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Soli Deo Gloria Foundation

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.

$71k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2024
10
Organizations funded FY2023
10%
First-time grantees FY2023
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98% of Soli Deo Gloria Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Giveclear Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 5 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Soli Deo Gloria Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 13 organizations, $71k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

7
’17
15
’18
7
’19
10
’20
14
’21
6
’22
7
’23
13
’24
5
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2024
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 22
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$6.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 10% of the organizations Soli Deo Gloria Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $206 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
ReligionYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesInternationalEducationHealthOther
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 arriving15$71k27%
FY202310$93k10%
FY20229$24k0%
FY202120$108k25%
FY202015$126k27%
FY201911$55k18%
FY201822$94k68%
FY201714$275kn/a
91% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$448kHealth$141kPhilanthropy$101kYouth Development$46kInternational$25kEducation$21kHousing & Shelter$19kCrime & Legal$10kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
PA
CO
MO
KS
TN
NC
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Covenant Theological Seminary$177,0003n/a
Siloam Health$128,00541%
The Signatry Corporation Inc$115,0003n/a
Christ Presbyterian Church Inc$64,0003n/a
Crown Financial Ministries Inc$32,40080%
Barefoot Republic Inc$23,00050%
Servant Group International$13,50090%
Resourcing Christian Education International$10,87570%
Josiah Venture$10,80090%
Journey Home Inc$10,60620%
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All grantees of Soli Deo Gloria Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Covenant Theological Seminary$177,0003n/a
Siloam Health$128,00541%
The Signatry Corporation Inc$115,0003n/a
Christ Presbyterian Church Inc$64,0003n/a
Crown Financial Ministries Inc$32,40080%
Barefoot Republic Inc$23,00050%
Servant Group International$13,50090%
Resourcing Christian Education International$10,87570%
Josiah Venture$10,80090%
Journey Home Inc$10,60620%
Salama Urban Ministries Inc$10,00012%
Family Foundation Fund Inc$8,20022%
Hope Clinic for Women$8,00020%
Project Connect Inc$7,40031%
Family Affair Ministries Inc$6,00021%
Men of Valor$5,00010%
Brightstone Inc$5,00010%
Belmont University$5,00010%
Nashville Safe Haven Family Shelter Inc$5,00010%
Operation Andrew Group Inc$5,00010%
Senior Citizens Inc$5,00010%
Champion Ministries Inc$5,00010%
Missions Development International$4,80021%
Nashville Rescue Mission$3,45030%
Belize Project$3,00021%
Daystar Counseling Ministries Inc$2,30020%
Grace Works Inc$1,5001n/a
Begin Anew$1,00010%
Westminster Theological Seminary$80020%
HOMES FOR HOMES aka Homes 4 Homes$3001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($179k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSiloam Health: $128,005 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCrown Financial Ministries Inc: $32,400 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBarefoot Republic Inc: $23,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetServant Group International: $13,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetResourcing Christian Education International: $10,875 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJosiah Venture: $10,800 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetJourney Home Inc: $10,606 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSalama Urban Ministries Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetFamily Foundation Fund Inc: $8,200 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetHope Clinic for Women: $8,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetProject Connect Inc: $7,400 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetFamily Affair Ministries Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetMen of Valor: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBrightstone Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBelmont University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNashville Safe Haven Family Shelter Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOperation Andrew Group Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSenior Citizens Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChampion Ministries Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMissions Development International: $4,800 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNashville Rescue Mission: $3,450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBelize Project: $3,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetDaystar Counseling Ministries Inc: $2,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBegin Anew: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWestminster Theological Seminary: $800 over 2y, 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 25.

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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.

The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee IncTN34.3× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Servant Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Ebs Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Louise B Wallace Foundation 19702 · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Signatry Charitable Trust · The Frist Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Purity Foundation

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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About Soli Deo Gloria Foundation

How much does Soli Deo Gloria Foundation give?
Soli Deo Gloria Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $70,955 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Soli Deo Gloria Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (53%), Health (17%), Philanthropy (12%).
Who are Soli Deo Gloria Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Covenant Theological Seminary ($177k), Siloam Health ($128k), The Signatry Corporation Inc ($115k).
Does Soli Deo Gloria Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Soli Deo Gloria Foundation 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 Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc, Servant Foundation, United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc.
Where is Soli Deo Gloria Foundation based?
Soli Deo Gloria Foundation is based in TN.

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 47 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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