· Private foundation
The Emelco 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $308k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNION GOSPEL MISSION OF SPOKANE | $23,000 |
| Feast Collective | $21,000 |
| Compassion International | $21,000 |
| LUTHERHAVEN MINISTRIES | $21,000 |
| MISSION AVIATION FELLOWSHIP | $20,000 |
| OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL | $20,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $20,000 |
| WORLD VISION | $20,000 |
| AU SABLE INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES | $18,000 |
| LOVE INC KOOTENAI COUNTY | $16,000 |
| Restavek Freedom Foundation | $16,000 |
| INLAND NORTHWEST LAND CONSERVANCY | $16,000 |
| WESTMONT COLLEGE | $16,000 |
| ZOE INTERNATIONAL | $15,000 |
| MERCY SHIPS | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–21, $73k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 13% of The Emelco Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 20% of the giving stays in ID; read by stated purpose it is 17% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
30 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE9× · 2017–2025 · $198k · revenue +134%
- WCWESTMONT COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $133k · revenue +38%
- ZIZOE INTERNATIONAL8× · 2018–2025 · $133k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- CCCLASSICAL CHRISTIAN ACADEMYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +40%
- MHMOUNT HERMON ASSOCIATES INCone grant, 2020 · $10k
- BRBoys Republicgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +80%
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.
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.
Lifewater international is a non-profit christian water development organization dedicated to effectively serving vulnerable children and families by partnering with underserved communities to overcome water poverty.
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.
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…
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…
To get the good news to every nation this generation by showing and sharing god's love by providing opportunities and supporting christian missionaries in over fifty seven countries around the world.
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.
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…
To join in the completion of the Great Commission through Scripture Engagement in all languages and every people group.
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
Living Water International ("Living Water") exists to demonstrate the love of God by helping communities in 17 developing countries acquire desperately needed clean water and to experience "living water" - the gospel of Jesus Christ.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Opportunity International Inc D/B/a Opportunity International-Us and the most unlike its peers is Icec. 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 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 41 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 SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds WESTMONT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ZOE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds LUTHERHAVEN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds INLAND NORTHWEST LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds LOVE INC KOOTENAI COUNTY ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds ICEC ↗
- Who funds Genesis Associates Inc ↗
- Who funds Feast Collective ↗
- Who funds Redeemer City To City ↗
- Who funds RESTAVEK FREEDOM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HEARTLIGHT MINISTRIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BELLEVUE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE GATHERING ↗
- Who funds The Big Table ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds Good Faith Network Inc ↗
- Who funds CLEAN THE WORLD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC RIM INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP ↗
- Who funds CLASSICAL CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds HAGAR USA INC ↗
- Who funds WATER FOR GOOD ↗
- Who funds Boys Republic ↗
- Who funds AZUSA PACIFIC 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: Innovia Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Avista Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · United Way of Spokane County · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Seattle Foundation · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Emelco 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.
- Clean the World Foundation Inc — 0% 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.