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The Mission 316 Foundation at a glance

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The Mission 316 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.

$307k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$162k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0179% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

International$980kReligion$772kPhilanthropy$40kEducation$30kHealth$15kCommunity Improvement$15kRecreation & Sports$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $112k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $162k
$10,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$8.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ACCI$161,500
AGAPE INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS$40,000
Individual grant recipient$17,000
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL (CEOC)$15,000
AZMERA$10,000
CHILDREN'S LITERACY PROJECT$10,000
GATEWAY CHURCH$10,000
DUCK RIVER CHRISTIAN MEDIA$10,000
SIM USA$7,000
INTO THE DEEP$5,000
EAST WEST$5,000
SKY RANCH$5,000
NEXT STEP MINISTIRES$5,000
ABEL SPEAKS$5,000
THE CAUSE CHURCH$1,500
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 35% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BRETHREN IN CHRIST US: $10k → 8%AGAPE INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS: $60k → 6%MOSAIC CHURCH: $200k → 14%CEOC: $20k → 5%GATEWAY CHURCH: $30k → 11%ABEL SPEAKS: $10k → 14%LINC MINISTRIES: $20k → 16%ADVENTIVE CROSS-CULTURAL INITIATIVES: $227k → 8%TIM TEBOW FOUNDATION: $25k → 6%ACCI: $162k → 12%GHNI: $15k → 13%RESURRECTION LIFE CHURCH: $55k → 11%FIXED POINT FOUNDATION: $27k → 16%DUCK RIVER CHRISTIAN MEDIA: $10k → 18%NEXT STEP MINISTIRES: $10k → 10%CHILDREN'S LITERACY PROJECT: $10k → 8%FAIRVIEW BAPTIST CHURCH: $10k → 8%SIM USA: $10k → 10%SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $10k → 21%AZMERA: $30k → 9%TIMBERLAKE CHURCH: $250k → 9%RUN MINISTRIES: $15k → 10%AGAPE INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS: $40k → 6%THE A21 CAMPAIGN: $10k → 10%CEOC: $15k → 5%GATEWAY CHURCH: $10k → 11%HILLSONG DALLAS: $50k → 14%ADVENTIVE CROSS-CULTURAL INITIATIVES: $171k → 8%CRU: $20k → 13%CHILDREN'S LITERACY PROJECT: $10k → 8%SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $10k → 21%AZMERA: $20k → 9%AGAPE INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS: $28k → 6%CEOC: $11k → 5%EMBASSY CITY CHURCH: $10k → 14%ADVENTIVE CROSS-CULTURAL INITIATIVES: $155k → 8%CRU: $13k → 13%CHILDREN'S LITERACY PROJECT: $10k → 8%AZMERA: $10k → 9%AGAPE INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS: $18k → 6%THE CAUSE CHURCH: $10k → 5%ADVENTIVE CROSS-CULTURAL INITIATIVES: $152k → 8%EAST WEST MINISTIRES: $17k → 5%E3 PARTNERS: $16k → 5%EAST WEST MINISTIRES: $15k → 5%EAST WEST MINISTIRES: $15k → 5%COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL (CEOC): $15k → 5%ONWARD COMMUNITY CHURCH: $16k → 5%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

WA
MN
WI
MI
OR
PA
CA
CO
VA
NC
AL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 15 repeat orgs$921k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +61% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
15

Total granted

$1.3M
$718k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%
+28%

Still filing today

40%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $203k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionEducationCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyHealthOther
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

  • AI
    Agape International Missions
    4× · 2021–2024 · $146k · revenue +41%
  • A
    AZMERA
    3× · 2021–2024 · $60k · revenue +104%
  • CL
    Childrens Literacy Project Formerly Known as BeUndivided
    3× · 2019–2024 · $30k · revenue ×11

Funded once

  • TC
    TIMBERLAKE CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP
    one grant, 2020 · $250k
  • ML
    MOSAIC LA
    one grant, 2019 · $200k
  • RL
    RESURRECTION LIFE CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $55k
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
Explore God Network
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2
Empty Tomb Ministries

To go and make disciples of all nations, in the name and power of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.We are committed to proclaim, challenge, encourage and minister the Gospel of Jesus Christ throughout the nations.

