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The Dillman Family for the Least of These Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$125k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$1.4MInternational$495kHousing & Shelter$295kArts & Culture$205kCrime & Legal$110kEducation$21kYouth Development$10kHealth$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $120k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WALK IN TWO WORLDS$40,000
AGAPE INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS$20,000
NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION$10,000
SAMARITANS PURSE$10,000
THE BRIDGE CHURCH$10,000
CALEB WOULD GO$10,000
GIDEONS$10,000
TIM TEBOW FOUNDATION - MEMO SHINE ON - (AUTISM MINISTRY)$10,000
KINGDOM DADS (DREW CLAUSON MINISTRY)$5,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $95k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SIMON KENTON BRIGGE OF HOPEF: $25k → 9%SIMON KENTON BRIDGE OF HOPE: $25k → 9%SIMON KENTON BRIDGE OF HOPE: $25k → 9%SIMON KENTON BRIDGE OF HOPE: $20k → 9%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

MI
OH
CA
CO
NE
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 15 repeat orgs$597k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +83% since the first grant, against +61% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
14

Total granted

$2.3M
$562k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+83%
+61%

Still filing today

40%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionEducationInternationalHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterCivil RightsOther
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

  • LJ
    LOVE JUSTICE INTERNATIONAL
    4× · 2017–2020 · $200k · revenue +34%
  • AI
    Agape International Missions
    6× · 2017–2025 · $120k · revenue +119%
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    5× · 2021–2025 · $100k · revenue +83%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $150k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • JB
    JERSEY BAPTIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2017 · $90k
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
Heaven's Family

Heaven's family's mission is to advance the kingdom of the lord jesus christ. we do that by strategically linking kingdom needs and opportunities with resources that the lord has entrusted to those who love him. through god-given…

Religion
2
Free to Worship Ministries

This church will be that place of emergency where people can come any time of day or night. We will be a place that will lead people back to health both spiritually and naturally.

Religion
3
Spirit Invasion Ministries

Spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ

Religion
4
Eyewitness Missions
Philanthropy
5
Jesus in Vietnam Ministries
Religion
6
Connect the World

The purpose of the organization is to share the passionate love of god the father throughout the world, his salvation through his son, the lord jesus christ, and to lead people to an experience with the holy spirit and his power. our…

Religion
7
One Love Initiative dba Circuit Riders

The ministry of One Love is to establish and equip a generation to obey and fulfill Jesus' Great Commandment and the Great Commission. One Love will work to cultivate a generation of leaders who are wholly given and surrendered to the will…

Religion
8
Vision International Missions

To propagate the gospel of jesus christ; to examine candidates and appoint missionaries. to endorse missionary programs according to standards set forth in the new testament, to establish churches, church schools & mission societies in…

Religion
9
Refuge for Prodigals International Bible Ministries Inc
Religion
10
Salt With a Mission

Teach the ministry of christ

Religion
11
Fsi-Freedom Seekers International

Freedom seekers international is a christian organization that exists to rescue the most severely persecuted for their religious faith in hostile and restrictive countries. through collaborative partnerships we deliver those who are…

Human Services
12
Global Gospel Initiative Inc
Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Rescue Mission; the most unlike its peers is Caleb Would Go Inc. 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

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 34 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GRACE COMMUNITY BIBLE CHURCH (GCBC): $1,105,000 · OtherGRACE COMMUNITY BIBLE CHURCH (GCBC)WALK IN TWO WORLDS: $205,000 · OtherWALK IN TWO WORLDSIndividual grant recipient: $150,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAgape International Missions: $120,000 · OtherLOVE JUSTICE: $110,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $100,000 · OtherJERSEY BAPTIST CHURCH: $90,000 · Other+18 more: $445,000 · Other+18 moreLOVE JUSTICE INTERNATIONAL: $200,000 · InternationalSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $100,000 · ReligionCaleb Would Go Inc: $40,000 · ReligionFREEDOM TO LEAD INTERNATIONAL: $30,000 · ReligionSIMON KENTON BRIDGES OF HOPE: $95,000 · Human ServicesNASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION: $65,000 · Housing & ShelterLIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC: $21,000 · EducationONE GENERATION AWAY: $6,000 · Civil RightsPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC: $4,000 · Philanthropy
Other$2,325,000International$200,000Religion$170,000Human Services$95,000Housing & Shelter$65,000Education$21,000Civil Rights$6,000Philanthropy$4,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLOVE JUSTICE INTERNATIONAL: $200,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetAgape International Missions: $120,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $100,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSIMON KENTON BRIDGES OF HOPE: $95,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetNASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION: $65,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCaleb Would Go Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetLIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC: $21,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER MIAMI YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetONE GENERATION AWAY: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds LOVE JUSTICE INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds Agape International Missions ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds SIMON KENTON BRIDGES OF HOPE ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds Caleb Would Go Inc ↗
  • Who funds FREEDOM TO LEAD INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds LIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER MIAMI YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC ↗
  • Who funds ONE GENERATION AWAY ↗
  • Who funds PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC ↗

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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA12× affinity8 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Dillman Family for the Least of These Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Dillman Family for the Least of These Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.

    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 34 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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