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Summer Institute of Linguistics Inc dba SIL Global

SIL advocates, builds capacity, and works with local communities to apply language expertise that advances meaningful development, education, and engagement with Scripture.

$5.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$871k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Religion$7.6MEducation$363kInternational$73kArts & Culture$10k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $1,596,585, the rows itemized in this filing. The $5,055,841 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $3,459,256 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

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $147k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $62k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.4M
$30,093
Median grant
8
States reached
$104M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Wycliffe Bible Translators$871,449
JAARS Inc$515,969
Gods Word for the Nations$61,949
Equip International$45,478
Seed Company Inc$30,093
Stony Brook Community Church$24,000
SIL LEAD$22,885
International Christian Resp$14,762
Sabeel Media$10,000
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 22% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Amazon Mission Foundation: $42k → 15%Stony Brook Community Church: $24k → 12%Hawaii Pidgin Bible Ministry: $209k → 9%Seed Company Inc: $30k → 11%Sowing Seeds of Joy: $13k → 14%SIL LEAD: $170k → 14%Global Teams: $10k → 11%Missionary Ventures Intl: $9k → 13%Alfalit International Inc: $6k → 15%JAARS Inc: $1.1M → 7%Equip International: $45k → 16%Global Services Associates: $68k → 12%International Christian Resp: $15k → 12%The Wycliffe Seed Company Inc: $22k → 11%Sowing Seeds of Joy: $8k → 14%SIL LEAD: $163k → 14%JAARS Inc: $516k → 7%Equip International: $20k → 16%The Wycliffe Seed Company Inc: $17k → 11%SIL LEAD: $31k → 14%JAARS Inc: $502k → 7%Equip International: $13k → 16%The Wycliffe Seed Company Inc: $13k → 11%SIL LEAD: $23k → 14%JAARS Inc: $200k → 7%The Wycliffe Seed Company Inc: $9k → 11%JAARS Inc: $106k → 7%Seed Company Inc: $5k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
CO
MO
AZ
NC
DC
HI
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region: $3.3M on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 12 regions, $3.2M to organizations and $133k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

South Asia$970k · 29% · 24 grants

Stated purpose: Lang Dev & Transl

Sub-Saharan Africa$811k · 24% · 38 grants

Stated purpose: Lang Dev & Transl

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$540k · 16% · 6 grants

Stated purpose: Lang Dev & Transl

East Asia and the Pacific$497k · 15% · 14 grants

Stated purpose: Lang Dev & Trans. · Lang Dev & Transl

North America (Canada and Mexico)$261k · 8% · 3 grants

Stated purpose: Lang Dev & Transl

Eap$105k · 3% · 27 people

Stated purpose: Scholarship · Scholarships

South America$81k · 2% · 5 grants

Stated purpose: Lang Dev & Transl

Russia and Neighboring States$49k · 1% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: Lang Dev & Transl

Ssa$27k · 1% · 28 people

Stated purpose: Scholarships

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.3M · 9 repeat orgs$324k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
6

Total granted

$9.3M
$300k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+1%

Still filing today

67%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalReligionCommunity ImprovementEducationHuman ServicesOther
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

  • JI
    JAARS INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $2.4M · revenue +60%
  • GS
    GLOBAL SERVICE OFFICE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $96k · revenue +10%
  • GW
    GOD'S WORD FOR THE NATIONS INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $82k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • HP
    HAWAII PIDGIN BIBLE MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2023 · $209k
  • AM
    AMAZON MISSION FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $42k · revenue -4%
  • FL
    FIRST LOVE INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +6%
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
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
2
Leadership Resources International

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

Religion
3
Go With God Global

The organizations mission is enhancing the legal distribution of free bibles and equipping and discipling pastors and trainers to use the word of god effectively.

Religion
4
World Indigenous Missions Inc

Engaged in missionary training, organizing churches, evangelism, and related Christian activities.

Religion
5
International Messengers

International Messengers is an evangelical, interdenominational missions organization comprised of international staff. We are committed to making disciples of all nations through partnering with local churches to renew, train and mobilize…

Religion
6
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
7
Reaching Souls International Inc

Our mission is in our name - Reaching Souls. Our core driving force, the reason we exist as an organization, is to reach souls for Christ. Our strategic purpose is to reach the maximum number of people for Christ in the least amount of…

Religion
8
Grace Global Ministries Inc

Grace Global Ministries exists to assist local churches in sending global workers to fulfill the Great Commission.

International
9
Training Pastors International

Training pastors in third world countries

Religion
10
International Commission Inc

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

Religion
11
Serving Beyond Borders

Serving and pastoring overseas workers on their own turf and equipping nationals by training and empowering them in their work of advancing the gospel.

Human Services
12
Tyndale Bible Translators

Bible Translation and acts of Christian Services

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is God's Word for the Nations Inc; the most unlike its peers is Amazon Mission Foundation Inc. 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

10 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. 10 of the 17 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS INC: $6,074,626 · OtherWYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS INC+8 more: $548,515 · Other+8 moreJAARS INC: $2,398,077 · Community ImprovementJAARS INCSIL LEAD INC: $386,372 · EducationGOD'S WORD FOR THE NATIONS INC: $81,949 · ReligionSowing Seeds of Joy: $20,900 · ReligionINTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN RESPONSE USA: $14,762 · ReligionAMAZON MISSION FOUNDATION INC: $41,820 · InternationalALFALIT INTERNATIONAL INC: $6,000 · InternationalFIRST LOVE INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES: $24,599 · Human Services
Other$6,623,141Community Improvement$2,398,077Education$386,372Religion$117,611International$47,820Human Services$24,599

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJAARS INC: $2,398,077 over 5y, 11% of budgetSIL LEAD INC: $386,372 over 4y, 20% of budgetGLOBAL SERVICE OFFICE: $95,664 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetGOD'S WORD FOR THE NATIONS INC: $81,949 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetEQUIP INC: $78,567 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetAMAZON MISSION FOUNDATION INC: $41,820 over 1y, 14% of budgetFIRST LOVE INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES: $24,599 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSowing Seeds of Joy: $20,900 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetALFALIT INTERNATIONAL INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 JAARS INC ↗
  • Who funds SIL LEAD INC ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL SERVICE OFFICE ↗
  • Who funds GOD'S WORD FOR THE NATIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds EQUIP INC ↗
  • Who funds AMAZON MISSION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FIRST LOVE INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds Sowing Seeds of Joy ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN RESPONSE USA ↗
  • Who funds ALFALIT INTERNATIONAL 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.

Servant FoundationChristian Community F…The Signatry Charitab…Natl Christian Charit…Renaissance Charitabl…Raymond James Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Servant FoundationKS15.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Servant Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Summer Institute of Linguistics Inc dba SIL Global funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Summer Institute of Linguistics Inc dba SIL Global. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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 · 0–20%
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to Summer Institute of Linguistics Inc dba SIL Global 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 17 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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