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Sozo Supporting Organization Fund

Empower organizations to help communities and individuals to grow in the depth of their knowledge of jesus christ and in their ability to co-labor with him to build his kingdom.

$816k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$299k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Philanthropy$2.5MReligion$2.4MCommunity Improvement$143kInternational$54kEducation$30kEmployment$13kHousing & Shelter$11k
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 14 grants below total $753,250, the rows itemized in this filing. The $815,609 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $62,359 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $169k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $273k
  • $250k+1 grant · $299k
$19,081
Median grant
6
States reached
$327k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INTERNATIONAL GENEROSITY FDN TRUST$298,500
COVENANT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF CHICAGO$213,000
TRANSFORMATIONAL LISTENING CENTER$60,000
JAPANESE EVANGELICAL MISSIONARY SOCIETY$36,000
TOGETHER CHICAGO INC$24,369
SUNSHINE GOSPEL MINISTRIES$24,000
NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION$19,081
SERGE GLOBAL INC (JAPAN)$15,100
CHICAGO BIBLE SOCIETY$15,000
SEEJESUSNET$12,500
HOPE INTERNATIONAL$12,500
THE FIELD SCHOOL$10,000
CHICAGO FELLOWSHIP$7,200
LIGHTBEARERS MINISTRIES INTL INC$6,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SERGE: $35k → 12%SERGE: $76k → 7%HOPE INTERNATIONAL: $13k → 9%REDEEMER CITY TO CITY: $150k → 17%INTERNATIONAL GENEROSITY FDN TRUST: $299k → 12%REBORN MINISTRIES: $19k → 13%BIBLICAL TRAINING: $15k → 13%NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION: $1.5M → 13%ENTRUST: $12k → 9%THE CHICAGO PARTNERSHIP: $16k → 14%THE NAVIGATORS: $24k → 12%SERGE GLOBAL INC (JAPAN): $15k → 7%REDEEMER CITY TO CITY: $140k → 17%INTERNATIONAL GENEROSITY FDN TRUST: $38k → 12%CREATION INVESTMENTS SUPPORTING ORG: $400k → 13%ENTRUST: $12k → 9%UR CHICAGO ALLIANCE: $13k → 14%SERGE: $22k → 12%REDEEMER CITY TO CITY: $50k → 17%NATIONAL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $186k → 13%SUNSHINE GOSPEL MINISTRIES: $40k → 14%THE NAVIGATORS: $19k → 12%SEE JESUS: $17k → 7%NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION: $178k → 13%SUNSHINE GOSPEL MINISTRIES: $40k → 14%SEE JESUS: $14k → 7%NATIONAL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $138k → 13%NEW HORIZONS FOUNDATION INC: $24k → 9%SUNSHINE GOSPEL MINISTRIES: $36k → 14%SEEJESUSNET: $13k → 7%NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION: $19k → 13%NEW HORIZONS FOUNDATION INC: $20k → 9%SUNSHINE GOSPEL MINISTRIES: $24k → 14%NEW HORIZONS FOUNDATION INC: $15k → 9%SUNSHINE GOSPEL MINISTRIES: $24k → 14%TRANSFORMATIONAL LISTENING CENTER: $60k → 14%SUNSHINE GOSPEL MINISTRIES: $24k → 14%COVENANT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF CHICAGO: $213k → 14%COVENANT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF CHICAGO: $144k → 14%COVENANT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF CHICAGO: $108k → 14%COVENANT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $107k → 14%COVENANT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $106k → 14%COVENANT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF CHICAGO: $104k → 14%TOGETHER CHICAGO INC: $35k → 14%TOGETHER CHICAGO INC: $38k → 14%TOGETHER CHICAGO INC: $25k → 14%TOGETHER CHICAGO INC: $24k → 14%CHICAGO BIBLE SOCIETY: $15k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
OR
PA
CA
CO
AR
TN
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 19 repeat orgs$621k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +9% since the first grant, against -5% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
13

Total granted

$2.1M
$546k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
-5%

Still filing today

79%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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
ReligionInternationalCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterEmploymentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • SG
    SUNSHINE GOSPEL MINISTRIES
    6× · 2020–2025 · $189k · revenue +9%
  • SG
    SERGE GLOBAL INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $167k · revenue +49%
  • TC
    TOGETHER CHICAGO INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $130k · revenue ×11

Funded once

  • CI
    CREATION INVESTMENTS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $400k · revenue -99% · 41% of their budget
  • MT
    MISSION TO THE WORLD PCA INC
    one grant, 2022 · $26k
  • RM
    REBORN MINISTRIES INC
    one grant, 2021 · $19k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Christianity Today International

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.

Religion
2
Raise Up Global Ministries

Raise Up Global Ministries is committed to educating Christian leaders in communities around the world. The three programs of Raise Up equip the global church by 1 Developing biblically based interactive materials and 2 Training…

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3
Global City Missions Initiative Incorporated

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…

Religion
4
International Commission Inc

Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.

