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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.

$3.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$3.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$13MReligion$1.9MInternational$199kEducation$145kHuman Services$25kYouth Development$5k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $3,095,778, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,260,849 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $165,071 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $31k
  • $250k+1 grant · $3.1M
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$912k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MOF - PRESERVATION OF AFFORDABILITY CORP$3,064,700
THE PILLAR NETWORK$20,000
MISSION ENABLERS INTERNATIONAL$11,078
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR CHRISTIAN EDUCATION: $100k → 11%SALEM MEDIA GROUP: $21k → 14%MISSION ENABLERS INTERNATIONAL: $11k → 8%DELMARVA EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION CORP: $15k → 14%FISH VENTURES: $17k → 7%THE CONVERGENCE POINT LLC: $30k → 16%BOTT RADIO NETWORK: $110k → 5%LANE COLLEGE: $10k → 15%MOF - PRESERVATION OF AFFORDABILITY CORP: $9.8M → 17%THE PILLAR NETWORK: $80k → 8%GLEN AND ROSA MARTIN: $31k → 8%FAITH & LEARNING INTERNATIONAL: $27k → 7%BROWN MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH: $10k → 10%CHRISTIAN AID MISSION: $25k → 8%INTERNATIONAL MISSION BOARD: $10k → 9%THE CONVERGENCE POINT LLC: $20k → 16%BOTT RADIO NETWORK: $108k → 5%MOF - PRESERVATION OF AFFORDABILITY CORP: $3.1M → 17%THE PILLAR NETWORK: $20k → 8%INTERNATIONAL MISSION BOARD: $10k → 9%THE CONVERGENCE POINT LLC: $10k → 16%BOTT RADIO NETWORK: $108k → 5%ARISE2READ: $10k → 17%INTERNATIONAL MISSION BOARD: $10k → 9%BOTT RADIO NETWORK: $107k → 5%BOTT RADIO NETWORK: $106k → 5%LEAWOOD BAPTIST CHURCH: $12k → 17%BOTT RADIO NETWORK: $99k → 5%HOPE FELLOWSHIP BAPTIST CHRUCH: $35k → 17%BOTT RADIO NETWORK: $11k → 5%POINT OF IMPACT: $42k → 17%POINT OF IMPACT: $35k → 17%POINT OF IMPACT: $15k → 17%CHRIST ABOVE ALL INC: $30k → 17%CHRIST ABOVE ALL INC: $20k → 17%CHRIST ABOVE ALL INC: $20k → 17%CHRIST ABOVE ALL INC: $20k → 17%HARDING ACADEMY OF MEMPHIS: $75k → 17%DISCIPLE MAKERS NETWORK: $20k → 17%MID-SOUTH BAPTIST ASSOCIATION: $20k → 17%SOUTH WOODS BAPTIST CHURCH: $100k → 17%RIDGEWAY BAPTIST CHURCH: $50k → 17%RIDGEWAY BAPTIST CHURCH: $50k → 17%RIDGEWAY BAPTIST CHURCH: $50k → 17%RIDGEWAY BAPTIST CHURCH: $50k → 17%RIDGEWAY BAPTIST CHURCH: $50k → 17%WESTMINSTER ACADEMY: $12k → 17%WESTMINSTER ACADEMY: $12k → 17%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

IL
WI
NY
CO
VA
KS
AR
TN
NC
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14M · 17 repeat orgs$697k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
24

Total granted

$14M
$666k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+21%

Still filing today

59%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionEducationHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • BR
    Bott Radio Network Inc
    7× · 2017–2023 · $648k · revenue +25%
  • LM
    LIGHT MINISTRIES INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $133k · revenue +7%
  • WA
    WESTMINSTER ACADEMY
    3× · 2017–2019 · $34k · revenue +94%

Funded once

  • SW
    SOUTH WOODS BAPTIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • IA
    INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR CHRISTIAN EDUCATION
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $80k
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
Equippers Group International

To produce and publish training materials for church leadership and development. To facilitate churches groups and individual participation in world mission.

