Skip to content
Plinth

· Private foundation

Ten Talents Global Initiatives

TO PROMOTE CHRISTIAN VALUES, TO PROVIDE FUNDING AND OTHER SUPPORT TO INDIGENT INDIVIDUALS, CHARITIES AND FOUNDATIONS AND TO SUPPORT ORPHANS AND FAMILIES AROUND THE WORLD.

$72k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192024.

Philanthropy$2.2MReligion$217kInternational$79kYouth Development$35kHuman Services$10kEducation$10k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $2k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $70k
$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WAKE VILLAGE CHURCH$40,000
THE BIBLE SEMINARY$30,000
THE WATERS CHURCH$1,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–21, $66k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MISSION TEXARKANA INC: $10k → 19%HOPE FOR ORPHANS USA INC: $56k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

7%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$188k · 3 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

3 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
7

Total granted

$188k
$2.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+14%

Still filing today

67%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentInternationalOther

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

  • WV
    WAKE VILLAGE CHURCH
    3× · 2022–2024 · $120k
  • TB
    THE BIBLE SEMINARY
    3× · 2021–2024 · $45k · revenue +13%
  • HA
    HANDS AT WORK IN AFRICA USA
    3× · 2019–2021 · $23k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • TT
    TEN TALENTS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $2.2M · revenue +6%
  • HF
    HOPE FOR ORPHANS USA INC
    one grant, 2021 · $56k · revenue +23%
  • WV
    WAKE VILLAGE CHURCH OF GOD
    one grant, 2021 · $40k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Teaching Ministry of the Word of Truth

A training ministry that equips the saints more focusing on preparing leaders and ministers of the word for the work of ministry to the building up of the body of Christ.

Religion
2
Training Pastors International

Training pastors in third world countries

Religion
3
Hope Christian Ministries International

Ministries

Religion
4
Barnabas Leadership Ministries

Ministry

5
Prepare the Way Ministry

Education, Humanitarian, Community outreach and evangelism ministry. Provide Orphan Care, Train Youth in Career Paths, Train Pastors and Others in Bible School, Prison Ministry, Provide Elementary School for about 300 Children

International
6
S E Ministries

None

Religion
7
Grateful Shepherd Ministries

Training pastors and leaders in christian faith

Religion
8
Alongside Education Ministries Inc

Pastor training

9
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
10
Worldcast Ministries

Publishing, writing, sales & distribution of Christian Books; speaking throughout the US and foreign countries on Christian subjects. Attending orphanages, Christian schools and Bible colleges in the US and foreign countries assisting in…

Religion
11
Discipleship Training Institute for All Nations
Religion
12
Activation International Ministries

Teaching and ministering to pastors internationally and in the usa.

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hands At Work in Africa Usa and the most unlike its peers is Ten Talents Foundation. 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

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 11 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TEN TALENTS FOUNDATION — $2,173,794 · PhilanthropyTEN TALENTS FOUNDATIONWAKE VILLAGE CHURCH — $120,000 · OtherWAKE VILLAGE CHURCH OF GOD — $40,000 · OtherWORLD HOPE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL — $10,000 · Other+1 more — $1,500 · OtherHOPE FOR ORPHANS USA INC — $55,807 · Human ServicesMISSION TEXARKANA INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE BIBLE SEMINARY — $45,000 · EducationASSOCIATES FOR BIBLICAL RESEARCH — $10,000 · EducationLIFE PREP MINISTRIES — $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentHANDS AT WORK IN AFRICA USA — $23,420 · International
Philanthropy$2,173,794Other$171,500Human Services$65,807Education$55,000Youth Development$35,000International$23,420

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTEN TALENTS FOUNDATION — $2,173,794 over 1y, 25% of budgetHOPE FOR ORPHANS USA INC — $55,807 over 1y, 21% of budgetTHE BIBLE SEMINARY — $45,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetLIFE PREP MINISTRIES — $35,000 over 1y, 73% of budgetHANDS AT WORK IN AFRICA USA — $23,420 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetMISSION TEXARKANA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetWORLD HOPE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetASSOCIATES FOR BIBLICAL RESEARCH — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budget
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.

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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA7.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Ten Talents Global Initiatives 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.

2023
202122232425
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%your 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
    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 · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Ten Talents Global Initiatives?

    Find your warmest path to Ten Talents Global Initiatives 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

    More from the funding graph