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Nehemiah Foundation Inc

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.

$1k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$640
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$48kReligion$24kEducation$18kYouth Development$11kHuman Services$8kScience & Tech$7kHousing & Shelter$6kArts & Culture$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
3
States reached
$20k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BROOKES BIBLE COLLEGE$640
WAY ALLIANCE$500
NATIONAL HOME EDUCATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE$250
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 (FY17–19, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 25% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%FOCUS NORTH AMERICA: $1k → 11%FAMILY ACTION COUNCIL OF TENNESSEE: $2k → 4%GRACEWORKS MINISTRIES INC: $500 → 4%GRACEWORKS MINISTRIES INC: $500 → 4%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

NY
OR
IN
PA
CA
MO
VA
TN
AL
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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$77k · 9 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
17

Total granted

$77k
$49k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+13%

Still filing today

78%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’25
Human ServicesReligionEducationArts & CultureHousing & ShelterHealthOther
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

  • BI
    BRIGHTSTONE INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $42k · revenue +4%
  • FF
    FAMILY FOUNDATION FUND INC
    2× · 2017–2019 · $10k · revenue +130%
  • NR
    NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION
    2× · 2017–2019 · $6k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • IP
    IAGANACK PRODUCTIONS LTD MINISTRY
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $7k
  • SI
    ST IGNATIUS ANTIOCHIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH
    one grant, 2017 · $6k
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
Grace Impact Ministries

Religious education

Religion
2
Main Thing Ministries

Providing Christian content through speaking writing creating digital online and media content for churches faith-based organizations and individuals Podcasts Videos Online teaching resources

Religion
3
Source Ministries International Incorporated

Christian Teaching Writing Biblical Counseling and Missions

Religion
4
Answers in Genesis Inc

We proclaim the absolute truth and authority of the bible with boldness. we relate the relevance of a literal genesis to the church and world today with creativity. we obey god's call to deliver the message of the gospel, individually and…

Religion
5
Faith Theological Seminary I Inc

Seminary, study of theology

—
6
Fresh Heart Ministries

Religious - teaching about bible and prayer

Religion
7
Probe Ministries International

To present the gospel by providing life-long opportunities to integrate faith and learning through balanced, biblically based scholarship, training people to love god by renewing their minds and equipping the church to engage the world for…

Religion
8
Mastermedia Ministries Inc

Mastermedia ministries spreads the gospel of jesus christ through a radio program and worship.

Religion
9
Christolized Ministries Inc

Publish bible study material

—
10
Christian Rights Ministries

Evangelical Christian outreach ministry that seeks to defend and preserve a biblical worldview. Operating a church as part of that outreach.

Religion
11
Rbc Ministries

Rbc ministries mission is to make the life-changing wisdom of the bible understandable and accessible to all

Religion
12
Christian Questions

In accordance with god's grace and providence: make the gospel available to all ages and to as many areas of the world as possible, reach out through podcasting, multimedia offerings, bible study tools and technology, plant seeds of hope…

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Rescue Mission; the most unlike its peers is Hope Clinic for Women. 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

17 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. 17 of the 29 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
10/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

IAGANACK PRODUCTIONS LTD MINISTRY: $10,000 · OtherIAGANACK PRODUCTIONS LTD MINISTRYIndividual grant recipient: $7,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientORTHODOX CHRISTIAN PRISON MINISTRY: $6,000 · OtherORTHODOX CHRISTIAN PRISON MINISTRYST IGNATIUS ANTIOCHIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH: $5,500 · OtherST IGNATIUS ANTIOCHIAN ORTHODOX CHURCHST KATHERINE COLLEGE: $5,000 · OtherST KATHERINE COLLEGEFAMILY ACTION COUNCIL OF TN: $4,000 · OtherFAMILY ACTION COUNCIL OF TNST MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL ORTHODOX CHURCH: $3,700 · OtherST MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL ORTHODOX CHURCHMERCY MULTIPLIED AMERICA INC: $3,000 · OtherMERCY MULTIPLIED AMERICA INC+7 more: $2,525 · Other+7 moreBRIGHTSTONE INC: $42,000 · EducationBRIGHTSTONE INCFAITH ENCOURAGED MINISTRIES INC: $1,800 · EducationFAMILY FOUNDATION FUND INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY FOUND…ALLIANCE FOR LAW AND LIBERTY INC FKA FAMILY ACTION COUNCIL OF TENNESSEE: $2,000 · Human ServicesALLIANCE FOR…GRACEWORKS MINISTRIES INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesGRACEWORKS M…FOCUS NORTH AMERICA: $1,000 · Human ServicesFOCUS NORTH …NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION: $6,000 · Housing & ShelterHOPE CLINIC FOR WOMEN: $6,000 · HealthAncient Faith Ministries Formerly Conciliar Media Ministries: $4,000 · ReligionBROOKES BIBLE COLLEGE: $640 · ReligionINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR CREATION INC: $500 · ReligionSTUDIO TENN THEATRE COMPANY: $2,500 · Arts & CultureMARS HILL AUDIO INC: $500 · Arts & CultureCore Academy of Science: $2,500 · Science & Tech
Other$46,725Education$43,800Human Services$14,000Housing & Shelter$6,000Health$6,000Religion$5,140Arts & Culture$3,000Science & Tech$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBRIGHTSTONE INC: $42,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetFAMILY FOUNDATION FUND INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetNASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE CLINIC FOR WOMEN: $6,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMERCY MULTIPLIED AMERICA INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCore Academy of Science: $2,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSTUDIO TENN THEATRE COMPANY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALLIANCE FOR LAW AND LIBERTY INC FKA FAMILY ACTION COUNCIL OF TENNESSEE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFAITH ENCOURAGED MINISTRIES INC: $1,800 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetGRACEWORKS MINISTRIES INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOCUS NORTH AMERICA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKES BIBLE COLLEGE: $640 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMARS HILL AUDIO INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTENNESSEE SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION: $25 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The Community Foundat…Servant FoundationOrthodox Vision Found…Hca Healthcare Founda…The Signatry Charitab…Natl Christian Charit…The Blackbaud Giving …Raymond James Charita…American Endowment Fo…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…
The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee IncTN17.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Servant Foundation · Orthodox Vision Foundation · Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 Nehemiah Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Nehemiah Foundation Inc 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 29 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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