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Pace Foundation at a glance

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Pace Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$700
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$29kEducation$11kInternational$6kYouth Development$5kHousing & Shelter$550Human Services$100Civil Rights$100Crime & Legal$95Other$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$100
Median grant
4
States reached
$10k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BIBLE BROADCASTING NETWORK$700
CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP OF SC$300
SCHOOL MINISTRIES INC$100
COMMUNITY BIBLE STUDY$55
AMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE$30
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 (FY18–18, $100) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BLUE RIDGE HONOR FLIGHT: $100 → 12%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
NY
OH
PA
CA
CO
TN
NC
SC
DC
MS
GA
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$40k · 14 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
23

Total granted

$40k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+14%

Still filing today

57%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionYouth DevelopmentEducationInternationalHuman ServicesOther
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

  • YL
    YOUNG LIFE
    4× · 2017–2021 · $5k · revenue +59%
  • CE
    CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP OF SC INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $3k · revenue +3%
  • BB
    BIBLE BROADCASTING NETWORK INCORPORATED
    9× · 2017–2025 · $3k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • THE CITADEL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +14%
  • FM
    FRONTLINE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL
    one grant, 2024 · $300 · revenue 0%
  • TC
    TEEN CHALLENGE
    one grant, 2024 · $200
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
Redeemed Christian Church of God

To strengthen marriages and families, to encourage Christian fellowship as we evangelize the lost around us and minister to the needy with the resources God has blessed us.

Religion
2
North America Bible Institute

North America Bible Institute (NABI) is an evangelical graduate school, made up of students who are diverse in both ethnicity and ministry aims -- but united in great love for Jesus and his gospel. As a graduate school, NABI offers them…

Education
3
Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry Inc

To glorify god by equipping the church with proper christian doctrine and to help non-believers come to a saving knowledge of jesus christ.

—
4
Puzzle Piece Ministries

To deliver the message of Jesus

Religion
5
Bibles and Bikes
Youth Development
6
Boston Center for Biblical Counseling
Philanthropy
7
Restation Fellowship in Messiah

Religious studies

Religion
8
Amazing Facts International

To proclaim to the world the everlasting gospel of revelation 14:6-12 and to encourage revival in the remnant church by leading people to embrace salvation by faith in jesus, to establish them in the church, and to disciple all believers…

Religion
9
S E Ministries

None

Religion
10
Walking On Water Ministries Inc

Teach the word of god

Religion
11
More International Ministries

To spread the gospel of jesus christ through crusades

Religion
12
Paul White Ministries

Present the gospel

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life; the most unlike its peers is Hillsdale College. 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 40 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
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

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $19,067 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH+21 more: $3,365 · Other+21 moreCOLUMBIA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY: $8,500 · EducationCOLUMBIA INTERNATIONAL …THE CITADEL FOUNDATION: $2,500 · EducationTHE CITADEL FOUNDATION+2 more: $250 · EducationYOUNG LIFE: $4,730 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFECHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP OF SC INC: $2,750 · Youth DevelopmentCHILD EVANGELIS…BIBLE BROADCASTING NETWORK INCORPORATED: $2,575 · ReligionBIBLE BROADCAST…JOY OF ABIDING INC: $1,620 · ReligionJOY OF ABIDING …Community Bible Study: $1,545 · ReligionCommunity Bible…TEEN MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL INC: $500 · ReligionTEEN MISSIONS I…FRONTLINE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL: $300 · Religion+5 more: $525 · Religion+5 moreJERUSALEM UNIVERSITY COLLEGE: $5,000 · InternationalJERUSALEM …BLUE RIDGE HONOR FLIGHT: $100 · Human Services
Other$22,432Education$11,250Youth Development$7,480Religion$7,065International$5,000Human Services$100

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 budgetCOLUMBIA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY: $8,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJERUSALEM UNIVERSITY COLLEGE: $5,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $4,730 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP OF SC INC: $2,750 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBIBLE BROADCASTING NETWORK INCORPORATED: $2,575 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CITADEL FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOY OF ABIDING INC: $1,620 over 5y, 13% of budgetCommunity Bible Study: $1,545 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE HOME: $550 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTEEN MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL INC: $500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRONTLINE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL: $300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetA Moment of Hope: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD MISSION CENTRE INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSchool Ministries Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIFE ON LIFE: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLUE RIDGE HONOR FLIGHT: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY: $75 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPrecept: $50 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 COLUMBIA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds JERUSALEM UNIVERSITY COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
  • Who funds CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP OF SC INC ↗
  • Who funds BIBLE BROADCASTING NETWORK INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds THE CITADEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JOY OF ABIDING INC ↗
  • Who funds Community Bible Study ↗
  • Who funds PROVIDENCE HOME ↗
  • Who funds TEEN MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds FRONTLINE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds A Moment of Hope ↗
  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds WORLD MISSION CENTRE INC ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds School Ministries Inc ↗
  • Who funds LIFE ON LIFE ↗
  • Who funds BLUE RIDGE HONOR FLIGHT ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Precept ↗

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.

Central Carolina Comm…Natl Christian Charit…Renaissance Charitabl…Raymond James Charita…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Central Carolina Community FoundationSC17.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Central Carolina Community Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Pace Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pace Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%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
    0get no government money at all
    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.

    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 40 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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