· Private foundation
Nissi Foundation
Its FY2024 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 $10k27 grants · $71k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $66k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RIVER OF LIFE CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $35,985 |
| CITYTEAM MINISTRIES | $19,480 |
| PAYPAL GIVINGFUND | $10,600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,684 |
| GOSPEL OPERATION INTERNATIONAL | $6,200 |
| TRAINING RESOURCE INSTITUTE | $6,000 |
| TIANYI STUDIOS CORPORATION | $6,000 |
| GLORY FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| THE MEDIA EVANGELISM ASSOCIATION US | $5,060 |
| TENDER HEARTS EMMANUEL ETERNITY THE | $5,000 |
| HOMECOMING GLOBAL | $4,000 |
| PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL | $3,914 |
| PLACE OF PROVIDENCE ORG | $3,087 |
| U CHANNEL FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| MBS NORTH AMERICA CHRISTIAN FELLOWS | $2,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of Nissi Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 74% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 69% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +58% since the first grant, against +55% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 12 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- CMCITYTEAM MINISTRIES8× · 2017–2024 · $101k · revenue +50%
- RORIVER OF LIFE FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2023 · $76k · revenue ×16
- GFGLORY FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2024 · $39k · revenue +61% · 29% of their budget
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $7k
- GOGOSPEL OPERATION INTERNATIONAL FOR CHINESE CHRISTIANSgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $4k · revenue +55%
- GOGOSPEL OPERATION INTERNATIONAL FORone grant, 2019 · $3k
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.
Religious
Christian Ministry Activities
To spread the gospel of jesus christ through crusades
China Christian Evangelic mission development
To assist small Chinese churches in growth, breakthrough, and support ministers financially; to advance God's kingdom ministry via multimedia.
Help churches in china fulfill the great commission through training emerging christian leaders. train leaders in evangelism, evangelistic preaching, pastoral care and leadership through seminaries and bible school in china. distribute…
Spread the Christianity
To spread gospel and provide Christianity training to the people in China through volunteer pastors and church elders from the United States.
To Train Christian Leaders and Plant Churches in China
Charitable, religious & educational
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Media Evangelism Association Usa and the most unlike its peers is Love Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 21 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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 65 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 CITYTEAM MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds RIVER OF LIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GLORY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANSWERS IN GENESIS INC ↗
- Who funds HOMECOMING GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds TRAINING & RESOURCE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ↗
- Who funds CREATION MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL (US) INC ↗
- Who funds THE MEDIA EVANGELISM ASSOCIATION USA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SILVER LINING MISSIONS ↗
- Who funds Tianyi Studios Corporation ↗
- Who funds GOSPEL OPERATION INTERNATIONAL FOR CHINESE CHRISTIANS ↗
- Who funds U Channel Foundation ↗
- Who funds MBS NORTH AMERICA CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds DOUBLE PORTION MEDIA ↗
- Who funds HARVEST EVANGELISM INC ↗
- Who funds AMAZING LOVE INC ↗
- Who funds OLIVE TREE INTERNATIONAL ↗
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: Shp Christian Foundation · Jyar Family Foundation · Freshwind Foundation · Westgate Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Nissi 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.
- Oral Roberts University — 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.