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· Public charity
Sower of Seeds International Ministries
SOS provides assistance to poor and marginalized people in the USA & other countries.
$6.9M
Granted FY2024
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01What you fund
01beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
toys hygenedrinks hygenedrinks hygienedrinks toys
2019
drinks hygenedrinks hygiene
2020
toys hygenedrinks hygenedrinks toysdrinks hygiene
2021
clothinginspired visionchurchvision compassionfurnituremedicalhygene
2022
furniture hygieneinspired visionvision compassiondrinks furniturehygiene supplyhygiene suppliesdrinks hygiene
2023
partvolunteershfhihabitat humanitydrinks suppliesdrinks furniturehygiene supplies
2024
drinks suppliesdrinks hygenedrinks hygienetoys
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
02FY2024
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
Grant detail is referenced in an attached schedule not included in the e-file. Total reported in the filing: $6,873,709.
$0
Median grant
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States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
02The need
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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.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your 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.
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Our Daily Bread Christian Food Ministry Inc
The purpose of this company is to provide food to homeless and indigent families in our area.
Human Services
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Come to Him Ministries
To help the hungry, homeless, and the destitute receive a second chance in life by providing food, clothing, and shelter and transition them into a christ centered lifestyle.
Health
3
Victory Life Church International
Church, religious
Religion
4
Forgiven the Evangelistic Ministry
Ministry
Religion
5
The Lords Table a Ministry of Rccg
Food Pantry - Providing Food and other household items to people in the community
Religion
6
Messengers of Hope Mission Inc
mobile food pantry
Food & Nutrition
7
World Renew
World Renew's mission is to engage God's people in redeeming resources and developing gifts in collaborative acts of mercy, justice, and compassion. This work, which is focused on relief and community development.
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Families Helping Families Ministries Inc
Families Helping Families FHF Ministries mission is to take care of the hungry and afflicted. FHF strives to eliminate hunger and food insecurities in our surrounding communities by providing food promoting the value of nutrition and…
Food & Nutrition
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Just One International Inc
Learn to do right, seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow.
Education
10
Heart for the World Ministries
Rewriting the stories of the most vulnerable living in extreme poverty.
Religion
11
Restoring Faith Inc
We provide basic necessities and emergency aid to oppressed people groups on a local and global scale by distributing life-saving essentials that include food, water, medical aid, shelter improvements and other relief aid. We raise…
Religion
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Living Faith Ministries International
Our mission is to impact communities by transforming lives. We seek to fulfill the Great Commission by ministering to individuals holistically, meeting their spiritual, physical, and emotional needs.
Religion
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Harvesting International Ministry and the most unlike its peers is Fort Worth Area Habitat for Humanity. 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 21 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
1%1/78
the rest of the field
15%
3,510/23,880
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.
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.
Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX32.7× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Children's Hunger Fund · United Way of Tarrant County · Feed the Children Inc · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · World Vision Inc · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · America's Charities · Harvesting International Ministry · Coserv Charitable Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Good360
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.
04Through Plinth
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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State money flows
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