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Pinetops 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $377k
- $50k–250k19 grants · $1.7M
- $250k+2 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $600,000 |
| NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION | $400,000 |
| CENTER FOR CHRISTIANITY AND PUBLIC LIFE | $175,000 |
| VERITAS FORUM | $150,000 |
| CITY TO CITY LA | $150,000 |
| SINAPSIS GROUP INC | $115,000 |
| THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| MEHR REFORMED MINISTRIES | $98,000 |
| CASA DEL LAGO | $90,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | $90,000 |
| HEALING HANDS OF JOY | $90,000 |
| AND INSTITUTE | $80,000 |
| REDEMPTIVE REAL ESTATE | $75,000 |
| AFRICAN LEADERSHIP INC | $75,000 |
| AXIS | $75,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 91% of those 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 26% of Pinetops Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +22% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
52 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 20 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $626k 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
- FTFULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY4× · 2020–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +18%
- TVTHE VERITAS FORUM INC6× · 2020–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +65%
- NCNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC5× · 2021–2025 · $1.2M · revenue ×103
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $620k
- TTTRANSFORMING THE BAY WITH CHRISTgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $131k · revenue +31%
- CCCHURCH COACH MINISTRIESone grant, 2020 · $120k
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.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…
With a desire to see the Gospel proclaimed in all nations, we exist to make and multiply disciples of the next generation through the vehicles of church-planting missions and missional leadership training.
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
Crossing Cultures International, Inc. exists to glorify God by equipping Christ followers globally with comprehensive training for effective ministry.
The organization is dedicated to reaching people for christ through an international network of christians who journey with the poor and marginalized, bringing practical and spiritual support with hope of a better future,(continued on…
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
Serving and pastoring overseas workers on their own turf and equipping nationals by training and empowering them in their work of advancing the gospel.
Bible Translation and acts of Christian Services
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
The mission of Global Trust Partners is empowering national workers and building trust in churches and ministries to grow local generous giving to Gods work.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chalmers Center for Economic Development and the most unlike its peers is Promise 4 Paws. 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 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
106 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. 106 of the 140 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 FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds THE VERITAS FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Praxis Inc ↗
- Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds Edify ↗
- Who funds The Center For The Research of Early Christian Documents ↗
- Who funds Healing Hands of Joy ↗
- Who funds AND Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CHRISTIANITY AND PUBLIC LIFE ↗
- Who funds VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SINAPIS GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTIONS HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds MEHR REFORMED MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE HUMAN TRAFFICKING INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Horizons International ↗
- Who funds Embracing God Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds TRANSFORMING THE BAY WITH CHRIST ↗
- Who funds For the Nations Refugee Outreach ↗
- Who funds SAT-7 NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Starfish Project Incorporated ↗
- Who funds Fresh Start Churches ↗
- Who funds Servant Foundation ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CHALMERS CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds STRATEGIC RESOURCE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds HIINGA INC ↗
- Who funds ILLUMINATIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ESPERANZA MINISTRIES ↗
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: The Maclellan Foundation Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · First Fruit Inc · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · International Generosity Foundation Trust · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Ten Talents Foundation · Prairie Creek Partners Charitable Foundation · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · The New Horizons Foundation Inc · Hearth & Home Ministries Inc
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 Pinetops 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.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- American Whitewater — 5% 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.
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