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Sure Foundation Ministries

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.

$157k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$50k
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, FY2021 to 2025.

Religion$520kEducation$147kHousing & Shelter$89kHealth$54kYouth Development$40kInternational$38kCrime & Legal$30kHuman Services$23kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $71k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$739k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Sure Life Ministries$50,000
Salt Lake Rescue Mission$30,000
Valley Christian School$28,249
MARC Foundation$12,984
Individual grant recipient$6,000
Wycliffe Bible$5,800
Covenant Youth of Alaska$5,000
Covenant Youth of Alaska$5,000
Lake View Church$5,000
Prison Fellowship - Angel Tree$3,000
Massoula Alliance Church$2,500
Floursing Grace Church$1,000
Hello Creative$1,000
The Rafiki Foundation$1,000
Campus Crusade The Cru Foundation$200
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 (FY23–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Living Water International: $3k → 8%Embrace Liberia: $5k → 10%Hope Rescue Mission: $1k → 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

AK
WA
ID
MT
MN
WI
NY
MA
OH
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
VA
AZ
TN
NC
DC
OK
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of Sure Foundation Ministries’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Sure Foundation Ministrieslessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$576k · 24 repeat orgs$423k to everyone else

24 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
64

Total granted

$576k
$370k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+14%

Still filing today

42%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionHuman ServicesEducationInternationalArts & CultureCivil RightsOther
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

  • VC
    VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS
    3× · 2023–2025 · $87k · revenue +17%
  • IC
    InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA
    4× · 2021–2024 · $62k · revenue +9%
  • TE
    Truth Encounter Ministries
    3× · 2021–2024 · $30k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • FG
    FLOURISHING GRACE CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • GC
    Garland Christian Academy
    one grant, 2024 · $21k
  • VC
    VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $21k · revenue +36%
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
Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry Inc

To glorify god by equipping the church with proper christian doctrine and to help non-believers come to a saving knowledge of jesus christ.

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3
Explore God Network
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4
Grateful Shepherd Ministries

Training pastors and leaders in christian faith

Religion
5
North America Bible Institute

North America Bible Institute (NABI) is an evangelical graduate school, made up of students who are diverse in both ethnicity and ministry aims -- but united in great love for Jesus and his gospel. As a graduate school, NABI offers them…

Education
6
Bible Thinker Inc

Bible Thinker, Inc is a ministry dedicated to equipping people to think and live biblically. There are three main areas of teaching that we focus on:1. Teaching accurate theology based on exegeting the text of the Bible and confronting…

Religion
7
More International Ministries

To spread the gospel of jesus christ through crusades

Religion
8
Encounter Church

Church

Religion
9
Raise Up Global Ministries

Raise Up Global Ministries is committed to educating Christian leaders in communities around the world. The three programs of Raise Up equip the global church by 1 Developing biblically based interactive materials and 2 Training…

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10
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
11
Ecs Ministries

To glorify God by providing biblically sound resources and structured study material to teach people from every nation to accept Christ as their Savior and Lord, grow in Christ, and share their faith with others.

Religion
12
Leadership Resources International

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

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christian Healthcare Ministries Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Values. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

29 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. 29 of the 90 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)
28/29
Grantees still filing
23/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Salt Lake Rescue Mission: $50,000 · OtherSalt Lake Rescue MissionFLOURISHING GRACE CHURCH: $50,000 · OtherFLOURISHING GRACE CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $33,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMissoula Alliance Church: $31,000 · OtherMissoula Alliance ChurchCOVENANT YOUTH OF ALASKA-ECC OF ALASKA: $30,000 · OtherCOVENANT YOUTH OF ALASKA-ECC OF ALASKAWycliffe Bible: $24,700 · OtherGarland Christian Academy: $20,735 · OtherVALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $20,695 · OtherCampus Crusade The Cru Foundation: $20,300 · OtherGOOD NEWS JAIL & PRISON MINISTRY: $20,000 · Other+59 more: $246,957 · Other+59 moreInterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA: $61,800 · ReligionInterVarsity Christian Fellows…PURE LIFE MINISTRIES INC: $50,000 · ReligionPURE LIFE MINISTRIES INCTruth Encounter Ministries: $30,000 · ReligionTruth Encounter MinistriesMENTORING TIMOTHY INC: $25,000 · ReligionMENTORING TIMOTHY INCUTAH ADVANCE MINISTRIES: $20,000 · ReligionUTAH ADVANCE MINISTRIESSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $16,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSEHELLO CREATIVE: $16,000 · ReligionHELLO CREATIVETHE JOSHUA FUND: $15,000 · ReligionTHE JOSHUA FUNDBIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP: $12,300 · ReligionTRUTH IN LOVE MINISTRY CORP: $10,000 · ReligionNIK RIPKEN MINISTRIES: $10,000 · Religion+3 more: $5,000 · ReligionVALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: $87,059 · EducationVALLEY CHR…AMUNDSEN EDUCATIONAL CENTER: $5,000 · EducationAMUNDSEN E…Marc Foundation Inc: $48,734 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN VALUES: $15,000 · Arts & CultureRAFIKI FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 · InternationalPEACEMAKER MINISTRIES: $5,000 · InternationalCare Net: $10,000 · Civil Rights
Other$547,887Religion$271,100Education$92,059Philanthropy$48,734Arts & Culture$15,000International$14,000Civil Rights$10,000

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 budgetVALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: $87,059 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMarc Foundation Inc: $48,734 over 4y, 45% of budgetTruth Encounter Ministries: $30,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetMENTORING TIMOTHY INC: $25,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetVALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $20,695 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUTAH ADVANCE MINISTRIES: $20,000 over 1y, 95% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHELLO CREATIVE: $16,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetTHE JOSHUA FUND: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN VALUES: $15,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP: $12,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCare Net: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRUTH IN LOVE MINISTRY CORP: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNIK RIPKEN MINISTRIES: $10,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAFIKI FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEMBRACE LIBERIA: $5,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetAMUNDSEN EDUCATIONAL CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPEACEMAKER MINISTRIES: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetPIONEER BIBLE CAMP: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCRUSADERS INTERNATIONAL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetSTANDING TOGETHER INC: $3,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetLiving Water International: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL SERVICE OFFICE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of the Great Commission: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION OF MISSOULA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHRISTIAN HEALTHCARE MINISTRIES INC: $1,000 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 VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA ↗
  • Who funds PURE LIFE MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds Marc Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Truth Encounter Ministries ↗
  • Who funds MENTORING TIMOTHY INC ↗
  • Who funds VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds UTAH ADVANCE MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds HELLO CREATIVE ↗
  • Who funds THE JOSHUA FUND ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN VALUES ↗
  • Who funds BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP ↗
  • Who funds Care Net ↗
  • Who funds TRUTH IN LOVE MINISTRY CORP ↗
  • Who funds NIK RIPKEN MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
  • Who funds RAFIKI FOUNDATION 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…Natl Christian Charit…Servant FoundationHearthstone GroupChristian Heritage Mi…Thrivent Charitable I…The Signatry Charitab…Renaissance Charitabl…Gs Donor Advised Phil…American Endowment Fo…The Blackbaud Giving …Raymond James Charita…
Christian Community Foundation IncCO14.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Servant Foundation · Hearthstone Group · Christian Heritage Ministries · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Raymond James Charitable Endowment 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 Sure Foundation Ministries funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sure Foundation Ministries. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 90 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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