY INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesTEARFUND USA INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesPraxis Inc: $200,000 · ReligionLIFE IN ABUNDANCE INTERNATIONAL: $100,250 · ReligionINTERNATIONAL GENEROSITY FOUNDATION TRUST: $25,000 · ReligionASPIRE FOR HUMANITY INITIATIVES: $163,106 · Community ImprovementUTOPIA FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 · Community Improvement
International$8,814,275Other$4,020,520Education$1,174,677Health$730,000Human Services$341,325Religion$325,250Community Improvement$208,106

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS: $1,161,331 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetFLORESTA USA INCORPORATED: $570,000 over 7y, 2.6% of budget4AFRICA: $540,098 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetECHO Inc: $480,000 over 7y, 4.5% of budgetLIFENET INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION: $424,400 over 6y, 5.7% of budgetSEED EFFECT: $420,000 over 8y, 7.7% of budgetEXILE INTERNATIONAL INC: $418,472 over 8y, 5.6% of budgetLIFT UP THE VULNERABLE INC: $404,812 over 4y, 6.4% of budgetUntold Inc: $400,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetHOPE INTERNATIONAL: $400,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetMANY HOPES INC: $343,700 over 7y, 4.8% of budgetVSI: $336,632 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetKOMERA INC: $307,901 over 4y, 19% of budgetTHESE NUMBERS HAVE FACES: $260,000 over 7y, 13% of budgetRedeem International: $249,900 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetJUSTICE RISING INTERNATIONAL: $247,950 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetURBANPROMISE INTERNATIONAL: $245,000 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetHOPE WALKS INC: $245,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetWorld Renew: $242,947 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetCAPABLE: $237,500 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetOneWorld Health: $237,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetBUILDING TOMORROW INC: $232,500 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC: $230,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE SPEAKS INTERNATIONAL INC: $230,000 over 4y, 9.8% of budgetKUPENDA FOR THE CHILDREN: $219,126 over 3y, 10% of budgetHIINGA INC: $215,500 over 6y, 5.7% of budgetWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL: $200,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPraxis Inc: $200,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetTHE HUMAN TRAFFICKING INSTITUTE: $200,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetRED KNOT DEVELOPMENT: $180,861 over 4y, 68% of budgetFLYING KITES INC: $175,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetASPIRE FOR HUMANITY INITIATIVES: $163,106 over 3y, 42% of budgetEDUCATION FOR ALL CHILDREN: $157,250 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetAKOLA PROJECT INC: $155,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetPARTNERS WORLDWIDE: $140,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetCTC INTERNATIONAL INC: $139,700 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetRose Womens Foundation: $135,000 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetTUTAPONA INC: $130,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetEdify: $120,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetKIJABE CHILDREN'S EDUCATIONAL FUND INC: $119,000 over 7y, 7.5% of budgetLIFE IN ABUNDANCE INTERNATIONAL: $100,250 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF ITHEMBA: $100,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetJUSTICE DEFENDERS (USA) INC: $100,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetREMEMBER NIGER COALITION: $85,569 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetLaOlam: $50,825 over 1y, 14% of budgetMIGHTY ALLY INSTITUTE: $50,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetNEW STORY INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUTOPIA FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 over 2y, 1.6% 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 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 URBANPROMISE INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds HOPE WALKS INC ↗
  • 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 WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds Praxis Inc ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

The Maclellan Foundat…Christian Community F…Dovetail Impact Found…First Fruit IncInternational Generos…Servant FoundationLarry and Karen Mulde…Tyndale House Ministr…The Pilgrim FoundationTen Talents FoundationHenry P & Susan C Cro…Stewardship Foundation
The Maclellan Foundation IncTN29.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Micah 68 Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Micah 68 Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 67%
  • World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals: 67% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
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How do I get to Micah 68 Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Micah 68 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 80 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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