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Perception Funding Inc

The mission of Perception Funding is to serve our ministry partners in order to grow the Kingdom of God.

$2.2M
Granted FY2023
38
Grants FY2023
8
States reached
$405k
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 2023.

Religion$4.2MInternational$878kHuman Services$455kFood & Nutrition$401kHealth$391kEducation$302kHousing & Shelter$190kYouth Development$137kOther$0
02FY2023 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 38 grants below total $1,991,346, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,186,285 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $194,939 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.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k6 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $632k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $601k
  • $250k+2 grants · $717k
$27,857
Median grant
8
States reached
$600k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%i58kc Ministries: $51k → 5%ARJ Community Outreach: $8k → 21%Hope Rising Uganda: $48k → 9%i58kc Ministries: $36k → 5%Hope Rising Uganda: $25k → 9%Hope Rising Uganda: $15k → 9%i58kc Ministries: $28k → 5%i58kc Ministries: $5k → 5%Give 100: $25k → 15%Give 100: $19k → 15%Give 100: $13k → 15%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

WA
IL
IN
OH
CA
CO
MO
KS
TN
TX

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.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$222k · 52% · 3 grants

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.

Central America and the Caribbean$128k · 30% · 1 grant · 3 people

Stated purpose: Building remodel, children's scholarships and ministry operations. · Children's education and church ministry · Ministry development expenses, ministry supplies, transportation

South Asia$31k · 7% · 1 grant · 1 person

Stated purpose: Funds for orphan care. · Ministry expenses and support to local churches

South America$27k · 6% · 6 people

Stated purpose: School construction projects, ministry trip support, children's education support and tutoring program, teachers support, food bank ministry, ministry expenses

Sub-Saharan Africa$9k · 2% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: Ministry building expenses, children's education support.

North America (Canada and Mexico)$7k · 2% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: Ministry operations and outreach to natives.

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.2M · 36 repeat orgs$735k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
7

Total granted

$6.2M
$111k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
0%

Still filing today

72%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $624k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
ReligionHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthPublic BenefitInternationalOther
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

  • SL
    SERVANT LEADERS INTERNATIONAL INC
    6× · 2018–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +125% · 64% of their budget
  • SM
    Shalom Ministries Inc
    7× · 2017–2023 · $302k · revenue +149% · 47% of their budget
  • MF
    MY FATHERS REPUTATION
    6× · 2018–2023 · $292k · revenue +227% · 32% of their budget

Funded once

  • MK
    MULTIPLY KC CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · $38k
  • NC
    NEIGHBORHOOD CHURCH
    one grant, 2019 · $24k
  • CP
    COLONIAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2017 · $21k
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
Kog Mission

Religious

Religion
2
Dozen Ministries

Religious

Religion
3
Spirit Invasion Ministries

Spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ

Religion
4
Kingdom Missions International

Religious- Sharing the Gospel and the love of Christ with others.

Religion
5
Kingdom Life Ministries

Church

Religion
6
Jessica Yoon Ministries

Spread the Christianity

Religion
7
Ywam NATIONS2NATIONS

Bible Studies and prayer walking and reaching out to the homeless

Religion
8
To Every Nation

SpreadtheGospelofJesusChrist

Religion
9
More International Ministries

To spread the gospel of jesus christ through crusades

Religion
10
Divine Destiny Ministries

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…

International
11
A Blessing to the Nations

Religious ministry

Religion
12
Mundeke Gospel Mission

Gospel mission

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Sending Project; 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.
04the grantee network

34 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. 34 of the 53 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.

