· Public charity
Samford University
The mission of Samford University is to nurture persons in their development of intellect, creativity, faith, and personhood.
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.
The 4 grants below total $33,200 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $103,441,935 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $103,408,735 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Homewood City Schools Foundation Inc | $10,000 |
| International Ministry of Jesus Inc | $10,000 |
| Summit Community Church | $6,600 |
| Peace Baptist Church | $6,600 |
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 (FY17–17, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
6 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 4 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, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- SISCORE INTERNATIONAL INC2× · 2018–2019 · $76k · revenue +61%
- OVONE VISION INTERNATIONAL INC2× · 2017–2020 · $55k · revenue -43%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM4× · 2017–2020 · $35k
Funded once
- EPE3 Partners Ministryone grant, 2023 · $55k · revenue 0%
- TATHE ALABAMA BAPTIST INCone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue -13%
- MCMULLY CHILDRENS FAMILY USA INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $16k · revenue +150%
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.
Global Impact Resources partners with Christian missionaries around the world, providing spiritual support and practical administration to make the fundraising side of ministry an easier process.The organization provides credibility,…
To share the Gospel of Jesus Christ and support missionaries and ministries.
Provide assistance to persons in foreign countries
Teams of Nationals accelerating the spread of the Gospel through local churches worldwide.
To engage in christian evangelism through the publication and worldwide distribution of "herald of his coming" periodical
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.
Go seeks to help people develop and pursue their passion to fulfil the Great Commission.
Missions - sponsors foreign and domestic missions and orphanages with a special emphasis on missions in India
Providing for the Christian workers abroad
Mastermedia is a non-profit organization committed to serving media leaders with professional consulting regarding America's Christian market and personal counsel concerning issues of faith.
(1) To glorify God by making disciples everywhere by proclaiming and practicing the Gospel of Jesus Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit. (2) To engage in international world mission activities in order to take the Gospel of Jesus Christ…
With a desire to see the Gospel proclaimed in all nations, we exist to make and multiply disciples of the next generation through the vehicles of church-planting missions and missional leadership training.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is One Vision International Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Alabama Baptist Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 13 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 SCORE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds PURE INC ↗
- Who funds ONE VISION INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds E3 Partners Ministry ↗
- Who funds HOMEWOOD CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds REEL LIFE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds International Ministry of Jesus Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ALABAMA BAPTIST INC ↗
- Who funds MULLY CHILDRENS FAMILY USA 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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Samford University 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.