· Private foundation
The Engraved Pencil 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $180k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $615k
- $250k+2 grants · $800k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ECCLESIA HOUSTON | $550,000 |
| THETA EDUCATION FUND | $250,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $174,979 |
| HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| SAWMILL 6TH MAN | $100,000 |
| OAK GROVE MINISTRIES | $75,000 |
| WORLD HOPE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL | $65,000 |
| FIRST LIBERTY | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| PEACE GOSPEL INTERNATIONAL | $40,000 |
| HOPE INTERNATIONAL | $35,000 |
| COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS | $30,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $25,000 |
| FAMILY LEGACY | $15,000 |
| ATHLETES IN ACTION | $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 (FY19–24, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.
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 +71% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 6 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $382k 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
- FOFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES6× · 2019–2024 · $637k · revenue +80%
- TMTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION4× · 2019–2024 · $200k · revenue +82%
- PGPEACE GOSPEL INTERNATIONAL INC5× · 2020–2024 · $148k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- PWPokes With A Purpose Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +577%
- NANORTHWEST ASSISTANCE MINISTRIESone grant, 2019 · $9k · revenue +5%
- MFMILLER FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +17%
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.
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.
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
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 specific purpose of this corporation is to present a biblical, christian ministry of the gospel, hope, encouragement and strength to as many people as possible. the intent of those who will conduct this corporation's work is to present…
To provide resources, training, and continuing support to leaders in the us and around the world in order that they may help others find freedom in christ.
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…
The King's University integrates Biblical education and practical ministry to shape Spirit-formed individuals who follow Jesus, serve His Church, and are sent to impact the world.
To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…
Bibleproject's mission is to help people experience the bible as a unified story that leads to jesus. this is achieved by creating biblical videos to be regularly released on a newly-created youtube channel. (continued on schedule o.)each…
Walk thru the bible (wtb) ignites passion for god's word. by developing a global network of influential pastors and leaders and then resourcing them with tools and training, wtb fulfills its role in the great commission.
To share god's love in the workplace by providing a personalized and proactive employee care service through chaplain teams.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life and the most unlike its peers is Miller Foundation Inc. 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 25 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) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 11% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 39 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 FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PEACE GOSPEL INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD HOPE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds HOPE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS ↗
- Who funds The Brookwood Community Inc ↗
- Who funds TOOLBOX MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Pokes With A Purpose Inc ↗
- Who funds Family Legacy Missions International ↗
- Who funds MISSION LAZARUS INC ↗
- Who funds THE WORKFAITH CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds MILLER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds Kanakuk Ministries ↗
- Who funds INSPIRE WOMEN ↗
- Who funds Blue Skies Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds Memorial Assistance Ministries ↗
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 · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Servant Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Engraved Pencil 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.