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Second Mountain Ministries

Second mountain's mission is to support those who are vulnerable, marginalized or disenfranchised in the u.s.

$113k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$58k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

International$585kHuman Services$30kReligion$15kYouth Development$15k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $89,370, the rows itemized in this filing. The $112,584 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $23,214 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 · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $31k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $58k
$58,020
Median grant
2
States reached
$48k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EDUCATION PLUS NICARAGUA$58,020
HOPE FOR HONDURAS INC$31,350
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $310k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 10% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%EDUCATION PLUS NICARAGUA: $76k → 10%DELIVERFUND: $10k → 14%EDUCATION PLUS NICARAGUA: $61k → 10%DELIVERFUND: $10k → 14%EDUCATION PLUS NICARAGUA: $58k → 10%DELIVERFUND: $10k → 14%EDUCATION PLUS NICARAGUA: $55k → 10%EDUCATION PLUS NICARAGUA: $30k → 10%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 50% of Second Mountain Ministries’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 50% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 47%.

Second Mountain Ministrieslessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 51% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$586k · 5 repeat orgs$49k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
4

Total granted

$586k
$49k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+30%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesInternationalReligionYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • EP
    Education Plus Nicaragua Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $280k · revenue -4%
  • HF
    Hope for Honduras Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $211k · revenue -9%
  • CL
    Child Legacy International Inc
    2× · 2021–2022 · $45k · revenue 0%

Funded once

  • DO
    DOOR OF HOPE INTERNATIONAL
    one grant, 2022 · $18k · revenue +13%
  • RF
    RELATIONSHIPS FOR CHRIST MINISTRIESgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +30%
  • RM
    RELIANT MISSION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
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
Hope of Honduras Inc

Organization operates a children's home in Honduras that provides food, clothing, shelter, medical care and education to abused and abandonded children in need.

International
2
Heart Bridge International

Heart Bridge International exists to equip and empower Christians around the world to fulfill the Great Commission. The organization provides free ministry training, discipleship resources, and practical coaching to under-resourced…

Religion
3
Child Hope International

We minister to orphans and widows in their distress by transitioning children from orphanages into loving families. We do this through Christ- centered care, training and social work.

Arts & Culture
4
World Hope International Inc

The purpose of world hope international, inc. (whi) includes providing assistance to economically disadvantaged people through long-term social transformation projects, including anti-trafficking protection, clean water, economic…

International
5
Go On the Mission

GO equips impoverished children to conquer the cycle of poverty through holistic Christ-centered care, enabling them to become followers of Christ who bring hope and healing to their worlds.

Religion
6
Joshua International Ministries

Joshua International Ministries is a Christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children and families to overcome poverty and reach their maximum potential by providing free educational and medical services in Sierra…

Religion
7
Children's HopeChest

Inspired by Christ's love, Children's HopeChest releases the potential existing within vulnerable communities, starting with the children.

International
8
Empowering Lives International

Empowering Lives International (ELI) ignites world changers. We equip families and orphans to crush poverty, embrace Christ, and share their transformation with others through their God-honoring income, their deepening relationship with…

Religion
9
Kidz At Heart International

KidZ at Heart International is a global Christian community that trains, partners with, and mobilizes networks of leaders to help children fall deeply in love with Jesus. We train and partner with churches and families to successfully…

Religion
10
Christs Hope U S a Inc

Empowering orphaned and vulnerable children to break the cycles of extreme poverty, AIDS, and spiritual brokenness through family-based care and discipleship in Jesus Christ.

Human Services
11
Project New Hope International

Publicly supported evangelical organization focused on community transformation and empowerment of impoverished neighborhoods in South America and around the world. Missionaries work with community leaders assisting them in various mission…

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12
The Orphans Hands Inc

The Orphan's Hands provides a safe home and education for orphaned youth at risk of being trafficked in high-risk countries while bringing the love and hope of Jesus.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is World Vision Inc; the most unlike its peers is DeliverFund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the 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 10 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education Plus Nicaragua Inc: $280,478 · Human ServicesEducation Plus Nicaragua IncDeliverFund: $30,000 · Human ServicesDeliverFundHope for Honduras Inc: $210,745 · InternationalHope for Honduras IncY-KNOT MISSIONS: $20,245 · InternationalY-KNOT MISSIONSWORLD VISION INC: $10,000 · InternationalChild Legacy International Inc: $45,000 · ReligionChild Lega…RELATIONSHIPS FOR CHRIST MINISTRIES: $15,000 · ReligionRELATIONSH…DOOR OF HOPE INTERNATIONAL: $18,399 · OtherRELIANT MISSION INC: $10,000 · OtherYOUNG LIFE: $5,125 · Youth Development
Human Services$310,478International$240,990Religion$60,000Other$28,399Youth Development$5,125

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 budgetEducation Plus Nicaragua Inc: $280,478 over 5y, 19% of budgetHope for Honduras Inc: $210,745 over 5y, 9.2% of budgetChild Legacy International Inc: $45,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetDeliverFund: $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetY-KNOT MISSIONS: $20,245 over 2y, 11% of budgetDOOR OF HOPE INTERNATIONAL: $18,399 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetRELATIONSHIPS FOR CHRIST MINISTRIES: $15,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $5,125 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA8.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Second Mountain Ministries funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Second Mountain Ministries. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 10 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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