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Senders International

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.

$12k
Granted FY2023
16
Grants FY2023
9
States reached
$6k
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 FY20202023.

Religion$31kInternational$7kArts & Culture$2kHousing & Shelter$2kFood & Nutrition$2kHealth$1kPublic Safety & Disaster$825Civil Rights$800Other$0
02FY2023 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$350
Median grant
9
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COATES MINISTRIES INC$6,348
JOSEPH PRINCE MINISTRIES$1,225
NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION$600
HOUSTON FOOD BANK$600
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$500
ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM$500
STAR OF HOPE MISSION$375
OPERATION SMILE$350
HOUSTON FOOD BANK$350
PAWS OF WAR$200
HOPE CITY CHURCH$150
100 CLUB$100
TUNNEL TO TOWERS$100
AMERICAN RED CROSS$100
SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARFARE FOUND$50
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.

Your US giving — 87% of grant dollars ($43k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 13% that went abroad ($6k) is mapped below.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $500 → 11%PAWS OF WAR: $200 → 7%CELEBRATION CHURCH: $150 → 9%LAKEWOOD CHURCH: $200 → 16%SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARFARE FOUND: $50 → 13%COATES MINISTRIES INC: $6k → 11%SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $500 → 21%OPERATION SMILE: $350 → 10%OPERATION SMILE: $325 → 19%ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $300 → 11%PAWS OF WAR: $350 → 7%VICTORY CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $75 → 16%COATES MINISTRIES INC: $6k → 11%SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $350 → 21%NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION: $600 → 10%100 CLUB: $100 → 16%COATES MINISTRIES INC: $6k → 11%NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION: $600 → 10%100 CLUB: $100 → 16%COATES MINISTRIES INC: $6k → 11%NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION: $600 → 10%100 CLUB: $100 → 16%NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION: $600 → 10%100 CLUB: $100 → 16%SALVATION ARMY: $400 → 16%SALVATION ARMY: $250 → 16%SALVATION ARMY: $25 → 16%SALVATION ARMY: $25 → 16%HOUSTON FOOD BANK: $600 → 16%HOUSTON FOOD BANK: $600 → 16%HOUSTON FOOD BANK: $450 → 16%HOUSTON FOOD BANK: $350 → 16%HOPE CITY CHURCH: $200 → 16%HOPE CITY CHURCH: $150 → 16%STAR OF HOPE MISSION: $550 → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $225 → 16%STAR OF HOPE MISSION: $375 → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $100 → 16%STAR OF HOPE MISSION: $375 → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $100 → 16%STAR OF HOPE MISSION: $300 → 16%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.

Which US states your grants reach

NY
IA
PA
CA
VA
AZ
NC
SC
TX
FL

Beyond the US — 13% of all-years giving ($6k)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Colombia$6k · 2 grants

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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 68% of Senders International’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Senders Internationallessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 66% directed abroad (not shown)

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$46k · 15 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2023, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
5

Total granted

$46k
$3k

Still filing today

60%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
ReligionArts & CultureHousing & ShelterCivil RightsInternationalAnimalsOther

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

  • CM
    COATES MINISTRIES INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $24k · revenue +109%
  • NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $2k · revenue +59%
  • The Houston Food Bank
    3× · 2020–2023 · $2k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • DM
    DANIEL MATEI MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
  • SO
    SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARFARE FOUNDATI
    one grant, 2020 · $225
  • LC
    LAKEWOOD CHURCH
    one grant, 2020 · $200

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
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
2
Aerial Recovery

Aerial recovery's mission is to save lives and stop evil. through the creation and deployment of humanitarian special operators, aerial recovery brings together selected veterans, first responders, and mission-qualified civilians who,…

3
American Bible Society

Since 1816, american bible society has been fulfilling its mission of making the bible available to every person in a language and format each can understand and afford so all people may experience its life-changing message.

Religion
4
Mission of Mercy
5
Special Ops Survivors

Special ops survivors advances the mission "to embrace and empower surviving spouses of fallen special operations heroes to build healthy post-loss futures as they transition and rebuild their new lives." the foundation provides programs…

Human Services
6
Life As Mission
Unclassified
7
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
8
Eyewitness Missions
Philanthropy
9
Free to Worship Ministries

This church will be that place of emergency where people can come any time of day or night. We will be a place that will lead people back to health both spiritually and naturally.

Religion
10
Operation Adopt a Soldier

Helping wounded soldiers

Public Benefit
11
Robert Irvine Foundation Inc

The robert irvine foundation is a not-for-profit entity and is tax exempt under 501(c) (3) of the internal revenue code (irc). the organization supports and strengthens the physical and mental well-being of our service members, veterans,…

Human Services
12
The Porch Ministries

Our ultimate mission at the porch is clear and simple: to raise up mighty sons of god who will carry the authority of the kingdom of heaven, and make jesus known in the earth. we desire to raise up men of god who will love his truth with…

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The 100 Club Inc and the most unlike its peers is Paws of War Inc. 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 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. 9 of the 21 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COATES MINISTRIES INC — $23,648 · ReligionCOATES MINISTRIES INCSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $850 · ReligionSCHOOL O PEACE ORPHANAGE — $6,450 · OtherSCHOOL O PEACE ORPHANAGEJOSEPH PRINCE MINISTRIES — $4,650 · OtherJOSEPH PRINCE MINISTRIESDANIEL MATEI MINISTRIES — $2,250 · OtherDANIEL MATEI MINISTRIESThe Houston Food Bank — $2,000 · OtherThe Houston Food BankTUNNEL TO TOWERS — $800 · OtherSALVATION ARMY — $700 · Other+7 more — $1,475 · Other+7 moreNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC — $2,400 · Arts & CultureSTAR OF HOPE MISSION — $1,600 · Housing & ShelterALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM — $800 · Civil RightsOPERATION SMILE INC — $675 · InternationalPAWS OF WAR INC — $550 · AnimalsTHE 100 CLUB INC — $400 · Crime & Legal
Religion$24,498Other$18,325Arts & Culture$2,400Housing & Shelter$1,600Civil Rights$800International$675Animals$550Crime & Legal$400

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOATES MINISTRIES INC — $23,648 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC — $2,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank — $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTAR OF HOPE MISSION — $1,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $850 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM — $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC — $675 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS OF WAR INC — $550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE 100 CLUB INC — $400 over 4y, 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 COATES MINISTRIES INC
  • Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds The Houston Food Bank
  • Who funds STAR OF HOPE MISSION
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE
  • Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM
  • Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC
  • Who funds PAWS OF WAR INC
  • Who funds THE 100 CLUB INC

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 IncGA10.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Senders International 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.

2024
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
    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Senders International?

    Find your warmest path to Senders International 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 21 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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