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Seven Sisters Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

Seven Sisters Foundation Inc

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.

$47k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$20k
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, FY2021 to 2025.

Human Services$58kYouth Development$36kInternational$35kReligion$33kCrime & Legal$25kCivil Rights$20k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$647k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN$20,000
HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES$10,000
IMMIGRATION COALITION$5,000
EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE$5,000
WORLD RELIEF$5,000
UNITED HANDS SERVICES INC$1,600
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 (FY21–25, $91k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CIRCLES OF CARE INC: $5k → 17%HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES: $10k → 9%SALEM 4 YOUTH: $15k → 12%SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN: $20k → 14%SALEM 4 YOUTH: $10k → 12%SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN: $5k → 14%SALEM 4 YOUTH: $6k → 12%SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN: $5k → 14%SALEM 4 YOUTH: $5k → 12%SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN: $5k → 14%SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN: $5k → 14%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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$175k · 8 repeat orgs$32k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
4

Total granted

$175k
$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
+4%

Still filing today

75%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesInternationalCivil RightsReligionHealthOther
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

  • SF
    SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE
    5× · 2021–2025 · $40k · revenue +54%
  • LF
    LIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $20k · revenue +79%
  • EC
    EXODUS CRY INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • AD
    A DOOR OF HOPE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +10%
  • CO
    CIRCLES OF CARE
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -3%
  • KC
    KIDS CENTRAL INC
    one grant, 2024 · $4k · revenue +4%
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
World Without Orphans Global

World without orphans (wwo) global's vision is that every child would grow up in a safe and loving family, know their heavenly father, and reach their god-given purpose. wwo global's mission is to call and equip national leaders to…

International
2
Love Justice International

The mission of love justice international is driving the downfall of slavery by disrupting human trafficking in transit.

International
3
Childrens House International

Children's house international provides ethical adoption services, child focused recruitment, and family support. we support disadvantaged children with humanitarian aid in countries worldwide.

—
4
Kids Crossing

Kids crossing's vision is to provide a safe and caring home for every child. our mission is to strengthen families so they may provide the best care for those children entrusted to them.

Human Services
5
His House Inc

His house children's home is a faith-based organization that restores the lives of children and families.

—
6
World Orphans

World orphans vision is to empower the church to care for orphans and vulnerable families. we equip, inspire, and mobilize the church to care for orphans and vulnerable children. churches engaged. children restored. communities transformed…

—
7
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
8
Catholic Charities of Northwest Florida

Catholic charities carries out the social mission of the catholic church in northwest florida to serve, empower, and advocate for vulnerable families and individuals of any race, religion, or national origin.

—
9
Children's Choice Inc

Children's choice is a christian social service agency, which provides specialized community-based services. children's choice serves as a bridge for individuals who are in need of the re-integrative process of family living. intensive,…

Human Services
10
Rescue 1 Global

Our mission is to counter human trafficking and provide holistic restoration: at home and around the world.

International
11
Arkansas Justice Collective Aiding Survivors of Trafficking and Chil

Arkansas justice collective is a nonprofit law firm serving survivors of trafficking and child abuse across arkansas and the region.

Public Benefit
12
Freedom to Captives

To further the name of christ in an international environment by holding church and evangelistic services including house of prayer and training center for equipping people in futhering christianity. the english language is also taught in…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids Central Inc; the most unlike its peers is Immigration Coalition Corporation. 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

11 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. 11 of the 14 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE: $40,000 · Human ServicesSAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCESALEM CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $36,000 · Human ServicesSALEM CHILDREN'S HOME INCHELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesHELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INCCIRCLES OF CARE: $5,000 · Human ServicesCIRCLES OF CAREEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $25,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVEIMMIGRATION COALITION CORPORATION: $20,000 · Civil RightsIMMIGRATION COALITION CO…LIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC: $20,000 · InternationalLIFESONG FOR ORPHAN…EXODUS CRY INC: $10,000 · InternationalEXODUS CRY INCWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS: $5,000 · InternationalWORLD RELIEF CORP O…BETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $20,000 · OtherBETHANY CHRIST…UNITED HANDS SERVICES INC: $4,100 · OtherUNITED HANDS S…HOPE COMMUNITY CHURCH OF AUSTIN: $3,000 · OtherHOPE COMMUNITY…A DOOR OF HOPE INC: $5,000 · ReligionKIDS CENTRAL INC: $4,000 · Health
Human Services$91,000Civil Rights$45,000International$35,000Other$27,100Religion$5,000Health$4,000

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 budgetSAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE: $40,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSALEM CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $36,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetIMMIGRATION COALITION CORPORATION: $20,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetLIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEXODUS CRY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetA DOOR OF HOPE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCIRCLES OF CARE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS CENTRAL INC: $4,000 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.

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 67%
  • World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals: 67% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 14 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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