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Sandell Ministries Inc

The purpose of Sandell Ministries Inc. (the ministry) is to provide renewal and encouragement for Christian ministers, missionaries, workers and lay people, helping them to experience wholeness and renewal. The ministry's purpose is achieved through preaching, counseling, distribution of financial aid to needy persons, and other means.

$189k
Granted FY2023
13
Itemized grants FY2023
13
Organizations funded FY2023
31%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$162k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$21,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 18
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
8
Total assets, FY2023
$68k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 31% of the organizations Sandell Ministries Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
ReligionInternationalEducationFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202313$162k31%
FY20228$144k25%
FY202114$161k43%
FY20209$191k44%
FY201912$194k42%
FY201812$232k17%
FY201718$450kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Religion$963kEducation$132kPublic Safety & Disaster$113kInternational$80kCommunity Improvement$63kPublic Benefit$62kHuman Services$44kFood & Nutrition$38kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
WI
NY
IN
OH
PA
CA
CO
MO
TN
NC
OK
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Christian & Missionary Alliance$506,3007n/a
Village Heartbeat$102,50075%
Davis College$70,00012%
The Evangelical Free Church of America$64,5007n/a
Trinity Children Center Inc$62,2001n/a
World Gospel Mission$50,0004n/a
China Outreach Ministriesinc$45,50070%
World Outreach Ministries Inc$44,50070%
Precept$40,00020%
Wycliffe Bible Translators Inc$38,0003n/a
Show all 38 grantees
All grantees of Sandell Ministries Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Christian & Missionary Alliance$506,3007n/a
Village Heartbeat$102,50075%
Davis College$70,00012%
The Evangelical Free Church of America$64,5007n/a
Trinity Children Center Inc$62,2001n/a
World Gospel Mission$50,0004n/a
China Outreach Ministriesinc$45,50070%
World Outreach Ministries Inc$44,50070%
Precept$40,00020%
Wycliffe Bible Translators Inc$38,0003n/a
Friends of Refugees Inc$37,80021%
Calvary Chapel Stone Mountain Inc$32,5003n/a
Evangelical Alliance Mission$30,0002n/a
Jivan Himalaya Inc$28,0001n/a
First Christian and Missionary Alliance Church of Toccoa$27,0002n/a
Agora Enterprises$25,0002n/a
Reformed Evangelistic Fellowship Inc$20,50020%
Ace Development Fund Inc$20,000122%
Great Exchange Inc$20,00025%
Voice of the Martyrs Inc$20,0001n/a
Covenant College Foundation Inc$20,00011%
Alliance University$20,00010%
Prime Time World Outreach Inc$18,6002n/a
El Camino International Ministries Inc$15,5881n/a
Toccoa Falls College Inc$15,00010%
Christar International Inc$15,00012%
Arrowhead Ministries Inc$10,00011%
Fcs Urban Ministries Inc$10,00010%
InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA$10,00010%
Sacred Roots Farm Inc$10,00013%
Campus Crusade for Christ Inc$10,0001n/a
Summer Institute of Linguistics Inc dba SIL Global$10,00010%
Serve International$10,000111%
Pca Mission to North America$10,0001n/a
Mission to the World Pca Inc$7,5001n/a
Renacer Family Center Inc$7,4001n/a
English Language Institute in China$7,00010%
East-West Ministries International$6,0001n/a

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($38k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sandell Ministries Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVillage Heartbeat: $102,500 over 7y, 5.1% of budgetDavis College: $70,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetChina Outreach Ministriesinc: $45,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetWorld Outreach Ministries Inc: $44,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPrecept: $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFriends of Refugees Inc: $37,800 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetReformed Evangelistic Fellowship Inc: $20,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAce Development Fund Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetGreat Exchange Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetCovenant College Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAlliance University: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetToccoa Falls College Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChristar International Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetArrowhead Ministries Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFcs Urban Ministries Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSacred Roots Farm Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetSummer Institute of Linguistics Inc dba SIL Global: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetServe International: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetEnglish Language Institute in China: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 20.

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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 Foundation IncCO23.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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Find your warmest path to Sandell Ministries 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.

About Sandell Ministries Inc

How much does Sandell Ministries Inc give?
Sandell Ministries Inc reported 13 itemized grants totaling $161,600, out of $188,600 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Sandell Ministries Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Religion (62%), Education (9%), Public Safety & Disaster (7%).
Who are Sandell Ministries Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Christian & Missionary Alliance ($506k), Village Heartbeat ($103k), Davis College ($70k).
Does Sandell Ministries Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Sandell Ministries Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Christian Community Foundation Inc, Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation, The Maclellan Foundation Inc.
Where is Sandell Ministries Inc based?
Sandell Ministries Inc is based in GA.

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 42 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $115k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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