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Mission Increase

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

$434k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Religion$435kHuman Services$218kHealth$200kYouth Development$167kEducation$140kPhilanthropy$130kArts & Culture$91kInternational$80kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 13 grants below total $395,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $433,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $38,500 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–50k11 grants · $195k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
$20,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GOOD KNIGHTS INC$100,000
CORBAN UNIVERSITY$100,000
CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN VIRTUE$30,000
FELLOWSHIP OF COMPANIES FOR CHRIST INTERNATIONAL$25,000
SATELLITE GAMING$25,000
SPIRIT OF FAITH ADOPTIONS INC (SOFA)$20,000
DANCE 4 JOY MINISTRIES$20,000
CORNERSTONE PREGNANCY SERVICES$20,000
WESTERN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$15,000
BENCHMARK ADVENTURE MINISTRIES$10,000
THE JOURNEY HOME INC$10,000
HEART REACH NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES$10,000
REFUGE HOST HOMES$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $118k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 64% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HARBOUR HOPE INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 13%CAMP DAVID OF THE OZARKS: $15k → 16%OUTREACH INC: $13k → 4%SPIRIT OF FAITH ADOPTIONS INC (SOFA): $20k → 18%CAFO: $10k → 6%HOPE VENTURES: $10k → 14%REFUGE HOST HOMES: $10k → 13%AFRICA HARVEST OF HOPE: $10k → 14%MY SAFE HARBOR: $20k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

IL
NY
OR
IA
OH
CA
NE
MO
VA
MD
TN
HI
OK
AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

18%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$291k · 8 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +102% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
50

Total granted

$291k
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+102%
+14%

Still filing today

100%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $340k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationHealthPhilanthropyOther

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

  • IR
    ISAAC'S ROOM
    3× · 2019–2022 · $75k · revenue +102%
  • SG
    SATELLITE GAMING
    4× · 2020–2024 · $68k · revenue +92%
  • CP
    CORNERSTONE PREGNANCY SERVICES
    4× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +167%

Funded once

  • LP
    Luis Palau Association
    one grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue +9%
  • BF
    BORLAND FREE CLINIC
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -36%
  • GL
    GENEROUS LIFE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +61%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Explore God Network
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2
Grateful Shepherd Ministries

Training pastors and leaders in christian faith

Religion
3
Transform Ministries
—
4
Safe Haven Counseling Associates in

Biblical counseling

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5
Global Gospel Initiative Inc
Religion
6
Dozen Ministries

Religious

Religion
7
Hope Outreach International Ministries

Evangelizing the lost through gospel crusades, camps and conferences; Empowering orphans and widows and those in need through Christ-centered vocational training; and Equipping ministers of the gospel through Christian seminars and…

Religion
8
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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9
International Impact Ministries in
Religion
10
Heart Bridge International

Heart Bridge International exists to equip and empower Christians around the world to fulfill the Great Commission. The organization provides free ministry training, discipleship resources, and practical coaching to under-resourced…

Religion
11
Encounter Gods Presence

Evangelical services for youth and adults at various summer camps and mission trips where they have the opportunity to encounter gods presence.

Religion
12
Asia Us Impact

Religious

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life and the most unlike its peers is Narrow Gate Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Senior Support ServicesHealth Access Advocacy and …Christian Youth CampsPregnancy Support ServicesFaith-Based Social ServicesOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Community FoundationsCommunity Arts CentersYouth Sports ProgramsChristian Missionary Organi…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 20 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%7%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%32%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr16%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%8%<5yr14%16%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr16%15%20–35yr13%28%35–55yr16%10%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/67
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,498

