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The Foundation for Christian Arts Pastoral Development and the Poor Inc

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.

$172k
Granted FY2023
14
Grants FY2023
9
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2023.

Religion$755kEducation$387kCivil Rights$20kAnimals$10kHealth$8kHuman Services$6kCommunity Improvement$1kOther$0
02FY2023 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k8 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $86k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$6,475
Median grant
9
States reached
$286k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$60,000
Individual grant recipient$23,000
Individual grant recipient$22,000
Individual grant recipient$16,000
Meredith College$15,000
Kent Henry Ministries$10,000
Individual grant recipient$6,475
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$3,440
Individual grant recipient$3,000
Baxter Inc$2,850
Individual grant recipient$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–22, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%JOJO WORKIN: $5k → 16%JOJO WORKIN: $3k → 16%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

AK
IL
NY
IA
OH
PA
CA
UT
MO
KY
VA
AR
TN
NC
SC
AL
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 69% of The Foundation for Christian Arts Pastoral Development and the Poor Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 24% of the giving stays in NC; by stated purpose, 11%.

The Foundation for Christian Arts Pastoral Development and the Poor 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.
$900k · 10 repeat orgs$374k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
38

Total granted

$900k
$300k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-13%
+225%

Still filing today

30%
13%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23
EducationReligionHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementCivil 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

  • KH
    KENT HENRY MINISTRIES
    5× · 2019–2023 · $485k · revenue -71% · 26% of their budget
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    3× · 2021–2023 · $115k
  • SM
    SKYWORK MINISTRIES INC
    3× · 2019–2022 · $90k · revenue +67% · 93% of their budget

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $65k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $45k
  • LP
    Little People of America Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +284%
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
Wilmington Christian School Inc

Wilmington christian school provides a christ-centered challenging academic program with instruction based on the biblical view of god and the world. wcs teaches, influences, and encourages each student to effectively integrate biblical…

Education
2
Winston Salem Christian School

To cultivate curious, collaborative, and creative thinkers in a christ-centered community.

Education
3
Northpoint Christian Academy Inc

Northpoint christian academy is a private school located in waxhaw, nc. ncas activities will consist of providing kindergarten through 12th grade education in a christ-centered environment.

Education
4
Wellington Christian Academy Inc

Operate a private school.

Education
5
Door of Hope Ministry Inc

Door of hope discipleship ministry is a biblical counseling ministry located in columbus, north carolina, offering discipleship both in group settings at various conferences and teaching ministries and on a personal level through…

Religion
6
Hopewell Ministries

To provide Christian counseling.

Human Services
7
Hope Academy of Charlotte Inc

Christ-centered, college preparatory, academic program.

Education
8
Charlotte Christian College & Theological Seminary

To educate, train, and develop ministers, evangelists, missionaries, and other people who are going to enter the Christian ministry. Educate ministers and missionaries to serve the Lord.

Religion
9
Safe Harbor of Nc Inc

Safe Harbor provides a faith-based community for rebuilding, renewing, and recovery. We work together with volunteers and other nonprofit organizations to provide a wide range of services to those experiencing homelessness, single mothers,…

Health
10
Hope Counseling Services of Chapel Hill

We provide accessible biblical counseling and training, walking alongside hurting people, which leads to Christ-centered hope, help, and healing, for the Triangle and beyond.

Health
11
Collin County Cornerstone Christian Academy

The organization operates a non-denominational school providing a christian environment for learning.

Education
12
Norfolk Christian Schools

It is the mission of norfolk christian schools to equip students spiritually, intellectually, and physically to love god and to serve him as christ's ambassadors in the world.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Harrells Christian Academy; the most unlike its peers is Kent Henry Ministries. 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

9 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. 9 of the 57 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KENT HENRY MINISTRIES: $485,000 · OtherKENT HENRY MINISTRIESIndividual grant recipient: $115,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $78,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $65,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $44,600 · Other+45 more: $345,615 · Other+45 moreSKYWORK MINISTRIES INC: $90,000 · ReligionMEREDITH COLLEGE: $15,000 · EducationHARRELLS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $6,300 · EducationWilmington School of the Arts: $1,000 · EducationLittle People of America Inc: $20,000 · Civil RightsJO JO WORKING INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesJo Ann Carter Harrelson Center Inc: $1,000 · Community Improvement
Other$1,133,215Religion$90,000Education$22,300Civil Rights$20,000Human Services$7,500Community Improvement$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKENT HENRY MINISTRIES: $485,000 over 5y, 26% of budgetSKYWORK MINISTRIES INC: $90,000 over 3y, 93% of budgetLittle People of America Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetMEREDITH COLLEGE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJO JO WORKING INC: $7,500 over 2y, 36% of budgetHARRELLS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $6,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetONSLOW COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJo Ann Carter Harrelson Center Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWilmington School of the Arts: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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 KENT HENRY MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds SKYWORK MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds Little People of America Inc ↗
  • Who funds MEREDITH COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds JO JO WORKING INC ↗
  • Who funds HARRELLS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds ONSLOW COMMUNITY OUTREACH 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.

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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 Foundation for Christian Arts Pastoral Development and the Poor Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Foundation for Christian Arts Pastoral Development and the Poor Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 57 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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