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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.

$3.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
48
Grants FY2025still arriving
17
States reached
$600k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$5.9MEducation$2.2MPhilanthropy$1.7MCommunity Improvement$1.5MInternational$930kHuman Services$824kHousing & Shelter$385kScience & Tech$365kOther$0
02FY2025 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $377k
  • $50k–250k19 grants · $1.7M
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.0M
$36,431
Median grant
17
States reached
$53M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
HEALING HANDS OF JOY$90,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO$90,000
CASA DEL LAGO$90,000
AND INSTITUTE$80,000
AFRICAN LEADERSHIP INC$75,000
AXIS$75,000
REDEMPTIVE REAL ESTATE$75,000
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 (FY20–25, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SYMPHONY OF HOPE INTERNATIONAL: $70k → 9%SYMPHONY OF HOPE INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 10%BROOKWOOD IN GEORGETOWN VOCATIONAL INC: $10k → 6%HIINGA: $20k → 8%HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INC: $8k → 9%CASA COLIBRI: $5k → 8%HEALING HANDS OF JOY: $100k → 10%HELPING HANDS MINISTRY: $85k → 13%HORIZONS INTERNATIONAL: $50k → 12%STARFISH PROJECT INC: $60k → 13%CHARITYWATER: $114k → 17%HEALING HANDS OF JOY: $90k → 10%HELPING HAND MINISTRIES: $15k → 13%HORIZONS INTERNATIONAL: $50k → 12%STARFISH PROJECT INC: $50k → 13%NEW STORY INC: $60k → 10%CHANGE AGENT NETWORK: $14k → 14%FAMILY ACCESS NETWORK FOUNDATION: $2k → 10%HEALING HANDS OF JOY: $75k → 10%HELPING HAND MINISTRIES: $3k → 13%HORIZONS INTERNATIONAL: $50k → 12%STARFISH PROJECT INC: $10k → 13%HIINGA: $72k → 10%HEALING HANDS OF JOY: $50k → 10%HEALING HANDS OF JOY: $50k → 10%DYNAMIC CHURCH PLANTING INTERNATIONAL: $52k → 11%DYNAMIC CHURCH PLANTING INTERNATIONAL: $1k → 11%HOPE FOR SAN DIEGO: $13k → 11%HOPE FOR SAN DIEGO: $10k → 11%HOPE FOR SAN DIEGO: $10k → 11%HOPE FOR SAN DIEGO: $5k → 11%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

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MA
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NV
WY
IN
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CA
CO
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MD
AZ
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NC
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TX
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 26% of Pinetops Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Pinetops Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 18% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 52 repeat orgs$2.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
59

Total granted

$11M
$2.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+7%

Still filing today

81%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $626k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionHuman ServicesEducationInternationalHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • FT
    FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
    4× · 2020–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +18%
  • TV
    THE VERITAS FORUM INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +65%
  • NC
    NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $1.2M · revenue ×103

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $620k
  • TT
    TRANSFORMING THE BAY WITH CHRISTgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $131k · revenue +31%
  • CC
    CHURCH COACH MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2020 · $120k
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.

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Christianity Today International

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.

Religion
2
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

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…

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3
Global City Missions Initiative Incorporated

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…

Religion
4
Next Worldwide Inc

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.

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5
International Leadership Institute

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…

Religion
6
Crossing Cultures International Inc

Crossing Cultures International, Inc. exists to glorify God by equipping Christ followers globally with comprehensive training for effective ministry.

Religion
7
Mission Without Borders International

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…

International
8
Youth for Christ International Ministries

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.

Religion
9
Serving Beyond Borders

Serving and pastoring overseas workers on their own turf and equipping nationals by training and empowering them in their work of advancing the gospel.

Human Services
10
Tyndale Bible Translators

Bible Translation and acts of Christian Services

Religion
11
Biglife International Inc

Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.

Recreation & Sports
12
Global Trust Partners

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.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chalmers Center for Economic Development; 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.
05the grantee network

