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Project Anonymous 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.

$171k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$56k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192024.

Education$221kReligion$112kRecreation & Sports$35kHuman Services$12kPhilanthropy$12kArts & Culture$5kYouth Development$5kFood & Nutrition$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $105k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $56k
$10,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHRIST SCHOOL$55,728
ATHLETES IN ACTION$15,000
MERCY CHURCH CO PASTOR SPENCER SHELTON$10,000
THE MAGNOLIA FOUNDATION$10,000
WARSAW COMMUNITY CHURCH$10,000
CITY CHURCH CHICAGO ATTN PASTOR KENT MUNSEY$10,000
CRAZY LOVE MINISTRIES CO FRANCIS CHAN$10,000
SOUTH HILLS CHURCH CO BRYAN BOS$10,000
CORBAN UNIVERSITY$10,000
GRACE CHAPEL$10,000
W ALFONSO MINISTRIES$10,000
JASON TERRY FOUNDATION$5,000
ONE BODY YOUTH FOUNDATION$5,000
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 (FY20–20, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: $2k → 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

IL
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
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NJ
CT
CA
CO
TN
NC
DC
AL
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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$300k · 5 repeat orgs$105k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +95% since the first grant, against +78% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
14

Total granted

$300k
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+95%
+78%

Still filing today

40%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesInternationalReligionOther

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

  • CS
    CHRIST SCHOOL INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $153k · revenue +95%
  • CU
    CORBAN UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2019–2024 · $67k · revenue -12%
  • SC
    SUMMIT CHURCH DE
    2× · 2020–2021 · $40k

Funded once

  • CS
    CHARITY STUDIO
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • THE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTSgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +177%
  • CA
    CHLOE AND MAUD FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $2k

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
Walnut Grove Christian School

We are a k-12 christian school founded under the following (4) pillars: academics: we provide an amazing accredited academic program utilizing 100% certified teachers. schedule: we provide our students and their families an opportunity on…

Education
2
Graceland University

See schedule othe primary mission of graceland university is to be a learning community, where students develop their potential for meaningful and productive lives through intellectual, physical, social and spiritual growth. this mission…

Education
3
Washington Adventist University

Washington adventist university is a learning community committed to the seventh-day adventist christian vision of excellence and service. this cosmopolitan institution challenges students to seize the opportunities for learning in the…

Education
4
Global Scholars

Global scholars exists so that christian academics are adequately equipped to have a redemptive influence among their students, colleagues, universities and disciplines, at a reasonable cost.

5
Wilberforce University Wilberforce University

Wilberforce university is a historically black college and university and the primary mission is to engage, support, and assist students in identifying and preparing for their respective purposes in life as social change agents, social…

Education
6
Gardner-Webb University

The university statement of values consists of christian heritage, baptist heritage, academic excellence, liberal arts, teamwork, a student-centered focus, community engagement and diversity.

Education
7
Southern Wesleyan University

Southern wesleyan university is a christ-centered, student-focused learning community devoted to transforming lives by challenging students to be dedicated scholars and servant-leaders who impact the world for christ.

Education
8
Mid-Atlantic Christian University

Mid-atlantic christian university is an undergraduate institution of christian higher learning whose mission is to impact the world by transforming ordinary people into extraordinary christian leaders. students are taught to think…

Education
9
Champion Christian College Inc

To develop christ-centered servant leaders through a challenging academic environment in order to impact the world for the kingdom of god.

Education
10
Mcmurry University

Shaped by christian principles, mcmurry university challenges students to examine our complex world from multiple perspectives in preparation for lives of leadership, service and professional success.

Education
11
William Jessup University

In partnership with the church, the purpose of william jessup university is to educate transformational leaders for the glory of god.

12
Criswell College

The mission of criswell college is to provide ministerial and professional higher education for men and women preparing to serve as christian leaders throughout society, while maintaining an institutional commitment to biblical inerrancy.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grace Schools and the most unlike its peers is Magnolia 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

10 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. 10 of the 28 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHRIST SCHOOL INC — $152,728 · EducationCHRIST SCHOOL INCCORBAN UNIVERSITY — $67,000 · EducationCORBAN UNIVERSITY+1 more — $1,000 · EducationSUMMIT CHURCH DE — $39,500 · OtherSUMMIT CHURCH DEATHLETES IN ACTION — $31,050 · OtherATHLETES IN ACTIONJASON TERRY FOUNDATION — $10,000 · OtherJASON TERRY FOUNDATIONWARSAW COMMUNITY CHURCH INC — $10,000 · OtherWARSAW COMMUNITY CHURCH INCCITY CHURCH CHICAGO ATTN PASTOR KENT MUNSEY — $10,000 · OtherCITY CHURCH CHICAGO ATTN PASTOR KENT MUNSEYGRACE CHAPEL — $10,000 · OtherGRACE CHAPELSOUTH HILLS CHURCH CO BRYAN BOS — $10,000 · OtherSOUTH HILLS CHURCH CO BRYAN BOSCRAZY LOVE MINISTRIES CO FRANCIS CHAN — $10,000 · OtherCRAZY LOVE MINISTRIES CO FRANCIS CHANW ALFONSO MINISTRIES INC — $10,000 · OtherW ALFONSO MINISTRIES INCMERCY CHURCH CO PASTOR SPENCER SHELTON — $10,000 · OtherMERCY CHURCH CO PASTOR SPENCER SHELTON+9 more — $17,150 · Other+9 moreMagnolia Foundation — $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS — $2,000 · Human ServicesMERCY NAIROBI FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 · ReligionHAYMAKERS FOR HOPE INC — $1,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $1,000 · HealthWOMEN'S WORLD BANKING INC — $500 · International
Education$220,728Other$167,700Human Services$12,000Religion$2,000Health$2,000International$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 budgetCHRIST SCHOOL INC — $152,728 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCORBAN UNIVERSITY — $67,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMagnolia Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetTHE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALWAYS 100 INC — $2,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetMERCY NAIROBI FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGrace Schools — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S WORLD BANKING INC — $500 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.

  • Who funds CHRIST SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds CORBAN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds Magnolia Foundation
  • Who funds THE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS
  • Who funds ALWAYS 100 INC
  • Who funds MERCY NAIROBI FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds Grace Schools
  • Who funds HAYMAKERS FOR HOPE INC
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
  • Who funds WOMEN'S WORLD BANKING 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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA10.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Project Anonymous 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 3%
  • Corban University3% 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 · 0–90%
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 Project Anonymous Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Project Anonymous 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 28 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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