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Narrow Gate Foundation

The NARROW GATE FOUNDATION/protect the path ministry has established itself as an influential leader in the fight against human trafficking.

$142k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$2.5MPhilanthropy$770kYouth Development$344kReligion$204kInternational$139kHousing & Shelter$50kHealth$50kCrime & Legal$38kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $72,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $142,250 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $69,750 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

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $65k
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FREE INTERNATIONAL$25,000
PATRICK HENRY COLLEGE$25,000
LOVE CITY INC$15,000
LIFE RECAPTURED$7,500
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 (FY17–24, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FLORIDA DREAM CENTER: $252k → 12%E3 RANCH FOUNDATION: $10k → 19%LOVE CITY INC: $15k → 15%FREE INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 13%LOVE CITY INC: $10k → 15%LIFE RECAPTURED: $8k → 10%INNER CITY VISIONS: $479k → 14%INNER CITY VISIONS: $308k → 14%INNER CITY VISIONS: $160k → 14%INNER CITY VISIONS: $160k → 14%INNER CITY VISIONS: $68k → 14%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

NV
IA
OH
NJ
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
KS
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.8M · 11 repeat orgs$835k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
17

Total granted

$2.8M
$778k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+17%

Still filing today

64%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationReligionCrime & LegalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • IV
    INNERCITY VISIONS
    5× · 2017–2023 · $1.2M · revenue +270% · 96% of their budget
  • MORE TOO LIFE INC
    4× · 2017–2022 · $334k · revenue +191% · 35% of their budget
  • HI
    HAYOVEL INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $101k · revenue +141%

Funded once

  • FD
    FLORIDA DREAM CENTER INC
    one grant, 2017 · $252k · revenue +17%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $150k
  • U
    USIAHT
    one grant, 2021 · $101k
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
Untrafficked Inc
Human Services
2
Mission 89 Inc

Fight human trafficking

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3
Remember Those in Captivity Ministries Inc
Philanthropy
4
Refuge for Prodigals International Bible Ministries Inc
Religion
5
Real Evangelism Inc
Religion
6
House of Refuge Faith Based
Human Services
7
The Watchman International Inc

To teach about prayer and Israel.

Religion
8
Love Never Fails World Charity

Helping victims of child trafficking and prostitution and other organizations in the fight.

Human Services
9
Give Way to Freedom Incorporated
Philanthropy
10
Regeneration International Inc

501 (c)(3) public charity

Human Services
11
Entrusted Hope Ministries
Religion
12
Elevateher International Ministries

mission is to empower women to heal from trauma, grow in faith, and thrive in purpose, fully realizing their full potential

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Project Hope Alliance; the most unlike its peers is Cry for Zion. 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

20 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. 20 of the 32 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/20
Grantees still filing
12/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INNERCITY VISIONS: $1,173,953 · Human ServicesINNERCITY VISIONSFLORIDA DREAM CENTER INC: $252,000 · Human ServicesFLORIDA DREAM CENTER INC+5 more: $114,500 · Human Services+5 moreF A C E S S: $969,800 · OtherF A C E S SIndividual grant recipient: $150,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUSIAHT: $100,500 · OtherUSIAHTIndividual grant recipient: $93,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+11 more: $226,000 · Other+11 moreNATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC: $761,168 · PhilanthropyNATL CHRISTIAN CHAR…+1 more: $9,000 · PhilanthropyMORE TOO LIFE INC: $334,000 · Youth DevelopmentChildproof America: $12,500 · Youth DevelopmentHAYOVEL INC: $101,250 · InternationalONLY HOPE PRISON MINISTRIES: $38,000 · Crime & LegalSeed of Abraham Ministries Inc: $20,000 · ReligionCRY FOR ZION: $15,000 · ReligionPATRICK HENRY COLLEGE: $25,000 · EducationProject Hope Alliance: $5,425 · Education
Human Services$1,540,453Other$1,539,800Philanthropy$770,168Youth Development$346,500International$101,250Crime & Legal$38,000Religion$35,000Education$30,425

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINNERCITY VISIONS: $1,173,953 over 5y, 96% of budgetF A C E S S: $969,800 over 5y, 74% of budgetNATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC: $761,168 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMORE TOO LIFE INC: $334,000 over 4y, 35% of budgetFLORIDA DREAM CENTER INC: $252,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetHAYOVEL INC: $101,250 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetREAL GUARDIAN ANGELS FOUNDATION: $47,000 over 2y, 100% of budgetONLY HOPE PRISON MINISTRIES: $38,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetALL THE KINGS HORSES MINISTRY INC: $31,000 over 3y, 33% of budgetPATRICK HENRY COLLEGE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLove City Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetSeed of Abraham Ministries Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCRY FOR ZION: $15,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetChildproof America: $12,500 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetTHE CHEF JEFF PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetE3 RANCH FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMAXIMUM IMPACT FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetLIFE RECAPTURED INC: $7,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetProject Hope Alliance: $5,425 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Orange County Communi…Living Legacy Foundat…Natl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Orange County Community FoundationCA18.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · Living Legacy Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 28%
  • More Too Life Inc: 28% of income from government
  • Florida Dream Center Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Narrow Gate Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Narrow Gate Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 32 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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