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Sauermilch Milt

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$102k
Granted FY2023
11
Grants FY2023
7
States reached
$17k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182023.

Religion$82kInternational$20kEducation$10kHousing & Shelter$8kHuman Services$2k
02FY2023 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k10 grants · $85k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $17k
$8,469
Median grant
7
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE POCKET TESTAMENT LEAGUE INC$16,938
AMERICAN LEPROSY MISSIONS$8,469
WORLD VISION$8,469
BIBLE IMPACT MINISTRIES INC$8,469
THE MOODY BIBLE INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO$8,469
BILLY GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSOC$8,469
RBC MINISTRIES$8,469
WHEATON COLLEGE$8,469
AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY$8,469
PHILLY HOUSE$8,469
AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY$8,469
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PHILLY HOUSE: $8k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$92k · 9 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2023, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
0

Total granted

$92k
$0

Still filing today

67%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
ReligionHuman ServicesInternationalOther

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

  • TP
    THE POCKET TESTAMENT LEAGUE INC
    6× · 2018–2023 · $21k · revenue +14%
  • SB
    SUNDAY BREAKFAST RESCUE MISSION
    6× · 2018–2023 · $10k · revenue +74%
  • BI
    BIBLE IMPACT MINISTRIES
    6× · 2018–2023 · $10k · revenue +75%

Funded once

    Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

    04Your field

    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.

    1
    Good News Publishers

    Crossway is a not-for-profit Christian publishing ministry of Good News Publishers that exists to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ through publishing and other means, in order, by God's grace: to bring people to Christ as their Lord and…

    2
    American Bible Society
    3
    Wounded Spirits Ministries

    The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…

    Recreation & Sports
    4
    Amazing Facts International

    To proclaim to the world the everlasting gospel of revelation 14:6-12 and to encourage revival in the remnant church by leading people to embrace salvation by faith in jesus, to establish them in the church, and to disciple all believers…

    Religion
    5
    North America Bible Institute

    North America Bible Institute (NABI) is an evangelical graduate school, made up of students who are diverse in both ethnicity and ministry aims -- but united in great love for Jesus and his gospel. As a graduate school, NABI offers them…

    Education
    6
    Worldwide Bible Society

    We do bible translation with the kingdom perspective, therefore we go beyond making "a" new chinese translation for the chinese only; we strive to serve the ethnic minority groups in china and other countries as well. crossing national and…

    Religion
    7
    Discover the Book Ministries Inc

    The purpose of Discover the Book Ministries is evangelization and discipleship through various means consistent with the Holy Scriptures to help build and strengthen the Church of Jesus Christ. Our ministries include online resources,…

    Religion
    8
    Jubal Band Ministries

    Jubal band ministries mission is to invite people to become disciples of christian life with jesus.

    Religion
    9
    Christian Educational Ministries

    To share the gospel of jesus christ to the world, to teach & equip the disciples of christ, to teach & train the next generation, to bring the people of god closer together using radio, social media, print literature & other audio & video…

    Religion
    10
    Eyewitness Missions
    Philanthropy
    11
    Ecs Ministries

    To glorify God by providing biblically sound resources and structured study material to teach people from every nation to accept Christ as their Savior and Lord, grow in Christ, and share their faith with others.

    Religion
    12
    Bibles and Bikes
    Youth Development

    For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rbc Ministries and the most unlike its peers is American Tract Society. 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

    10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 12 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.

    1
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    2
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    9/10
    Grantees still filing
    7/10
    Grew since you first funded

    Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

    THE POCKET TESTAMENT LEAGUE INC — $20,836 · ReligionTHE POCKET TESTAMENT LEAGUE INCAmerican Tract Society — $10,219 · ReligionAmerican Tract SocietyAMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY — $10,219 · ReligionAMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETYRBC MINISTRIES — $9,169 · ReligionRBC MINISTRIESBIBLE IMPACT MINISTRIES — $10,219 · OtherBIBLE IMPACT MINIST…BILLY GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSOC — $10,219 · OtherBILLY GRAHAM EVANGE…RADIO BIBLE CLASS (RBC MINISTRIES) — $1,050 · OtherWORLD VISION INC — $10,219 · InternationalWORLD VISION INCAMERICAN LEPROSY MISSIONS INC — $10,219 · InternationalAMERICAN LEPROSY M…The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago — $10,219 · EducationThe Moody Bible In…Wheaton College — $10,219 · EducationWheaton CollegeSUNDAY BREAKFAST RESCUE MISSION — $10,219 · Human ServicesSUNDAY BR…
    Religion$50,443Other$21,488International$20,438Education$20,438Human Services$10,219

    Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

    25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE POCKET TESTAMENT LEAGUE INC — $20,836 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Tract Society — $10,219 over 6y, 100% of budgetSUNDAY BREAKFAST RESCUE MISSION — $10,219 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD VISION INC — $10,219 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY — $10,219 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Moody Bible Institute of Chicago — $10,219 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWheaton College — $10,219 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBIBLE IMPACT MINISTRIES — $10,219 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetAMERICAN LEPROSY MISSIONS INC — $10,219 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetRBC MINISTRIES — $9,169 over 3y, 0.0% of budget
    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 THE POCKET TESTAMENT LEAGUE INC
    • Who funds American Tract Society
    • Who funds SUNDAY BREAKFAST RESCUE MISSION
    • Who funds WORLD VISION INC
    • Who funds AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY
    • Who funds The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago
    • Who funds Wheaton College
    • Who funds BIBLE IMPACT MINISTRIES
    • Who funds AMERICAN LEPROSY MISSIONS INC
    • Who funds RBC MINISTRIES

    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.

    Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA9.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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    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 Sauermilch Milt 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.

    2025
    202122232425
    no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
      no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
      0get no government money at all
      2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
      0rely on government for over half their income
      ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
      typical government reliance, FY2025

      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.

      On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

      Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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