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Orphan Outreach

To glorify the Lord Jesus Christ by ministering to orphans around the world by meeting spiritual, physical, emotional, and educational needs.

$2.8M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Itemized grants FY2024
1
Organizations funded FY2022
0%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Itemized, FY2024
$143k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$143,137
Largest grant, FY2024
$143,137
Organizations funded a year
1 to 6
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$4.2M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 0% of the organizations Orphan Outreach funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22
Human ServicesInternationalReligionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving1$143k0%
FY20221$140k0%
FY20212$91k50%
FY20203$47k67%
FY20195$44k40%
FY20186$74k100%
FY20173$15kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$368kHuman Services$144kInternational$42k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
OR
CO
MO
VA
MD
TN
NC
AL
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Cadanino Inc$367,767437%
Small World Inc$30,00021%
Love The Child$24,521215%
Aac Adoption & Family Network$24,00032%
Ccai$24,00020%
Fire International Inc$23,7971n/a
Holt International Children's Services Inc$13,50010%
Lifeline Children's Services Inc$12,5001n/a
Americans for International Aid & Adoption$8,50012%
Choice Adoptions$5,0001n/a
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All grantees of Orphan Outreach by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Cadanino Inc$367,767437%
Small World Inc$30,00021%
Love The Child$24,521215%
Aac Adoption & Family Network$24,00032%
Ccai$24,00020%
Fire International Inc$23,7971n/a
Holt International Children's Services Inc$13,50010%
Lifeline Children's Services Inc$12,5001n/a
Americans for International Aid & Adoption$8,50012%
Choice Adoptions$5,0001n/a
Christian Alliance for Orphans$5,00010%
Children's Hope International$5,0001n/a
Cradle of Hope Adoption Center Inc$5,0001n/a
Open Door Adoption Agency Inc$5,00010%

Where it is load-bearing

Orphan Outreach supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 9 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCadanino Inc: $367,767 over 4y, 37% of budgetSmall World Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetLove The Child: $24,521 over 2y, 15% of budgetAac Adoption & Family Network: $24,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetCcai: $24,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHolt International Children's Services Inc: $13,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmericans for International Aid & Adoption: $8,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetChristian Alliance for Orphans: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOpen Door Adoption Agency Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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.

Ephesians 320 Foundation IncFL15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ephesians 320 Foundation Inc · Pure Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

Compare Orphan Outreach with peer funders

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How do I get to Orphan Outreach?

Find your warmest path to Orphan Outreach 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.

About Orphan Outreach

How much does Orphan Outreach give?
Orphan Outreach reported 1 itemized grants totaling $143,137, out of $2,804,546 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 6 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does Orphan Outreach fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (66%), Human Services (26%), International (8%).
Who are Orphan Outreach's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Cadanino Inc ($368k), Small World Inc ($30k), Love The Child ($25k).
Does Orphan Outreach fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Orphan Outreach?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ephesians 320 Foundation Inc, Pure Inc, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc.
Where is Orphan Outreach based?
Orphan Outreach is based in TX.

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 14 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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