· Private foundation
Spring Forth 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $62k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $224k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GENERALS INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES | $162,000 |
| DUTCH SHEETS MINISTRIES | $62,000 |
| LAMPLIGHTER MINISTRIES | $34,000 |
| THE CENTER FOR GLOCAL LEADERSHIP | $18,000 |
| ASCEND MINISTRY | $10,000 |
| HARBOR LIGHT CHURCH | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| PIVOTING TO POWER | $5,000 |
| HEART 180 | $5,000 |
| HOPE FOR THE HARVEST | $2,000 |
| CAPITOL HILL CHRISTIAN EMBASSY | $2,000 |
| BREATH OF THE SPIRIT MINISTRY | $2,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $1,000 |
| THE WILDFIRE FUND | $1,000 |
| UNION GOSPEL MISSION | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–22, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- DSDUTCH SHEETS MINISTRIES INC6× · 2020–2025 · $245k · revenue +129%
- LMLAMPLIGHTER MINISTRIES INC6× · 2020–2025 · $226k · revenue +73% · 26% of their budget
- CHChristian Harvest International Min3× · 2020–2023 · $15k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- HFHEARTCRY FOR CHANGE USAone grant, 2017 · $55k
- TCTHE CENTER FOR GLOCAL LEADERSHIPone grant, 2017 · $13k
- KCKINGS CATHEDRAL CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $11k
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.
To spread the gospel of jesus christ through crusades
To produce and publish training materials for church leadership and development. To facilitate churches groups and individual participation in world mission.
Heart Bridge International exists to equip and empower Christians around the world to fulfill the Great Commission. The organization provides free ministry training, discipleship resources, and practical coaching to under-resourced…
Training pastors in third world countries
Pastor training
Ministry education and instruction
Religious corp, charitable, educational and cultural, conduct all activities relate to publishingchristian literature
Training pastors and leaders in christian faith
Preaching the message of Jesus Christ around the world through large events.
Christian evangelism, missions, and training through seminars, literature, and counseling.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Commission to Every Nation and the most unlike its peers is Highway 19 Ministries. 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) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
19 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. 19 of the 54 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 DUTCH SHEETS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds LAMPLIGHTER MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR GLOCAL LEADERSHIP ↗
- Who funds Christian Harvest International Min ↗
- Who funds BELLEVUE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ENCOUNTERS NETWORK A MINISTRY TO THE NATIONS ↗
- Who funds WILD HEART RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds THE CALL ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE BUILDERS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds FEED MY SHEEP INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL CAPITAL CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Kingdom Authority Ministeries Inter ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR THE HARVEST 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: Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Spring Forth 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.