Religion
5
Next Worldwide Inc

With a desire to see the Gospel proclaimed in all nations, we exist to make and multiply disciples of the next generation through the vehicles of church-planting missions and missional leadership training.

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6
Tim Robnett Ministries Dba ETeamGlobal

To Identify, Affirm, Train, and Mobilize Ephesians 4 evangelists to equip the church for evangelism.

Religion
7
International Leadership Institute

The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…

Religion
8
Next Generation for Christ Inc

Ministry coaching and training--provided coaching and training in ministry, mission, and evangelism for churches,church leaders and christian non-profits christian video production--filmed and produced christian bible series for use by…

Human Services
9
Leadership Revolution Inc

Leadership Revolution is a ministry founded to develop leaders globally who will spread the gospel and make disciples in their arena of influence.

Religion
10
Timothy Two Project International

Reaching and teaching pastors in the majority world.

Religion
11
Biglife International Inc

Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.

Recreation & Sports
12
Reformed University Inc

Provide education in theology, divinity, religious education, ministerial training, business and organizational leadership.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Opportunity International Inc D/B/a Opportunity International-Us; the most unlike its peers is Transformational Listening Center Nfp. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 32 of the 37 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/32
Grantees still filing
16/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC: $2,014,933 · PhilanthropyNATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INCCREATION INVESTMENTS FOUNDATION INC: $400,000 · PhilanthropyCREATION INVESTMENTS FOUNDATION INC+2 more: $73,500 · PhilanthropyCOVENANT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $781,500 · OtherCOVENANT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHSUNSHINE GOSPEL MINISTRIES: $188,550 · OtherSUNSHINE GOSPEL MINISTRIESSERGE GLOBAL INC: $167,450 · OtherSERGE GLOBAL INCTHE NAVIGATORS: $60,700 · Other+7 more: $176,250 · Other+7 moreRedeemer City To City: $340,000 · ReligionRedeemer City To CityINTERNATIONAL GENEROSITY FOUNDATION TRUST: $336,000 · ReligionINTERNATIONAL GENEROSI…TRANSFORMATIONAL LISTENING CENTER NFP: $60,000 · ReligionTRANSFORMATIONAL LISTE…SEEJESUSNET INC: $55,500 · ReligionSEEJESUSNET INCCHICAGO FELLOWSHIP: $42,002 · ReligionTHE RELEVATE GROUP INC: $40,000 · Religion+9 more: $123,500 · Religion+9 moreTOGETHER CHICAGO INC: $129,970 · Community ImprovementTHE FIELD SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $30,001 · Community ImprovementHOPE INTERNATIONAL: $42,500 · InternationalALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC: $6,000 · InternationalOPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US: $5,100 · InternationalUR Chicago Alliance: $12,500 · EmploymentTHE GATHERING PLACE A REFUGE FOR REBUILDING LIVES: $11,000 · Housing & Shelter
Philanthropy$2,488,433Other$1,374,450Religion$997,002Community Improvement$159,971International$53,600Employment$12,500Housing & Shelter$11,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC: $2,014,933 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCREATION INVESTMENTS FOUNDATION INC: $400,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetRedeemer City To City: $340,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetINTERNATIONAL GENEROSITY FOUNDATION TRUST: $336,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUNSHINE GOSPEL MINISTRIES: $188,550 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetSERGE GLOBAL INC: $167,450 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTOGETHER CHICAGO INC: $129,970 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetTRANSFORMATIONAL LISTENING CENTER NFP: $60,000 over 1y, 48% of budgetThe New Horizons Foundation Inc: $58,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSEEJESUSNET INC: $55,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetENTRUST: $44,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHOPE INTERNATIONAL: $42,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO FELLOWSHIP: $42,002 over 6y, 3.7% of budgetTHE RELEVATE GROUP INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE FIELD SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $30,001 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetLIGHTBEARERS MINISTRIES INT'L INC: $30,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetRenovare Inc: $17,850 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBIBLICALTRAININGORG: $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCANDID: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC: $12,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUR Chicago Alliance: $12,500 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetDallas Willard Ministries: $11,750 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetLIFE FOCUS MEDIA NFP: $11,500 over 2y, 10% of budgetTHE GATHERING PLACE A REFUGE FOR REBUILDING LIVES: $11,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetA3: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNCF CHARITABLE TRUST: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetResourcing Christian Education International: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE MEDIA INTERNATIONAL INC: $6,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US: $5,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Tyndale House Ministr…Natl Christian Charit…The Maclellan Foundat…Servant FoundationChristian Community F…Christian Community F…Chattanooga Christian…Community Foundation …The Peery Cauthen Fou…Wheaton CollegeHugh and Charlotte Ma…GiveClear Foundation
Tyndale House MinistriesIL19.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tyndale House Ministries · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · The Peery Cauthen Foundation Colonial Trust Company · Wheaton College · Hugh and Charlotte Maclellan Charitable Charitable Trust · GiveClear 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Sozo Supporting Organization Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sozo Supporting Organization Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Sozo Supporting Organization Fund?

    Find your warmest path to Sozo Supporting Organization Fund 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.

    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 37 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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