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

64 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. 64 of the 68 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/64
Grantees still filing
40/64
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Luis Palau Association — $150,000 · ReligionLuis Palau AssociationSATELLITE GAMING — $67,500 · ReligionSATELLITE GAMINGTRELLIS INTERNATIONAL — $20,000 · ReligionBENCHMARK ADVENTURE MINISTRIES INC — $20,000 · ReligionDANCE 4 JOY MINISTRIES — $20,000 · ReligionTHE IMPACT MOVEMENT INC — $19,000 · ReligionSHEPHERDS FOLD RANCH INC — $15,000 · Religion+7 more — $70,000 · Religion+7 moreDOVETAIL IMPACT FOUNDATION (FKA DAVID WEEKLEY FAMILY FOUNDATION) — $65,000 · OtherDOVETAIL IMPACT FOUNDATION (FK…Fellowship of Companies For Christ — $25,000 · OtherFellowship of Companies For Ch…BIRTH CHOICE CENTERS INC — $20,000 · OtherPONDEROSA PINES CHRISTIAN CAMP INC — $15,000 · OtherWESTERN MENNONITE SCHOOL — $15,000 · OtherCamp Deer Run Inc — $15,000 · OtherINSPIRATION HILLS INC — $15,000 · OtherGOOD KNIGHTS INC — $100,000 · OtherGOOD KNIGHTS INCCHALMERS CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT — $25,000 · OtherCHALMERS CENTER FOR ECONOMIC D…CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN VIRTUE — $30,000 · OtherCENTER FOR CHRISTIAN VIRTUERenovare Music Inc — $16,000 · OtherBeachmont Inc — $15,000 · Other+8 more — $84,000 · Other+8 moreISAAC'S ROOM — $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentISAAC'S ROOMCHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP OF OHIO — $24,500 · Youth DevelopmentCHILD EVANGEL…YOUNG LIFE — $19,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFEAKRON YOUTH MENTORSHIP — $18,000 · Youth DevelopmentAKRON YOUTH M…URBAN YOUTH COLLABORATIVE — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentURBAN YOUTH C…Camp Sonshine — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentCamp SonshineCHO-YEH CAMP AND CONFERENCE CENTER INC — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHO-YEH CAMP …FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBORLAND FREE CLINIC — $100,000 · HealthBORLAND FREE…CORNERSTONE PREGNANCY SERVICES — $50,000 · HealthCORNERSTONE …HOPE CLINIC FOR WOMEN — $20,000 · HealthHOPE CLINIC …PORTICO INC — $10,000 · HealthPORTICO INCSPIRIT OF FAITH ADOPTIONS INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesSPIRIT OF FA…MY SAFE HARBOR INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesMY SAFE HARB…Camp David of the Ozarks Inc — $15,000 · Human ServicesCamp David o…THE SHALOM FOUNDATION — $15,000 · Human ServicesTHE SHALOM F…SWEET SLEEP INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesSWEET SLEEP …Outreach Inc — $12,500 · Human ServicesOutreach IncChristian Alliance for Orphans — $10,000 · Human ServicesChristian Al…Hope Ventures Inc — $10,000 · Human ServicesHope Venture…HARBOUR HOPE INTERNATIONAL INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesHARBOUR HOPE…REFUGE HOST HOMES — $10,000 · Human ServicesREFUGE HOST …Mission to Children Inc — $10,000 · Human ServicesMission to C…Africa Harvest of Hope Inc — $10,000 · Human ServicesAfrica Harve…DEAFWAY GLOBAL — $10,000 · Human ServicesDEAFWAY GLOB…CUL2VATE — $10,000 · Human ServicesCUL2VATECORBAN UNIVERSITY — $100,000 · EducationCORBAN UN…OAK VALLEY COLLEGE — $10,000 · EducationOAK VALLE…GTI HOPE — $10,000 · EducationGTI HOPEDECISIONS CHOICES AND OPTIONS INC — $10,000 · EducationDECISIONS…SCHOOL MINISTRIES OF ALABAMA — $5,000 · EducationGENEROUS LIFE INC — $100,000 · PhilanthropyGENEROUS …THE JUDITH E & JOSEPH C COOK JR FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JUDIT…NARROW GATE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · PhilanthropyNARROW GA…
Religion$381,500Other$440,000Youth Development$191,500Health$180,000Human Services$177,500Education$135,000Philanthropy$130,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLuis Palau Association — $150,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBORLAND FREE CLINIC — $100,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetCORBAN UNIVERSITY — $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGOOD KNIGHTS INC — $100,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetGENEROUS LIFE INC — $100,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetISAAC'S ROOM — $75,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetSATELLITE GAMING — $67,500 over 4y, 11% of budgetDOVETAIL IMPACT FOUNDATION (FKA DAVID WEEKLEY FAMILY FOUNDATION) — $65,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCORNERSTONE PREGNANCY SERVICES — $50,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetCENTER FOR CHRISTIAN VIRTUE — $30,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCHALMERS CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT — $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFellowship of Companies For Christ — $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP OF OHIO — $24,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSPIRIT OF FAITH ADOPTIONS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetTRELLIS INTERNATIONAL — $20,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetBENCHMARK ADVENTURE MINISTRIES INC — $20,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetMY SAFE HARBOR INC — $20,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetTHE JUDITH E & JOSEPH C COOK JR FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBIRTH CHOICE CENTERS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetDANCE 4 JOY MINISTRIES — $20,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetHOPE CLINIC FOR WOMEN — $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE IMPACT MOVEMENT INC — $19,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE — $19,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAKRON YOUTH MENTORSHIP — $18,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetRenovare Music Inc — $16,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetCamp David of the Ozarks Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetSHEPHERDS FOLD RANCH INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetPONDEROSA PINES CHRISTIAN CAMP INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetURBAN YOUTH COLLABORATIVE — $15,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCamp Deer Run Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCamp Sonshine — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetINSPIRATION HILLS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBeachmont Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE SHALOM FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSWEET SLEEP INC — $15,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetCHO-YEH CAMP AND CONFERENCE CENTER INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOutreach Inc — $12,500 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetGTI HOPE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetChristian Alliance for Orphans — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHope Ventures Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetNARROW GATE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetHEART REACH NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBASKETBALL MAUI — $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSWEET MONDAY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetJOURNEY HOME INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNASHVILLE YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC — $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetAlpha USA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPORTICO INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budget
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.

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.

In His Steps Foundati…Christ FoundationServant FoundationThe Signatry Charitab…Natl Christian Charit…M J Murdock Charitabl…The Community Foundat…Christian Community F…United Way of Middle …The Oregon Community …American Endowment Fo…Renaissance Charitabl…
In His Steps FoundationOH21.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: In His Steps Foundation · Christ Foundation · Servant Foundation · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Oregon Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Mission Increase 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Isaac's Room — 5% of income from government
  • Corban University — 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 68 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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