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Protein 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k36 grants · $990k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $385k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Straight Ahead Ministries | $65,000 |
| Paul Carlson Partnership | $60,000 |
| Root Cellar | $60,000 |
| Fellowship of Christian Schools | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| Square Up for Others | $50,000 |
| Beauty from Ashes Ministry | $50,000 |
| Elevate New England | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| City Ministries | $40,000 |
| Somebody Cares New England | $35,000 |
| Route One Ministry | $35,000 |
| Chop Point | $35,000 |
| Light of Life Ministries | $35,000 |
| Hagars Sisters | $35,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $607k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
62 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TRTHE ROOT CELLAR5× · 2020–2025 · $320k · revenue +68%
- HOHOUSE OF HOPE3× · 2020–2025 · $280k · revenue +123% · 48% of their budget
Straight Ahead Ministries INC5× · 2021–2025 · $221k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- BBBETHANY BIRCHES CAMP INCone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +3%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $40k
- LFLAKESHORE FOOD CLUBgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +266%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Transitional and permanent supportive housing - provides shelter in the greater Manchester NH area. Services include housing, counseling (including substance abuse counseling), job search assistance, etc.
To help those struggling in a personal crisis find relief and disciple them into a christ-centered lifestyle through a ministry of reconciliation, applying the truth of scripture, working with others and sharing in fellowship with those…
We exist to share the hope of the Gospel of Jesus Christ as well as provide shelter, food, and clothing to the poor and needy in obedience to Him.
Christian mission to the poor providing food, shelter clothing and counseling to the homeless
Glorify and serve god by providing meals for hungry men, women, and children, emergency shelter and transition to independence for homeless men, and spiritual hope through jesus christ.
Provide meals, clothing, counseling, referrals, spiritual guidance and shelter to anyone in need without charge
Expressing God's love by reaching out to the hurting and homeless of the Great Lakes Bay Region by providing shelter and care, proclaiming the Gospel of Christ, and establishing Christian disciples among disadvantaged people.
Use christ-centered faith to eliminate homelessness while offering shelter, clothing, food and temporary assistance to adult men.
Hope street provides housing and healing to men, women, and children whose lives have been profoundly affected by the toxic environment they grew up in, their own choices, or drug and alcohol abuse. empowered by the active grace of christ,…
The organization provides transitional and emergency housing in conjuction withsupportive services, case management and life skills training for homeless anddisadvantaged people.
Helping families fight homelessness and find living hope.
Christ centered residential ministry primarily helping african american men overcome their life controlling addictions so they can successfully re enter society as productive citizens
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bridgeport Rescue Mission Inc and the most unlike its peers is Re-Entry Ministry Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
42 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 117 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 THE ROOT CELLAR ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds Straight Ahead Ministries INC ↗
- Who funds EMMAUS TEAMS ↗
- Who funds HAGAR'S SISTERS INC ↗
- Who funds Paul Carlson Medical Program Inc ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds SQUARE UP FOR OTHERS INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE HAITIAN MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Isaiah 61 Cafe ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BLESSING INC ↗
- Who funds RECOVERY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds CHOP POINT INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds BOSTON MISSIONARY BAPTIST COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN IMPACT OF BLACK ROCK INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE BRIDGEPORT INC ↗
- Who funds SOMEBODY CARES NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE UNLIMITED FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON PROJECT MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTERS BY JESUS ↗
- Who funds Route One Ministry ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION 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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Muskegon County · Pennies From Heaven Foundation · The Church Home Society Inc · Imago Dei Fund · Boston Baptist Social Union · Eastern Bank Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund
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 Protein 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.
- Straight Ahead Ministries Inc — 27% of income from government
- Elevate Bridgeport Inc — 21% of income from government
- Somebody Cares New England Inc — 4% of income from government
- Bethany Birches Camp Inc — 2% of income from government
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.
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