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The Cross Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k27 grants · $99k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $191k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $843k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Reach The Rest | $200,000 |
| International Generosity Foundation | $165,000 |
| Sport Catalyst | $100,000 |
| Second Baptist Church | $96,745 |
| Individual grant recipient | $75,000 |
| Revival Sports Inc | $56,000 |
| Mission of Hope | $50,076 |
| New Covenant Missions Inc | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| Full Gospel Korean Chruch of Houston | $40,500 |
| Foundry Partners Inc - DBA Rooted Conferences | $25,000 |
| Arabian World Partnership | $24,420 |
| U Of N Kona | $23,200 |
| Global Operations For All Peoples | $20,000 |
| Revival | $20,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% 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 +33% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
51 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 15 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $303k 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
- EIEpic International Corporation3× · 2020–2024 · $559k · revenue +167%
- SCSports Catalyst Inc4× · 2020–2024 · $451k · revenue +90%
- NCNEW COVENANT MISSIONS INC2× · 2021–2024 · $102k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- GGGracelyn Global Education Foundationone grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue +18%
- YSYellowstone Schoolone grant, 2022 · $130k
- KIKIDSAVE INTERNATIONAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $77k · revenue +110%
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.
Religious
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…
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…
Reconciliaton Ministries Intl. is a Christian evangelical organization preaching and teaching the Word of God in over 60 countries. The ministry equips and encourages Christians everywhere to be saved, healed, and delivered according to…
To help spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ by providing resources and financial support to projects throughout Asia
Childrens Home and Ministry in India
Our mission is proclaiming the message of salvation through the saving power of the Holy Spirit to reach the unreached by evangelizing; motivating, mobilizing and organizing the body of Christ.
Ariana Ministries is an Afghan-led ministry carrying out the Great Commission by planting and supporting churches among the Afghan people groups. We focus on evengelism, discipleship, leaders training and providing pastoral care and…
To provide strategic teaching about prayer, prophecy, and intercession in the US and abroad. Books, manuals, and audio teachings are also used to equip Christians in strategic level spiritual prayer and warfare.
Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.
Our vision is to catalyze a Disciple Making Movement that will bless every church and every People, teaching others who will impact others for time and eternity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mission of Hope Inc Mission of Hope Haiti Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Elizabeth House Maternity Home. 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 18 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
45 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. 45 of the 103 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 Epic International Corporation ↗
- Who funds Sports Catalyst Inc ↗
- Who funds AG FULL GOSPEL KOREAN CHURCH OF HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds Gracelyn Global Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds NEW COVENANT MISSIONS INC ↗
- Who funds ANANIAS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds REVIVAL SPORT INC ↗
- Who funds Revival ↗
- Who funds KIDSAVE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds AS OUR OWN NFP ↗
- Who funds ARABIAN WORLD PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR CHRISTIAN SERVICE ↗
- Who funds MISSION OF HOPE INC MISSION OF HOPE HAITI INC ↗
- Who funds HIS VOICE INC HIS VOICE GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds E3 Partners Ministry ↗
- Who funds Axia International ↗
- Who funds East-West Ministries International ↗
- Who funds GATHERING OF MEN INC ↗
- Who funds Elijah Rising ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF ASIAN CULTURE & DEVELOPMENT ↗
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: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Stoller Foundation · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Servant Foundation · C Wayne and Patricia J Miller Foundation · International Generosity Foundation Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · More Than The Move Foundation DBA Hope Legacy Collective · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Oldham Little Church Foundation · Strake 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 Cross 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.
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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