Religion
2
Reconciliation Ministries International Inc

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…

Religion
3
Timothy Two Project International

Reaching and teaching pastors in the majority world.

Religion
4
Training Pastors International

Training pastors in third world countries

Religion
5
King Ministries International

To spread the Gospel of Jesus the Christ

Religion
6
Power Ministries International Inc
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7
Harvest Ministries Inc

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.

Religion
8
Awakening Ministries International

Proclaim the gospel worldwide, prepare followers of jesus christ, and propel those into their god given destiny.

Religion
9
Global City Missions Initiative Incorporated

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…

Religion
10
International Impact Ministries in
Religion
11
Equip Ministries International

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

Religion
12
Alongside Education Ministries Inc

Pastor training

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is With God All Things Are Possible; 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.
04the grantee network

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
12/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MOF - PRESERVATION OF AFFORDABILITY CORP: $12,871,200 · Housing & ShelterMOF - PRESERVATION OF AFFORDABILITY CORP+1 more: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterBott Radio Network Inc: $648,300 · OtherBott Radio N…RIDGEWAY BAPTIST CHURCH: $200,000 · OtherRIDGEWAY BAP…CHRIST ABOVE ALL INC: $100,000 · OtherCHRIST ABOVE…SOUTH WOODS BAPTIST CHURCH: $100,000 · OtherSOUTH WOODS …INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR CHRISTIAN EDUCATION: $100,000 · OtherINTERNATIONA…Individual grant recipient: $80,000 · OtherTHE CONVERGENCE POINT LLC: $60,000 · Other+20 more: $365,500 · Other+20 moreLIGHT MINISTRIES INC: $133,000 · ReligionDISCIPLE MAKERS NETWORK: $30,000 · ReligionFaith and Learning International NFP: $27,126 · ReligionPILLAR CHURCH PLANTING NETWORK: $20,000 · Religion+1 more: $5,000 · ReligionHARDING ACADEMY OF MEMPHIS INC: $75,000 · EducationWESTMINSTER ACADEMY: $33,860 · EducationARISE2READ INC: $20,000 · EducationLANE COLLEGE: $10,000 · EducationMississippi College: $6,000 · EducationSECRETS SAVORED INC: $140,321 · Human ServicesPOINT OF IMPACT GLOBAL MISSIONS INC: $92,000 · PhilanthropyMISSION ENABLERS INTERNATIONAL: $11,078 · InternationalWith God All Things Are Possible: $5,000 · Youth Development
Housing & Shelter$12,891,200Other$1,653,800Religion$215,126Education$144,860Human Services$140,321Philanthropy$92,000International$11,078Youth Development$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMOF - PRESERVATION OF AFFORDABILITY CORP: $12,871,200 over 2y, 48% of budgetBott Radio Network Inc: $648,300 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetSECRETS SAVORED INC: $140,321 over 4y, 9.3% of budgetLIGHT MINISTRIES INC: $133,000 over 7y, 17% of budgetPOINT OF IMPACT GLOBAL MISSIONS INC: $92,000 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetHARDING ACADEMY OF MEMPHIS INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWESTMINSTER ACADEMY: $33,860 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetDISCIPLE MAKERS NETWORK: $30,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetFaith and Learning International NFP: $27,126 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMEMPHIS UNION MISSON: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPILLAR CHURCH PLANTING NETWORK: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetARISE2READ INC: $20,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetMISSION ENABLERS INTERNATIONAL: $11,078 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJerry Drace Evangelistic Association Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetLANE COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMississippi College: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWith God All Things Are Possible: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDAVID STOCKWELL EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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 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 ↗

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.

Christian Community F…Community Foundation …The Grace Foundation …Christian Community F…Natl Christian Charit…Raymond James Charita…Renaissance Charitabl…National Philanthropi…The Blackbaud Giving …American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Network for Good
Christian Community Foundation of MemphisTN23× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Ministry Outreach Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Ministry Outreach 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 43 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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