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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 you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 85% of SIGNS & WONDERS MINISTRIES’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

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
Individual grant recipient$500
Individual grant recipient$500
LIPTAK PASTOR RICH KATHY$500
THE BOWERY MISSION$250
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.

show:

Your 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 your 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

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
NV
IN
PA
CA
MO
VA
TN
NC
SC
AL
TX
FL

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.

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.

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

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you 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

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

  • 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

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
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
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York School of Urban Ministry Inc and 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.

Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr19%24%10–20yr17%24%20–35yr15%29%35–55yr17%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr19%6%10–20yr17%18%20–35yr15%47%35–55yr17%29%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/23
the rest of the field
9%
7,129/78,139

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.

04the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 73 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
12/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, 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 · ReligionThe Christian Broadcasting Network Inc — $500 · ReligionHIS FOOD MINISTRY — $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 org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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 budgetThe Christian Broadcasting Network Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIS FOOD MINISTRY — $500 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetOVERLAND MISSIONS 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
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 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

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.

Baird Foundation IncWI10.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baird Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Signs & Wonders Ministries 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 · 20%0%1%3%5%your 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, 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.

    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 73 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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