· Private foundation
Raymond B Pinson Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $292k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $548k
- $250k+1 grant · $367k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHRISTIAN LIFE MISSIONS | $367,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN | $200,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $178,000 |
| CENTER OF STUDIES IN GLOBAL CHRISTIANITY | $100,000 |
| HEART OF AFRICA | $70,000 |
| MERCIFUL RECOVERY COUNSELING & COACHING | $20,000 |
| KINGDOM IN ACTION FAMILY | $20,000 |
| URBAN VENTURES | $20,000 |
| THE HOUSE CHURCH | $20,000 |
| DIGNITY FOR THE AMPUTEE INT'L | $20,000 |
| MN ADULT TEEN CHALLENGE | $20,000 |
| MOTHERS CHOICE USA | $20,000 |
| GLOBAL MISSION AWARENESS | $15,000 |
| BEN FERRELL MINISTRIES | $15,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH MINISTRIES | $12,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $157k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +35% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $357k 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
- HEHARVEST EVANGELISM INC7× · 2017–2023 · $1.2M · revenue +7%
- CLCHRISTIAN LIFE MISSIONS3× · 2021–2024 · $591k · revenue +161% · 90% of their budget
- NCNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC5× · 2017–2021 · $355k · revenue ×103
Funded once
- CLChristian Life Ministriesone grant, 2023 · $145k · revenue -4%
- MAMARKETPLACE APPRENTICE PROGRAM INCone grant, 2019 · $80k
- MDMAD DADS OF MINNESOTAone grant, 2021 · $20k
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.
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…
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.
Evangelism; Evangelism Training; Global Outreach Global Advancement of the Gospel through Tent Ministries and Conferences Television and Literature Distribution
United Saints is committed to taking the Gospel to both major cities and the most remote regionsreaching places like the Amazon Jungle and beyondwith the power and love of Jesus.
CMN works to stop fatherlessness, child abuse, and human trafficking by equipping and training men and pastors in a global movement that for over 40 years has restored families and built churches.
Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…
Proclaim the gospel worldwide, prepare followers of jesus christ, and propel those into their god given destiny.
To provide strategic teaching about prayer, prophecy, and intercession in the US and abroad. Books, manuals, and audio teachings are also used to equip Christians in strategic level spiritual prayer and warfare.
To spread the gospel of jesus christ through crusades
Passionlife ministries is a global missions initiative to spread the gospel of life and expand the pregnancy help movement among nations plagued by abortion, infanticide and gendercide.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save the Storks and the most unlike its peers is University of Wisconsin-Superior Alumni Assoc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 61 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 HARVEST EVANGELISM INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN LIFE MISSIONS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HEART OF AFRICIA INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL ↗
- Who funds Christian Life Ministries ↗
- Who funds URBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DIGNITY FOR THE AMPUTEE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR STUDIES IN GLOBAL CHRISTIANITY INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MOTHERS CHOICE USA INC ↗
- Who funds Global Mission Awareness ↗
- Who funds Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc ↗
- Who funds ITN MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds SCAD RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds Save the Storks ↗
- Who funds MAD DADS of Minneapolis ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-SUPERIOR ALUMNI ASSOC ↗
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: Xcel Energy Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Raymond B Pinson Family 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.