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The Micah Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$15k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192025.

Education$47kEnvironment$30kReligion$22kHealth$17kHuman Services$16kHousing & Shelter$12kInternational$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$31k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MUTEKEDZA SECONDARY SCHOOL$3,520
HELP THE HOMLESS SOMERSET KY$2,400
COMMUNITY CARE FELLOWSHIP$2,000
WORLD VISION$1,872
PULASKI COUNTY KY SHERIFF SHOP$1,500
BAREFOOT REPUBLIC$1,200
WHITE LILY VOLUN FIRE DEPT$1,000
GOD'S FOOD PANTRY$1,000
NEW LIFE CHURCH$515
BRIDGE MINISTRY$275
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.

Your US giving57% of grant dollars ($103k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 43% that went abroad ($76k) is mapped below.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–22, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%RIP MEDICAL DEBT: $15k → 9%INTEGRATED COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $2k → 35%FOR OTHERS: $3k → 4%LIVING BREAD SOUP KITCHEN: $1k → 19%PEOPLE LOVING NASHVILLE: $1k → 14%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
NY
CA
CO
KY
WV
MD
TN
TX

Beyond the US43% of all-years giving ($76k)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Zimbabwe$76k · 10 grants

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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$119k · 7 repeat orgs$55k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
28

Total granted

$119k
$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+79%

Still filing today

14%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentInternationalReligionOther

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

  • MS
    MUTEKEDZA SECONDARY SCHOOL
    7× · 2019–2025 · $65k
  • CH
    CLAY HILL BAPTIST CHURCH
    4× · 2019–2024 · $13k
  • MS
    MASIKANA SECONDARY SCHOOL
    3× · 2019–2021 · $11k

Funded once

  • MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +820%
  • GD
    GLOBAL DEVEL GROUPAFRICAN BUSH CAM
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • MM
    MACEDONIAN MISSIONARY SERVICE
    one grant, 2022 · $3k

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
Living Water Missions International

To operate exclusively for charitable purposes, specifically to relieve the poor, distressed, and underprivileged by providing free nutritious food, meals and essential resources to individuals and families experiencing homelessness or…

International
2
Christlike Ministries Inc

Ministering to the homeless

Crime & Legal
3
Iglesia Cristiana Tiempos de Restauracion

Religious organization

Religion
4
Everything Laid Down Ministries

To give the gospel of Jesus Christ of Nazareth to the poor and dejected of the world. We do this by caring for widows, orphans, and broken people around the world. We care for hem by feeding, clothing, and encouraging them in Jesus by His…

Religion
5
Spirit Invasion Ministries

Spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ

Religion
6
God Feeds Ministry

Provide fresh produce to those in need

Food & Nutrition
7
The Church Without Walls Global Reach

To impact, inspire and heal communities and world through God's love.

Religion
8
Liberty Ministry International Inc

Our mission is to liberate souls

Religion
9
What Matters Ministries and Missions

The organizations exempt purpose is to rescue orphans and widows, feed the poor, build the local church through ministry, crusades and outreaches and to win souls around the world.

Religion
10
Broken Wall Ministries

To preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ and to minister to orphans and sick children in various countries as well as to provide orphan care and adoption assistance to families throughout the world.

Human Services
11
Reaching Out to the Nations Inc

Reaching Out To The Nations' mission is to both preach and demonstrate the love of Go through its projects and programs which include preaching, food distribution, widow and orphan assistance and leadership training.

Religion
12
Free to Worship Ministries

This church will be that place of emergency where people can come any time of day or night. We will be a place that will lead people back to health both spiritually and naturally.

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Barefoot Republic Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Catch Ministry Inc. 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

10 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. 10 of the 41 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MUTEKEDZA SECONDARY SCHOOL — $65,221 · OtherMUTEKEDZA SECONDARY SCHOOLCLAY HILL BAPTIST CHURCH — $12,500 · OtherCLAY HILL BAPTIST CHURCHMASIKANA SECONDARY SCHOOL — $10,931 · OtherMASIKANA SECONDARY SCHOOLCOMMUNITY CARE FELLOWSHIP — $9,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY CARE FELLOWSHIPHELP THE HOMLESS SOMERSET KY — $8,000 · OtherHELP THE HOMLESS SOMERSET KYGLOBAL DEVEL GROUPAFRICAN BUSH CAM — $5,000 · Other+26 more — $31,222 · Other+26 moreMEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesMEDICAL DEBT …FOR OTHERS COLLECTIVE INC — $2,500 · Human ServicesFOR OTHERS CO…INTEGRATED COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC — $2,000 · Human ServicesINTEGRATED CO…PEOPLE LOVING NASHVILLE — $1,000 · Human ServicesLIVING BREAD SOUP KITCHEN INC — $1,000 · Human ServicesBAREFOOT REPUBLIC INC — $9,200 · Youth DevelopmentWORLD VISION INC — $4,836 · InternationalFree the Oppressed — $500 · InternationalThe Catch Ministry Inc — $1,000 · Religion
Other$141,874Human Services$21,500Youth Development$9,200International$5,336Religion$1,000

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 budgetMEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBAREFOOT REPUBLIC INC — $9,200 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD VISION INC — $4,836 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOR OTHERS COLLECTIVE INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Catch Ministry Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPEOPLE LOVING NASHVILLE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIVING BREAD SOUP KITCHEN INC — $1,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetFree the Oppressed — $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC
  • Who funds BAREFOOT REPUBLIC INC
  • Who funds WORLD VISION INC
  • Who funds FOR OTHERS COLLECTIVE INC
  • Who funds INTEGRATED COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC
  • Who funds The Catch Ministry Inc
  • Who funds PEOPLE LOVING NASHVILLE
  • Who funds SILOAM HEALTH
  • Who funds LIVING BREAD SOUP KITCHEN INC
  • Who funds Free the Oppressed

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.

Servant FoundationKS16× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Servant Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Network for Good · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Micah Charitable Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 41 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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