· Private foundation
On His Path
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $46k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $163k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOPE WALKS | $110,000 |
| ASOCIACION SALVADORENA DE PIE EQUINO VARO | $52,840 |
| FUNDACION PIECITOR VALIENTE- ALAS DE MORFO | $36,478 |
| STEPS CHARITY NPC | $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 US giving — 59% of grant dollars ($3.6M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 41% that went abroad ($2.6M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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
Beyond the US — 41% of all-years giving ($2.6M)
8 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 21% of On His Path’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, 17% of the giving stays in IA; read by stated purpose it is 14% — 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 +41% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 37 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k 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
- BMBethel Ministries International5× · 2017–2021 · $672k · revenue +46%
- HWHOPE WALKS INC5× · 2021–2025 · $474k · revenue +67%
CURE INTERNATIONAL INC2× · 2017–2018 · $248k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- FFFOUNDATION FOR ADVANCING PEDIATRIC ORTHOPAEDICS INCone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +128%
- LWLIVING WATER CHRISTIAN MISSIONone grant, 2020 · $50k
- FMFUNDACION MEXICAN DEL PIE EQUINO VARO ACone grant, 2022 · $30k
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.
Global Outreach Mission, Inc. is an inter-denominational foreign and domestic ministry organization that is engaged in a wide variety of ministries, including church planting, Christian camps, personal work, literature, community…
World of Opportunity is an evangelical ministry that supports missionaries in the United States and around the world as they bring the Word of the Lord into peoples lives. The missionaries supported by World of Opportunity share the Gospel…
To propagate the gospel of jesus christ; to examine candidates and appoint missionaries. to endorse missionary programs according to standards set forth in the new testament, to establish churches, church schools & mission societies in…
The organization is dedicated to reaching people for christ through an international network of christians who journey with the poor and marginalized, bringing practical and spiritual support with hope of a better future,(continued on…
Religious- Sharing the Gospel and the love of Christ with others.
Missionary work in the nation of India
Christian Evangelism, Church Planting, Equipping and Encouraging Christian Believers, Prayer, Benevolence.
Conducts daily devotional services and sponsors religious projects in developing countries.
To teach the bible to pastors and church leaders in africa and asia, while funding food for orphaned and abandonded children
Kingdom Investment works among the poor and oppressed to bear witness to the good news of the Kingdom of God that results in holistic transformation through the power of the Holy Spirit.
Christian missions and ministries oversea countries; in Cambodia and Mali, church planting, evangelism, medical mission, schools (K - 12), helping the poor and the needy, Crusades, mercy missions (distributing rice, medicine, etc),…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cure International Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Fountain Charitable Foundation. 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 21 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 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 78 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 Bethel Ministries International ↗
- Who funds Operation Blessing International Relief and Development Corporation ↗
- Who funds HOPE WALKS INC ↗
- Who funds CURE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCING PEDIATRIC ORTHOPAEDICS INC ↗
- Who funds TRIBULATION & TRUST MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds MT Pleasant Christian School Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNTAIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds World Hope International Inc ↗
- Who funds PURE WATER FOR ALL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LONE PINE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST EVANGELISM OF MOBERLY MO ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds GREAT RIVER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds RETROGRADE ↗
- Who funds OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds MATER DEI USA ↗
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: Hawkeye Area Community Action Program Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Verizon Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment 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 On His Path 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.
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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