· Private foundation
Morning Star 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $28k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH ENTERPRISE | $17,836 |
| HONDURAS BAPTIST DENTAL MISSION | $10,000 |
| FOUR CORNERS MINISTRIES | $8,000 |
| CHRISTIAN MISSION ENTERPRISE | $3,000 |
| COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL | $2,910 |
| WIREGRASS EMERGENCY PREGNANCY SERVICES | $2,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $2,000 |
| CENTRAL AMERICAN MISSIONS | $2,000 |
| WIREGRASS AREA FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| ST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $1,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $1,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $1,000 |
| MAP INTERNATIONAL | $1,000 |
| PRECEPT MINISTRIES | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL MS SOCIETY | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 34% of Morning Star Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 57% of the giving stays in AL; read by stated purpose it is 54% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +60% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- HBHonduras Bapt Med & Dental Mission Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $124k · revenue +110%
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE6× · 2020–2025 · $9k · revenue +106%
Compassion International Incorporated6× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- GCGENEVA COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATIONone grant, 2022 · $12k
- ACALABAMA-FLORIDA COUNCIL INC SCOUTING AMERICAgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +413%
- FIFRIENDS IN ACTIONone grant, 2020 · $500
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Since 1816, american bible society has been fulfilling its mission of making the bible available to every person in a language and format each can understand and afford so all people may experience its life-changing message.
To advance the gospel in closed and hard-to-reach nations and to impact those nations for christ.
Asm's commitment to the great commission leads us to serve others by:-partnering with national leaders, churches, ministries, and individuals to create and distribute scripture media to share the good news of jesus.-recording bible and…
World reach is a global, evangelical missions organization serving fields in east africa, central and south america, europe and the u.s. our purpose is to fulfill the the great commission of jesus christ by reaching the world with the…
World christian broadcasting exists so that people in places best served by broadcast media become aware of the good news of jesus christ and want to know more. geographic areas that cannot be easily served by missionaries are a priority.
To propagate the gospel of jesus christ; to examine candidates and appoint missionaries. to endorse missionary programs according to standards set forth in the new testament, to establish churches, church schools & mission societies in…
The organizations exempt purpose is to rescue orphans and widows, feed the poor, build the local church through ministry, crusades and outreaches and to win souls around the world.
Spread the gospel of jesus christ
Our mission is to make disciples of jesus christ by engaging indigenous pastors around the world. our vision is to train pastors and their congregants to share the gospel in a friendly, non-denominational approach across all ethnicities,…
The mission of wordsower africa is to equip and encourage christians in west african countries to bring the gospel to the unreached people groups, to disciple, become spiritual leaders and start healthy churches in every village god sends…
Freedom seekers international is a christian organization that exists to rescue the most severely persecuted for their religious faith in hostile and restrictive countries. through collaborative partnerships we deliver those who are…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Global Outreach International Inc and the most unlike its peers is World Wildlife Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
21 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. 21 of the 44 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Honduras Bapt Med & Dental Mission Inc ↗
- Who funds Precept ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds FOUR CORNERS MINISTRIESINC ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds WIREGRASS AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds MAP International Inc ↗
- Who funds DOTHAN RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds LESEA GLOBAL FEED THE HUNGRY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE FOREVER ↗
- Who funds WIREGRASS HOPE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA-FLORIDA COUNCIL INC SCOUTING AMERICA ↗
- Who funds For The Children Ecuador Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST ALABAMA CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds ENTERPRISE STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE ALABAMA BAPTIST INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Wiregrass Foundation · Smurfit Westrock US Foundation F/K/A Westrock Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Morning Star Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.