· Public charity
Milagros Foundation
To make disciples of all nations by working with christian ministries in developing countries as they build up promising student leaders by providing university education and discipleship experiences.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 12 grants below total $191,801 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $231,947 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $40,146 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $88k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $59k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VAPOR MINISTRIES | $58,801 |
| DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATES INTERNATIONAL | $37,467 |
| NEW LIFE FOUNDATION WORLD REACH | $13,217 |
| MEDICAL MINISTRY INTERNATIONAL | $12,900 |
| NEW HOPE GIRLS | $12,600 |
| ASIA PARTNERS INC | $12,190 |
| SHINING LIGHT INTERNATIONAL | $9,579 |
| THE INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION | $8,080 |
| SERGE | $7,500 |
| ARABIC BIBLE CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $6,900 |
| HEALING GRACE INTERNATIONAL | $6,500 |
| TRUE SOJOURNERS | $6,067 |
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 (FY17–24, $483k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 26% of Milagros Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
21 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- VMVapor Ministries Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $475k · revenue +275%
- DADevelopment Assoc International8× · 2017–2024 · $209k · revenue +8%
- YLYOUNG LIFE7× · 2017–2023 · $164k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- IIFES-USAone grant, 2019 · $12k
- NLNew Life Foundation Worldone grant, 2019 · $10k
- FOFriends of the Good Samaritans Incone grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue -4%
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.
Religious
Childrens Home and Ministry in India
Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…
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.
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…
Interserve USA recruits, trains, sends, and supports Christian professionals from America who live and work long term, generally among the poor, in places which need their expertise; especially in medicine, development, education, English…
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.
i58 Global is a Christian ministry dedicated to recruiting, sending and organizing relief workers to provide aid and share hope to refugees in various European countries.
With a desire to see the Gospel proclaimed in all nations, we exist to make and multiply disciples of the next generation through the vehicles of church-planting missions and missional leadership training.
International needs has the vision to transform lives and change communities by helping christian nationals serve both god and neighbor within their own countries.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is International Fellowship of Evangelical Students Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is The International Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 28 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 Vapor Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds Development Assoc International ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds SHINING LIGHT INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds The International Foundation ↗
- Who funds HEALING GRACE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds ASIA PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds Ethiopian Impact Inc ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL MINISTRY INTERNATIONAL US ↗
- Who funds NEW LIFE FOUNDATION WORLD REACH ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF EVANGELICAL STUDENTS USA INC ↗
- Who funds NUEVA ESPERANZA-NEW HOPE GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds CONCENTRIC DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds True Sojourners ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Good Samaritans Inc ↗
- Who funds SERGE GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION 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: Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · First Fruit Inc · Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Milagros 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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