· Private foundation
Pay It Forward Foundation Inc
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE GATHERING PLACE | $1,500 |
| TEAM HOPE IN MOTION | $1,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 9% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +139% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 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; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- KCKOS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2023 · $16k
- FMFELLOWSHIP MISSIONS INC3× · 2020–2024 · $13k · revenue +139%
- IGINTERCESSION GROUP INC3× · 2019–2021 · $12k
Funded once
- CIC4ONE INCone grant, 2024 · $36k · revenue 0%
- EHEXTENDED HAND MINISTRIES INCone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +4%
- CCRUone grant, 2019 · $6k
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.
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.
Global missionary work
Evangelism; hardship relief (domestic and international).
To teach, preach, proclaim, publish, distribute and disseminate the gospel and doctrine of the christian faith. the ministry reaches approximately 1.5 million persons through its outreach ministries.
Bible Studies and prayer walking and reaching out to the homeless
Spreading the word of god to the usa
Religious organization to provide ministries to prisoners
To spread the gospel through the preaching of the gospel of jesus christ to those locally, regionally and throughout the world
Bringing the gospel of christ to inmates
Preaching and teaching about the gospel and providing support to pregnant women. Sexually unmasking and healing.
Mission work
To spread the gospel of Jesus Christ to all the nations
An evangelist association ministry reaching people with the gospel of jesus christ and bringing hope and comfort to the broken hearted in our world today
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 23 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Pay It Forward Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pay It Forward Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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