· Public charity
Sandell Ministries Inc
The purpose of Sandell Ministries Inc.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $161,600 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $188,600 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $27,000 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 $10k5 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $131k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Village Heartbeat | $21,000 |
| Friends of Refugees | $20,000 |
| Covenant College | $20,000 |
| Christian & Missionary Allian | $20,000 |
| World Gospel Mission | $15,000 |
| Precept Ministries | $15,000 |
| Focused Community Strategies | $10,000 |
| Sacred Roots Farm | $10,000 |
| Prime Time World Outreach | $6,600 |
| Evangelical Free Church of Am | $6,000 |
| China Outreach Ministries | $6,000 |
| East-West Ministries | $6,000 |
| World Outreach Ministries | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 43% of your 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 +39% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2023, 7 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k 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
- VHVillage Heartbeat7× · 2017–2023 · $103k · revenue +43%
- COCHINA OUTREACH MINISTRIESINC7× · 2017–2023 · $46k · revenue +36%
- WOWORLD OUTREACH MINISTRIES INC7× · 2017–2023 · $45k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- DCDAVIS COLLEGEone grant, 2017 · $70k · revenue -63%
- TCTRINITY CHILDREN CENTER INCone grant, 2022 · $62k
- JHJIVAN HIMALAYA INCone grant, 2021 · $28k
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.
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.
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
Crossing Cultures International, Inc. exists to glorify God by equipping Christ followers globally with comprehensive training for effective ministry.
Bible Translation and acts of Christian Services
The purpose of IMI is reaching nationals through nationals in ministry.
To equip young leaders throughout Central and Eastern Europe to fulfill Christ's commission through the local church.
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 preach and propogate the gospel of jesus christ in the united states and throughout the world, to provide christian literature and training materials through various forms of media, and to offer christian leadership and discipleship…
Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.
Assisting national Christian leaders around the world.
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…
Providing guality Christian education to the network generation
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA and the most unlike its peers is Ace Development Fund Inc. 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 41 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 42 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 Village Heartbeat ↗
- Who funds DAVIS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CHINA OUTREACH MINISTRIESINC ↗
- Who funds WORLD OUTREACH MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Precept ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF REFUGEES INC ↗
- Who funds JIVAN HIMALAYA INC ↗
- Who funds Agora Enterprises ↗
- Who funds REFORMED EVANGELISTIC FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds ACE DEVELOPMENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT EXCHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Toccoa Falls College Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHRISTAR INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds SACRED ROOTS FARM INC ↗
- Who funds FCS URBAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds SERVE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Summer Institute of Linguistics Inc dba SIL Global ↗
- Who funds InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA ↗
- Who funds Arrowhead Ministries 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: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · Dallas Seminary Foundation · Gordon Christian Trust · The Bolick Foundation · Tyndale House Ministries · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Servant Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · South Carolina Christian 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 Sandell Ministries Inc 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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