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One Master Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$42k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Religion$97kHuman Services$60kInternational$10kEducation$7kRecreation & Sports$3kFood & Nutrition$2kYouth Development$625Housing & Shelter$515Other$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$676k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LCBC$9,695
PENNSYLVANIA FAMILY INSTITUTE$9,000
HAITIAN LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT$7,500
BIBLE VISUALS INERNATIONAL$2,000
THE BOWERY MISSION$2,000
BETHESDA MISSION$1,500
DIGNITY FREEDOM NETWORK$1,484
WHEATON COLLEGE$1,250
WYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS (WOLFENDEN)$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
CENTER FOR PARENT YOUTH UNDERSTANDING$1,000
ALIGN LIFE MINISTRIES$1,000
GO MINISTRIES$800
SALTBOX HOUSE$750
RAMIAH MINISTRIES$750
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%PENNSYLVANIA FAMILY INSTITUTE: $11k → 12%PENNSYLVANIA FAMILY INSTITUTE: $9k → 12%PENNSYLVANIA FAMILY INSTITUTE: $9k → 12%PENNSYLVANIA FAMILY INSTITUTE: $7k → 12%PENNSYLVANIA FAMILY INSTITUTE: $5k → 12%PENNSYLVANIA FAMILY INSTITUTE: $4k → 12%PENNSYLVANIA FAMILY INSTITUTE: $3k → 12%CENTER FOR PARENT YOUTH UNDERSTANDING: $2k → 9%CENTER FOR PARENT YOUTH UNDERSTANDING: $2k → 9%CENTER FOR PARENT YOUTH UNDERSTANDING: $2k → 9%CENTER FOR PARENT YOUTH UNDERSTANDING: $2k → 9%CENTER FOR PARENT YOUTH UNDERSTANDING: $1k → 9%CENTER FOR PARENT YOUTH UNDERSTANDING: $1k → 9%CENTER FOR PARENT YOUTH UNDERSTANDING: $1k → 9%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

WA
ID
IL
MI
NY
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
NC
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$158k · 21 repeat orgs$18k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
10

Total granted

$158k
$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+70%

Still filing today

52%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEnvironmentPublic BenefitOther
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

  • PF
    PENNSYLVANIA FAMILY INSTITUTE
    7× · 2019–2025 · $47k · revenue +77%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR PARENT YOUTH UNDERSTANDING
    7× · 2019–2025 · $10k · revenue +46%
  • AL
    ALIGN LIFE MINISTRIES
    6× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • BC
    BRAVE CHURCH
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
  • BC
    BRAVE CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • WB
    WOODSIDE BIBLE CHURCH OF TROY
    one grant, 2019 · $2k
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
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

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…

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2
Global City Missions Initiative Incorporated

Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…

Religion
3
Christianity Today International

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.

Religion
4
Heart Bridge International

Heart Bridge International exists to equip and empower Christians around the world to fulfill the Great Commission. The organization provides free ministry training, discipleship resources, and practical coaching to under-resourced…

Religion
5
Churches in Missions Inc

Mobilization of churches in America by taking pastors and laymen on vision and service trips overseas in fulfillment of Jesus command to go ye into all the world, making disciples...

Human Services
6
Christian Harvest International Min

To provide strategic teaching about prayer, prophecy, and intercession in the US and abroad. Books, manuals, and audio teachings are also used to equip Christians in strategic level spiritual prayer and warfare.

Religion
7
Freedom in Christ Ministries

To provide resources, training, and continuing support to leaders in the us and around the world in order that they may help others find freedom in christ.

Religion
8
Leadership Resources International

International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures

Religion
9
Serving Beyond Borders

Serving and pastoring overseas workers on their own turf and equipping nationals by training and empowering them in their work of advancing the gospel.

Human Services
10
Jubilee World Missions Inc

Conduct Christian leadership training and discipleship seminars predominately in the Caribbean, South Asia, Central America and Central Texas, USA.

Religion
11
International Impact Ministries in
Religion
12
Harvesters International Ministries

Partnering with Indigenous Leaders to Spread the Gospel, Serve Others, and Build Community

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life; the most unlike its peers is Cocoa Packs Inc. 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

20 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. 20 of the 35 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
14/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LANCASTER COUNTY BIBLE CHURCH: $45,174 · OtherLANCASTER COUNTY BIBLE CHURCHBETHESDA MISSION: $7,000 · OtherBETHESDA MISSIONALIGN LIFE MINISTRIES: $6,010 · OtherALIGN LIFE MINISTRIESBIBLE VISUALS INTERNATIONAL INC: $4,000 · OtherWYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS (WOLFENDEN): $3,000 · OtherWYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS INC: $3,000 · Other+15 more: $18,915 · Other+15 morePENNSYLVANIA FAMILY INSTITUTE: $46,500 · Human ServicesPENNSYLVANIA FAMILY INSTITUTECENTER FOR PARENT YOUTH UNDERSTANDING: $9,500 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR PARENT YOUTH UNDERSTAND…Christian Herald Association Inc: $9,550 · ReligionChristian…Ramiah Ministries: $2,850 · ReligionRamiah Mi…JUBILEE MINISTRIES: $2,250 · ReligionJUBILEE M…GO MINISTRIES INC: $800 · ReligionHAITIAN LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT: $7,500 · Public BenefitWheaton College: $7,000 · EducationCedarville University: $250 · EducationSALTBOX HOUSE: $3,750 · PhilanthropyDIGNITY FREEDOM NETWORK: $2,790 · PhilanthropyFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHEM BEFORE US: $500 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFE: $475 · Youth Development
Other$87,099Human Services$56,000Religion$15,450Public Benefit$7,500Education$7,250Philanthropy$6,540Youth Development$3,475

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 budgetPENNSYLVANIA FAMILY INSTITUTE: $46,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetChristian Herald Association Inc: $9,550 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR PARENT YOUTH UNDERSTANDING: $9,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetHAITIAN LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWheaton College: $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetALIGN LIFE MINISTRIES: $6,010 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBIBLE VISUALS INTERNATIONAL INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSALTBOX HOUSE: $3,750 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetRamiah Ministries: $2,850 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJUBILEE MINISTRIES: $2,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOCOA PACKS INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWILDHEART: $515 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHEM BEFORE US: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetProject41: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $475 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCedarville University: $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 PENNSYLVANIA FAMILY INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Christian Herald Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR PARENT YOUTH UNDERSTANDING ↗
  • Who funds HAITIAN LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT ↗
  • Who funds Wheaton College ↗
  • Who funds ALIGN LIFE MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds BIBLE VISUALS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds SALTBOX HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds Ramiah Ministries ↗
  • Who funds DIGNITY FREEDOM NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
  • Who funds JUBILEE MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds COCOA PACKS INC ↗
  • Who funds GO MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds WILDHEART ↗
  • Who funds THEM BEFORE US ↗
  • Who funds Project41 ↗
  • Who funds Missionary Athletes International and Charlotte Eagles Inc ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
  • Who funds Cedarville University ↗

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.

Eden Bridge FoundationPA17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eden Bridge Foundation · Burkholder Family Foundation · Shady Maple Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Servant Foundation · Wenger Foundation Inc · Lancaster County Community Foundation · Anabaptist Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The US Charitable Gift Trust

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to One Master Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to One Master Foundation 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 35 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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