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Mission Dispatch

To provide a vehicle for Christian ministries & missionaries to receive tax deductible donations from donors at a reasonable price.

$1.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$28k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

International$132kReligion$78k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $27,565, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,706,071 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,678,506 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.
$27,565
Median grant
1
States reached
$231k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Plant Joy Ministries$27,565
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Plant Joy Ministries: $36k → 10%Into Africa Missions: $57k → 12%Plant Joy Ministries: $28k → 10%Into Africa Missions: $48k → 12%Plant Joy Ministries: $14k → 10%Into Africa Missions: $27k → 12%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.

Grants abroad, by region: $1.4M on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 6 regions, $460k to organizations and $965k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Sub-Saharan Africa$591k · 41% · 5 grants · 309 people

Stated purpose: Ministry center, providing treatment for addicts, food for children and spiritual nourishment for the community. · Orphanage and school providing ability to sponsor children. Also supports widows · Micro-enterprise development, job training and education; primarily for widows

East Asia and the Pacific$304k · 21% · 1 grant · 699 people

Stated purpose: Leadership development for youth and inner-city teens · Humanitarian Aid community development youth programs and education

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$204k · 14% · 443 people

Stated purpose: Education discipleship and leadership development

North America (Canada and Mexico)$194k · 14% · 389 people

Stated purpose: Helping international students migrant workers humanitarian aid medical projects community service drug rehab and home builds

Russia and Neighboring States$113k · 8% · 238 people

Stated purpose: Aid to parents of special needs kids living expenses food clothing for the poor and widows aid for refugees fleeing war.

Central America and the Caribbean$19k · 1% · 70 people

Stated purpose: Medical care youth and community development helping homeless.

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its field
04the grantee network

0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2020–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2020 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 2 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.

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

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their 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.

04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Mission Dispatch?

Find your warmest path to Mission Dispatch 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 2 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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