· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 26% of Milagros Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 28 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Milagros Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Milagros Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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