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Niren Christian Foundation at a glance

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Niren Christian Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$23k
Granted FY2023
16
Grants FY2023
6
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2023.

Human Services$22kReligion$19kCommunity Improvement$15kPhilanthropy$5kInternational$2kPublic Safety & Disaster$1kHousing & Shelter$1kEducation$789Other$0
02FY2023 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k15 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$500
Median grant
6
States reached
$365k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OUR TIME TO BUILD$15,000
CHARITY DONATION$2,500
GIVE FUND$1,000
COLORADO GIVES$520
NORCAL COPS$511
CENTER CHURCH$511
PLUM CREEK CHURCH$500
Individual grant recipient$500
MISC CHARITIES$350
SPECIAL OLYMPICS$256
SHIELD616$250
DEPUTY SHERRIFF'S ASSOCIATION$250
THPD$250
FCC FOUNDATION$200
HCSO$150
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 3%, against an area that typically sits at 5%. 3% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 5%SPECIAL OLYMPICS: $256 → 8%GRACE PRESBYTARIAN CHURCH: $7k → 3%COLORADO GIVES: $520 → 7%SHIELD616: $250 → 9%THPD: $250 → 19%GLEN ROCK PBA: $500 → 7%HCSO: $100 → 5%OUR TIME TO BUILD: $15k → 3%VISION CHRISTIAN CHARITY: $15k → 3%PLUM CREEK CHURCH: $6k → 3%LIFE CHURCH: $5k → 3%FAMILY IN NEED: $4k → 3%MISCELLANEOUS: $3k → 3%PERIODKITS INC: $3k → 3%CHARITY DONATION: $3k → 3%CARE AFRICA: $2k → 3%GIVE FUND: $1k → 3%PAYMENT TO HOMELESS: $1k → 3%COLLEGE FEES FOR STUDENT IN NEED: $789 → 3%HURRICANE RELIEF: $750 → 3%CENTER CHURCH: $511 → 3%CENTER CHURCH: $500 → 3%PLUM CREEK CHURCH: $500 → 3%PURE DIRECT: $500 → 3%MISC CHARITIES: $350 → 3%STAND 1ST FOUNDATION: $269 → 3%COLORADO FALLEN HERO FOUNDATION: $262 → 3%BEHIND THE BADGE FOUNDATION: $257 → 3%FCC FOUNDATION: $200 → 3%HCSO: $150 → 3%FOOD FOR THE HOMELESS: $23 → 3%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.
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 field
04the grantee network

4 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 4 of the 30 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
4/4
Grantees still filing
2/4
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VISION CHRISTIAN CHARITY: $15,000 · OtherVISION CHRISTIAN CHARITYOUR TIME TO BUILD: $15,000 · OtherOUR TIME TO BUILDGRACE PRESBYTARIAN CHURCH: $6,680 · OtherGRACE PRESBYTARIAN CHURCHPLUM CREEK COMMUNITY CHURCH: $6,100 · OtherPLUM CREEK COMMUNITY CHURCHLIFE CHURCH: $5,000 · OtherLIFE CHURCHFAMILY IN NEED: $3,500 · OtherMISCELLANEOUS: $3,000 · OtherPERIOD KITS INC: $2,627 · OtherCHARITY DONATION: $2,500 · Other+18 more: $10,265 · Other+18 moreCOLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION: $520 · PhilanthropyCOLORADO FALLEN HERO FOUNDATION: $262 · Crime & LegalSHIELD 616 INC: $250 · Crime & Legal
Other$69,672Philanthropy$520Crime & Legal$512

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 budgetCOLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION: $520 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthern California Chapter Concerns of: $511 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCOLORADO FALLEN HERO FOUNDATION: $262 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHIELD 616 INC: $250 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.

  • Who funds COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Northern California Chapter Concerns of ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO FALLEN HERO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SHIELD 616 INC ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–26
    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.

    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 30 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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