· Private foundation
The Abner and Esther Yoder Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 84% of The Abner and Esther Yoder Charitable Foundation’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k46 grants · $123k
- $10k–50k32 grants · $640k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $126k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Kenneth Hagin Ministries | $1,072,000 |
| New Covenant World Missions | $76,000 |
| Coastal Family Church | $50,000 |
| Grunewald Ministries | $47,500 |
| Meeting God in Missions | $46,340 |
| Individual grant recipient | $46,000 |
| Mark Hankins Ministries | $43,600 |
| Pregnancy Support Center | $36,200 |
| Rick Renner Ministries | $32,000 |
| Billy Banks Ministries | $21,000 |
| Behrman Ministries | $19,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $17,300 |
| Tony Cooke Ministries | $17,300 |
| Rhema Bible Church Missions (Thorat) | $17,200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $16,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–21, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +38% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
96 repeat relationships — 52 still active in FY2024, 44 since wound down; 29 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $177k 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
- PSPregnancy Support Network8× · 2017–2024 · $300k · revenue +166%
- NCNew Covenant World Missions8× · 2017–2024 · $281k · revenue +227%
- SLShining Light Ministries7× · 2017–2023 · $233k · revenue +128% · 59% of their budget
Funded once
- PPRAISEone grant, 2017 · $75k
- KAKUEST Academyone grant, 2023 · $20k
- CICURRENTFAMILY INCone grant, 2019 · $15k
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.
Spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ
Religious Purposes
Church ministry
To give the gospel of Jesus Christ of Nazareth to the poor and dejected of the world. We do this by caring for widows, orphans, and broken people around the world. We care for hem by feeding, clothing, and encouraging them in Jesus by His…
As Christs followers, we have the Holy Spirit residing within us, which means we have His power to fulfill this command. We cant save anyone, but its our responsibility to tell people about the God who can. How will they believe unless…
Religious ministry
Missionary support ministry to pastors and missionaries in Africa and India. We encouraging and uplifting them with spiritual and devotional teachings of Jesus using the internet. Partners in winning souls for the Kingdom of God.
Train and strengthen christian leaders in mozamibque; help the widows and orphans; work with nationals in evangelism and church planting. we do this to fulfill the great commission (mt 28:18-20) and obey jesus' command to love our…
To teach the bible to pastors and church leaders in africa and asia, while funding food for orphaned and abandonded children
Religious
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dunamis International Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mecklenburg County Cancer Assoc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
81 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. 81 of the 201 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Pregnancy Support Network ↗
- Who funds New Covenant World Missions ↗
- Who funds Shining Light Ministries ↗
- Who funds Behrman Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds Grunewald Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds JOE PURCELL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds AFRICA OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds LIVING WORD INTL ↗
- Who funds BARRY MITCHELL MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds TONY COOKE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Cameneti Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds UTTERMOST MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds BILLY BANKS MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds James Rackley Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds Reconciliation Ministries International Inc ↗
- Who funds Tim Rogers Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds Total Living Center ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN POLICY ROUNDTABLE ↗
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: Christ Foundation · Stark Community Foundation · Cameneti Ministries Inc · Vandiver Ministries International · Austin-Bailey Health & Wellness Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of Canton · Timken Co Charitable & Educational Fund · Albert W & Edith V Flowers Charitable · The Paul and Carol David Foundation · In His Steps Foundation · Timken Foundation of Canton · Synchrony 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 The Abner and Esther Yoder Charitable 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.
- The House of Ruth Maryland Inc — 19% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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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