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National Community Foundation
NATIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION shall carry out its purposes as a community foundation within the meaning of treasury regulation section 1.170a-9(f)(10).
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $290k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $265k
- $250k+1 grant · $471k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ENDOW AMERICA NETWORK FOUNDATION | $471,192 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF AUBURN | $100,000 |
| CROSSROADS EVANGELICAL CHURCH | $60,000 |
| NCF SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION | $54,877 |
| SERVING ORPHANS AND WIDOWS MINISTRIES | $50,000 |
| HOUSING ALLIANCE INTERNATIONAL | $45,000 |
| ACRES OF HOPE | $35,000 |
| PAMOJA UNITED | $30,000 |
| THE JAMES FOUNDATION | $26,000 |
| ADAMS RESCUE MISSION INC | $25,000 |
| HOW 2 LOVE OUR COPS | $20,000 |
| IN THE GAME MINISTRIES | $15,000 |
| FRENCH AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL | $14,284 |
| LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| WARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $165k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 85% 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.
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 +24% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $693k 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
- SOSERVING ORPHANS AND WIDOWS MINISTRIES4× · 2021–2024 · $260k · revenue +24%
- TITHE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO4× · 2021–2024 · $78k · revenue +24%
- RTREDWOOD TEEN CHALLENGE3× · 2021–2023 · $65k · revenue +0%
Funded once
- HBHM2 Buck Foundation for Hope Incone grant, 2022 · $2.1M · revenue -98%
- KCKAUAI CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIPone grant, 2021 · $250k
- WJWILLIAM JESSUP UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +3%
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.
Manna University is a biblical higher education institution dedicated to educating, equipping, and empowering emerging leaders to change the world.
Equipping followers of christ to give wisely to advance his kingdom by inspiring biblical stewardship and generosity.
Missions - sponsors foreign and domestic missions and orphanages with a special emphasis on missions in India
Restore hope, purpose, passion and relationships among Christian leaders who are making an impact around the world.
ACCI serves pioneering Christians, empowering them to proclaim the gospel, fulfill their God-given visions, and advance the kingdom of God. ACCI longs for a world where lives are transformed through the Holy Spirit, where new disciples are…
The organizational mission is to train, equip, send, and support individuals from Transformation Network, Inc. affiliated churches who are called to full time missions in the United States and abroad.
The King's University integrates Biblical education and practical ministry to shape Spirit-formed individuals who follow Jesus, serve His Church, and are sent to impact the world.
Enable christian organizations worldwide to initiate and strenghten ministries that lead people to become followers of jesus and transform communities out of cycles of poverty and disease.
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.
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…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Impact Investing Charitable Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is HM2 Buck Foundation for Hope Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 44% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 42 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 HM2 Buck Foundation for Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds ENDOW AMERICA NETWORK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Servant Foundation ↗
- Who funds SERVING ORPHANS AND WIDOWS MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE SIGNATRY CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM JESSUP UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds REDWOOD TEEN CHALLENGE ↗
- Who funds The Society for the Empowerment and Enrichment of the Deprived Group ↗
- Who funds PLACER FAMILY HOUSING NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds NCF SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds EDUCATIONAL MEDIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ↗
- Who funds IMPACT INVESTING CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Dare 2 Share Ministries ↗
- Who funds WARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION ↗
- Who funds WINGS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Coryell Autism Center ↗
- Who funds THE BARNABAS GROUP ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE JAMES FOUNDATION CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds How 2 Love Our Cops ↗
- Who funds PROJECT AKILAH INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds Ocean Accelerator Inc dba Ocean Programs ↗
- Who funds INTL ASSN OF MINISTERS & MINISTRIES 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: Servant Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Greater Horizons · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 National Community 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.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% 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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