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Spurgeon Memorial Foundation at a glance

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Spurgeon Memorial 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.

$5k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

International$20kReligion$8kFood & Nutrition$2kYouth Development$2kHousing & Shelter$1kEnvironment$1kHuman Services$1kCivil Rights$300
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
7
States reached
$14k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$1,000
RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$1,000
CHRISTIAN AID MISSION$500
Individual grant recipient$500
FOR HIS CHILDREN$500
RESONATE GLOBAL MISSION$500
VISUAL STORY INTERNATIONAL$250
MERCY MINISTRIES$250
LIFEBRIDGE$250
MILE HIGH MINISTRIES$250
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:

Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 70% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LIFEBRIDGE: $250 → 8%MILE HIGH MINISTRIES: $500 → 12%ADOPTION RHODE ISLAND: $1k → 14%LIFEBRIDGE: $250 → 8%MILE HIGH MINISTRIES: $250 → 12%LIFEBRIDGE: $250 → 8%MILE HIGH MINISTRIES: $250 → 12%LIFEBRIDGE: $200 → 8%MILE HIGH MINISTRIES: $250 → 12%LIFEBRIDGE: $150 → 8%MILE HIGH MINISTRIES: $250 → 12%LIFEBRIDGE: $150 → 8%MILE HIGH MINISTRIES: $250 → 12%MILE HIGH MINISTRIES: $200 → 12%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

IL
MI
NY
RI
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
DC
GA
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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$27k · 13 repeat orgs$9k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
12

Total granted

$27k
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+28%

Still filing today

62%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
InternationalHuman ServicesReligionEnvironmentCivil RightsFood & NutritionOther
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

  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $5k · revenue +79%
  • FH
    FOR HIS CHILDREN
    5× · 2019–2025 · $2k · revenue +101%
  • W
    WATERORG
    5× · 2019–2024 · $2k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • MS
    MATHESON STREET UNITED METHODIST CH
    one grant, 2024 · $1k
  • ADOPTION RHODE ISLAND
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +25%
  • RI
    RHODE ISLAND STATE COUNCIL OF CHURC
    one grant, 2019 · $1k
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
Mission Without Borders International

The organization is dedicated to reaching people for christ through an international network of christians who journey with the poor and marginalized, bringing practical and spiritual support with hope of a better future,(continued on…

International
2
Relief International Inc

Relief international (ri) partners with communities impacted by conflict, climate change, and disaster to save lives, build greater resilience, and promote long-term health and wellbeing of people in the communities that we serve. relief…

International
3
Orphan Outreach

To glorify the Lord Jesus Christ by ministering to orphans around the world by meeting spiritual, physical, emotional, and educational needs.

International
4
Crisis Response International

To resource, train, and mobilize volunteers, churches,& other organizations to respond to disasters in the united states & world-wide

Public Safety & Disaster
5
Humanity for Relief and Development Inc

The Organization is a nonprofit organization on a mission to build sustainable bakeries and kitchens around the world, providing free daily bread and warm, nutritious meals to underserved communities fostering hope while empowering…

Public Safety & Disaster
6
World Vision Inc

World vision, inc. is a christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families, and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. (continued on schedule…

International
7
Fsi-Freedom Seekers International

Freedom seekers international is a christian organization that exists to rescue the most severely persecuted for their religious faith in hostile and restrictive countries. through collaborative partnerships we deliver those who are…

Human Services
8
World Renew

Compelled by a deep passion for justice and mercy, World Renew joins communities around the world to renew hope, reconcile lives, and restore creation with programs focused on disaster response, community health, economic opportunity, food…

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9
Sozo International Inc

Sozo International partners with at-risk families to create a sustainable future and transformed lives through education, health, and economic initiatives.

—
10
Mothers Without Borders

Mothers Without Borders is dedicated to fostering resilience and self-sufficiency in developing countries through a holistic approach to community empowerment, particularly focusing on the most vulnerable women, youth, and children. Our…

Health
11
Redeem International

Redeem's mission is to protect widows and orphans from violent abuse and exploitation.

International
12
Mission Without Borders Incorporated

Mission Without Borders (MWB) is dedicated to reaching people for Christ through an international network of Christians who journey with the poor and marginalized, bringing practical and spiritual support with hope of a better future,…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Adoption Rhode Island; the most unlike its peers is Embrace Mercy. 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

15 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. 15 of the 26 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
11/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $3,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFOR HIS CHILDREN: $2,250 · OtherFOR HIS CHILDRENEMBRACE MERCY: $1,950 · OtherEMBRACE MERCYRESONATE GLOBAL MISSION: $1,500 · OtherRESONATE GLOBAL MISSIONCHRISTIAN AID MISSION: $1,500 · OtherCHRISTIAN AID MISSIONTHE PREGNANCY CENTER: $1,500 · OtherTHE PREGNANCY CENTERMATHESON STREET UNITED METHODIST CH: $1,000 · OtherMATHESON STREET UNITED METHODIST CHRHODE ISLAND STATE COUNCIL OF CHURC: $1,000 · OtherRHODE ISLAND STATE COUNCIL OF CHURCAPPLEWOOD COMMUNITY CHURCH: $1,000 · OtherAPPLEWOOD COMMUNITY CHURCHAMERICAN BAPTIST CHURCH OF RI: $1,000 · OtherAMERICAN BAPTIST CHURCH OF RIAMOS HOUSE: $1,000 · OtherAMOS HOUSE+3 more: $1,500 · Other+3 moreMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $5,300 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA …WATERORG: $2,100 · InternationalWATERORGEXTREME RESPONSE INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,500 · InternationalEXTREME RESPONSE INTERNATIONA…+2 more: $550 · International+2 moreMILE HIGH MINISTRIES: $1,950 · Human ServicesMILE HIGH MIN…LifeBridge: $1,250 · Human ServicesLifeBridgeADOPTION RHODE ISLAND: $1,000 · Human ServicesADOPTION RHOD…VISUAL STORY INTERNATIONAL: $1,850 · ReligionecoRI Inc: $1,000 · EnvironmentRHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION: $1,000 · Food & NutritionReporters Without Borders Inc: $300 · Civil Rights
Other$18,200International$9,450Human Services$4,200Religion$1,850Environment$1,000Food & Nutrition$1,000Civil Rights$300

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 budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $5,300 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFOR HIS CHILDREN: $2,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWATERORG: $2,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEMBRACE MERCY: $1,950 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetMILE HIGH MINISTRIES: $1,950 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetVISUAL STORY INTERNATIONAL: $1,850 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEXTREME RESPONSE INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLifeBridge: $1,250 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetADOPTION RHODE ISLAND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetecoRI Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMOS HOUSE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetReporters Without Borders Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $300 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.

  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds FOR HIS CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds WATERORG ↗
  • Who funds EMBRACE MERCY ↗
  • Who funds MILE HIGH MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds VISUAL STORY INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds EXTREME RESPONSE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds LifeBridge ↗
  • Who funds ADOPTION RHODE ISLAND ↗
  • Who funds ecoRI Inc ↗
  • Who funds AMOS HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Reporters Without Borders Inc ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds Pan De Vida Inc ↗

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.

Raymond James Charita…Natl Christian Charit…American Endowment Fo…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Raymond James Charitable Endowment FundFL11.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Spurgeon Memorial Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Spurgeon Memorial Foundation. 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%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.

    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 26 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.

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