· Private foundation
Mooney Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEEN CHALLENGE | $5,000 |
| JONI & FRIENDS | $4,000 |
| DESTINED FOR GRACE | $3,500 |
| WONDERFULLY MADE | $3,500 |
| GROVE CHRISTIAN CAMP | $3,000 |
| VALLEY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP | $3,000 |
| NOVO MINISTRIES | $3,000 |
| TWO BY 2 GLOBAL MINISTRIES | $3,000 |
| IMAGINE AFRICA | $2,000 |
| GLOBAL SCHOLARS | $1,000 |
| VALLEY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP | $1,000 |
| VALLEY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP | $1,000 |
| ADOPT A FAMILY | $288 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 21% of Mooney Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 49% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 42%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WMWonderfully Made5× · 2021–2025 · $18k · revenue +215%
- GCGROVE CHRISTIAN SERVICE CAMP7× · 2019–2025 · $16k · revenue +117%
- TBTWO BY 2 GLOBAL MINISTRIES INC5× · 2021–2025 · $14k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- KAKIDS AROUND THE WORLD INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $4k · revenue +53%
- SHSAFE HAVEN MATERNITY HOMEgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +286%
- SYSANTA YNEZ VALLEY PRESB CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $2k
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.
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.
Spread the Christianity
Jesus for asia exists for one purpose: to see as many people as possible accept eternal life before it's too late. we do this by going to the least reached section of the planet and by calling the church to re-engage its mission. in other…
Grace Global Ministries exists to assist local churches in sending global workers to fulfill the Great Commission.
Offers counsel, formal & informal teaching served in a pastoral role, mentored groups,filled numerous speaking invitations, conducted discipling groups & provided spiritual, emotional and
Serving and pastoring overseas workers on their own turf and equipping nationals by training and empowering them in their work of advancing the gospel.
To teach the bible to pastors and church leaders in africa and asia, while funding food for orphaned and abandonded children
The organizations mission is enhancing the legal distribution of free bibles and equipping and discipling pastors and trainers to use the word of god effectively.
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…
Spread the gospel of jesus christ
We are a Christian organization. The mission of this ministry is to preach the Gospel to all nations through the guidance of the Holy Spirit, declare God's glory among the nations and His marvelous deeds.
To share Christian compassion and love in an effort to alleviate spiritual, physical, emotional and mental suffering around the world. We help care for orphans and vulnerable children, teens and women in need. We provide training and…
The organization is dedicated to reaching people for christ through an international network of christians who journey with the poor and marginalized, bringing practical and spiritual support with hope of a better future,(continued on…
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 20 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 GLOBAL SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds DESTINED FOR GRACE CHILDREN'S RELIEF ↗
- Who funds Wonderfully Made ↗
- Who funds GROVE CHRISTIAN SERVICE CAMP ↗
- Who funds TWO BY 2 GLOBAL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds JIAN HUA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JONI AND FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds KIDS AROUND THE WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Forum of Christian Leaders ↗
- Who funds SAFE HAVEN MATERNITY HOME ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mooney Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mooney Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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