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The Kairos 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.

$555k
Granted FY2019
25
Grants FY2019
11
States reached
$105k
Largest
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172019.

Religion$1.0MInternational$208kYouth Development$65kEducation$55kHuman Services$43kRecreation & Sports$34kArts & Culture$27kHousing & Shelter$25kOther$0
02FY2019 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k14 grants · $74k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $175k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $307k
$8,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$8k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$105,217
MISSION ONE$82,850
UNITED SERVANTS ABROAD$63,500
KING'S WINGS$55,000
Individual grant recipient$48,000
COLLEGE OF PRAYER INTERNATIONAL$36,000
DUNKLIN MEMORIAL CHURCH$36,000
CHRISTIAN AND MISSIONARY ALLIANCE$18,000
YOUNG LIFE$14,500
BIBLE TRAINING CENTER FOR PASTORS$12,000
NEW HORIZONS CHURCH$10,000
COLEL CHABAD$8,400
CHURCH IN THE GARDENS$8,000
STUDENTS INTERNATIONAL$7,200
Individual grant recipient$7,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 76% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PLACE OF HOPE: $8k → 10%UPPER ROOM MISSION: $9k → 13%UPPER ROOM MISSION: $9k → 13%UPPER ROOM MISSION: $7k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
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CA
CO
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VA
AZ
TN
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GA
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 34 repeat orgs$376k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

34 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2019, 14 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
19

Total granted

$1.2M
$200k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+26%

Still filing today

44%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $176k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
ReligionInternationalYouth DevelopmentEducationHuman ServicesOther

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

  • MO
    MISSION ONE INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $149k · revenue +34%
  • RB
    Reformation Bible College Inc
    2× · 2017–2018 · $50k · revenue ×18
  • YL
    YOUNG LIFE
    3× · 2017–2019 · $42k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • BD
    BOW DOWN INC
    one grant, 2017 · $74k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $59k
  • TC
    TRUTHPOINT CHURCH
    one grant, 2017 · $25k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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…

2
Leadership Resources International

International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures

Religion
3
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
4
Far Reaching Ministries

Far Reaching Ministries (FRM) was founded to carry the Gospel Jesus Christ to the world with discipleship as our primary objective. We plant and edify evangelical churches, found Bible schools, gather intimate small groups, and sustain…

International
5
Freedom in Christ Ministries

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.

Religion
6
Pacific Island Ministries

To help fulfill the great commission as found in Matthew 28:19-20, the equipping of God's people for works of service, particularly in Papua New Guinea.

International
7
International Commission Inc

Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.

Religion
8
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
9
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
10
Reconciliation Ministries International Inc

Reconciliaton Ministries Intl. is a Christian evangelical organization preaching and teaching the Word of God in over 60 countries. The ministry equips and encourages Christians everywhere to be saved, healed, and delivered according to…

Religion
11
Bible Open Air Mission

Purpose is sending individuals around the world to win souls to jesus christ by preaching the gospel evangelism.

Religion
12
Timothy Two Project International

Reaching and teaching pastors in the majority world.

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mission One Inc and the most unlike its peers is Upper Room Mission 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyJewish Community FederationsChristian Missionary Organi…Developmental Disabilities …Christian Youth CampsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr16%30%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr16%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%8%10–20yr16%40%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr16%24%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/37
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,528

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.

04the grantee network

28 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 58 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/28
Grantees still filing
22/28
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COLLEGE OF PRAYER INTERNATIONAL — $162,500 · OtherCOLLEGE OF PRAYER INTERNATIONALDUNKLIN MEMORIAL CHURCH INC — $118,000 · OtherDUNKLIN MEMORIAL CHURCH INCBOW DOWN INC — $74,200 · OtherBOW DOWN INCCALVARY CHURCH — $65,000 · OtherCALVARY CHURCHIndividual grant recipient — $58,600 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCHRISTIAN & MISSIONARY ALLIANCE — $58,000 · OtherCHRISTIAN & MISSIONARY ALLIANCEIndividual grant recipient — $48,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE RILEY CENTER — $35,000 · OtherBIBLE TRAINING CENTER FOR PASTORS — $34,000 · Other+25 more — $224,900 · Other+25 moreMISSION ONE INC — $149,350 · ReligionMISSION ONE INCSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $105,217 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSETHE KING'S WINGS INC — $77,500 · ReligionTHE KING'S WINGS INCGREATER EUROPE MISSION — $20,150 · ReligionGREATER EUROPE MISSION+5 more — $24,750 · Religion+5 moreUNITED SERVANTS ABROAD INC — $142,100 · InternationalUNITED SERVAN…STUDENTS INTERNATIONAL — $27,600 · InternationalSTUDENTS INTE…ROMANIAN EVANGELISTIC MED MISSION — $18,000 · InternationalROMANIAN EVAN…WOMEN IN THE WINDOW INTERNATIONAL INC — $11,000 · InternationalWOMEN IN THE …+1 more — $800 · InternationalYOUNG LIFE — $41,600 · Youth DevelopmentCamp Canaan — $17,500 · Youth DevelopmentFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $16,000 · Youth Development+2 more — $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentReformation Bible College Inc — $50,000 · EducationLIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC — $3,000 · EducationREFORMED THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY — $2,300 · EducationUpper Room Mission Inc — $24,750 · Human ServicesPLACE OF HOPE INC — $8,000 · Human Services
Other$878,200Religion$376,967International$199,500Youth Development$77,100Education$55,300Human Services$32,750

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMISSION ONE INC — $149,350 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetUNITED SERVANTS ABROAD INC — $142,100 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $105,217 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KING'S WINGS INC — $77,500 over 3y, 16% of budgetReformation Bible College Inc — $50,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetYOUNG LIFE — $41,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTUDENTS INTERNATIONAL — $27,600 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetUpper Room Mission Inc — $24,750 over 3y, 52% of budgetROMANIAN EVANGELISTIC MED MISSION — $18,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetCamp Canaan — $17,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC — $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN IN THE WINDOW INTERNATIONAL INC — $11,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetNARROW ROAD MINISTRIES — $10,750 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetPLACE OF HOPE INC — $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLigonier Ministries Inc — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH VOICE MINISTRIES INTL — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOWER TO GROW INC — $5,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetBAPTIST INTERNATIONAL EVANGELISTIC MINISTRIES INC — $3,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREFORMED THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY — $2,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Help — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMISSIONARY MAINTENANCE SERVICE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 MISSION ONE INC
  • Who funds UNITED SERVANTS ABROAD INC
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE
  • Who funds THE KING'S WINGS INC
  • Who funds Reformation Bible College Inc
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE
  • Who funds STUDENTS INTERNATIONAL
  • Who funds Upper Room Mission Inc
  • Who funds GREATER EUROPE MISSION
  • Who funds ROMANIAN EVANGELISTIC MED MISSION
  • Who funds Camp Canaan
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC
  • Who funds WOMEN IN THE WINDOW INTERNATIONAL INC
  • Who funds NARROW ROAD MINISTRIES
  • Who funds PLACE OF HOPE INC
  • Who funds Ligonier Ministries Inc
  • Who funds JEWISH VOICE MINISTRIES INTL

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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA15.9× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Servant Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Kairos 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 16%
  • Youth 71FIVE Ministries16% of income from government
  • Place of Hope Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 58 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12–24 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 FY2019, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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