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Signs & Wonders Ministries

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.

$21k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it funds
0160% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$121kHuman Services$12kHealth$7kEducation$6kHousing & Shelter$4kInternational$3kPublic Benefit$1kFood & Nutrition$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$128k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$12,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
THE MISSION CO$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
CHOICES PREGNANCY CENTER$1,000
LIGHT OF LIFE RESCUE MISSION$1,000
Individual grant recipient$500
LIPTAK PASTOR RICH KATHY$500
Individual grant recipient$500
Individual grant recipient$500
THE BOWERY MISSION$250
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 (FY20–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%OVERLAND MISSIONS: $500 → 10%LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES: $5k → 11%LIGHT OF LIFE RESCUE MISSION: $1k → 11%LIGHT OF LIFE RESCUE MISSION: $1k → 11%LIGHT OF LIFE RESCUE MISSION: $1k → 11%LIGHT OF LIFE RESCUE MISSION: $1k → 11%LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES: $500 → 11%LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES: $500 → 11%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

NY
NV
IN
PA
CA
MO
VA
TN
NC
SC
AL
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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$142k · 21 repeat orgs$69k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

21 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
49

Total granted

$142k
$65k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+28%

Still filing today

33%
16%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterHealthEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • CP
    CHOICES PREGNANCY SERVICES
    6× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +43%
  • NY
    NEW YORK SCHOOL OF URBAN MINISTRY INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $6k · revenue +43%
  • RC
    RHEMA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $5k · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • HC
    HILL CITY CHURCH
    one grant, 2020 · $13k
  • TB
    TENNESSEE BAPTIST CHILDRENS HOMES INC
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $4k
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
Jesus Name Ministry

Our mission is to share the Gospel and provide humanitarian support to the underprivileged, utilizing both mass media and direct, on-the-ground efforts in Africa and Asia.

Religion
2
Spirit Invasion Ministries

Spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ

Religion
3
More International Ministries

To spread the gospel of jesus christ through crusades

Religion
4
A Blessing to the Nations

Religious ministry

Religion
5
Gods Promise Ministries International

Religious Purposes

Housing & Shelter
6
Faithbytheword Incorporated

As Christs followers, we have the Holy Spirit residing within us, which means we have His power to fulfill this command. We cant save anyone, but its our responsibility to tell people about the God who can. How will they believe unless…

Human Services
7
Christian Ministries
International
8
Jesus in Vietnam Ministries
Religion
9
Living Hope Christian Ministry Inc

To teach, preach, proclaim, publish, distribute and disseminate the gospel and doctrine of the christian faith. the ministry reaches approximately 1.5 million persons through its outreach ministries.

Religion
10
Elohim Love International Ministries

To spread the gospel of Jesus Christ to all the nations

Religion
11
Christian Ministries International
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12
Destiny Ministries International Inc

Provide oversight spititual support, evangelize the word help the poor and needy including aid in the translation of the nible

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York School of Urban Ministry Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Christian Broadcasting Network 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. 15 of the 73 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
12/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $45,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCROSSING PATHS: $16,000 · OtherCROSSING PATHSHILL CITY CHURCH: $12,500 · OtherHILL CITY CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $7,500 · OtherWILDWOOD CHAPEL: $7,000 · OtherNEW YORK SCHOOL OF URBAN MINISTRY INC: $6,400 · OtherTHE MISSION CO: $6,000 · Other+53 more: $78,394 · Other+53 moreLIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC: $9,500 · Human ServicesOVERLAND MISSIONS INC: $500 · Human ServicesSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $3,000 · ReligionChristian Herald Association Inc: $2,350 · ReligionALPHA LIONS DEN MINISTRIES: $2,000 · ReligionPILGRIM TRACT SOCIETY INC: $1,200 · ReligionHIS FOOD MINISTRY: $500 · ReligionThe Christian Broadcasting Network Inc: $500 · Religion+1 more: $320 · ReligionCHOICES PREGNANCY SERVICES: $6,600 · HealthRHEMA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: $5,300 · EducationTIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC: $500 · PhilanthropyHosanna Industries Inc: $200 · Housing & Shelter
Other$178,794Human Services$10,000Religion$9,870Health$6,600Education$5,300Philanthropy$500Housing & Shelter$200

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 budgetLIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC: $9,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHOICES PREGNANCY SERVICES: $6,600 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK SCHOOL OF URBAN MINISTRY INC: $6,400 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRHEMA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: $5,300 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChristian Herald Association Inc: $2,350 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALPHA LIONS DEN MINISTRIES: $2,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetPILGRIM TRACT SOCIETY INC: $1,200 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBIBLE PATHWAY MINISTRIES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHIS FOOD MINISTRY: $500 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetOVERLAND MISSIONS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Christian Broadcasting Network Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFinishline Ministries Inc: $320 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHosanna Industries Inc: $200 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.

  • Who funds LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds CHOICES PREGNANCY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK SCHOOL OF URBAN MINISTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds RHEMA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds Christian Herald Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds ALPHA LIONS DEN MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds PILGRIM TRACT SOCIETY INC ↗

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 Signs & Wonders Ministries funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Signs & Wonders Ministries. 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%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    1report 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 73 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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