18
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/34
Grantees still filing
22/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE SENDING PROJECT: $657,356 · ReligionTHE SENDING PROJECTShalom Ministries Inc: $301,672 · ReligionShalom Ministries IncMY FATHERS REPUTATION: $292,258 · ReligionMY FATHERS REPUTATIONRefuge KC Inc: $165,569 · ReligionRefuge KC IncRECONNECT RESOURCES: $148,312 · ReligionRECONNECT RESOURCESGRACE MISSIONS INC: $125,916 · ReligionCARRY THE CROSS MINISTRIES: $122,685 · ReligionBRIDGING NATIONS INTERNATIONAL: $118,184 · ReligionFAITH MISSIONS INC: $109,328 · ReligionINNOVATIVE FAITH MINISTRIES: $98,617 · ReligionAPPLESEED NETWORK: $93,428 · Religion+8 more: $335,772 · Religion+8 moreKANSAS CITY UNDERGROUND CHURCH: $404,647 · OtherKANSAS CITY UNDERGROUND CHURCHBEGGARS TABLE: $393,475 · OtherBEGGARS TABLEEN GEDI GROVE INC: $236,352 · OtherEN GEDI GROVE INCHOPE CITY HOMES INC: $214,866 · OtherHOPE CITY HOMES INCTurning Hearts: $199,321 · OtherTurning HeartsPLUMBLINE MINISTRIES INC: $167,941 · OtherPLUMBLINE MINISTRIES INCKANSAS CITY KANSAS BAPTIST ASSOCIATION: $112,109 · OtherKANSAS CITY KANSAS BAPTIST ASSOCIA…WAY CHURCH KC: $81,948 · Other+14 more: $287,238 · Other+14 moreSERVANT LEADERS INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,088,781 · Public BenefitSERVANT LEADERS I…MERCY & TRUTH HEALTHCARE MINISTRY INC: $285,082 · HealthLegacy Group Cares: $54,045 · Health+1 more: $7,153 · HealthHEART-N-HAND MINISTRIES: $190,405 · Youth DevelopmentPRO DEO YOUTH CENTER: $74,326 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFE: $54,956 · Youth DevelopmentI 58 KC MINISTRIES: $120,019 · Human ServicesHOPE RISING UGANDA: $88,268 · Human ServicesGIVE 100 INC GIVE 100 INC: $57,035 · Human Services+1 more: $7,725 · Human ServicesNEW LIFE WITH EDUCATION: $249,841 · Education
Religion$2,569,097Other$2,097,897Public Benefit$1,088,781Health$346,280Youth Development$319,687Human Services$273,047Education$249,841

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 budgetSERVANT LEADERS INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,088,781 over 6y, 64% of budgetTHE SENDING PROJECT: $657,356 over 7y, 24% of budgetShalom Ministries Inc: $301,672 over 7y, 47% of budgetMY FATHERS REPUTATION: $292,258 over 6y, 32% of budgetMERCY & TRUTH HEALTHCARE MINISTRY INC: $285,082 over 6y, 6.6% of budgetNEW LIFE WITH EDUCATION: $249,841 over 4y, 29% of budgetHEART-N-HAND MINISTRIES: $190,405 over 6y, 8.5% of budgetRefuge KC Inc: $165,569 over 7y, 31% of budgetRECONNECT RESOURCES: $148,312 over 7y, 23% of budgetGRACE MISSIONS INC: $125,916 over 5y, 26% of budgetCARRY THE CROSS MINISTRIES: $122,685 over 5y, 26% of budgetI 58 KC MINISTRIES: $120,019 over 4y, 27% of budgetFAITH MISSIONS INC: $109,328 over 6y, 28% of budgetINNOVATIVE FAITH MINISTRIES: $98,617 over 6y, 40% of budgetAPPLESEED NETWORK: $93,428 over 4y, 41% of budgetHOPE RISING UGANDA: $88,268 over 3y, 70% of budgetGOLDEN SPUR MINISTRIES INC: $75,822 over 6y, 16% of budgetPRO DEO YOUTH CENTER: $74,326 over 5y, 10% of budgetTHE SINGLE MOM KC: $73,973 over 3y, 28% of budgetBLOOM INTERNATIONAL: $70,339 over 4y, 24% of budgetGIVE 100 INC GIVE 100 INC: $57,035 over 3y, 38% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $54,956 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLegacy Group Cares: $54,045 over 5y, 61% of budgetIMPACT ONE: $51,903 over 2y, 23% of budgetBible Study with Friends: $35,958 over 3y, 52% of budgetA BRIGHT FUTURE FOR KIDS INC: $30,778 over 1y, 30% of budgetOPERATION SAVE KANSAS CITY: $20,852 over 2y, 27% of budgetRENDED HEART: $7,153 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetKansas City Dream Center Co: $5,099 over 1y, 1.1% 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 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 ↗

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.

Servant FoundationGreater Kansas City C…The Signatry Charitab…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Servant FoundationKS29.3× affinity19 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Perception Funding Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Perception Funding Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    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 Perception Funding Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Perception Funding Inc 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 53 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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