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Mission Create

MISSION CREATE is a faith-based nonprofit helping underserved and marginalized people thrive through nonprofit incubation, back office support, coaching and funding.

$206k
Granted FY2021
2
Grants FY2021
2
States reached
$23k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through 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 2021.

Religion$126kEducation$88kHousing & Shelter$60kEmployment$18kInternational$11kRecreation & Sports$10kPhilanthropy$9k
02FY2021 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $34,729, the rows itemized in this filing. The $205,526 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $170,797 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.
$23,444
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MIDAS MISSIONS$23,444
ALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS$11,285
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SCHOOL CONNECT: $50k → 11%NAU FOUNDATION: $5k → 16%POSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE: $9k → 8%ALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS: $11k → 16%AZ FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $10k → 15%MISSION INCREASE FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND: $9k → 11%SCHOOL CONNECT: $19k → 11%AZ CRIMSON TIDE: $5k → 11%1MISSION: $10k → 11%MIDAS MISSIONS: $23k → 11%CHRIST CHURCH OF THE VALLEY: $10k → 11%DEVELOPING WORKERS: $18k → 11%LIKEWISE WORSHIP COLLECTIVE: $88k → 11%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.
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 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
A Jesus Mission

A Jesus Mission creates unique opportunities for individuals or teams to serves as Christian missionaires around the world through traditional evangelism, discipleship training, and outreach.

Religion
2
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
3
Biglife International Inc

Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.

Recreation & Sports
4
Mission Quest

Mission quest exists to glorify god by assisting christian missionaries and to reach the nations with the message of faith, grace, and victory through jesus christ. this is accomplished through mobilizing and support of missionaries and…

Youth Development
5
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

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…

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6
Paraclete Mission Group Inc

Paraclete's mission is to come alongside christian leaders around the world. we give priority to those with limited resources, those who work with unreached peoples, and those who reach people who are often overlooked.

Religion
7
Missions Development International

MDI provides ministry leaders with high-caliber mentoring and innovative content to unleash their God-given potential.

International
8
Global Media Outreach

Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.

Religion
9
Mission Increase

Mission increase equips donors, nonprofits, and churches to multiply their collective kingdom impact, so that more lives are transformed for jesus.

Philanthropy
10
Kingdom Advisors Inc

Kingdom advisors is a discipleship ministry serving christian financial professionals. the organization encourages, educates, and empowers christian financial professionals with biblical wisdom to be effective disciples of jesus christ in…

Religion
11
Missions 316 (Formerly Titus International Mission)

Missions 3:16 is a mission agency dedicated to the fulfillment of the great commission by sending missionaries to as many people groups as possible in the fields of the world and by training and partnering with national pastors to…

Arts & Culture
12
Leadership Revolution Inc

Leadership Revolution is a ministry founded to develop leaders globally who will spread the gospel and make disciples in their arena of influence.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Legacy for the Kingdom; the most unlike its peers is Quality Care Home Facilities. 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

12 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. 12 of the 14 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SCHOOL CONNECT: $69,200 · OtherSCHOOL CONNECTTITUS HOUSEAZ LLC: $49,871 · OtherTITUS HOUSEAZ LLCDEVELOPING WORKERS: $18,121 · OtherDEVELOPING WORKERSCHRISTS CHURCH OF THE VALLEY INC: $10,000 · OtherCHRISTS CHURCH OF THE VALLEY INC+1 more: $5,000 · OtherLikewise Worship Inc: $87,924 · ReligionLikewise Worship IncMIDAS MISSIONS: $23,444 · ReligionMIDAS MISSIONSMISSION INCREASE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · ReligionALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC: $11,285 · InternationalONE MISSION INC DBA 1MISSION: $10,000 · InternationalPOSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE: $9,200 · EducationNORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC: $9,129 · Philanthropy
Other$152,192Religion$116,368International$21,285Education$14,200Youth Development$10,000Philanthropy$9,129

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLikewise Worship Inc: $87,924 over 1y, 19% of budgetALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC: $11,285 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONE MISSION INC DBA 1MISSION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE: $9,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC: $9,129 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMISSION INCREASE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA8.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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

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no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Mission Create?

    Find your warmest path to Mission Create 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 14 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2023) is on record but names no grant recipient (grants abroad are filed by region only, and grants under $5,000 are not itemized), so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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