· Private foundation
The Grace and Mercy Foundation 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
57% of The Grace and Mercy Foundation Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Christian Community Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 60 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2017, the last year The Grace and Mercy Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 48 organizations, $11M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2017
- Under $10k1 grant · $2k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $258k
- $50k–250k41 grants · $4.0M
- $250k+12 grants · $6.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $2,000,000 |
| RAVI ZACHARIAS INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES | $1,008,000 |
| DWIGHT-ENGLEWOOD SCHOOL | $600,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION | $500,000 |
| THE KING'S COLLEGE | $377,500 |
| LIBERTY IN NORTH KOREA | $375,000 |
| KOREAN EVANGELICAL MISSION FOR HISPANICS | $290,000 |
| MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE | $279,223 |
| HOPE FOR NEW YORK | $253,500 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY GREATER NEW YORK | $250,000 |
| HOLY NAME HOSPITAL KOREAN MEDICAL PROGRAM | $250,000 |
| LUIS PALAU ASSOCIATION | $250,000 |
| THE BOWERY MISSION | $225,000 |
| INHERITANCE OF HOPE | $200,000 |
| MANHATTAN CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $195,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $7.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% 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 +38% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
107 repeat relationships — 56 still active in FY2017, 51 since wound down; 62 grantees were first funded in FY2017 (too recent to call). Read against FY2017, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M 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
- IJINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION7× · 2017–2023 · $4.4M · revenue +82%
- CSCITY SEMINARY OF NEW YORK7× · 2017–2024 · $3.6M · revenue +276% · 44% of their budget
- PFPRISON FELLOWSHIP INTERNATIONAL8× · 2017–2024 · $3.4M · revenue +146%
Funded once
- H(HOSANNA (DBA FAITH COMES BY HEARING)one grant, 2024 · $1.0M
- FCFAITH COMES BY HEARING INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $750k
- HHOSANNAgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $750k · revenue +58%
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.
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…
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
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.
New york theological seminary is a diverse and inclusive community of learning grounded in biblical witness and christian tradition, with a historic urban focus. the seminary prepares women and men for faith-based ministries in the city…
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…
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…
Summit ministries is an educational christian ministry with the purpose of equipping tomorrow's servant leaders to analyze competing worldviews and champion the christian faith, inspiring each one to love god with all his heart, soul,…
Pacific school of religion prepares a diverse cadre of spiritually rooted leaders with the vision, resilience, and skill to create a world where all can thrive. grounded in the rigorous study and faithful practice of progressive christian…
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
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.
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.
Northeastern seminary strives to be a vibrant source for christian theological formation whose students are formed in a biblical vision of gracious christianity and impact wholeness to the world in an expansive array of vocations and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christian Union Inc and the most unlike its peers is Korean World Mission Council. 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 27 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% 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.
110 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. 110 of the 177 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 THE FULLER FOUNDATION ↗
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- Who funds KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITABLE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
- Who funds CITY SEMINARY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds PRISON FELLOWSHIP INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds UNION RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds The King's College ↗
- Who funds Luis Palau Association ↗
- Who funds LINK GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds IN GRACE MISSION ↗
- Who funds LAUSANNE COMMITTEE FOR WORLD EVANGELIZATION ↗
- Who funds Christian Herald Association Inc ↗
- Who funds DWIGHT-ENGLEWOOD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds INHERITANCE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE ↗
- Who funds BEACON CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds RISING TIDE CAPITAL INC AND SUBSIDIARIES ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds THE NEHEMIAH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HOLY NAME MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds THEOLOGY OF WORK PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RESTORE NYC INC ↗
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- Who funds HOLY NAME MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
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- Who funds MANGO FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY ↗
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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: The Signatry Charitable Trust · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · Doll Family Foundation · Lilly Endowment Inc · Gordon Christian Trust · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · Hope for New York · The Harold C Smith Foundation to Promote Christianity · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Barnabas Foundation · The Fuller Foundation
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 Grace and Mercy Foundation Inc 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.
- Helping Up Mission Inc — 6% of income from government
- Rising Tide Capital Inc and Subsidiaries — 2% of income from government
- Holy Name Medical Center Inc — 1% 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.
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