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The Good Part 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.

$935k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$874k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$2.2MEducation$23kHealth$4kYouth Development$1kInternational$150Other$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $4k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $56k
  • $250k+1 grant · $874k
$15,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$874,400
REFORMED BAPTIST NETWORK$25,000
PLYMOUTH CHRISTIAN ACADEMY$16,000
MUSTARD SEED FOUNDATION$15,000
CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ANN ARBOR$2,000
SONSET SOLUTIONS$1,000
BIGS KIDS$1,000
STUDENTS INTERNATIONAL$150
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 (FY18–18, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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%CHAD TOUGH FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%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.
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.3M · 5 repeat orgs$60k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +63% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
10

Total granted

$4.3M
$41k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+32%

Still filing today

20%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
ReligionPhilanthropyInternationalEmploymentHuman ServicesEducationOther
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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    3× · 2017–2024 · $2.1M
  • RC
    REDEEMER CHURCH
    2× · 2021–2022 · $2.1M
  • TM
    THE MUSTARD SEED FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $99k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • GB
    GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH OF CANTON
    one grant, 2023 · $14k
  • EB
    EMMANUEL BAPTIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • AA
    ANN ARBOR CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
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
Central Christian College of the Bible

Central christian college of the bible (central) exists to develop servant-leaders for the church. as a traditional undergraduate bible college of the restoration movement, central equips faithful men and women for leadership ministry.

Education
2
Christianity Today International

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.

Religion
3
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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4
Cadence International

Cadence international is an evangelical mission agency dedicated to reaching the military of the united states and of the world with the good news of jesus christ. we share the gospel and our lives with the military community.

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5
Churches in Missions Inc

Mobilization of churches in America by taking pastors and laymen on vision and service trips overseas in fulfillment of Jesus command to go ye into all the world, making disciples...

Human Services
6
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
7
Eden Theological Seminary

Eden theological seminary is called to strengthen the life of the church by educating women and men for ministry, enlivening critical reflection on faith and supporting bold christian dicipleship.

Education
8
Cincinnati Christian University

The mission of cincinnati christian university is to teach men and women to live by biblical principles and to equip and empower them with character, skills, insight, and vision to lead the church and to impact society for christ.

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9
Global City Missions Initiative Incorporated

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…

Religion
10
Inste Global Bible College

Train and educate the whole people of god for the fullfillment of the great commission through excellent and affordable distance education. stimulate the growth of spiritual stem cells that become the mature disciples and bible-centered…

Religion
11
The King's University

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.

Education
12
Manna University

Manna University is a biblical higher education institution dedicated to educating, equipping, and empowering emerging leaders to change the world.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cedarville University; the most unlike its peers is The Mustard Seed Foundation. 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

8 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. 8 of the 19 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $2,074,400 · OtherIndividual grant recipientREDEEMER CHURCH: $2,072,977 · OtherREDEEMER CHURCH+9 more: $82,600 · OtherTHE MUSTARD SEED FOUNDATION: $99,000 · PhilanthropyGRACE BAPTIST CHURCH: $5,000 · ReligionSONSET SOLUTIONS INC: $3,000 · ReligionLIFE ACTION MINISTRIES: $1,000 · ReligionCHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION: $3,465 · Human ServicesCedarville University: $300 · EducationTHE CENTER FOR GROWTH AND INDEPENDENCE: $200 · EmploymentSTUDENTS INTERNATIONAL: $150 · International
Other$4,229,977Philanthropy$99,000Religion$9,000Human Services$3,465Education$300Employment$200International$150

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE MUSTARD SEED FOUNDATION: $99,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetCHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION: $3,465 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIFE ACTION MINISTRIES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCedarville University: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR GROWTH AND INDEPENDENCE: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTUDENTS INTERNATIONAL: $150 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 THE MUSTARD SEED FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH ↗
  • Who funds CHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SONSET SOLUTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds LIFE ACTION MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds Cedarville University ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR GROWTH AND INDEPENDENCE ↗
  • Who funds STUDENTS INTERNATIONAL ↗

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.

Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN8.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Good Part Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Good Part Foundation. 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%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    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 19 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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