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Restored
RESTORED is a non-profit thrift store operated with all volunteers so that our profits can be used for ministry that helps support community needs.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 12 grants below total $284,250 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $342,981 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $58,731 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k4 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $206k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEREBINTH REFUGE | $50,500 |
| UNION GOSPEL MISSION | $45,000 |
| DON SHIRE MINISTRIES | $40,000 |
| WOOD LAKE CAMP & RETREAT CENTER | $35,500 |
| AMNION PREGNANCY CENTER | $30,000 |
| MINNESOTA TEEN CHALLENGE INC | $25,000 |
| WHISPERS OF HOPE | $20,000 |
| CASSIA | $10,000 |
| POLAND EVANGELICAL MISSION (PEM) | $8,000 |
| TRINITY - SPECIAL NEEDS | $8,000 |
| HARVEST PACK | $6,250 |
| UNITED CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $6,000 |
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 (FY20–23, $93k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 92% 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 100% of Restored’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 92% of the giving stays in MN; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
9 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2023, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- DSDon Shire Ministries Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $155k · revenue +18%
- TRTEREBINTH REFUGE6× · 2020–2025 · $134k · revenue +25%
- AWAMNION WOMEN'S CENTER7× · 2019–2025 · $98k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- UVURBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATIONgraduated3× · 2022–2025 · $10k · revenue +55%
- IMINVOLVE MNgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +131%
- PFPILOTS FOR CHRISTone grant, 2022 · $7k
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…
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.
See schedule oour mission is the integration of women and children into society, transformed through the power of healing and complete discipleship and vocational training within a safe, loving, and serving community. our vision is to see…
CTNs mission is to partner with national churches to economically and effectively train large numbers of Christian leaders in their calling character and ministry competency so that local communities of faith remain biblical faithful and…
Manna University is a biblical higher education institution dedicated to educating, equipping, and empowering emerging leaders to change the world.
We minister to orphans and widows in their distress by transitioning children from orphanages into loving families. We do this through Christ- centered care, training and social work.
Harvest university is committed to cultivating future ministers who will take the gospel to the ends of the earth. we offer online classes to train missionaries, pastors, and others who want to make an impact for christ through other…
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.
To glorify god by sharing the gospel and making disciples of jesus christ through partnerships with christian ministries in the countries we serve and through short-term mission trips that demonstrate the love of christ through…
Restore hope, purpose, passion and relationships among Christian leaders who are making an impact around the world.
Reaching and teaching pastors in the majority world.
We are compelled by god's word to provide security, education and the hope of jesus to children in south africa so they can thrive personally and impact their future families, communities and the kingdom of god.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child Evangelism Fellowship Inc and the most unlike its peers is United Christian Academy. 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 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
27 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.
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 Don Shire Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds TEREBINTH REFUGE ↗
- Who funds AMNION WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds WHISPERS OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL INC ↗
- Who funds Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc ↗
- Who funds WOOD LAKE CAMP AND RETREAT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds T-NET INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds CASSIA ↗
- Who funds URBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds POLAND EVANGELICAL MISSION ↗
- Who funds INVOLVE MN ↗
- Who funds HUNGER ENDS HERE ↗
- Who funds UNITED CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
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 · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Restored 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.
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