Skip to content
Spirit and Word Ministries Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

Spirit and Word Ministries Inc

THE MISSION IS TO PROVIDE NON-DENOMINATIONAL SPIRITUAL RESOURCES FOR SPIRITUAL GROWTH, MISSIONAL SOCIAL ACTION AND CHARITABLE OUTREACH PRIMARILY THROUGH THE INTERNET, BROADCAST MEDIA AND PRINT.

$62k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$31k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Health$659kAnimals$191kEducation$15kEnvironment$700Human Services$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $2k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $59k
$13,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARIZONA HUMANE SOCIETY$30,725
AMERICAN KIDNEY FUND$15,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$13,500
ARIZONA WOMEN'S BOARD$1,279
JESUIT COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL$1,000
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 (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%COLUMBINE GARDEN CLUB: $700 → 11%APRAXIA KIDS: $500 → 11%CITY OF HOPEBILL AUSTEN ENDOWMENT: $250k → 14%AMERICAN KIDNEY FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%JESUIT COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL OF DALLAS: $1k → 14%EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY: $13k → 12%AMERICAN KIDNEY FUND: $15k → 8%BARROW NERUOLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%CITY OF HOPEBILL AUSTEN ENDOWMENT: $213k → 14%JESUIT COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $1k → 14%ARIZONA WOMEN'S BOARD: $15k → 11%CITY OF HOPEBILL AUSTEN ENDOWMENT: $25k → 14%JESUIT COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL OF DALLAS FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%ARIZONA WOMEN'S BOARD: $15k → 11%ARIZONA WOMEN'S BOARD: $1k → 11%TRENDS CHARITABLE FUND: $500 → 11%ARIZONA HUMANE SOCIETY: $102k → 11%ARIZONA HUMANE SOCIETY: $64k → 11%ARIZONA HUMANE SOCIETY: $31k → 11%ARIZONA HUMANE SOCIETY: $25k → 11%TGEN FOUNDATIONS: $25k → 11%ARIZONA KIDNEY FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%TGEN WOMEN'S PHILANTHROPY COUNCIL: $3k → 11%TGEN FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%TGEN WOMEN'S PHILANTHROPY COUNCIL: $2k → 11%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $31k → 11%AMERICAN HEART ASSOC: $26k → 11%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $16k → 11%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $14k → 11%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $14k → 11%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $11k → 11%AMERICAN HEART ASSOC: $6k → 11%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.
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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$650k · 5 repeat orgs$302k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against -5% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
12

Total granted

$650k
$286k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
-5%

Still filing today

80%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationAnimalsPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther
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

  • CO
    CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER
    2× · 2019–2020 · $275k · revenue +153%
  • AH
    Arizona Humane Society
    4× · 2022–2025 · $222k · revenue +23%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    7× · 2019–2025 · $116k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • CO
    CITY OF HOPEBILL AUSTEN ENDOWMENT
    one grant, 2021 · $213k
  • TF
    TGEN FOUNDATIONS
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • NK
    National Kidney Foundation of Arizona
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue -3%
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
American Association of Kidney Patients Inc

AAKP is dedicated to improving the lives and long-term outcome of kidney patients. Cont on Sch O.

Health
2
American Society of Nephrology

ASN leads the fight against kidney diseases by educating health professionals, sharing new knowledge, advancing research, and advocating the highest quality care for patients.

—
3
National Kidney Foundation Inc

The national kidney foundation is revolutionizing the fight to save lives by eliminating preventable kidney disease, accelerating innovation for the dignity of the patient experience, and dismantling structural inequities in kidney care,…

Health
4
Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation

Phoenix children's hospital foundation supports phoenix children's hospital through fundraising ensuring that the hospital continues to stay on the leading edge of pediatric medicine and is equipped to fulfill its mission to advance hope,…

Health
5
Honorhealth

Honorhealth's mission is to improve the health and well-being of those we serve.

Health
6
Pkd Foundation

We give hope. we fund research, advocate for patients, and build a community for all impacted by pkd.

—
7
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
8
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

As a leading academic healthcare organization, our mission is to elevate the health status of the communities we serve.(see schedule o for continuation)(continued)-we deliver exceptional healthcare enhanced by research and education-we…

Health
9
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
10
Arizona Healthiest State Foundation
—
11
Jaeb Center for Health Research Foundation Inc

Our mission is to expand scientific knowledge and improve public health by designing and conducting world-class clinical trials and epidemiologic research.

Unclassified
12
Medical Technology and Practice Patterns

Founded in 1986, mtppi is a research organization specializing in health service research, education and health policy analysis of new and emerging technologies.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arizona Women's Board; the most unlike its peers is Apraxia Kids. 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

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 19 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER: $275,000 · HealthCITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTERAmerican Heart Association Inc: $116,415 · HealthAmerican Heart Association IncARIZONA WOMEN'S BOARD: $31,778 · HealthARIZONA WOMEN'S BOARD+2 more: $10,500 · HealthCITY OF HOPEBILL AUSTEN ENDOWMENT: $212,500 · OtherCITY OF HOPEBILL AUSTEN ENDOWMENTTGEN FOUNDATIONS: $25,000 · OtherTGEN FOUNDATIONSAMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC: $15,000 · OtherNational Kidney Foundation of Arizona: $15,000 · Other+5 more: $14,480 · OtherArizona Humane Society: $221,911 · AnimalsArizona Humane SocietyEMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC: $12,658 · EducationJESUIT COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL OF DALLAS FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · EducationCOLUMBINE GARDEN CLUB: $700 · EnvironmentTrends Charitable Fund: $500 · Philanthropy
Health$433,693Other$281,980Animals$221,911Education$13,658Environment$700Philanthropy$500

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 budgetCITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER: $275,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetArizona Humane Society: $221,911 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $116,415 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA WOMEN'S BOARD: $31,778 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetAMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation of Arizona: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC: $12,658 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJESUIT COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL OF DALLAS FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrends Charitable Fund: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetApraxia Kids: $500 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.

Charities Aid Foundat…The Blackbaud Giving …National Philanthropi…Network for GoodThe Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Charities Aid Foundation AmericaVA11.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charities Aid Foundation America · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Spirit and Word Ministries Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Spirit and Word Ministries Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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 Spirit and Word Ministries Inc?

Find your warmest path to Spirit and Word Ministries Inc 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 19 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Spirit and Word Ministries’ filings →

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home