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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

Its 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 its 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
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
NY
OR
IA
OH
CA
NE
MO
VA
MD
TN
HI
OK
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +102% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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%
+17%

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
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

  • 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%
  • GL
    GENEROUS LIFE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +61%
  • BF
    BORLAND FREE CLINIC
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -36%
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
Explore God Network
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2
Grateful Shepherd Ministries

Training pastors and leaders in christian faith

Religion
3
Transform Ministries
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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life; 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.
04the grantee network

64 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. 64 of the 68 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)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/64
Grantees still filing
41/64
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · OtherWESTERN MENNONITE SCHOOL: $15,000 · OtherPONDEROSA PINES CHRISTIAN CAMP INC: $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…Camp Sonshine: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentCamp SonshineURBAN YOUTH COLLABORATIVE: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentURBAN YOUTH C…CHO-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 INCMY SAFE HARBOR INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesMY SAFE HARB…SPIRIT OF FAITH ADOPTIONS INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesSPIRIT OF FA…Camp David of the Ozarks Inc: $15,000 · Human ServicesCamp David o…SWEET SLEEP INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesSWEET SLEEP …THE SHALOM FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Human ServicesTHE SHALOM F…Outreach Inc: $12,500 · Human ServicesOutreach IncHARBOUR HOPE INTERNATIONAL INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesHARBOUR HOPE…Mission to Children Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesMission to C…DEAFWAY GLOBAL: $10,000 · Human ServicesDEAFWAY GLOB…Africa Harvest of Hope Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesAfrica Harve…REFUGE HOST HOMES: $10,000 · Human ServicesREFUGE HOST …Hope Ventures Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesHope Venture…Christian Alliance for Orphans: $10,000 · Human ServicesChristian Al…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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLuis Palau Association: $150,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGENEROUS LIFE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetCORBAN UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGOOD KNIGHTS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetBORLAND FREE CLINIC: $100,000 over 1y, 8.0% 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 budgetBIRTH CHOICE CENTERS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetTHE JUDITH E & JOSEPH C COOK JR FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTRELLIS INTERNATIONAL: $20,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetMY SAFE HARBOR INC: $20,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetSPIRIT OF FAITH ADOPTIONS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetBENCHMARK ADVENTURE MINISTRIES INC: $20,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetDANCE 4 JOY MINISTRIES: $20,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetHOPE CLINIC FOR WOMEN: $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $19,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE IMPACT MOVEMENT INC: $19,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetAKRON YOUTH MENTORSHIP: $18,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetRenovare Music Inc: $16,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetBeachmont Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPONDEROSA PINES CHRISTIAN CAMP INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCamp Deer Run Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCamp Sonshine: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCamp David of the Ozarks Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetURBAN YOUTH COLLABORATIVE: $15,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSHEPHERDS FOLD RANCH INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.6% 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 budgetTHE SHALOM FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetINSPIRATION HILLS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetOutreach Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetHARBOUR HOPE INTERNATIONAL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetMission to Children Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetDEAFWAY GLOBAL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSOULEADER RESOURCES: $10,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetSWEET MONDAY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetAfrica Harvest of Hope Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetPORTICO INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAlpha USA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHRISTIAN ART & THEATRE OF CORONA: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNARROW GATE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 6.7% 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.

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%3%10%23%40%funder's 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
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.

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 68 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home