· Private foundation
The Mustard Seed Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k26 grants · $117k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $114k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SALISBURY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $53,200 |
| SEASIDE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $42,000 |
| FAITH BAPTIST SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| SON SPOT MINISTRIES INC | $14,400 |
| BIBLE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL | $13,000 |
| OVERFLOW CAFE MINISTRIES | $13,000 |
| CHRISTIAN SHELTER INC | $12,000 |
| GLOBAL SERVICE NETWORK | $8,400 |
| PREGNANCY CARE CLINIC OF ES | $8,400 |
| PARKWAY CHURCH OF GOD | $7,700 |
| EPOCH DREAM CENTER | $7,450 |
| POWER PRODUCTION MINISTRIES | $7,000 |
| WITNESS INTERNATIONAL | $6,000 |
| OPERATION BLESSING INTERNATIONAL | $5,500 |
| ASIA CONNECT | $5,400 |
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 (FY17–25, $181k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 95% 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 +45% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
53 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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
- SCSALISBURY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $374k · revenue +130%
- SCSEASIDE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $291k · revenue +559%
- DTDELMARVA TEEN CHALLENGE INC4× · 2017–2025 · $32k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- GSGood Shepherd Leadership Training Cone grant, 2019 · $13k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $8k
- GGSEFone grant, 2021 · $8k
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.
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.
Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.
To teach individuals how to apply the wisdom and depth of the bible's grace-centered message to the problems of daily living; and through various means, work to restore chirst to counseling and christ-centered counseling to the church.
Ambassadors for Christ International - USA is a fellowship of gospel preachers and teachers whose mission is to preach Christ, edify the Church, and to glorify God and serve as a catalyst for revival, evangelism, and training of Christians…
Provide encouragement and spiritual guidance to military personnel worldwide and organize christian training sessions.
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…
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.
Charis Bible Colleges, Inc. (CBC) was established to train and equip individuals to carry out the Gospel of Jesus Christ through practical application through mentoring, training, and teaching.
To provide biblical counseling and counseling training for missionaires and local church leaders in the country of their ministry, on site and via electronic mediums.
Christian publishing company
To develop and provide a variety of faith-based multimedia materials and resources to missionaries, ministries, churches, and others.
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...
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cbn Israel Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ephesians 5 11 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.
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 31 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 16% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 71 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 SALISBURY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SEASIDE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN SHELTER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Operation Blessing International Relief and Development Corporation ↗
- Who funds DELMARVA TEEN CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds ELEVEN 21 INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL SERVICE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
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: Franklin P and Arthur W Perdue Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · Community Foundation of the Eastern Shor · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Verizon Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 Mustard Seed 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.
- Chesapeake Chamber Music Inc T/a Chesapeake Music — 2% 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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