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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.

$1.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
62
Grants FY2025still arriving
24
States reached
$147k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$9.1MYouth Development$1.0MInternational$703kHuman Services$81kAnimals$16k
02FY2025 · 62 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 62 grants below total $1,716,041, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,761,385 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $45,344 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 $10k20 grants · $145k
  • $10k–50k33 grants · $759k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $812k
$16,328
Median grant
24
States reached
$7.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
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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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%KIDS AT THE CASA INC: $23k → 9%KIDS AT THE CASA INC: $23k → 9%KIDS AT THE CASA INC: $19k → 9%KIDS AT THE CASA INC: $9k → 9%KIDS AT THE CASA INC: $7k → 9%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

WA
ID
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
OR
WY
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
CA
CO
NE
MO
KY
AZ
KS
AR
NC
AL
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 67 repeat orgs$79k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

67
2

Total granted

$11M
$17k

Still filing today

43%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionInternationalYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureHuman ServicesAnimalsOther
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

  • FO
    FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES
    9× · 2017–2025 · $719k · revenue +120%
  • CE
    CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $524k · revenue +30%
  • VM
    VILLAGE MISSIONS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $421k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • C
    CONVERGE
    one grant, 2018 · $9k
  • VF
    VOCATIONS FOR ORPHANS
    one grant, 2018 · $8k
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
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

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…

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2
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
3
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
4
Youth for Christ International Ministries

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.

Religion
5
International Commission Inc

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

Religion
6
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
7
Churches in Missions Inc

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...

Human Services
8
Across Nations

Across nations is dedicated to spreading the gospel through establishing, developing and promoting all aspects of church ministry.

Religion
9
Mio Frontiers

Church planting among the least evangelized peoples of the world through recruiting, training, sending, and serving field workers.

Religion
10
Leadership Resources International

International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures

Religion
11
Freedom in Christ Ministries

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.

Religion
12
Ambassadors for Christ International - Usa Inc

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…

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life; 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.
04the grantee network

39 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. 39 of the 76 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
36/39
Grantees still filing
27/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST INC: $1,335,614 · OtherCAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST INCNORTH AMERICAN BAPTIST CONFERENCE: $891,500 · OtherNORTH AMERICAN BAPTIST CONFERENCEWYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS INC: $442,024 · OtherWYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS INCVILLAGE MISSIONS: $420,814 · OtherVILLAGE MISSIONSTRANS WORLD RADIO PACIFIC: $253,667 · OtherTHE EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH OF AMERICA: $253,255 · OtherMISSION AVIATION FELLOWSHIP: $235,066 · OtherREVIVAL PRAYER FELLOWSHIP: $229,647 · OtherETHNOS360 INC: $223,826 · Other+33 more: $2,294,395 · Other+33 moreCOWBOYS WITH A MISSION: $356,504 · ReligionCOWBOYS WITH A MISSIONStudent Impact International: $287,257 · ReligionStudent Impact Interna…BACK TO THE BIBLE: $205,257 · ReligionBACK TO THE BIBLEPACESETTERS: $183,186 · ReligionPACESETTERSInterAct Ministries Inc: $162,532 · ReligionInterAct Ministries In…AWANA CLUBS INTERNATIONAL AND AFFILIATES: $157,596 · ReligionAWANA CLUBS INTERNATIO…INFAITH: $124,948 · ReligionINFAITHVISION BEYOND BORDERS INC: $108,158 · ReligionInterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA: $91,201 · ReligionBARNABAS INTERNATIONAL: $89,482 · ReligionONE-WAY EVANGELISTIC MINISTRIES: $88,322 · ReligionREACHING AND TEACHING INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES INCORPORATED: $85,925 · Religion+7 more: $207,707 · Religion+7 moreFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $718,926 · Youth DevelopmentFELLOWSHIP OF CH…CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP INC: $523,738 · Youth DevelopmentCHILD EVANGELISM…YOUTH FOR CHRISTUSA INC: $376,132 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH FOR CHRIST…+2 more: $12,044 · Youth DevelopmentWORLD VISION INC: $83,477 · InternationalNEW HOPE UGANDA MINISTRIES INC: $76,692 · InternationalFOOD FOR THE HUNGRY INC: $70,606 · InternationalRAFIKI FOUNDATION INC: $61,154 · InternationalPEOPLE INTERNATIONAL: $44,372 · InternationalCHILDREN'S SHELTER OF CEBU: $33,958 · InternationalEVERY CHILD MINISTRIES: $29,054 · InternationalRICK AND MICK VIGNEULLE MINISTRIES: $88,995 · Arts & CultureKIDS AT THE CASA INC: $81,374 · Human ServicesCHRISTIAN VETERINARY MISSION: $16,282 · Animals
Other$6,579,808Religion$2,148,075Youth Development$1,630,840International$399,313Arts & Culture$88,995Human Services$81,374Animals$16,282

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $718,926 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP INC: $523,738 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetVILLAGE MISSIONS: $420,814 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetYOUTH FOR CHRISTUSA INC: $376,132 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetCOWBOYS WITH A MISSION: $356,504 over 9y, 14% of budgetStudent Impact International: $287,257 over 4y, 29% of budgetREVIVAL PRAYER FELLOWSHIP: $229,647 over 9y, 39% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN COWBOYS INC: $209,018 over 9y, 30% of budgetBACK TO THE BIBLE: $205,257 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetPACESETTERS: $183,186 over 9y, 24% of budgetInterAct Ministries Inc: $162,532 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetAWANA CLUBS INTERNATIONAL AND AFFILIATES: $157,596 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetINFAITH: $124,948 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetVISION BEYOND BORDERS INC: $108,158 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetInterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA: $91,201 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBARNABAS INTERNATIONAL: $89,482 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetRICK AND MICK VIGNEULLE MINISTRIES: $88,995 over 8y, 5.7% of budgetONE-WAY EVANGELISTIC MINISTRIES: $88,322 over 8y, 11% of budgetREACHING AND TEACHING INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES INCORPORATED: $85,925 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $83,477 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS AT THE CASA INC: $81,374 over 5y, 19% of budgetNEW HOPE UGANDA MINISTRIES INC: $76,692 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetFOOD FOR THE HUNGRY INC: $70,606 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetRAFIKI FOUNDATION INC: $61,154 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCRISTA Ministries: $53,231 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE INTERNATIONAL: $44,372 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetFAR EAST BROADCASTING COMPANY: $41,602 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Messengers: $36,910 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S SHELTER OF CEBU: $33,958 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetEVERY CHILD MINISTRIES: $29,054 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetBibles For The World: $28,402 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHUTCHCRAFT MINISTRIES INC: $26,082 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCADENCE INTERNATIONAL: $17,293 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHRISTIAN VETERINARY MISSION: $16,282 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER EUROPE MISSION: $15,240 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERTRIBAL CHRISTIAN COMMUNICATIONS: $12,966 over 1y, 26% of budgetPioneer Bible Translators: $6,240 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN YOUTH PROGRAMS OF MINNESOTA: $6,047 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $5,997 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 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 ↗

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.

Christian Community F…Servant FoundationThe Bolick FoundationThe Signatry Charitab…The New Horizons Foun…Barnabas FoundationTyndale House Ministr…Thrivent Charitable I…Greater HorizonsEden Bridge FoundationChattanooga Christian…The US Charitable Gif…
Christian Community Foundation IncCO48.1× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Steer Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Steer Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%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
    2get 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 · 0–25%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Steer Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Steer 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 76 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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