· Public charity
Orphan Grain Train Inc
Provide christian humanitarian relief
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 2 grants below total $37,423 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $46,737,261 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $46,699,838 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| REDEEMER LUTHERAN CHURCH | $25,000 |
| BETHANIA KIDS | $12,423 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of your 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.
Grants abroad, by region — $18M on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 7 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: RELIEF & ASSISTANCE
Stated purpose: RELIEF & ASSISTANCE
Stated purpose: RELIEF & ASSITANCE
Stated purpose: RELIEF & ASSISTANCE
Stated purpose: RELIEF & ASSISTANCE
Stated purpose: RELIEF & ASSISTANCE
Stated purpose: RELIEF & ASSISTANCE
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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.
Provide meals, clothing, counseling, referrals, spiritual guidance and shelter to anyone in need without charge
We provide a faith-based recovery program for men, women, and children who need help overcoming life's challenges.
To help those struggling in a personal crisis find relief and disciple them into a christ-centered lifestyle through a ministry of reconciliation, applying the truth of scripture, working with others and sharing in fellowship with those…
To provide a shelter and a place of hope where people can recover from homelessness, pain and addiction, restoring their dignity and improving their lives.
Manna of life ministries, inc. is a non-for-profit faith based program dedicated to serving the homeless and destitute. our goal is to address their immediate hunger needs and ultimately, to emplower them to reverse their current situation.
Christ centered ministry that provides food, rent, utility and medicine support for local individuals who are in need.
Community outreach and church services
To provide food, shelter, clothing, medical assistance and other immediate need to the thousands of needy and homeless people living in our area.
The Christian mission of the Geneseo-Atkinson food Pantry is to provide food, clothing, and short-term emergency assistance for families and individuals residing in Geneseo (61254) or Atkinson (61235) zip code areas.
Organization operates a kitchen providing daily meals and housing opportunities serving harlan county and surrounding area. food boxes and personal items are also provided on a periodic basis.
Food and clothing distribution along the arizona/mexico border and southern arizona. provide living quarters for volunteer missionaries who have no other place to live and to provide support to orphanages.
The organization primarily provides food and shelter, emergency services and transitional housing to persons in need.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Methodist Open Door and the most unlike its peers is Mariano Rivera 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 40 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
97 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.
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.
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: Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans-Group · United Way of Lincoln and Lancaster County · Firespring Foundation · Kinder Porter Scott Family Foundation · Bettenhausen Family Foundation · Brakebush Family Foundation Inc · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · The Lee and Mary Volkmer Family Foundation · Raymond L and Rita M Metzner Charitable Foundation · Jc & Jessie Seacrest Family Fndtn First Nebraska Trust Co Trustee
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 Orphan Grain Train Inc 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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