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Sendme 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.

$129k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it funds
0186% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$903kInternational$211kYouth Development$172kHealth$37kFood & Nutrition$37kRecreation & Sports$36kCommunity Improvement$3Other$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $84k
$6,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LITTLE LOVES ORPHANAGE INC$30,000
WAGNER MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL$30,000
BUILDING ALL CHILDREN$24,000
FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES$6,300
MERCY SHIPS$6,000
THIS IS US INC$6,000
THE PEARL HOUSE$6,000
COHPS$6,000
E3 PARTNERS$5,100
NORTH AMERICAN MISSION BOARD$3,600
STUDENT MOBILIZATION$3,300
NAVIGATORS$3,000
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 (FY19–25, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%THIS IS US INC: $6k → 15%THIS IS US INC: $6k → 15%THIS IS US INC: $6k → 15%THIS IS US INC: $6k → 15%THIS IS US INC: $6k → 15%THIS IS US INC: $6k → 15%THIS IS US INC: $500 → 15%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

MN
KS
AR
NC
OK
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 19 repeat orgs$311k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
2

Total granted

$1.1M
$306k

Still filing today

37%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Youth DevelopmentReligionInternationalHuman ServicesOther
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

  • WM
    WAGNER MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL
    8× · 2018–2025 · $233k · revenue +372%
  • LL
    Little Loves Orphanage Inc
    8× · 2018–2025 · $193k · revenue +74% · 27% of their budget
  • BA
    BUILDING ALL CHILDREN INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $124k · revenue +317%

Funded once

  • BG
    BAPTIST GENERAL CONVENTION OF OKLAH
    one grant, 2017 · $300k
  • NC
    NORTH CAROLINA BAPTIST MEN
    one grant, 2017 · $6k
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
International Christian Partners Llc

Childrens Home and Ministry in India

Religion
2
Footprints Abroad International Ministries Inc

How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news! Romans 10:15

Religion
3
Hope Ministries International

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to communicate the message of life in Jesus Christ to the nations. It accomplishes this in a variety of ways: through evangelism, teaching the Bible, holding conferences for teaching and…

Religion
4
International Impact Ministries in
Religion
5
Good Day Ministries

Provide Foos and Shelter to orphane

Religion
6
Barnabas Global Link Inc

Education of pastors, church planning, and gospel proclamation

Religion
7
Christian Mission Charities Inc

Christian support for third world countr

International
8
Global Venture Inc

Christian ministry of spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ nationally and internationally. The organization primarily evangelizes in the United States and India.

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9
Full Gospel Church in India & Shepherd Children's Home

Providing educational and religious support to orphanage children

Human Services
10
Light Ministries Inc

Religious Travel in US and abroad to share the gospel of Jesus Christ. Church planting. Humanitarian aid (orphanages and feeding stations).

Religion
11
Life International Inc

To raise awareness and support for children and the poor

International
12
Faithlife Ministries Inc

Training of Christian pastors and church leaders

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fellowship of Christian Athletes; the most unlike its peers is The Pearl House 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

8 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. 8 of the 22 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)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BAPTIST GENERAL CONVENTION OF OKLAH: $300,000 · OtherBAPTIST GENERAL CONVENTION OF OKLAHBattle Creek Baptist Church: $126,000 · OtherBattle Creek Baptist ChurchFIRST SOUTHERN BAPTIST CHURCH: $120,000 · OtherFIRST SOUTHERN BAPTIST CHURCHFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH: $44,000 · OtherFIRST BAPTIST CHURCHCOHPS: $36,500 · OtherCRU: $34,500 · OtherNORTH AMERICAN MISSION BOARD OF THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION INC: $32,400 · Other+7 more: $65,303 · Other+7 moreWAGNER MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL: $232,500 · ReligionWAGNER MINISTRIES …+1 more: $5,100 · ReligionLittle Loves Orphanage Inc: $192,500 · InternationalLittle Loves Orp…Mercy Ships International: $18,000 · InternationalMercy Ships Inte…BUILDING ALL CHILDREN INC: $124,000 · Youth DevelopmentBUILDING ALL CHI…The Pearl House Inc: $47,500 · Youth DevelopmentThe Pearl House …FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $36,300 · Youth DevelopmentFELLOWSHIP OF CH…This IS Us Inc: $36,500 · Human Services
Other$758,703Religion$237,600International$210,500Youth Development$207,800Human Services$36,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWAGNER MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL: $232,500 over 8y, 11% of budgetLittle Loves Orphanage Inc: $192,500 over 8y, 27% of budgetBUILDING ALL CHILDREN INC: $124,000 over 8y, 12% of budgetThe Pearl House Inc: $47,500 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetThis IS Us Inc: $36,500 over 7y, 8.5% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $36,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International: $18,000 over 3y, 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.

  • Who funds WAGNER MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds Little Loves Orphanage Inc ↗
  • Who funds BUILDING ALL CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds The Pearl House Inc ↗
  • Who funds This IS Us Inc ↗
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
  • Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
  • Who funds E3 Partners Ministry ↗

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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA9.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Sendme Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sendme Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%2%8%17%30%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
    4get 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 · 0–5%
    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 22 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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