· Private foundation
Michael Gordon Black 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k10 grants · $181k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AVANT MINISTRIES | $100,000 |
| MAF FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS INC | $100,000 |
| BIBLICA FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL | $50,000 |
| PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL | $50,000 |
| DALLAS THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $25,000 |
| PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER | $25,000 |
| WELD FOOD BANK | $25,000 |
| NATIONAL SPORTS CENTER FOR THE DISABLED | $20,524 |
| BRIDGING THE GAP-MILE HIGH UNITED WAY | $20,000 |
| NETWORK BEYOND ITI | $20,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $15,525 |
| INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION | $10,000 |
| SARUNI INTERNATIONAL | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 49% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
23 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- DTDallas Theological Seminary6× · 2019–2024 · $378k · revenue +52%
- BIBIBLICA INC6× · 2019–2024 · $150k · revenue +80%
- WFWELD FOOD BANK5× · 2020–2024 · $75k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $15k
- IISIone grant, 2020 · $10k
- BTBridging the Gaps Dyslexia Centerone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +6%
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.
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.
The organization is dedicated to reaching people for christ through an international network of christians who journey with the poor and marginalized, bringing practical and spiritual support with hope of a better future,(continued on…
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.
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
Bible Translation and acts of Christian Services
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.
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…
Reaching and teaching pastors in the majority world.
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
Redeem's mission is to protect widows and orphans from violent abuse and exploitation.
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is International Justice Mission and the most unlike its peers is Pregnancy Resource Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 34 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 Dallas Theological Seminary ↗
- Who funds BIBLICA INC ↗
- Who funds MAF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds WELD FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SPORTS CENTER FOR THE DISABLED INC ↗
- Who funds Pregnancy Resource Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THE RESOURCE CENTER FOR PREGNANCY & PERSONAL HEALTH ↗
- Who funds NETWORK BEYOND ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds SARUNI INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds Bridging the Gaps Dyslexia Center ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds THE SHACK ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS 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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Michael Gordon Black 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.