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· Public charity

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 FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$143k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $143,137, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,804,546 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,661,409 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$143,137
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Cadanino$143,137
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $91k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Love the Child: $19k → 11%HOLT INTERNATIONAL: $14k → 15%CCAI: $18k → 8%AAC ADOPTION: $13k → 11%CRADLE OF HOPE ADOPTION: $5k → 8%Love the Child: $6k → 11%CCAI: $6k → 8%AAC Adoption: $6k → 11%AAC Adoption: $5k → 11%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

MI
OR
CO
MO
VA
MD
TN
NC
AL
GA
TX

Grants abroad, by region: $2.0M on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 4 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Central America and the Caribbean$1.1M · 53% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: General Support

Sub-Saharan Africa$590k · 29% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: General Support

South Asia$216k · 11% · 4 grants

Stated purpose: General Support

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$159k · 8% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: General Support

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. 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$470k · 5 repeat orgs$83k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
9

Total granted

$470k
$83k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-77%
-13%

Still filing today

100%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CI
    Cadanino Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $368k · revenue +57% · 37% of their budget
  • SW
    SMALL WORLD INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $30k · revenue -87%
  • LT
    Love The Child
    2× · 2020–2021 · $25k · revenue -77%

Funded once

  • FI
    FIRE INTERNATIONAL INC
    one grant, 2020 · $24k
  • HI
    HOLT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2018 · $14k · revenue -13%
  • LC
    LIFELINE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $13k · revenue +159%
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
Hand in Hand Christian Adoption Inc
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2
United in Love Adoptions
Human Services
3
Hope Adoption Inc

Adoption Counseling/International Adoption: To unite orphaned children from around the world with loving adoptive families to provide educational programs and continuing services to these families and to provide humanitarian aid to the…

Human Services
4
Deliver Rescuing Children At Risk

Finding forever homes for children

Human Services
5
Adopt International

To assist people in adopting domestic and international children educate families about adoption and provide counseling to birth parents

Human Services
6
Carolina Adoption Services Inc

Carolina adoption services provides international and domestic adoption services, foster care, home studies, and post adoption support for children, youth and adoptive families.

Human Services
7
All About U Adoptions Inc
Human Services
8
Adoption Choices Inc

The Organization is a full-service adoption agency whose services include adoptive placements, counseling, consultation and adoptive home assessments.

Human Services
9
Children of the World Inc

International adoptions

Human Services
10
Adoption Advocates Inc

Adoption placements

Human Services
11
A Lifetime Adoption Foundation
Human Services
12
Child Hope International

We minister to orphans and widows in their distress by transitioning children from orphanages into loving families. We do this through Christ- centered care, training and social work.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lifeline Children's Services Inc; the most unlike its peers is Cadanino 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

12 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. 12 of the 14 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
4/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Cadanino Inc: $367,767 · InternationalCadanino IncLove The Child: $24,521 · Human ServicesLove The ChildAAC ADOPTION & FAMILY NETWORK: $24,000 · Human ServicesAAC ADOPTION & FAMI…CCAI: $24,000 · Human ServicesCCAIHOLT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $13,500 · Human ServicesHOLT INTERNATIONAL …Christian Alliance for Orphans: $5,000 · Human ServicesCRADLE OF HOPE ADOPTION CENTER INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesSMALL WORLD INC: $30,000 · OtherSMALL WORLD INCFIRE INTERNATIONAL INC: $23,797 · OtherFIRE INTERNATIO…AMERICANS FOR INTERNATIONAL AID & ADOPTION: $8,500 · OtherAMERICANS FOR I…CHOICE ADOPTIONS: $5,000 · OtherCHOICE ADOPTION…CHILDREN'S HOPE INTERNATIONAL: $5,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S HOPE…Open Door Adoption Agency Inc: $5,000 · OtherOpen Door Adopt…LIFELINE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $12,500 · Religion
International$367,767Human Services$96,021Other$77,297Religion$12,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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.

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 Foundat…Pure IncNatl Christian Charit…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Orphan Outreach funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Orphan Outreach. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Choice Adoptions: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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

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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.

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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