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Mustard Seed Faith 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $122k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION | $122,000 |
| MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| LUIS PALAU ASSOCIATION | $7,000 |
| KINDRED PARTNERS | $6,000 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES | $6,000 |
| PORTLAND RESCUE MISSION | $6,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $5,000 |
| TRANSITIONAL YOUTH | $5,000 |
| CHOICE ADOPTIONS | $4,000 |
| ROAD 2 HOPE | $4,000 |
| SIM USA | $3,000 |
| WYCLIFFE | $3,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $3,000 |
| PAID IN FULL OREGON | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
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 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- NCNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $144k · revenue +48%
- LPLuis Palau Association6× · 2019–2024 · $42k · revenue +35%
- GSGood Samaritan Ministries8× · 2017–2024 · $39k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- FEFORWARD EDGE INTERNATIONALgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +42%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $2k
- NCNEWSBREAK CHURCHone grant, 2018 · $1k
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.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
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…
We are compelled by god's word to provide security, education and the hope of jesus to children in south africa so they can thrive personally and impact their future families, communities and the kingdom of god.
Serving and pastoring overseas workers on their own turf and equipping nationals by training and empowering them in their work of advancing the gospel.
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
Provision international, a world-wide christian ministry of outreach, strives to meet the needs of the earth's less fortunate and downtrodden populace. we are committed to networking resources to serve people in areas of great need.
Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
We minister to orphans and widows in their distress by transitioning children from orphanages into loving families. We do this through Christ- centered care, training and social work.
To equip and assist christians and their churches to respond to conflict biblically.
To get the good news to every nation this generation by showing and sharing god's love by providing opportunities and supporting christian missionaries in over fifty seven countries around the world.
With a desire to see the Gospel proclaimed in all nations, we exist to make and multiply disciples of the next generation through the vehicles of church-planting missions and missional leadership training.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medical Teams International and the most unlike its peers is Luis Palau Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 22 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 NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Luis Palau Association ↗
- Who funds Good Samaritan Ministries ↗
- Who funds Braking Cycles ↗
- Who funds ROAD TO HOPE ROAD 2 HOPE MATERNITY HOMES ↗
- Who funds KINDRED PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds CHOICE ADOPTIONS ↗
- Who funds PAID IN FULL OREGON ↗
- Who funds DOOR TO GRACE ↗
- Who funds FORWARD EDGE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds POINT LOMA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY ↗
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: M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Oregon Community Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Mustard Seed Faith 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Kindred Partners — 42% of income from government
- Medical Teams International — 14% of income from government
- Choice Adoptions — 0% of income from government
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.
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