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Soli Deo Gloria

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.

$108k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
4
Grants FY2024
2
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$22,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$75,500
Organizations funded a year
2 to 26
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$37k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Soli Deo Gloria funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
ReligionInternationalCivil RightsPhilanthropyEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving4$108k75%
FY20232$2k100%
FY20222$9k100%
FY20212$10k100%
FY20209$49k0%
FY201916$48k50%
FY201826$159k54%
FY201722$67kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$302kHuman Services$76kCivil Rights$14kPhilanthropy$12kArts & Culture$11kCommunity Improvement$10kHousing & Shelter$10kEducation$9kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
CA
CO
VA
KS
AR
TN
NC
DC
OK
LA
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
John Strappazon Ministries Inc$27,0004n/a
Church Planting Leadership$22,50026%
The Navigators$10,8304n/a
Fellowship of Companies For Christ$10,44021%
North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention Inc$10,4004n/a
Texas Values$10,35021%
Museum of the Bible$10,02020%
Student Work Development Foundation Inc$8,70020%
One for Israel$5,00010%
Christian Challenge Inc$4,2004n/a
Show all 21 grantees
All grantees of Soli Deo Gloria by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
John Strappazon Ministries Inc$27,0004n/a
Church Planting Leadership$22,50026%
The Navigators$10,8304n/a
Fellowship of Companies For Christ$10,44021%
North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention Inc$10,4004n/a
Texas Values$10,35021%
Museum of the Bible$10,02020%
Student Work Development Foundation Inc$8,70020%
One for Israel$5,00010%
Christian Challenge Inc$4,2004n/a
Pacific Justice Institute$3,50020%
Servenow$3,0001n/a
Naomi's Village Inc$2,50010%
Winning With Encouragement Inc$2,5001n/a
Empower Dreams Inc$2,50012%
Gofundmeorg$2,00010%
Onelink International Inc$1,50011%
Samaritan's Purse$1,00010%
Joni and Friends$1,00010%
Ibrahim Ministries USA$1,0001n/a
California Baptist University$25010%

Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($312k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Soli Deo Gloria supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChurch Planting Leadership: $22,500 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetFellowship of Companies For Christ: $10,440 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTexas Values: $10,350 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetMuseum of the Bible: $10,020 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetStudent Work Development Foundation Inc: $8,700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOne for Israel: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPacific Justice Institute: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNaomi's Village Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEmpower Dreams Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetGofundmeorg: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOnelink International Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJoni and Friends: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia Baptist University: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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.

Servant FoundationKS26.2× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Servant Foundation · The New Horizons Foundation Inc · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Coffee Foundation Inc · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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.

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How do I get to Soli Deo Gloria?

Find your warmest path to Soli Deo Gloria through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Soli Deo Gloria

How much does Soli Deo Gloria give?
Soli Deo Gloria reported 4 grants totaling $107,552 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 26 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Soli Deo Gloria fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (67%), Human Services (17%), Civil Rights (3%).
Who are Soli Deo Gloria's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: John Strappazon Ministries Inc ($27k), Church Planting Leadership ($23k), The Navigators ($11k).
Does Soli Deo Gloria fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Soli Deo Gloria accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Soli Deo Gloria?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Servant Foundation, The New Horizons Foundation Inc, The Signatry Charitable Trust.
Where is Soli Deo Gloria based?
Soli Deo Gloria is based in TX.

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 53 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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