· Private foundation
Soli Deo Gloria Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHRIST PRESBYTERIAN ACADEMY | $15,000 |
| JOURNEY HOME | $10,400 |
| BAREFOOT REPUBLIC CAMP | $10,000 |
| SALAMA URBAN MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| SILOAM FAMILY HEALTH | $5,005 |
| OPERATION ANDREW GROUP INC | $5,000 |
| CROWN FINANCIAL MINISTRIES | $3,600 |
| MISSION TO THE WORLD | $3,000 |
| MISSIONS DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL | $2,400 |
| SERVANT GROUP INTERNATIONAL | $1,500 |
| RESOURCING CHRISTIAN EDUCATION | $1,500 |
| JOSIAH VENTURE | $1,200 |
| DAYSTAR COUNSELING MINISTRIES INC | $1,100 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $1,000 |
| NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION | $250 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
22 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CFCROWN FINANCIAL MINISTRIES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $32k · revenue +9%
- BRBAREFOOT REPUBLIC INC5× · 2018–2024 · $23k · revenue +57%
- JVJosiah Venture8× · 2017–2024 · $10k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- NCNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $100k
- SCSENIOR CITIZENS INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +38%
- MOMEN OF VALORgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +406%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…
Serving and pastoring overseas workers on their own turf and equipping nationals by training and empowering them in their work of advancing the gospel.
Likewise Ministry exists to train Christians in the disciple-making strategy of Jesus. Through an in-depth study of the life of Christ, ongoing coaching, and on-location training experiences, learners are equipped to apply Jesus' model to…
The organization's purpose is to provide resources for men taking the next steps from recovery to a sustainable lifestyle. Our goal is to create a path to success for men struggling with a broken life pattern by providing a Christ-centered…
Offers counsel, formal & informal teaching served in a pastoral role, mentored groups,filled numerous speaking invitations, conducted discipling groups & provided spiritual, emotional and
To provide resources, training, and continuing support to leaders in the us and around the world in order that they may help others find freedom in christ.
Entrust's mission is to multiply church leaders through accessible, locally owned, reproducible training systems. this is accomplished through facilitated learning, assisting christians in gaining solid understanding of scripture, and…
Pursue Ministries has the mission to pursue an eternal impact by introducing others to Jesus Christ, teaching the Bible and training disciples through one-on-one meetings, small groups, resources, retreats and seminars.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
The Signatry advances the Christian faith by carrying out its mission, "to inspire and facilitate revolutionary biblical generosity across generations to solve the world's greatest problems," through financial and other support of I.R.C.…
To provide strategic teaching about prayer, prophecy, and intercession in the US and abroad. Books, manuals, and audio teachings are also used to equip Christians in strategic level spiritual prayer and warfare.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Rescue Mission and the most unlike its peers is Homes for Homes aka Homes 4 Homes. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
26 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 45 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 SILOAM HEALTH ↗
- Who funds CROWN FINANCIAL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds BAREFOOT REPUBLIC INC ↗
- Who funds SERVANT GROUP INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds JOURNEY HOME INC ↗
- Who funds SALAMA URBAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Josiah Venture ↗
- Who funds Resourcing Christian Education International ↗
- Who funds FAMILY FOUNDATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE CLINIC FOR WOMEN ↗
- Who funds PROJECT CONNECT INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY AFFAIR MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CITIZENS INC ↗
- Who funds MEN OF VALOR ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTSTONE INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE SAFE HAVEN FAMILY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds Belmont University ↗
- Who funds OPERATION ANDREW GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds CHAMPION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds BELIZE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MISSIONS DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds DAYSTAR COUNSELING MINISTRIES 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.
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
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 Soli Deo Gloria Foundation 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.
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.