Religion
3
Tim Robnett Ministries Dba ETeamGlobal

To Identify, Affirm, Train, and Mobilize Ephesians 4 evangelists to equip the church for evangelism.

Religion
4
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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5
Follow Him Media Inc
Religion
6
Probe Ministries International

To present the gospel by providing life-long opportunities to integrate faith and learning through balanced, biblically based scholarship, training people to love god by renewing their minds and equipping the church to engage the world for…

Religion
7
Asia Us Impact

Religious

Religion
8
Cross to Light Corporation

Cross to Light is a nondenominational Christian organization providing spiritual education and physical aid to people in need around the world. Since 2005, Cross to Light has helped people cross from darkness to light by hearing the Gospel…

Religion
9
A Jesus Mission

A Jesus Mission creates unique opportunities for individuals or teams to serves as Christian missionaires around the world through traditional evangelism, discipleship training, and outreach.

Religion
10
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
11
Global Mission

To bring the gospel of jesus christ to those who have never heard it and take care of orphans

Religion
12
Revelation Media Inc

The primary focus of Revelation Media is the production and distribution of Christian and Biblical content for the next generation and the global missions' community.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tim Tebow Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Azmera. 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

16 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. 16 of the 37 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/16
Grantees still filing
12/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ADVENTIVE CROSS-CULTURAL INITIATIVES: $705,000 · OtherADVENTIVE CROSS-CULTURAL INITIATIVESTIMBERLAKE CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: $250,000 · OtherTIMBERLAKE CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIPMOSAIC LA: $200,000 · OtherMOSAIC LAACCI: $161,500 · OtherACCIAgape International Missions: $145,500 · OtherAgape International Missions+19 more: $489,500 · Other+19 moreFIXED POINT FOUNDATION: $27,000 · ReligionNEXT STEP MINISTRIES INC: $21,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $20,000 · ReligionE3 Partners Ministry: $16,000 · ReligionReaching Unreached Nations Inc: $15,000 · ReligionDUCK RIVER CHRISTIAN MEDIA INC: $10,000 · ReligionEast-West Ministries International: $5,000 · ReligionAZMERA: $60,000 · EducationChildrens Literacy Project Formerly Known as BeUndivided: $30,000 · EducationTIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyAbel Speaks: $15,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT & OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $15,000 · Community ImprovementINTO THE DEEP: $5,000 · Youth Development
Other$1,951,500Religion$114,000Education$90,000Philanthropy$25,000Health$15,000Community Improvement$15,000Youth Development$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAgape International Missions: $145,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetAZMERA: $60,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetChildrens Literacy Project Formerly Known as BeUndivided: $30,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetFIXED POINT FOUNDATION: $27,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetTIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEXT STEP MINISTRIES INC: $21,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE A21 CAMPAIGN INC: $17,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetE3 Partners Ministry: $16,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetReaching Unreached Nations Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAbel Speaks: $15,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT & OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $15,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetDUCK RIVER CHRISTIAN MEDIA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetSKY RANCHES INC: $5,000 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 Agape International Missions ↗
  • Who funds AZMERA ↗
  • Who funds Childrens Literacy Project Formerly Known as BeUndivided ↗
  • Who funds FIXED POINT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NEXT STEP MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds THE A21 CAMPAIGN INC ↗
  • Who funds E3 Partners Ministry ↗
  • Who funds Reaching Unreached Nations Inc ↗
  • Who funds Abel Speaks ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT & OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds DUCK RIVER CHRISTIAN MEDIA INC ↗
  • Who funds INTO THE DEEP ↗
  • Who funds East-West Ministries International ↗
  • Who funds SKY RANCHES 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.

Natl Christian Charit…Servant FoundationThe US Charitable Gif…Christian Community F…Renaissance Charitabl…National Philanthropi…Raymond James Charita…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Network for Good
Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA13.3× affinity15 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 · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good

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 Mission 316 Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mission 316 Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%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
    2get no government money at all
    1report 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, FY20–24
    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 37 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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