· Community foundation
Optima Giving Foundation
To provide funding to charities in fulfillment of the exempt purposes of national christian charitable foundation, inc.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 2 grants below total $938,993 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,047,384 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $108,391 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $39k
- $250k+1 grant · $900k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WE TAKE IT FOR CHARITY INC | $900,000 |
| NATIONAL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC | $38,993 |
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 (FY23–24, $370k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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 +14% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 4 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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $900k 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
- YLYOUNG LIFE4× · 2020–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +62%
- MFMIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP2× · 2023–2024 · $350k · revenue +14%
- SVSUN VALLEY COMMUNITY CHURCH3× · 2020–2024 · $200k
Funded once
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCone grant, 2024 · $300k · revenue +10%- MFMIDWEST FOOD BANKone grant, 2020 · $75k
- JAJONI AND FRIENDS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
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.
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
Equipping followers of christ to give wisely to advance his kingdom by inspiring biblical stewardship and generosity.
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.
To provide educational programs with a focus on christian religious values to children ranging in age from middle- school to high school teens.
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
Coyfc reaches young people everywhere, working with the local church and other like minded partners to raise up lifelong followers of jesus who lead by their godliness in lifestyle, devotion to the word of god and prayer, passion for…
To encourage and facilitate greater charitable giving by offering simple, innovative, and efficient giving tools to support charities, churches, and christian ministries.
Interdenomination ministry dedicated to bringing youth into a growing relationship with jesus christ.
The corporation accepts gifts primarily of property, other than cash and marketable securities, liquidates the property, and grants the proceeds to national christian charitable foundation, inc., and other charities that organization…
Youth for christ foundation supports the long term sustainability and growth of youth for christ entities in the usa and around the world.
Interdenominational christian ministry reaching men, women, and youth with the gospel message of jesus christ; providing spiritual and material needs in the metropolitan ny area, national and international communities.
Mobilizing resources by inspiring biblical generosity in the greater austin, texas area.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth for Christusa Inc and the most unlike its peers is We Take It for Charity Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 17 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 YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds WE TAKE IT FOR CHARITY INC ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH FOR CHRISTUSA INC ↗
- Who funds JONI AND FRIENDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YWCA EvanstonNorth Shore ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Youth For Christ Inc ↗
- Who funds SPREAD TRUTH MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds PARENTS OF CHILDREN WITH ALL SPECIAL NEEDS ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR AFFORDABLE TRANSPORTATION ↗
- Who funds EAST VALLEY ATHLETES FOR CHRIST INC ↗
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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Optima Giving 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.
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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Optima Giving Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Optima Giving 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.