· Public charity
Ministry Outreach Foundation
To bring together and strengthen the efforts of individuals and churches to reach the world with the gospel of jesus christ and to minister to those in need.
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 3 grants below total $3,095,778 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,260,849 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $165,071 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
- $10k–50k2 grants · $31k
- $250k+1 grant · $3.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MOF - PRESERVATION OF AFFORDABILITY CORP | $3,064,700 |
| THE PILLAR NETWORK | $20,000 |
| MISSION ENABLERS INTERNATIONAL | $11,078 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 95% of your 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 +25% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 2 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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
- BRBott Radio Network Inc7× · 2017–2023 · $648k · revenue +25%
- LMLIGHT MINISTRIES INC7× · 2017–2023 · $133k · revenue +7%
- WAWESTMINSTER ACADEMY3× · 2017–2019 · $34k · revenue +94%
Funded once
- SWSOUTH WOODS BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $100k
- IAINTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR CHRISTIAN EDUCATIONone grant, 2020 · $100k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $80k
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.
To produce and publish training materials for church leadership and development. To facilitate churches groups and individual participation in world mission.
Reconciliaton Ministries Intl. is a Christian evangelical organization preaching and teaching the Word of God in over 60 countries. The ministry equips and encourages Christians everywhere to be saved, healed, and delivered according to…
Reaching and teaching pastors in the majority world.
Training pastors in third world countries
To spread the Gospel of Jesus the Christ
Spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ by any available means, including building and funding churches worldwide, funding foreign missionaries, funding for Bible Colleges, and for other similar ministries.
Proclaim the gospel worldwide, prepare followers of jesus christ, and propel those into their god given destiny.
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…
Equip ministries trains overseas pastors and leaders, empowers the church, provides humanitarian aid, and attempts to reach the unreached peoples around the world by working with church leaders to fulfil
Pastor training
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is With God All Things Are Possible and the most unlike its peers is Lane College. 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 43 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 MOF - PRESERVATION OF AFFORDABILITY CORP ↗
- Who funds Bott Radio Network Inc ↗
- Who funds SECRETS SAVORED INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHT MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds POINT OF IMPACT GLOBAL MISSIONS INC ↗
- Who funds HARDING ACADEMY OF MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds DISCIPLE MAKERS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Faith and Learning International NFP ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS UNION MISSON ↗
- Who funds PILLAR CHURCH PLANTING NETWORK ↗
- Who funds ARISE2READ INC ↗
- Who funds MISSION ENABLERS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Jerry Drace Evangelistic Association Inc ↗
- Who funds LANE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Mississippi College ↗
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 · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · The Grace Foundation of Memphis Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good
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 Ministry Outreach 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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