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The First Fruits Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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The First Fruits Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$20kInternational$7kHuman Services$2kHealth$2kEducation$2kFood & Nutrition$1kPublic Safety & Disaster$500Recreation & Sports$350Other$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$612
Median grant
2
States reached
$2k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Positive Alternative Radio Spirit F$1,000
ChildFund International$612
Food for the Hungry$147
02The need
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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 (FY20–23, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Main Street Missions: $1k → 30%Wounded Warrior Project: $800 → 14%Christian Appalachian Project: $450 → 15%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
WI
NY
CA
CO
KY
WV
VA
AZ
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 96% of The First Fruits Charitable Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 70% of the giving stays in VA; by stated purpose, 3%.

The First Fruits Charitable Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$27k · 9 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
19

Total granted

$27k
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+35%

Still filing today

33%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
InternationalHuman ServicesReligionEducationPublic Safety & DisasterPhilanthropyOther
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

  • CI
    CHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA
    5× · 2020–2025 · $4k · revenue +7%
  • GP
    GODS PIT CREW INC
    2× · 2020–2022 · $1k · revenue +45%
  • IC
    InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA
    4× · 2017–2020 · $1k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • MS
    MAIN STREET SCHOOL INC
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +24%
  • CB
    Cedar Bluff United Methodist Church
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
  • MS
    MAIN STREET MISSIONS
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue -61%
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
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

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…

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2
International Needs

International needs has the vision to transform lives and change communities by helping christian nationals serve both god and neighbor within their own countries.

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3
Medical Teams International

Medical teams international is a christian humanitarian relief agency focused on providing life-saving medical care for people in crisis.

International
4
World Vision Inc

World vision, inc. is a christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families, and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. (continued on schedule…

International
5
World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals

To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.

International
6
World Hope International Inc

The purpose of world hope international, inc. (whi) includes providing assistance to economically disadvantaged people through long-term social transformation projects, including anti-trafficking protection, clean water, economic…

International
7
American Bible Society

Since 1816, american bible society has been fulfilling its mission of making the bible available to every person in a language and format each can understand and afford so all people may experience its life-changing message.

Religion
8
International Impact Ministries in
Religion
9
International Partnerships Inc

To provide support for the efforts of christians of the former soviet union in reaching the influencers of their countries for christ.

Religion
10
Youth for Christ International Ministries

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.

Religion
11
International Medical Corps

To save lives & relieve suffering through health interventions & related activities that strengthen communities affected by conflict, natural disasters & disease outbreaks.

International
12
Operation Serve Inc

Provide relief to the poor and distressed by sharing the love of god in word and deed, we accomplish this through mercy missions, leadership training and community outreaches.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Hungry Inc; the most unlike its peers is Main Street School Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 28 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
13/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Positive Alternative Radio Spirit F: $13,300 · OtherPositive Alternative Radio Spirit FIndividual grant recipient: $3,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSt Jude Children's Research: $1,700 · OtherSt Jude Children's ResearchFeeding Southwest Virginia: $1,200 · OtherCedar Bluff United Methodist Church: $1,000 · OtherSpirit FM Partner Services: $1,000 · Other+8 more: $2,975 · Other+8 moreCHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA: $4,323 · InternationalCHILDFUND INTERN…FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY INC: $421 · InternationalFOOD FOR THE HUN…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $350 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FR…STUDENTS INTERNATIONAL: $200 · InternationalMercy Ships International: $200 · InternationalMAIN STREET MISSIONS: $1,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $800 · Human ServicesCHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC: $450 · Human ServicesMAIN STREET SCHOOL INC: $2,000 · EducationInterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA: $1,250 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $600 · ReligionGODS PIT CREW INC: $1,300 · Public Safety & DisasterSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $350 · Recreation & SportsUNICEF USA Impact Fund for Children Inc: $100 · Philanthropy
Other$24,175International$5,494Human Services$2,250Education$2,000Religion$1,850Public Safety & Disaster$1,300Recreation & Sports$350Philanthropy$100

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA: $4,323 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMAIN STREET SCHOOL INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGODS PIT CREW INC: $1,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA: $1,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMAIN STREET MISSIONS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $650 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChrist In Action Ministries Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC: $450 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR THE HUNGRY INC: $421 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTUDENTS INTERNATIONAL: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNICEF USA Impact Fund for Children Inc: $100 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.

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.

National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA9.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · 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 First Fruits Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The First Fruits Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report 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.
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How do I get to The First Fruits Charitable Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The First Fruits Charitable Foundation Inc 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 28 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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