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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its 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
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
ID
IL
NY
CA
CO
MD
TN
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against -6% for those 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%
-6%

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
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

  • WH
    WHITE HORSE MINISTRIES INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $21k · revenue +14%
  • 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 -37%
  • SV
    SPOKANE VALLEY ADVENTIST SCHOOL
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
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
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…

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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

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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.

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child Impact International; 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.
04the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 31 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
8/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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
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 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 ↗

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.

Merlin & Jo Ann Fjarl…Asi Missions IncWinifred Stevens Foun…Arthur J Gallagher Fo…American Endowment Fo…Raymond James Charita…The Blackbaud Giving …Natl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…Network for GoodDonor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…
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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%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
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, 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 31 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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