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Pensmore Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PATRICK HENRY COLLEGE | $100,000 |
| SANCTUARY OF HOPE | $20,000 |
| NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CHRISTIAN LAWMAKERS | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN CORNERSTONE INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 58% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against -63% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- PHPATRICK HENRY COLLEGE5× · 2020–2024 · $425k · revenue +25%
- NANATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CHRISTIAN LAWMAKERS INC4× · 2021–2024 · $170k · revenue +36%
- DIDISCOVERY INSTITUTE2× · 2020–2021 · $100k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- COCOLLEGE OF THE OZARKSone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +8%
- HGHOLY GHOST MINISTRIES INCone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -63%
- GNGODS NOT DEAD FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -100%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Equipping followers of christ to give wisely to advance his kingdom by inspiring biblical stewardship and generosity.
Asbury university equips students, through academic excellence and spiritual vitality, for lifelong learning, leadership, and service to the professions, society, the family and the church, preparing them to engage their cultures and…
Carolina college of biblical studies exists to disciple christ-followers, through biblical higher education, for a lifetime of effective servant leadership.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
The mission of crown college is to provide a biblically based education for christian leadership in the christian and missionary alliance, the church-at-large, and the world.
Los angeles pacific university exists to deliver high quality, accessible christ-centered education to learners everywhere.
Provide education in theology, divinity, religious education, ministerial training, business and organizational leadership.
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
To empower alaska natives through bibically based higher education and christian formation to pursue excellence in character, learning, and service as followers of christ.
The mission of barclay college is to prepare students in a bible-centered environment for effective christian life, service, and leadership.
Mission of challenge, nurture, community: carson-newman college offers a christian, liberal arts education in an environment that encourages open intellectual inquiry and deeper spiritual maturity. students receive a personalized education…
Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Patrick Henry College and the most unlike its peers is The Caring People. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 14 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds PATRICK HENRY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CHRISTIAN LAWMAKERS INC ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CORNERSTONE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds CARSON SCHOLARS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF THE OZARKS ↗
- Who funds HOLY GHOST MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds GODS NOT DEAD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CARING PEOPLE ↗
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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Pensmore Foundation 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.
- Portland State University Foundation — 0% of income from government
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.