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Pisgah Hope Foundation at a glance

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Pisgah Hope 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.

$50k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$241kEducation$77kPhilanthropy$55kHealth$20kScience & Tech$18kInternational$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $43k
$12,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE WINSOR FUND$15,000
THE RIVERS SCHOOL$15,000
HARVARD UNIVERSITY$12,500
SARNOFF CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH FND$5,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$2,500
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%CHESTNUT HILL SCHOOL: $5k → 7%THE RIVERS SCHOOL: $15k → 8%THE EQUITY IN HEART TRANSPLANT: $10k → 16%SIGNS WORLD EVANGELISM: $500 → 11%AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY: $800 → 22%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $5k → 8%THOUSAND OAKS KSDA CHURCH: $54k → 10%GLENDALE KOREAN CHURCH OF SDA: $16k → 14%SARNOFF CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH FND: $5k → 6%WORLD HELP: $100 → 8%ADRA: $3k → 8%THE RIVERS SCHOOL: $15k → 8%THE WINSOR FUND: $25k → 16%AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY: $500 → 22%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $3k → 8%THOUSAND OAKS KSDA CHURCH: $50k → 10%GLENDALE KOREAN CHURCH OF SDA: $10k → 14%SARNOFF CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH FND: $5k → 6%ADRA: $1k → 8%THE RIVERS SCHOOL: $10k → 8%THE WINSOR FUND: $15k → 16%THOUSAND OAKS KSDA CHURCH: $480 → 10%GLENDALE KOREAN CHURCH OF SDA: $3k → 14%ADVENTIST MISSION: $1k → 8%THE WINSOR FUND: $15k → 16%GLENDALE KOREAN CHURCH OF SDA: $3k → 14%ADRA: $1k → 8%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $13k → 16%GLENDALE KOREAN CHURCH OF SDA: $2k → 14%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $5k → 16%KOREAN ADVENTIST PRESS: $13k → 14%KOREAN ADVENTIST PRESS: $6k → 14%KOREAN ADVENTIST PRESS: $6k → 14%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

ID
MA
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$273k · 8 repeat orgs$118k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
8

Total granted

$273k
$118k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+5%

Still filing today

50%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
ReligionInternationalEducationHealthOther
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

  • TR
    THE RIVERS SCHOOL CORPORATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $40k · revenue +19%
  • SC
    SARNOFF CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +118%
  • AD
    ADVENTIST DEVELOPMENT & RELIEF AGENCY INTERNATIONAL
    3× · 2017–2023 · $5k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • VO
    VOICE OF PROPHECY
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +5%
  • TE
    THE EQUITY IN HEART TRANSPLANT
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • THE CHESTNUT HILL SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -15%
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
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
2
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
3
Geneva College

Geneva college is a christ-centered academic community that provides a comprehensive education to equip students for faithful and fruitful service to god and neighbor.

Education
4
California Lutheran University

The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.

Education
5
Dordt University

As an institution of higher education committed to the reformed christian perspective, dordt university equips students, alumni, and the broader community to work effectively toward christ-centered renewal in all aspects of contemporary…

Education
6
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
7
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
8
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
9
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
10
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
11
Evangel University

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.

Education
12
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Rivers School Corporation; the most unlike its peers is American Bible Society. 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

9 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. 9 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THOUSAND OAKS KSDA CHURCH: $104,280 · OtherTHOUSAND OAKS KSDA CHURCHTHE WINSOR FUND: $55,000 · OtherTHE WINSOR FUNDTHE RIVERS SCHOOL CORPORATION: $40,000 · OtherTHE RIVERS SCHOOL CORPORATIONGLENDALE KOREAN CHURCH OF SDA: $33,600 · OtherGLENDALE KOREAN CHURCH OF SDAIndividual grant recipient: $24,650 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE EQUITY IN HEART TRANSPLANT: $10,000 · Other+4 more: $2,750 · OtherVOICE OF PROPHECY: $100,000 · ReligionVOICE OF PROPHECY+2 more: $1,400 · ReligionPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $17,500 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $7,500 · EducationTHE CHESTNUT HILL SCHOOL: $5,000 · EducationSARNOFF CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · HealthADVENTIST DEVELOPMENT & RELIEF AGENCY INTERNATIONAL: $4,500 · International
Other$270,280Religion$101,400Education$30,000Health$10,000International$4,500

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVOICE OF PROPHECY: $100,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE RIVERS SCHOOL CORPORATION: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSARNOFF CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHESTNUT HILL SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADVENTIST DEVELOPMENT & RELIEF AGENCY INTERNATIONAL: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY: $1,300 over 2y, 0.0% 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 Blackbaud Giving …Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Blackbaud Giving FundSC10.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Pisgah Hope Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pisgah Hope Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 35%
  • Adventist Development & Relief Agency International: 35% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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 · 0–50%
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.

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 18 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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