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Ppa 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.

$487k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fund
0182% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20232024.

Recreation & Sports$645kReligion$318kEducation$44kInternational$35kHuman Services$23kHealth$18kCrime & Legal$18kHousing & Shelter$4kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $154k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $310k
$17,575
Median grant
4
States reached
$7.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BAYLOR UNIVERSITY - GIVE LIGHT CAMP$200,000
ARBOR ROAD CHURCH$60,000
NORTHWEST BIBLE CHURCH$50,000
CHRIST COMMUNITY CHURCH$33,000
ONE VOICE BOARD$30,000
SHORELINE CHURCH$25,000
CAMPUS OUTREACH$23,500
ISAIAH 117$17,575
THE VILLAGE CHURCH DENTON$15,000
MISSIONARY ATHLETES INTERNATIONAL$10,129
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
DENTON FREEDOM HOUSE$5,000
BUCKNER$4,120
Individual grant recipient$2,264
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 (FY23–24, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CHRIST'S HOPE: $10k → 10%GIVING GRACE: $3k → 14%GIVING GRACE: $1k → 14%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

MI
CA
CO
MO
VA
TN
NC
TX

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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$877k · 8 repeat orgs$269k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +11% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
9

Total granted

$877k
$120k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+10%

Still filing today

50%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $149k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
InternationalHuman ServicesReligionCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • BU
    BAYLOR UNIVERSITY - GIVE LIGHT CAMP
    2× · 2023–2024 · $600k
  • NB
    NORTHWEST BIBLE CHURCH
    2× · 2023–2024 · $100k
  • OV
    ONE VOICE BOARD INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $70k · revenue -36% · 52% of their budget

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $18k
  • AP
    Alternatives Pregnancy Center
    one grant, 2023 · $18k · revenue -8%
  • CA
    COME AND SEE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $15k

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
Heart Bridge International

Heart Bridge International exists to equip and empower Christians around the world to fulfill the Great Commission. The organization provides free ministry training, discipleship resources, and practical coaching to under-resourced…

Religion
2
Jesus in Vietnam Ministries
Religion
3
Hilo Ministries Inc

To be an organization where people are excited to assist in the love and care of the orphan and those in foster care, as well as providing temporary housing and training for those in the worldwide missionary field.

Human Services
4
Project New Hope International

Publicly supported evangelical organization focused on community transformation and empowerment of impoverished neighborhoods in South America and around the world. Missionaries work with community leaders assisting them in various mission…

5
Asia Us Impact

Religious

Religion
6
Christian Ministries International
7
Vision International Missions

To propagate the gospel of jesus christ; to examine candidates and appoint missionaries. to endorse missionary programs according to standards set forth in the new testament, to establish churches, church schools & mission societies in…

Religion
8
Hope Outreach International Ministries

Evangelizing the lost through gospel crusades, camps and conferences; Empowering orphans and widows and those in need through Christ-centered vocational training; and Equipping ministers of the gospel through Christian seminars and…

Religion
9
Discover Your Mission Inc

Supporing missionaries worldwide

Religion
10
Abbas House
Philanthropy
11
Child Hope International

We minister to orphans and widows in their distress by transitioning children from orphanages into loving families. We do this through Christ- centered care, training and social work.

Arts & Culture
12
Be Hope International
Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christs Hope U S a Inc and the most unlike its peers is Send Hope 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

9 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. 9 of the 25 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BAYLOR UNIVERSITY - GIVE LIGHT CAMP — $600,000 · OtherBAYLOR UNIVERSITY - GIVE LIGHT CAMPNORTHWEST BIBLE CHURCH — $100,000 · OtherNORTHWEST BIBLE CHURCHARBOR ROAD CHURCH — $60,000 · OtherARBOR ROAD CHURCHCAMPUS OUTREACH — $43,500 · Other+14 more — $202,088 · Other+14 moreONE VOICE BOARD INC — $70,000 · ReligionSEND HOPE INC — $15,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION — $10,000 · InternationalDENTON FREEDOM HOUSE — $17,500 · Crime & LegalFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHRISTS HOPE U S A INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesGIVING GRACE INC — $3,500 · Human Services
Other$1,005,588Religion$70,000International$25,000Crime & Legal$17,500Youth Development$15,000Human Services$13,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetONE VOICE BOARD INC — $70,000 over 2y, 52% of budgetMissionary Athletes International and Charlotte Eagles Inc — $20,129 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAlternatives Pregnancy Center — $17,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDENTON FREEDOM HOUSE — $17,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSEND HOPE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTS HOPE U S A INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIVING GRACE INC — $3,500 over 2y, 0.2% 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 ONE VOICE BOARD INC
  • Who funds Missionary Athletes International and Charlotte Eagles Inc
  • Who funds Alternatives Pregnancy Center
  • Who funds DENTON FREEDOM HOUSE
  • Who funds SEND HOPE INC
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES
  • Who funds CHRISTS HOPE U S A INC
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION
  • Who funds GIVING GRACE INC

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.

Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX14× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Ppa 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%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report 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, 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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Ppa Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Ppa 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 25 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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