· Public charity
Perception Funding Inc
The mission of Perception Funding is to serve our ministry partners in order to grow the Kingdom of God.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 38 grants below total $1,991,346 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,186,285 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $194,939 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k6 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $632k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $601k
- $250k+2 grants · $717k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KC Underground | $404,647 |
| Servant Leaders | $312,801 |
| My Father's Rep & Hell Cons | $100,940 |
| Beggars Table | $97,205 |
| Shalom Retreat Center | $97,053 |
| The Sending Project | $95,394 |
| The Way Church KC | $81,948 |
| HeartNHand | $66,166 |
| Nueva Vida | $62,436 |
| Hope City | $48,478 |
| En Gedi Grove | $48,408 |
| Hope Rising Uganda | $47,603 |
| Messenger Church | $44,728 |
| Appleseed Network | $41,052 |
| i58kc Ministries | $35,574 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $273k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 24% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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
Grants abroad, by region — $424k on the FY2023 return
Schedule F, as filed: 6 regions, $275k to organizations and $149k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: Ministry operations, utilities, bank fees, locals pay and payroll taxes. · Church ministry operational expenses and care for Ukrainian refugees. · Ministry operations for church planting ministry.
Stated purpose: Building remodel, children's scholarships and ministry operations. · Children's education and church ministry · Ministry development expenses, ministry supplies, transportation
Stated purpose: Funds for orphan care. · Ministry expenses and support to local churches
Stated purpose: School construction projects, ministry trip support, children's education support and tutoring program, teachers support, food bank ministry, ministry expenses
Stated purpose: Ministry building expenses, children's education support.
Stated purpose: Ministry operations and outreach to natives.
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. 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.
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 +49% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2023, 8 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $624k 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
- SLSERVANT LEADERS INTERNATIONAL INC6× · 2018–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +125% · 64% of their budget
- SMShalom Ministries Inc7× · 2017–2023 · $302k · revenue +149% · 47% of their budget
- MFMY FATHERS REPUTATION6× · 2018–2023 · $292k · revenue +227% · 32% of their budget
Funded once
- MKMULTIPLY KC CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $38k
- NCNEIGHBORHOOD CHURCHone grant, 2019 · $24k
- CPCOLONIAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $21k
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.
Religious
Religious
Spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ
Religious- Sharing the Gospel and the love of Christ with others.
Church
Spread the Christianity
Bible Studies and prayer walking and reaching out to the homeless
SpreadtheGospelofJesusChrist
To spread the gospel of jesus christ through crusades
To support Divine Destiny Ministries-Rwanda located in Kigali Rwanda Africa and its vision to equip and unleash leaders to plant Christ-centered disciple making community influencing church planting churches throughout Rwanda for the Glory…
Religious ministry
Gospel mission
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Sending Project and the most unlike its peers is Give 100 Inc Give 100 Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 10 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
34 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. 34 of the 53 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 SERVANT LEADERS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE SENDING PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Shalom Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds MY FATHERS REPUTATION ↗
- Who funds MERCY & TRUTH HEALTHCARE MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW LIFE WITH EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds HEART-N-HAND MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Refuge KC Inc ↗
- Who funds RECONNECT RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds GRACE MISSIONS INC ↗
- Who funds CARRY THE CROSS MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds I 58 KC MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds BRIDGING NATIONS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds FAITH MISSIONS INC ↗
- Who funds INNOVATIVE FAITH MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds APPLESEED NETWORK ↗
- Who funds HOPE RISING UGANDA ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN SPUR MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds PRO DEO YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE SINGLE MOM KC ↗
- Who funds BLOOM INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds GIVE 100 INC GIVE 100 INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds Legacy Group Cares ↗
- Who funds IMPACT ONE ↗
- Who funds Bible Study with Friends ↗
- Who funds A BRIGHT FUTURE FOR KIDS INC ↗
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: Servant Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Perception Funding Inc 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.
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.
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