· Public charity
Steer Inc
The purpose of this organization shall be to advance the work of the lord jesus christ on earth by raising money to help existing missionary societies get the gospel to the ends of the earth in the shortest possible time by means and methods as set forth in the articles.
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.
The 62 grants below total $1,716,041 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,761,385 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $45,344 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $145k
- $10k–50k33 grants · $759k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $812k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST INC (CRU) | $147,199 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $142,405 |
| NORTH AMERICAN BAPTIST CONFERENCE | $131,840 |
| STUDENT IMPACT INTERNATIONAL(CAMPUS ALLIANCE) | $84,569 |
| COWBOYS WITH A MISSION | $68,844 |
| VILLAGE MISSIONS | $67,947 |
| YOUTH FOR CHRIST USA INC | $61,308 |
| CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP INC | $56,643 |
| WYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS INC | $51,504 |
| ETHNOS360 INC | $46,755 |
| BACK TO THE BIBLE | $40,669 |
| REVIVAL PRAYER FELLOWSHIP | $40,018 |
| TRANS WORLD RADIO PACIFIC | $39,749 |
| THE GENERAL COUNCIL OF THE ASSEMBLIES OF GOD | $39,649 |
| THE EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH OF AMERICA | $37,598 |
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 (FY21–25, $81k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
67 repeat relationships — 55 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k 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
- FOFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES9× · 2017–2025 · $719k · revenue +120%
- CECHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP INC9× · 2017–2025 · $524k · revenue +30%
- VMVILLAGE MISSIONS9× · 2017–2025 · $421k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- CCONVERGEone grant, 2018 · $9k
- VFVOCATIONS FOR ORPHANSone grant, 2018 · $8k
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.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
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.
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…
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.
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…
Mobilization of churches in America by taking pastors and laymen on vision and service trips overseas in fulfillment of Jesus command to go ye into all the world, making disciples...
Across nations is dedicated to spreading the gospel through establishing, developing and promoting all aspects of church ministry.
Church planting among the least evangelized peoples of the world through recruiting, training, sending, and serving field workers.
International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures
To provide resources, training, and continuing support to leaders in the us and around the world in order that they may help others find freedom in christ.
Ambassadors for Christ International - USA is a fellowship of gospel preachers and teachers whose mission is to preach Christ, edify the Church, and to glorify God and serve as a catalyst for revival, evangelism, and training of Christians…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life and the most unlike its peers is Rick and Mick Vigneulle 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 54 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 76 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 FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE MISSIONS ↗
- Who funds YOUTH FOR CHRISTUSA INC ↗
- Who funds COWBOYS WITH A MISSION ↗
- Who funds Student Impact International ↗
- Who funds REVIVAL PRAYER FELLOWSHIP ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN COWBOYS INC ↗
- Who funds BACK TO THE BIBLE ↗
- Who funds PACESETTERS ↗
- Who funds InterAct Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds AWANA CLUBS INTERNATIONAL AND AFFILIATES ↗
- Who funds INFAITH ↗
- Who funds VISION BEYOND BORDERS INC ↗
- Who funds InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA ↗
- Who funds BARNABAS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds RICK AND MICK VIGNEULLE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds ONE-WAY EVANGELISTIC MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds REACHING AND TEACHING INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS AT THE CASA INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE UGANDA MINISTRIES 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: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · The Bolick Foundation · The Signatry Charitable Trust · The New Horizons Foundation Inc · Barnabas Foundation · Tyndale House Ministries · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Greater Horizons · Eden Bridge Foundation · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust
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 Steer Inc 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.
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