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Pro Deo 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.

$26k
Granted FY2023
2
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
0176% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192023.

Religion$47kHousing & Shelter$25kRecreation & Sports$15kHuman Services$11kCivil Rights$8kEducation$3kInternational$2kPhilanthropy$1kOther$0
02FY2023 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k1 grant · $1k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$246k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PROJECT HOPE ALLIANCE$25,000
Individual grant recipient$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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 80% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PROJECT HOPE ALLIANCE: $25k → 10%RANDY W BREWER FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%RESTORING US: $12k → 14%Servant Project International: $2k → 11%UNIDOS: $5k → 14%HENRI NOUWEN SOCIETY: $20k → 11%FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $15k → 15%BETTER TODAY MINISTRIES: $5k → 10%RESTORING US: $8k → 14%UNIDOS: $3k → 14%RESTORING US: $1k → 14%LA CASA: $11k → 14%EDU DEO MINISTRIES: $2k → 14%RESTORING US: $17k → 14%ST JOSEPH CHURCH: $20k → 14%CARPINTERIA CHILDREN'S PROJECT: $3k → 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.

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 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
Ministers Fellowship International Inc

Mfi provides meaningful relationships among member ministers, enabling them to be more effective in their calling for the purpose of building and multiflying strong local churches around the world.

Unclassified
2
Bibleproject

Bibleproject's mission is to help people experience the bible as a unified story that leads to jesus. this is achieved by creating biblical videos to be regularly released on a newly-created youtube channel. (continued on schedule o.)each…

Religion
3
Unify Ministries
Religion
4
Footprints of Faith
Human Services
5
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…

6
Visionsynergy

Our mission is to accelerate the great commission by equipping leaders, developing networks, and catalyzing collaboration toward spiritual breakthroughs among the least reached peoples and places of the world.

International
7
Jesus Connecting the Dots
Food & Nutrition
8
Prison Fellowship International

To transform the lives of prisoners, their families, and victims through a global network of ministry partners.

Crime & Legal
9
The Servant Leadership Foundation
Philanthropy
10
Evangelism Partners International
Religion
11
Sequoia Ministries International

A christian, not-for-profit ministry that exists to strengthen and equip individuals to reach their god-given potential through such avenues as evangelism, discipleship, education, community, leadership development and other benevolences…

Religion
12
Field Life

Field life is a nonprofit christian ministry that supports missionaries in their cross-cultural work around the world. field life provides educational and religious activities to support these workers so that they can be healthy and…

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life and the most unlike its peers is Randy W Brewer Foundation. 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

8 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. 8 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $37,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientST JOSEPH CHURCH — $20,000 · OtherST JOSEPH CHURCHLA CASA — $11,000 · OtherLA CASAUNIDOSUS — $7,500 · OtherUNIDOSUSBETTER TODAY MINISTRIES — $5,000 · OtherBETTER TODAY MINISTRIES+2 more — $3,300 · OtherProject Hope Alliance — $25,000 · EducationProject Hope Allianc…CARPINTERIA CHILDREN'S PROJECT — $2,500 · EducationCARPINTERIA CHILDREN…HENRI NOUWEN SOCIETY — $20,000 · Arts & CultureHENRI NOUWEN SO…FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentFELLOWSHIP …+1 more — $200 · Youth DevelopmentSERVANT PROJECT INTERNATIONAL — $2,000 · International
Other$84,300Education$27,500Arts & Culture$20,000Youth Development$15,200International$2,000

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 budgetProject Hope Alliance — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHENRI NOUWEN SOCIETY — $20,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIDOSUS — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCARPINTERIA CHILDREN'S PROJECT — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSERVANT PROJECT INTERNATIONAL — $2,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetRANDY W BREWER FOUNDATION — $1,300 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYOUNG LIFE — $200 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Pro Deo 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.

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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 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 · 0–50%
    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.

    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Pro Deo Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Pro Deo 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 13 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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