106 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. 106 of the 140 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
104/106
Grantees still filing
62/106
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE VERITAS FORUM INC: $1,400,000 · ReligionTHE VERITAS FORUM INCPraxis Inc: $520,000 · ReligionPraxis IncCENTER FOR CHRISTIANITY AND PUBLIC LIFE: $265,000 · ReligionCENTER FOR CHRISTIANITY AND P…MEHR REFORMED MINISTRIES: $183,000 · ReligionEmbracing God Ministries Inc: $150,000 · ReligionTRANSFORMING THE BAY WITH CHRIST: $131,000 · Religion+28 more: $1,197,599 · Religion+28 moreIndividual grant recipient: $620,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE NEW YORK CITY LEADERSHIP CENTER INC DBA MOVEMENTORG: $450,000 · OtherTHE NEW YORK CITY LEADERSHIP …MISSION INDIA: $250,000 · OtherMISSION INDIACITY TO CITY LA: $225,000 · OtherCITY TO CITY LACONNECTIONS HOMES INC: $185,000 · OtherJEWS FOR JESUS: $140,000 · OtherAND Institute Inc: $340,000 · OtherAND Institute IncTHE HUMAN TRAFFICKING INSTITUTE: $150,000 · Other+52 more: $1,557,522 · Other+52 moreFULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $1,425,000 · EducationFULLER THEOLOGICAL …DUKE UNIVERSITY: $293,830 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $250,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTE…SINAPIS GROUP INC: $240,000 · EducationSINAPIS GROUP INCUniversity of Chicago: $90,000 · EducationAFRICAN LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $86,000 · Education+5 more: $177,000 · Education+5 moreCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $464,032 · Human ServicesCHARITY GLOBA…Healing Hands of Joy: $365,000 · Human ServicesHealing Hands…Horizons International: $150,000 · Human ServicesHorizons Inte…Starfish Project Incorporated: $120,000 · Human ServicesStarfish Proj…HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INC: $110,823 · Human ServicesHELPING HANDS…HIINGA INC: $92,000 · Human ServicesSYMPHONY OF HOPE INTERNATIONAL FKA SOUNDS OF PROMISE: $80,000 · Human ServicesAGAPE CHILDREN'S MINISTRY INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesNEW STORY INC: $60,000 · Human Services+9 more: $238,460 · Human Services+9 moreNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC: $1,161,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL CHR…VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $250,000 · PhilanthropyVANGUARD CHA…ILLUMINATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $91,000 · PhilanthropyILLUMINATION…KERN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $64,468 · Philanthropy+4 more: $118,000 · Philanthropy+4 moreEdify: $400,500 · InternationalFor the Nations Refugee Outreach: $130,000 · InternationalCHALMERS CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: $100,000 · InternationalAfrican Leadership Inc: $75,000 · International+4 more: $48,371 · InternationalThe Center For The Research of Early Christian Documents: $365,000 · Science & Tech
Religion$3,846,599Other$3,917,522Education$2,561,830Human Services$1,755,315Philanthropy$1,684,468International$753,871Science & Tech$365,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $1,425,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetTHE VERITAS FORUM INC: $1,400,000 over 6y, 9.9% of budgetNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC: $1,161,000 over 5y, 6.4% of budgetPraxis Inc: $520,000 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $464,032 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetEdify: $400,500 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetThe Center For The Research of Early Christian Documents: $365,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetHealing Hands of Joy: $365,000 over 5y, 7.4% of budgetAND Institute Inc: $340,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $293,830 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR CHRISTIANITY AND PUBLIC LIFE: $265,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $250,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $250,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSINAPIS GROUP INC: $240,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetCONNECTIONS HOMES INC: $185,000 over 4y, 6.4% of budgetMEHR REFORMED MINISTRIES: $183,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetHorizons International: $150,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTHE HUMAN TRAFFICKING INSTITUTE: $150,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetEmbracing God Ministries Inc: $150,000 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetTRANSFORMING THE BAY WITH CHRIST: $131,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetFor the Nations Refugee Outreach: $130,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetSAT-7 NORTH AMERICA: $125,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetStarfish Project Incorporated: $120,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetServant Foundation: $120,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFresh Start Churches: $120,000 over 2y, 53% of budgetHELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INC: $110,823 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCHALMERS CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: $100,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTRATEGIC RESOURCE GROUP INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHIINGA INC: $92,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetILLUMINATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $91,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $90,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetESPERANZA MINISTRIES: $90,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetAFRICAN LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $86,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSTANDING STONE MINISTRIES INC: $80,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAlpha USA: $80,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSYMPHONY OF HOPE INTERNATIONAL FKA SOUNDS OF PROMISE: $80,000 over 2y, 54% of budgetAXIS: $80,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAGAPE CHILDREN'S MINISTRY INC: $75,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetInterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA: $75,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAfrican Leadership Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetURBAN YOUTH COLLABORATIVE: $75,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $71,333 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKERN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $64,468 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW STORY INC: $60,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCITY TO CITY SOCAL: $55,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetChina Aid Association Inc: $55,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetDYNAMIC CHURCH PLANTING INTERNATIONAL: $52,900 over 2y, 3.0% 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.

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.

The Maclellan Foundat…Christian Community F…Servant FoundationFirst Fruit IncChattanooga Christian…International Generos…The Signatry Charitab…Ten Talents FoundationPrairie Creek Partner…Christian Community F…The New Horizons Foun…Hearth & Home Ministr…
The Maclellan Foundation IncTN43.9× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 140%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 35%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • American Whitewater: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
14get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Pinetops Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Pinetops Foundation 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 140 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home