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The Bridgehead Foundation
ELEVATING ORGANIZATIONS THAT SHARE CHRISTIAN VALUES TOWARDS MORE THOUGHTFUL, STRATEGIC, AND PRODUCTIVE ENGAGEMENT OF THEIR WORLD.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
- $250k+1 grant · $384k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION | $383,500 |
| URBAN IMPACT | $25,000 |
| CENTERED | $20,000 |
| WOODINVILLE STOREHOUSE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| KIROS | $1,100 |
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 (FY20–23, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 74% of those 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 +46% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 3 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, 10% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $400k 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
- CUCHRISTIAN UNION INC4× · 2018–2023 · $851k · revenue +46%
MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL5× · 2018–2022 · $333k · revenue +49%- CCoLink2× · 2018–2019 · $100k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- ACANNA C MACASKILL SCHWAB AND DWIGHT L SCHWABone grant, 2023 · $721k · revenue +17%
- SCSEATTLE CHRISTIAN FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $78k · revenue +26%
- HIHAND IN HANDone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue -103%
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.
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…
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.
Christar international serves as a catalyst to the network of christar ministries by facilitating and encouraging partnerships with churches who sen dout men and women who proclaim the gospel for life-giving transformation in communitiesw…
to spread the gospel to the world by planting and serving churches, training local Christian leaders and to transform the world through prayer,
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…
Crossing Cultures International, Inc. exists to glorify God by equipping Christ followers globally with comprehensive training for effective ministry.
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
With a desire to see the Gospel proclaimed in all nations, we exist to make and multiply disciples of the next generation through the vehicles of church-planting missions and missional leadership training.
Restore hope, purpose, passion and relationships among Christian leaders who are making an impact around the world.
The mission of Selah International Counseling Ministries is to glorify God as we serve and equip His church, providing leadership and service through counseling, counseling resources, and counseling training.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christian Union Inc and the most unlike its peers is Anna C Macaskill Schwab and Dwight L Schwab. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 31% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 34 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 CHRISTIAN UNION INC ↗
- Who funds ANNA C MACASKILL SCHWAB AND DWIGHT L SCHWAB ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds CoLink ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Urban Impact ↗
- Who funds HAND IN HAND ↗
- Who funds Leadership Development DBA Centered ↗
- Who funds C3 LEADERS ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds HAND IN HAND ↗
- Who funds Acres of Diamonds ↗
- Who funds VITAL SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Jubilee REACH ↗
- Who funds SAGAMORE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds Northwest Family Life Learning And Counseling Center ↗
- Who funds AGROS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds TELEIOS ↗
- Who funds InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA ↗
- Who funds KIROS ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY ↗
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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Servant Foundation · Encourage & Impact Foundation · McKinstry Charitable Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Seattle Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Ge Aerospace Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 Bridgehead 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.
- Medical Teams International — 14% 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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