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Samford University

The mission of Samford University is to nurture persons in their development of intellect, creativity, faith, and personhood.

$103M
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

Religion$171kInternational$114kPhilanthropy$61kEducation$39kArts & Culture$18k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $33,200, the rows itemized in this filing. The $103,441,935 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $103,408,735 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.0B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
International Ministry of Jesus Inc$10,000
Homewood City Schools Foundation Inc$10,000
Peace Baptist Church$6,600
Summit Community Church$6,600
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.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Pure Inc: $27k → 8%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$231k · 6 repeat orgs$111k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
4

Total granted

$231k
$98k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-20%
0%

Still filing today

83%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23’24’25
ReligionInternationalEducationOther
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

  • SI
    SCORE INTERNATIONAL INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $76k · revenue +61%
  • OV
    ONE VISION INTERNATIONAL INC
    2× · 2017–2020 · $55k · revenue -43%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM
    4× · 2017–2020 · $35k

Funded once

  • EP
    E3 Partners Ministry
    one grant, 2023 · $55k · revenue 0%
  • TA
    THE ALABAMA BAPTIST INC
    one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue -13%
  • MC
    MULLY CHILDRENS FAMILY USA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $16k · revenue +150%
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
Global Impact Resources Inc

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,…

International
2
Global Missions 365 Inc

To share the Gospel of Jesus Christ and support missionaries and ministries.

Religion
3
Mission Global Usa

(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…

Philanthropy
4
Go InterNational Inc

Go seeks to help people develop and pursue their passion to fulfil the Great Commission.

—
5
Worldserve Ministries

To advance the gospel in closed and hard-to-reach nations and to impact those nations for christ.

International
6
Great Commission Foundation in

Missions - sponsors foreign and domestic missions and orphanages with a special emphasis on missions in India

—
7
Globeworks International Inc

International missions and evangelism

Religion
8
Greater Reach Inc

To present the gospel of Jesus Christ to unreached people groups. Equipping pastors and leaders in foreign lands to promote the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Religion
9
Mission Without Borders International

The organization is dedicated to reaching people for christ through an international network of christians who journey with the poor and marginalized, bringing practical and spiritual support with hope of a better future,(continued on…

International
10
Vine International Inc

Vine international is a christian nonprofit relief organization serving those who serve the poor through medical missions in central america.

Health
11
Christianity Today International

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.

Religion
12
Mission Without Borders Incorporated

Mission Without Borders (MWB) is dedicated to reaching people for Christ through an international network of Christians who journey with the poor and marginalized, bringing practical and spiritual support with hope of a better future,…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is One Vision International Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 13 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SCORE INTERNATIONAL INC: $76,430 · ReligionSCORE INTERNATIONAL INCONE VISION INTERNATIONAL INC: $54,750 · ReligionONE VISION INTERNATIONAL INCE3 Partners Ministry: $54,700 · ReligionE3 Partners MinistryUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM: $35,145 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA…THE ALABAMA BAPTIST INC: $19,945 · OtherTHE ALABAMA BAPTIST I…PEACE BAPTIST CHURCH: $6,600 · OtherPEACE BAPTIST CHURCHSUMMIT COMMUNITY CHURCH: $6,600 · OtherSUMMIT COMMUNITY CHUR…DAWSON MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH: $6,600 · OtherDAWSON MEMORIAL BAPTI…PURE INC: $61,414 · Human ServicesPURE INCREEL LIFE INTERNATIONAL INC: $22,400 · InternationalREEL LIFE INTERN…International Ministry of Jesus Inc: $20,000 · InternationalInternational Mi…MULLY CHILDRENS FAMILY USA INC: $16,360 · InternationalMULLY CHILDRENS …HOMEWOOD CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $22,500 · Education
Religion$185,880Other$74,890Human Services$61,414International$58,760Education$22,500

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 budgetSCORE INTERNATIONAL INC: $76,430 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPURE INC: $61,414 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetONE VISION INTERNATIONAL INC: $54,750 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetE3 Partners Ministry: $54,700 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOMEWOOD CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $22,500 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetREEL LIFE INTERNATIONAL INC: $22,400 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetInternational Ministry of Jesus Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetTHE ALABAMA BAPTIST INC: $19,945 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMULLY CHILDRENS FAMILY USA INC: $16,360 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

Natl Christian Charit…American Endowment Fo…The Blackbaud Giving …National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA11.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Samford University funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Samford University. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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, FY20–25
    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.

    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 13 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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