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Popoff Family 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.

$134k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$77k
Largest
01What you fund
0190% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Religion$166kArts & Culture$166kEducation$28kPublic Benefit$24kInternational$16kHealth$15kHousing & Shelter$4kCommunity Improvement$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $4k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $53k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $77k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$346k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMAZING FACTS INC$77,084
SPIRIT LAKE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST$43,000
PILATES BRUNCH CLUB INC$10,000
IT IS WRITTEN$3,000
CHILD IMPACT INTERNATIONAL PO$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–18, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SOCIETY FOR DISABILITIES: $1k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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ID
IL
NY
CA
CO
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$440k · 13 repeat orgs$53k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
17

Total granted

$440k
$52k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
-2%

Still filing today

46%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionInternationalPhilanthropyCrime & LegalHealthEducationOther

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

  • WH
    WHITE HORSE MINISTRIES INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $21k · revenue +6%
  • VO
    VOICE OF PROPHECY
    5× · 2017–2024 · $19k · revenue +65%
  • SMILE TRAIN INC
    5× · 2017–2022 · $11k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • SV
    SPOKANE VALLEY ADVENTIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2020 · $11k
  • AD
    ADVENTIST DEVELOPMENT & RELIEF AGENCY INTERNATIONAL
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -2%
  • SV
    SPOKANE VALLEY ADVENTIST SCHOOL
    one grant, 2020 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Faith for Today Inc

This organization functions as a 501(c)(3) non-profit Seventh-day Adventist Media Ministry formed exclusively for religious and charitable purposes. The mission of this organization is to meet people wherever they are with Christ's message…

Religion
2
La Voz De La Esperanza Inc

This organization functions as a 501(c)(3) non-profit Seventh-day Adventist Media Ministry formed exclusively for religious and charitable purposes. The mission of the organization is to share the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ with the…

3
Breath of Life Inc

This organization functions as a 501(c)(3) non-profit Seventh-day Adventist Media Ministry formed exclusively for religious and charitable purposes. The mission of this organization is to share the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ with the…

Religion
4
Gospel Revivals Inc

To engage in christian evangelism through the publication and worldwide distribution of "herald of his coming" periodical

5
Talking Bibles International

The distribution of Talking Bibles worldwide in as many different languages as possible.

Religion
6
South Asian Ministries Ltd

To share the gospel to unreached people in nations, particularly in india and asia.

7
Across Nations

Across nations is dedicated to spreading the gospel through establishing, developing and promoting all aspects of church ministry.

Religion
8
Secrets Unsealed Inc

To preach the gospel of jesus christ and his soon coming to all the world via satellite television, dvd's, cd's, printed material, and world-wide speaking engagements at religious meetings and conventions.

Religion
9
Spanish World Ministries Inc

Proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ through radio literature internet and personal contact.

Religion
10
Waymaker International Ministries

WayMaker International Ministries is an inter-denominational mission organization committed to leading Christians in sharing Jesus Christ with the world, encouraging believers, and ministering to the international community.

Religion
11
Reconciliation Ministries International Inc

Reconciliaton Ministries Intl. is a Christian evangelical organization preaching and teaching the Word of God in over 60 countries. The ministry equips and encourages Christians everywhere to be saved, healed, and delivered according to…

Religion
12
Worldserve Ministries

To advance the gospel in closed and hard-to-reach nations and to impact those nations for christ.

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child Impact International and the most unlike its peers is Modesto Neighborhoods Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr16%25%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%13%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%15%10–20yr16%17%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr16%27%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 13% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/20
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,545

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.

04the grantee network

16 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 31 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
9/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AMAZING FACTS INC — $165,882 · OtherAMAZING FACTS INCSPIRIT LAKE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST — $48,500 · OtherSPIRIT LAKE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTIndividual grant recipient — $48,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPILATES BRUNCH CLUB INC — $24,000 · OtherPILATES BRUNCH CLUB INC3ABN — $17,500 · OtherGENERAL CONFERENCE OF SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST — $17,000 · Other+13 more — $45,080 · Other+13 moreWHITE HORSE MINISTRIES INC — $20,500 · ReligionWHITE HORSE M…VOICE OF PROPHECY — $19,498 · ReligionVOICE OF PROP…THE KENNETH COX MINISTRIES — $10,000 · ReligionTHE KENNETH C…GOSPEL OUTREACH — $5,000 · ReligionGOSPEL OUTREA…PROJECT STEPS TO CHRIST INC — $3,000 · ReligionIT IS WRITTEN INC — $45,500 · PhilanthropyIT IS WRIT…Maranatha Volunteers International Inc — $8,500 · InternationalADVENTIST DEVELOPMENT & RELIEF AGENCY INTERNATIONAL — $5,000 · InternationalCHILD IMPACT INTERNATIONAL — $1,000 · InternationalVANESSA BEHAN — $3,000 · Crime & LegalMADDIE'S PLACE — $3,000 · HealthMODESTO NEIGHBORHOODS INC — $3,000 · Community Improvement
Other$365,962Religion$57,998Philanthropy$45,500International$14,500Crime & Legal$3,000Health$3,000Community Improvement$3,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetIT IS WRITTEN INC — $45,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetWHITE HORSE MINISTRIES INC — $20,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetVOICE OF PROPHECY — $19,498 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC — $11,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KENNETH COX MINISTRIES — $10,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMaranatha Volunteers International Inc — $8,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetADVENTIST DEVELOPMENT & RELIEF AGENCY INTERNATIONAL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOSPEL OUTREACH — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVANESSA BEHAN — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMADDIE'S PLACE — $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPROJECT STEPS TO CHRIST INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMODESTO NEIGHBORHOODS INC — $3,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetFOUNDATIONONE — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIETY FOR DISABILITIES — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 IT IS WRITTEN INC
  • Who funds WHITE HORSE MINISTRIES INC
  • Who funds VOICE OF PROPHECY
  • Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC
  • Who funds THE KENNETH COX MINISTRIES
  • Who funds Maranatha Volunteers International Inc
  • Who funds ADVENTIST DEVELOPMENT & RELIEF AGENCY INTERNATIONAL
  • Who funds GOSPEL OUTREACH
  • Who funds VANESSA BEHAN
  • Who funds MADDIE'S PLACE
  • Who funds PROJECT STEPS TO CHRIST INC
  • Who funds MODESTO NEIGHBORHOODS INC
  • Who funds FOUNDATIONONE
  • Who funds SOCIETY FOR DISABILITIES
  • Who funds CHILD IMPACT INTERNATIONAL
  • Who funds STANISLAUS WILDLIFE CARE CENTER

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.

Merlin & Jo Ann Fjarli Foundation IncOR17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Merlin & Jo Ann Fjarli Foundation Inc · Asi Missions Inc · Winifred Stevens Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Popoff Family 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 35%
  • Adventist Development & Relief Agency International35% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report 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, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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