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SDG Foundation at a glance

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SDG Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$130k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$615kReligion$227kHuman Services$195kPublic Safety & Disaster$175kInternational$88kHealth$73kPhilanthropy$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $100k
$8,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KINGSTONE PARTNERS$30,000
KENAI CLASSICAL$20,000
MEXICAN MEDICAL MINISTRIES$20,000
PUBLIC SAFETY CHAPLAINCY$20,000
ASSOC OF BAPTISTS FOR WORLD EVANGEL$10,000
LENAM$8,000
HEARTSTREAM RESOURCES$6,000
PAID IN FULL OREGON$5,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$4,000
FIRST IMAGE$3,000
KING OF KINGS MINISTRY$2,000
MISSION TO THE WORLD$2,000
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 (FY18–25, $107k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%GUIDELIGHT: $2k → 10%KINGSTONE PARTNERS: $30k → 23%KINGSTONE PARTNERS: $20k → 23%KINGSTONE PARTNERS: $20k → 23%KINGSTONE PARTNERS: $20k → 23%PURE LIFE ALLIANCE: $5k → 8%PURE LIFE ALLIANCE: $5k → 8%PURE LIFE ALLIANCE: $5k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
ID
OR
IN
PA
NJ
CA
TN
NC
MS
GA
TX
FL
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 25 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.

25 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
3

Total granted

$1.4M
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
-1%

Still filing today

44%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionHuman ServicesEducationHealthInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • KC
    KENAI CLASSICAL INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $595k · revenue +154%
  • PS
    Public Safety Chaplaincy Inc
    8× · 2018–2025 · $175k · revenue +79%
  • FI
    First Image
    8× · 2018–2025 · $51k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • GI
    GUIDELIGHT INC
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue -1%
  • KO
    KING OF KINGS MINISTRIES INC
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
  • CC
    CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST
    one grant, 2021 · $1k
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
Mission Partners for Christ Aka Community Health Initiatives
Community Improvement
2
Safe Haven Counseling Associates in

Biblical counseling

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3
Discovery Counseling & Life Planning

Biblical counseling church leadership

Human Services
4
Evangelism Partners International
Religion
5
From Pain to Purpose

Helping those in pain and crisis.

Religion
6
Intimate Life Ministries
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7
Life Training Ministries Inc

Christian counseling for individuals with anxiety depression or other emotional struggles. Christian counseling for marriages and other couples.

Human Services
8
Divine Romance Ministries

Divine Romance Ministries Inc provides Christ-centered mentoringcoaching Our goal is to strengthen christian marriages in an effort to eliminate divorce The focus of our message is a complete and total submission to the Lord Jesus Christ 1…

Religion
9
Filipino Cursillos in Christianity La
Religion
10
Asia Us Impact

Religious

Religion
11
One Life Ministries
Religion
12
Dozen Ministries

Religious

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is First Image; the most unlike its peers is Luis Palau Association. 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

13 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. 13 of the 29 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KENAI CLASSICAL INC: $595,000 · EducationKENAI CLASSICAL INC+1 more: $20,000 · EducationPublic Safety Chaplaincy Inc: $175,000 · OtherPublic Safety Chaplaincy IncLENAM INC: $68,000 · OtherLENAM INCABC PREGNANCY CARE CENTER: $40,000 · OtherABC PREGNANCY CARE CENTERASSOC OF BAPTISTS FOR WORLD EVANGEL: $30,000 · OtherASSOC OF BAPTISTS FOR WORLD EVANGELASSOCIATION OF BAPTISTS FOR WORLD EVANGELISM INC: $30,000 · OtherASSOCIATION OF BAPTISTS FOR WORLD EVAN…FLORIDA COAST CHURCH INC: $20,000 · OtherABWE: $20,000 · OtherABC PREGANCY CARE CENTER DBA ABC LIFE CHOICES: $18,000 · Other+10 more: $78,000 · Other+10 moreKINGSTONE PARTNERS: $90,000 · Human ServicesPURE LIFE ALLIANCE: $15,000 · Human Services+1 more: $2,000 · Human ServicesSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $42,000 · ReligionLuis Palau Association: $37,750 · ReligionHEARTSTREAM RESOURCES: $23,000 · ReligionFirst Image: $51,000 · HealthMEXICAN MEDICAL INC: $40,000 · InternationalLENAM INC: $8,000 · Philanthropy
Education$615,000Other$479,000Human Services$107,000Religion$102,750Health$51,000International$40,000Philanthropy$8,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKENAI CLASSICAL INC: $595,000 over 6y, 16% of budgetPublic Safety Chaplaincy Inc: $175,000 over 8y, 4.8% of budgetKINGSTONE PARTNERS: $90,000 over 4y, 33% of budgetFirst Image: $51,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $42,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetABC PREGNANCY CARE CENTER: $40,000 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetMEXICAN MEDICAL INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetLuis Palau Association: $37,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHEARTSTREAM RESOURCES: $23,000 over 4y, 8.6% of budgetPAID IN FULL OREGON: $20,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetPURE LIFE ALLIANCE: $15,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetGUIDELIGHT INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

  • Who funds KENAI CLASSICAL INC ↗
  • Who funds Public Safety Chaplaincy Inc ↗
  • Who funds KINGSTONE PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds First Image ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds ABC PREGNANCY CARE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MEXICAN MEDICAL INC ↗
  • Who funds Luis Palau Association ↗
  • Who funds HEARTSTREAM RESOURCES ↗
  • Who funds PAID IN FULL OREGON ↗
  • Who funds PURE LIFE ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds LENAM INC ↗
  • Who funds GUIDELIGHT INC ↗

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.

M J Murdock Charitabl…Natl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
M J Murdock Charitable TrustWA13.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 SDG Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from SDG Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%3%10%23%40%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
    6get 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 29 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-PF 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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