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The Chosen & Dearly Loved Foundation

To restore orphaned children into permanent, loving families, the foundation empowers orphan care providers and practitioners in child rescue,rehabilitation,reunification when possible,adoption when necessary.

$581k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

International$890kHuman Services$534kEducation$48kCrime & Legal$10kPhilanthropy$7kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $47,597, the rows itemized in this filing. The $580,763 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $533,166 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $21k
$9,900
Median grant
5
States reached
$430k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SELAMTA FAMILY PROJECT$10,697
EKISA MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC$10,500
CHILD HOPE INTERNATIONAL$9,900
HELPING CHILDREN WORLDWIDE$9,000
TRUST OF AFRICA$7,500
02The need
03

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 (FY17–17, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 4%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SHAOHANNAH'S HOPE INC: $10k → 4%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

WA
IL
NV
SD
IN
CA
CO
VA
TN
HI
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region: $529k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Sub-Saharan Africa$529k · 100% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: SVCS TO CHILDREN · CHILD SERVICES

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 9 repeat orgs$66k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
6

Total granted

$1.6M
$56k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+29%

Still filing today

78%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
Human ServicesInternationalYouth DevelopmentEducationReligionArts & CultureOther
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

  • AC
    AGAPE CHILDREN'S MINISTRY INC
    5× · 2017–2022 · $499k · revenue +0%
  • LF
    LIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $358k · revenue +164%
  • EM
    Ekisa Ministries International Inc
    6× · 2017–2024 · $163k · revenue +751%

Funded once

  • P1
    PROJECT 1 27graduated
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +108%
  • SH
    SHAOHANNAHS HOPE INC dba SHOW HOPE
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -7%
  • CL
    Childrens Law Ctr of WA
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
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
HopeCo

Driven by our Christian faith, HopeCo provides quality holistic care that enables vulnerable children, their families, and communities in East Africa to flourish.

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2
Hope for the Fatherless

HFTF serves orphaned and vulnerable children in Ethiopia, and its mission is to see every child thriving in a loving family. HFTF accomplishes this through five primary initiatives: in-country adoption training and placement, family…

International
3
Children's HopeChest

Inspired by Christ's love, Children's HopeChest releases the potential existing within vulnerable communities, starting with the children.

International
4
Kids for Him

assisting orphans and missionary in need

International
5
Sonshine Ministries International

We provide homes, a healthy diet, medical treatment, quality education, and counseling for orphaned abused and neglected children in Tanzania, East Africa. Sonshine works directly with Child Welfare Services of Tanzania. CWS provides…

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6
Project Renewed Hope Inc

Support of Orphaned, Displaced or Abandoned children.

Human Services
7
International Christian Partners Llc

Childrens Home and Ministry in India

Religion
8
Children With Hope

Caring for orphans in Kenya, orphanage and private education program in Eldoret, Kenya

Human Services
9
Orphans Hope International
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10
Children of Promise Inc

Children of Promise provides nutrition education and health care for children in need in developing nations.

Human Services
11
Kirabo Africa Ministries

To Raise the next Generation of Uganda Christian leaders. To provide the love of Jesus, education, food, medical needs and shelter in a family style home for orphaned, destitute and vulnerable children.

International
12
Children of Promise International

Children of promise international is a nonprofit organization providing humanitarian aid, relief and development in approximately 7 countries for the purpose of caring for orphans, widows, and destitute children and outreach to the poor…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lifesong for Orphans Inc; the most unlike its peers is Alliance for Children Everywhere. 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, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 16 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AGAPE CHILDREN'S MINISTRY INC: $498,652 · Human ServicesAGAPE CHILDREN'S MINISTRY INC+2 more: $20,697 · Human ServicesLIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC: $357,500 · InternationalLIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INCAlliance for Children Everywhere: $91,377 · InternationalAlliance for Children Everywhe…+1 more: $5,575 · InternationalEkisa Ministries International Inc: $162,540 · Youth DevelopmentEkisa Ministries In…Helping Children Worldwide Inc: $127,543 · Youth DevelopmentHelping Children Wo…Individual grant recipient: $177,250 · OtherIndividual gran…TRUST OF AFRICA: $37,500 · OtherTRUST OF AFRICAChildrens Law Ctr of WA: $10,000 · Other+1 more: $7,000 · OtherChild Hope International: $108,000 · Arts & CultureSimba Educational Ministries: $40,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF THE NATIONS KONA INC: $8,000 · EducationPROJECT 1 27: $15,000 · Religion
Human Services$519,349International$454,452Youth Development$290,083Other$231,750Arts & Culture$108,000Education$48,000Religion$15,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAGAPE CHILDREN'S MINISTRY INC: $498,652 over 5y, 18% of budgetLIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC: $357,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetEkisa Ministries International Inc: $162,540 over 6y, 14% of budgetHelping Children Worldwide Inc: $127,543 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetChild Hope International: $108,000 over 4y, 9.6% of budgetAlliance for Children Everywhere: $91,377 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetSimba Educational Ministries: $40,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetPROJECT 1 27: $15,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetSELAMTA FAMILY PROJECT: $10,697 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSHAOHANNAHS HOPE INC dba SHOW HOPE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE NATIONS KONA INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProject RED: $5,575 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

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.

Servant FoundationNatl Christian Charit…American Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Servant FoundationKS14.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 The Chosen & Dearly Loved Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Chosen & Dearly Loved Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Chosen & Dearly Loved Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Chosen & Dearly Loved Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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