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Reel Life International Inc

To cultivate a passion for the gospel by working with the church to share the love of christ with those in need around the world.

$269k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$98k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$530kInternational$418kFood & Nutrition$176kEducation$895
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $149k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $98k
$32,972
Median grant
6
States reached
$953k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VOLUNTEER BAPTISTS INTERNATIONAL$98,080
DAYSTAR BAPTIST MINISTRIES$40,244
CRAIG LIBBY CO MEXICAN MEDICAL MINISTRIES$39,200
SCORE INTERNATIONAL$32,972
INTERNATIONAL MINISTRY OF JESUS$25,286
WORSHIP CENTER BLESSED MINISTRIES$11,000
GLOBEWORKS INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES INC$9,000
MISSION POINT MINISTRY$8,833
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 76% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Craig Libby co Mexican Medical Ministries: $53k → 11%EAST-WEST MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL: $178k → 5%Kidz Konnect 4 Jesus Inc: $5k → 8%Campus Crusade - US Ministry: $2k → 13%WORSHIP CENTER BLESSED MINISTRIES: $56k → 15%INTERNATIONAL MINISTRY OF JESUS: $48k → 7%Briarwood Presbyterian Church: $6k → 16%SCORE INTERNATIONAL: $69k → 12%E3 VOLUNTEERS: $117k → 23%DAYSTAR BAPTIST MINISTRIES: $40k → 19%MISSION POINT MINISTRY: $9k → 6%Craig Libby co Mexican Medical Ministries: $51k → 11%Worship Center Blessed Ministries: $32k → 15%INTERNATIONAL MINISTRY OF JESUS: $25k → 7%SCORE INTERNATIONAL: $33k → 12%VOLUNTEER BAPTISTS INTERNATIONAL: $98k → 23%CRAIG LIBBY CO MEXICAN MEDICAL MINISTRIES: $49k → 11%Worship Center Blessed Ministries: $29k → 15%International Ministry of Jesus: $15k → 7%SCORE International: $22k → 12%Craig Libby co Mexican Medical Ministries: $49k → 11%Worship Center Blessed Ministries: $19k → 15%Briarwood Christian School: $895 → 7%SCORE: $15k → 12%Craig Libby co Mexican Medical Ministries: $42k → 11%Worship Center Blessed Ministries: $13k → 15%International Ministry of Jesus: $700 → 7%SCORE International: $10k → 12%CRAIG LIBBY CO MEXICAN MEDICAL MINISTRIES: $39k → 11%Worship Center Blessed Ministries: $11k → 15%CAMPUS OUTREACH: $12k → 7%SCORE International: $9k → 12%MEXICAN MEDICAL MINISTRIES FBO CHRIS MCCOY: $10k → 11%WORSHIP CENTER BLESSED MINISTRIES: $11k → 15%SCORE: $9k → 12%Worship Center Blessed Ministries: $10k → 15%SCORE International: $9k → 12%Carribean Ministries Association: $5k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 36% of Reel Life International Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Reel Life International Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.8% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 8 repeat orgs$256k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +10% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
6

Total granted

$1.1M
$207k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
0%

Still filing today

75%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
ReligionInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • EV
    E3 VOLUNTEERS INC DBA VOLUNTEER BAPTISTS INTERNTL
    3× · 2023–2025 · $215k · revenue +10%
  • SI
    SCORE INTERNATIONAL INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $177k · revenue +53%
  • IM
    International Ministry of Jesus Inc
    5× · 2019–2025 · $88k · revenue +234%

Funded once

  • EM
    East-West Ministries International
    2× · 2023–2024 · $178k
  • CO
    CAMPUS OUTREACH SERVE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $12k
  • BP
    BRIARWOOD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2019 · $6k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Discover Your Mission Inc

Supporing missionaries worldwide

Religion
2
Barnabas Task Inc

Train and Counsel Pastors, Missionaries and others to meet the spiritual and physical needs of all peoples.

International
3
More International Ministries

To spread the gospel of jesus christ through crusades

Religion
4
Christian Ministries International
—
5
Jesus in Vietnam Ministries
Religion
6
Freedom Ministries Inc

Missionary work primarily in mexico and central america

—
7
Inter-America Mission
—
8
Global Dmm
Religion
9
International Impact Ministries in
Religion
10
Vision International Missions

To propagate the gospel of jesus christ; to examine candidates and appoint missionaries. to endorse missionary programs according to standards set forth in the new testament, to establish churches, church schools & mission societies in…

Religion
11
Dozen Ministries

Religious

Religion
12
Iglesia Misionera Jesucristo Es Dios
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Daystar Baptist Missions Inc; the most unlike its peers is Mission Point Ministry. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 16 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/13
Grantees still filing
6/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

E3 VOLUNTEERS INC DBA VOLUNTEER BAPTISTS INTERNTL: $215,130 · ReligionE3 VOLUNTEERS INC DBA VOLUNTEER BAPTISTS INTERNTLEast-West Ministries International: $177,800 · ReligionEast-West Ministries InternationalSCORE INTERNATIONAL INC: $176,655 · ReligionSCORE INTERNATIONAL INCDAYSTAR BAPTIST MISSIONS INC: $40,244 · ReligionDAYSTAR BAPTIST MISSIONS INCCARIBBEAN MINISTRIES ASSOCIATION: $30,200 · ReligionGLOBEWORKS INTERNATIONAL INC: $30,000 · Religion+4 more: $28,983 · ReligionMEXICAN MEDICAL INC: $406,925 · InternationalMEXICAN MEDICAL INCInternational Ministry of Jesus Inc: $87,986 · InternationalInternational Ministry of Jesus IncWORSHIP CENTER ANICE MINISTRIES: $181,497 · OtherWORSHIP CENTER …+3 more: $14,371 · Other+3 more
Religion$699,012International$494,911Other$195,868

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMEXICAN MEDICAL INC: $406,925 over 9y, 5.7% of budgetE3 VOLUNTEERS INC DBA VOLUNTEER BAPTISTS INTERNTL: $215,130 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetSCORE INTERNATIONAL INC: $176,655 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetInternational Ministry of Jesus Inc: $87,986 over 5y, 15% of budgetCARIBBEAN MINISTRIES ASSOCIATION: $30,200 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetGLOBEWORKS INTERNATIONAL INC: $30,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetMISSION POINT MINISTRY: $8,833 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetBECAUSE WE CARE MINISTRY INC: $5,500 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetALL 4 JESUS BELIZE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFORGOTTEN CHILDREN MINISTRIES: $3,150 over 2y, 0.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Christian Community F…Natl Christian Charit…American Endowment Fo…Renaissance Charitabl…Raymond James Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Christian Community Foundation IncCO14.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Reel Life International Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Reel Life International Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    Find your warmest path to Reel Life International Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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