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Seeds of Mustard Ministries Corporation

Supporting the needs of children and families in crisis situations by providing funding to other like-minded organizations.

$137k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Youth Development$194kHuman Services$190kInternational$20kEmployment$10kCrime & Legal$10kRecreation & Sports$10kReligion$10kEducation$10k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YOUNGLIFE$25,000
REFUGEE HOPE PARTNERS$25,000
NEW GENERATIONS FOUNDATION INC$25,000
HOPE CONNECTION INTERNATIONAL$10,350
LOVE SERVICES INTERNATIONAL$10,000
SHEPHERD YOUTH RANCH$10,000
WORLD VISION$10,000
SHIP OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY CENTER$10,000
CHRISTO RAY$10,000
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 (FY24–25, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%LOVE SERVICES INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 10%SHEPHERD YOUTH RANCH: $10k → 11%NEW GENERATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 13%NEW GENERATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 13%SHIP OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 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.
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$354k · 5 repeat orgs$90k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
5

Total granted

$354k
$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+56%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationCrime & LegalReligionEmploymentOther
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

  • RH
    Refugee Hope Partners Inc
    5× · 2021–2025 · $120k · revenue +75%
  • YL
    YOUNG LIFE
    3× · 2021–2025 · $120k · revenue +38%
  • THE CORRAL RIDING ACADEMY
    2× · 2022–2023 · $44k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MINISTRIESgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +65%
  • CM
    CROSSLIFE MINISTRIES INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -7%
  • JOBS FOR LIFE INC
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -62%
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
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
2
Crossing Cultures International Inc

Crossing Cultures International, Inc. exists to glorify God by equipping Christ followers globally with comprehensive training for effective ministry.

Religion
3
UrbanPromise Charlotte

Provide Charlotte's low-income children and youth with the academic, spiritual, and social development necessary to become Christian leaders determined to restore their communities.

Youth Development
4
Christianity Today International

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.

Religion
5
L I F E Ministries Inc Community Pregnancy Center

Our mission is to affirm life through evangelism, education, counseling and practical assistance.

Health
6
Safe Harbor of Nc Inc

Safe Harbor provides a faith-based community for rebuilding, renewing, and recovery. We work together with volunteers and other nonprofit organizations to provide a wide range of services to those experiencing homelessness, single mothers,…

Health
7
Crossroads Christian Counseling

Crossroads combines innovative clinical counseling with a redemptive worldview to restore people to emotional health, relational unity, and a hopeful future.

Human Services
8
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

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…

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9
Raise Up Global Ministries

Raise Up Global Ministries is committed to educating Christian leaders in communities around the world. The three programs of Raise Up equip the global church by 1 Developing biblically based interactive materials and 2 Training…

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10
Next Worldwide Inc

With a desire to see the Gospel proclaimed in all nations, we exist to make and multiply disciples of the next generation through the vehicles of church-planting missions and missional leadership training.

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11
Cross to Light Corporation

Cross to Light is a nondenominational Christian organization providing spiritual education and physical aid to people in need around the world. Since 2005, Cross to Light has helped people cross from darkness to light by hearing the Gospel…

Religion
12
The Raleigh Rescue Mission Inc

Believing every individual has sacred value, we equip people to impact the world for good through the love of jesus christ.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life; the most unlike its peers is Shepherd Youth Ranch Inc. 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

15 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.

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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
8/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Refugee Hope Partners Inc: $120,000 · Human ServicesRefugee Hope Partners IncNEW GENERATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesNEW GENERATIONS FOUNDATION INCTHE SHIP OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesAAVI INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesSHEPHERD YOUTH RANCH INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG LIFE: $120,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFEHope Connection International: $20,350 · Youth DevelopmentHope Connection InternationalNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MINISTRIES: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MINISTRIESTHE CORRAL RIDING ACADEMY: $43,545 · EducationTHE CORRAL RI…CRISTO REY RESEARCH TRIANGLE HIGH SCHOOL INC: $10,000 · EducationCRISTO REY RE…WORLD VISION INC: $10,000 · InternationalCROSSLIFE MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 · ReligionJOBS FOR LIFE INC: $10,000 · EmploymentA Safe Place Inc: $10,000 · Crime & LegalCAPITAL AREA SOCCER LEAGUE INC: $10,000 · Other
Human Services$200,000Youth Development$150,350Education$53,545International$10,000Religion$10,000Employment$10,000Crime & Legal$10,000Other$10,000

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 budgetRefugee Hope Partners Inc: $120,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $120,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW GENERATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetTHE CORRAL RIDING ACADEMY: $43,545 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetHope Connection International: $20,350 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MINISTRIES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCROSSLIFE MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetJOBS FOR LIFE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCRISTO REY RESEARCH TRIANGLE HIGH SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SHIP OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetA Safe Place Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCAPITAL AREA SOCCER LEAGUE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHEPHERD YOUTH RANCH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% 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.

John William Pope Fou…Triangle Community Fo…Duke Energy FoundationNorth Carolina Commun…Natl Christian Charit…The Pfizer Foundation…American Endowment Fo…Paypal Charitable Giv…Donor Advised Charita…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
John William Pope FoundationNC15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: John William Pope Foundation · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Seeds of Mustard Ministries Corporation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Seeds of Mustard Ministries Corporation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%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
    5report 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, 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.
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    How do I get to Seeds of Mustard Ministries Corporation?

    Find your warmest path to Seeds of Mustard Ministries Corporation 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.

    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 15 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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