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The Ashcraft Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$55k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$32k
Largest
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Religion$180kHuman Services$23kInternational$16kPublic Benefit$10kFood & Nutrition$3kCommunity Improvement$2kHealth$2kArts & Culture$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $32k
$2,500
Median grant
9
States reached
$25k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
REACHING SOULS INTERNATIONAL$32,000
FOCUS ON THE FAMILY$5,000
SAMARITANS PURSE$3,500
JOYCE MEYER MINISTRIES$3,500
TURNING POINT USA$3,000
FAMILY TALK$2,500
JESUS FILM$1,500
WYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS$1,000
HORIZON BAPTIST CHURCH$1,000
THE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE$1,000
THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION$250
CALVARY COMMISSION$250
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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HORIZON BAPTIST CHURCH: $1k → 8%REACHING SOULS INTERNATIONAL: $32k → 13%EAST UNION MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURC: $2k → 10%ONE HOPE INC: $3k → 13%JOYCE MEYER MINISTRIES: $5k → 9%SAMARITANS PURSE: $5k → 21%FOCUS ON THE FAMILY: $5k → 9%THE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $1k → 7%HORIZON BAPTIST CHURCH: $1k → 8%REACHING SOULS INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 13%EAST UNION MBC: $2k → 10%ONE HOPE INC: $2k → 13%JOYCE MEYER MINISTRIES: $4k → 9%SAMARITANS PURSE: $4k → 21%FOCUS ON THE FAMILY: $5k → 9%HORIZON BAPTIST CHURCH: $1k → 8%REACHING SOULS INTERNATIONAL: $12k → 13%ONE HOPE INC: $2k → 13%JOYCE MEYER MINISTRIES: $3k → 9%SAMARITANS PURSE: $3k → 21%FOCUS ON THE FAMILY: $4k → 9%REACHING SOULS INTERNATIONAL INC: $11k → 13%ONE HOPE INC: $1k → 13%JOYCE MEYER MINISTRIES: $3k → 9%SAMARITANS PURSE: $3k → 21%FOCUS ON THE FAMILY: $3k → 9%REACHING SOULS INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 13%THE WOODSON CENTER: $1k → 14%JOYCE MEYER MINISTRIES: $3k → 9%SAMARITANS PURSE: $1k → 21%FOCUS ON THE FAMILY: $2k → 9%REACHING SOULS INTERNATIONAL INC: $8k → 13%THE WOODSON CENTER: $1k → 14%JOYCE MEYER MINISTRIES: $2k → 9%FOCUS ON THE FAMILY: $2k → 9%REACHING SOULS INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 13%JOYCE MEYERS MINISTRIES: $2k → 9%FOCUS ON THE FAMILY: $2k → 9%REACHING SOULS INTERNATIONAL: $3k → 13%JOYCE MEYER MINISTRIES: $1k → 9%FOCUS ON THE FAMILY: $1k → 9%FAMILY TALK: $4k → 9%FAMILY TALK: $3k → 9%FAMILY TALK: $3k → 9%FAMILY TALK: $2k → 9%FAMILY TALK: $2k → 9%FAMILY TALK: $1k → 9%FAMILY TALK: $1k → 9%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$238k · 23 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
3

Total granted

$238k
$3k

Still filing today

48%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionPublic BenefitArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • RS
    REACHING SOULS INTERNATIONAL INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $105k · revenue +66%
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    7× · 2018–2024 · $16k · revenue +163%
  • DJ
    Dr James Dobson Family Institute
    8× · 2017–2024 · $15k · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • EU
    EAST UNION MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURC
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
  • PI
    PINE ISLAND BAPTIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2019 · $500
  • WC
    WALTER CALDWELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $300

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
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…

2
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
3
Jewish Voice Ministries Intl

To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…

4
Freedom in Christ Ministries

To provide resources, training, and continuing support to leaders in the us and around the world in order that they may help others find freedom in christ.

Religion
5
Intentional Life Media

Dedicated to igniting personal transformation by affirming faith, inspiring hope, and equipping individuals, to live an intentional life in christ.

Religion
6
International Leadership Institute

The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…

Religion
7
Time of Grace Ministry

Time of grace is for people who want more growth and less struggle in their spiritual walk. we share the truth of god's word simply and clearly through television, print, and digital media that people view millions of times each month. we…

Religion
8
Lakelight Institute

Lakelight Institute equips Christians with timeless wisdom for modern life.

Religion
9
Probe Ministries International

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…

Religion
10
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
11
Family Research Council

The family research council's primary exempt purpose is to reaffirm and promote nationally, and particularly in washington, dc, the traditional family unit and the judeo-christian value system upon which it is built. frc's activities in…

Human Services
12
Blue Letter Bible

The specific purpose of this corporation is to present a biblical, christian ministry of the gospel, hope, encouragement and strength to as many people as possible. the intent of those who will conduct this corporation's work is to present…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 27 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
11/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

REACHING SOULS INTERNATIONAL INC — $104,500 · ReligionREACHING SOULS INTERNATIONAL INCSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $15,500 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSEDr James Dobson Family Institute — $15,000 · ReligionDr James Dobson Family Institute+2 more — $2,850 · ReligionFOCUS ON THE FAMILY — $22,500 · OtherFOCUS ON THE FAMILYJOYCE MEYER MINISTRIES INC — $21,400 · OtherJOYCE MEYER MINISTRIES INCCAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST INC — $15,999 · OtherCAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST INCONEHOPE INC — $6,500 · OtherONEHOPE INCTURNING POINT USA INC — $6,000 · OtherTURNING POINT USA INCWYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS INC — $4,250 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $3,651 · Other+10 more — $17,350 · Other+10 moreLeadership Institute — $2,500 · Public BenefitTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $1,000 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $850 · Public BenefitWOODSON CENTER — $2,000 · Community ImprovementFELLOWSHIP FOR PERFORMING ARTS INC — $1,600 · Arts & Culture
Religion$137,850Other$97,650Public Benefit$4,350Community Improvement$2,000Arts & Culture$1,600

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetREACHING SOULS INTERNATIONAL INC — $104,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $15,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDr James Dobson Family Institute — $15,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Institute — $2,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWOODSON CENTER — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES INC — $1,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFELLOWSHIP FOR PERFORMING ARTS INC — $1,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChristian Herald Association Inc — $1,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $850 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCALVARY COMMISSION INC — $350 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds REACHING SOULS INTERNATIONAL INC
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE
  • Who funds Dr James Dobson Family Institute
  • Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC
  • Who funds Leadership Institute
  • Who funds WOODSON CENTER
  • Who funds LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES INC
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP FOR PERFORMING ARTS INC
  • Who funds Christian Herald Association Inc
  • Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC
  • Who funds CALVARY COMMISSION INC

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.

Servant FoundationKS12.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 The Ashcraft Foundation Inc 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.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%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.

    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 27 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.

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