· Private foundation
Proverbs 39 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $285k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $406k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIFELINE GLOBAL MINISTRIES | $65,000 |
| REDEEMER CHURCH | $61,000 |
| THREE ANGELS CHILDREN'S RELIEF | $60,000 |
| OPEN ARMS PREGNANCY CLINIC | $60,000 |
| SAVING INNOCENCE | $60,000 |
| CROSSROADS COMMUNITY CHURCH | $50,250 |
| YOUNG LIFE - SCV | $50,004 |
| CONNECT 2 MINISTRIES | $35,600 |
| SCV PREGNANCY CENTER | $25,000 |
| NEW TRIBES MISSIONS | $24,000 |
| SCARLET HOPE | $24,000 |
| CAMPUS CRUSADES FOR CHRIST | $24,000 |
| MANNA WORLDWIDE | $22,800 |
| GRACE COMMUNITY CHURCH | $21,500 |
| GUIDELIGHT | $20,064 |
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, $650k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% 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 +11% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 2 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- SISAVING INNOCENCE INC7× · 2019–2025 · $425k · revenue +10%
- BTBRIDGE TO HOME SCV8× · 2017–2025 · $348k · revenue +435%
- LGLIFELINE GLOBAL MINISTRIES6× · 2020–2025 · $319k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- UIUnited in Purposeone grant, 2022 · $375k · revenue -69%
- CPCEDARS-SINAI - PEDIATRIC IBD PROGRAMone grant, 2020 · $25k
- MSMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INCone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +20%
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.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
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…
ACCI serves pioneering Christians, empowering them to proclaim the gospel, fulfill their God-given visions, and advance the kingdom of God. ACCI longs for a world where lives are transformed through the Holy Spirit, where new disciples are…
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
Assisting national Christian leaders around the world.
Cross to Light is a nondenominational Christian organization providing spiritual education and physical aid to people in need around the world. Since 2005, Cross to Light has helped people cross from darkness to light by hearing the Gospel…
Walk thru the bible (wtb) ignites passion for god's word. by developing a global network of influential pastors and leaders and then resourcing them with tools and training, wtb fulfills its role in the great commission.
The King's University integrates Biblical education and practical ministry to shape Spirit-formed individuals who follow Jesus, serve His Church, and are sent to impact the world.
Sharing Christ's Passion for the world by serving the most vulnerable through national churches and leaders.
Bible Translation and acts of Christian Services
Crossing Cultures International, Inc. exists to glorify God by equipping Christ followers globally with comprehensive training for effective ministry.
San Diego Christian College exists to educate and inspire students through the truth of scripture and the development of competencies that prepare graduates whose purpose is to impact the world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Joni and Friends and the most unlike its peers is Always Ready Ministries. 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 32 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 82 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 SAVING INNOCENCE INC ↗
- Who funds United in Purpose ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE TO HOME SCV ↗
- Who funds SCV PREGNANCY CENTER ↗
- Who funds LIFELINE GLOBAL MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THREE ANGELS CHILDREN'S RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds Connect 2 Ministries ↗
- Who funds OPEN ARMS PREGNANCY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Josiah Venture ↗
- Who funds STANDING STONE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MANNA WORLDWIDE INC ↗
- Who funds SCARLET HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds Agape Impact Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds UNION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GUIDELIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds VISALIA RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Faith and Learning International NFP ↗
- Who funds MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA CLARITA VALLEY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ACTION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Child & Family Center ↗
- Who funds SPORTS OUTREACH NORTHWEST ↗
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: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Christian Foundation of America DBA Christian Foundation of The West · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Servant Foundation · Boeckmann Charitable Foundation · The Henry Mayo Newhall Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Glenna and Lawrence Shapiro Family Foundation · Woodward Governor Charitable Trust · The Bolick Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
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 Proverbs 39 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.
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.