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Summerland Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PPI Ministries | $300 |
| Urban Racquet Sports Foundation | $200 |
| Jesus Online Ministries | $100 |
| Ascension St Marys Hospital | $100 |
| Pathway To Victory | $100 |
| Need Him Ministry | $100 |
| Trans World radio | $100 |
| Gigis Playhouse | $60 |
| Michigan State University | $50 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of your 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 +34% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $510 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
- ILINTENTIONAL LIFE MEDIA2× · 2021–2022 · $500 · revenue +199%
- JMJESUSONLINE MINISTRIES2× · 2023–2024 · $200 · revenue +6%
- TFTRUTH FOR LIFE2× · 2020–2022 · $165 · revenue +34%
Funded once
- FCField Center For Neuroscienceone grant, 2021 · $500
- FOFRIENDS OF ISRAEL GOSPEL MINISTRY INCone grant, 2023 · $358
- HCHARVEST CHURCH CORPone grant, 2023 · $300
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.
Provide inspirational programming in various languages domestically and abroad via satellite, cable, internet, radio local am, fm and television mediums.
Religion
To glorify god by equipping the church with proper christian doctrine and to help non-believers come to a saving knowledge of jesus christ.
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.
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…
To engage in christian evangelism through the publication and worldwide distribution of "herald of his coming" periodical
Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.
Christian family media ministries, inc operates as christian family radio and has a mission of showcasting god's glory through your story with life changing media.
To reach as many people as possible with the good news of jesus christ and help them connect with god. we do this by playing positive, encouraging & uplifting christian music and programming, promoting a community of christian faiths,…
God Centered Life is organized to call our culture church and society back to a realization that true life is genuinely and fully centered upon God as revealed in the Bible the person of Jesus Christ and the Trinity - Father Son and Holy…
To present the gospel by providing life-long opportunities to integrate faith and learning through balanced, biblically based scholarship, training people to love god by renewing their minds and equipping the church to engage the world for…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Coral Ridge Ministries Media Inc and the most unlike its peers is Urban Racquet Sports Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 38 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 Urban Racquet Sports Foundation ↗
- Who funds INTENTIONAL LIFE MEDIA ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN MOTORCYCLISTS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds JESUSONLINE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds TRUTH FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds Coral Ridge Ministries Media Inc ↗
- Who funds REVELATION MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN HISTORY INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds MYMICHIGAN MEDICAL CENTER SAGINAW ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT COUNSELING INC ↗
- Who funds PLEDGELING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
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: Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Servant Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Summerland 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.
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