· Private foundation
Serving Your Purpose Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CINCINNATI HILLS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC | $3,519 |
| CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN VIRTUE | $3,000 |
| CITY GOSPEL MISSION | $2,500 |
| BACK 2 BACK MINISTRIES INC | $2,000 |
| BLOC MINISTRIES | $2,000 |
| MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE INC | $1,450 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,200 |
| THE CHRIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| RABBINICAL YESHIVA OF CINCINNATI | $1,000 |
| STAR 933 | $1,000 |
| THE NAPLES GATHERING | $1,000 |
| CHARACTER COUNCIL OF CINCINNATI AND NORTHERN KENTUCKY | $1,000 |
| CRUCAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST | $1,000 |
| SUSTAINABLE MEDICAL MISSIONS | $1,000 |
| ANTHONY MUNOZ FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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 human-services grants (FY17–22, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 16% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CACraig and Frances Lindner Center of Hope7× · 2017–2024 · $69k · revenue +48%
Back 2 Back Ministries Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $31k · revenue +32%- CHCincinnati Hills Christian Academy8× · 2017–2024 · $29k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- TGTRINITY GRACE CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $5k
- CCCINCINNATI CHILDREN'S THEATERone grant, 2022 · $2k
- LPLEGACY POINTE CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $2k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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.
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…
To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.
Bibleproject's mission is to help people experience the bible as a unified story that leads to jesus. this is achieved by creating biblical videos to be regularly released on a newly-created youtube channel. (continued on schedule o.)each…
To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
Life Network provides support and mentoring to women and men facing unexpected pregnancies; offers parenting support, material resources, and referrals; and promotes sexual risk avoidance through education to foster a culture that values…
Walk thru the bible (wtb) ignites passion for god's word. by developing a global network of influential pastors and leaders and then resourcing them with tools and training, wtb fulfills its role in the great commission.
Coyfc reaches young people everywhere, working with the local church and other like minded partners to raise up lifelong followers of jesus who lead by their godliness in lifestyle, devotion to the word of god and prayer, passion for…
The specific purpose of this corporation is to present a biblical, christian ministry of the gospel, hope, encouragement and strength to as many people as possible. the intent of those who will conduct this corporation's work is to present…
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
To get the good news to every nation this generation by showing and sharing god's love by providing opportunities and supporting christian missionaries in over fifty seven countries around the world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Christian Virtue and the most unlike its peers is The Butler Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
73 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 73 of the 118 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 Craig and Frances Lindner Center of Hope ↗
- Who funds Back 2 Back Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy ↗
- Who funds LIFE ENRICHING COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN VIRTUE ↗
- Who funds CITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES ↗
- Who funds Anthony Munoz Foundation ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE MEDICAL MISSIONS INC ↗
- Who funds ANSWERS IN GENESIS INC ↗
- Who funds FC CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHARACTER COUNCIL OF CINCINNATI & NORTHERN KENTUCKY ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE ↗
- Who funds NUWAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Eve Center Inc ↗
- Who funds BLOC MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI CHALLENGE RANCH ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds OHIO VALLEY VOICES ↗
- Who funds POTTERS RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds Shaggy Dog Rescue ↗
- Who funds CITYLINK CENTER ↗
- Who funds Matthew 25 Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds GOOD NEWS COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds The Christ Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds SYCAMORE ATHLETIC BOOSTERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds RESTAVEK FREEDOM FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Hcs Foundation · Farmer Family Foundation · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · The Psalms Foundation · Robert H & Susan F Castellini Foundation · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Carl H and Edyth B Lindner Foundation · The Heidt Family 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 Serving Your Purpose Inc 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.