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The Mustard Seed Thrift on Mission Inc

The mustard seed has been planted to support christian organizations that assist with healing and/or prevention of childhood sexual abuse, and to be a gateway for survivors to access resources to facilitate healing.

$253k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$107k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$612kCrime & Legal$57kHousing & Shelter$10kInternational$7kYouth Development$7kEducation$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $246,226, the rows itemized in this filing. The $253,103 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $6,877 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $19k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $227k
$59,539
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOAR$106,687
FE$61,000
CHILDPLACE FAMILY SERVCIES$59,539
OLIVE TREE PARTNERS$7,000
JACOBS WELL$6,000
PURE INITIATIVE INC$6,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $134k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%PURE INITIATIVE INC: $6k → 13%OLIVE TREE PARTNERS: $7k → 10%PURE INITIATIVE INC: $6k → 13%PURE INITIATIVE INC: $6k → 13%PURE INITIATIVE INC: $6k → 13%CHILDPLACE FAMILY SERVCIES: $60k → 10%CHILDPLACE FAMILY SERVCIES: $43k → 10%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.
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$653k · 4 repeat orgs$107k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +80% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
4

Total granted

$653k
$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+80%
+12%

Still filing today

75%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesCrime & LegalPhilanthropyReligionHousing & ShelterInternationalOther
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

  • SM
    SOAR Ministries Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $470k · revenue +204% · 69% of their budget
  • CI
    CHILDPLACE INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $103k · revenue +80%
  • SP
    SAFE PASSAGE INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $57k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • RI
    RESTORATION IN CHRIST MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +14%
  • RF
    REFUGE FOR WOMEN INC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -15%
  • CV
    CEIBA VIDA INTERNATIONAL INC
    one grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue +12%
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
Safe Haven Counseling Associates in

Biblical counseling

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2
Refuge Ministries of North America

Helpfamiliesimpactedbydomesticabusefindredemption

Human Services
3
Selah Life Choices Inc

We exist to serve women who have been trafficked. through our confidential services, we offer a safe space for healing to begin while we compassionately reflect jesus to all we encounter.

Human Services
4
Safe Harbor Ministry

Religious, charitable, educational

Religion
5
Elevateher International Ministries

mission is to empower women to heal from trauma, grow in faith, and thrive in purpose, fully realizing their full potential

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6
Sojourn House Inc

Sojourn House exists to defend, restore, and liberate women who have been trafficked or exploited.

Human Services
7
Stories Made New

A residential home of discipleship ministry and personal development for young women ages 18-40.To bring single women who are struggling into fulfillment and purpose in Jesus Christ.To help them deal with and work through life dominating…

Religion
8
Life Training Ministries Inc

Christian counseling for individuals with anxiety depression or other emotional struggles. Christian counseling for marriages and other couples.

Human Services
9
Hush No More

We provide support to survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence, child sexual abuse, and incest.

Health
10
Prodigals International

Prodigals International is a Christian ministry dedicated to helping men, women and families overcome sexual addiction. Our proven 12-step program provides resources and support for the man who is struggling, the wife who is hurting and…

Health
11
Just Alternatives
Social Science
12
Redeeming Love Ministries Inc
Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safe Passage Inc; the most unlike its peers is Olive Tree Resources 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 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. 10 of the 11 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SOAR Ministries Inc: $469,507 · Crime & LegalSOAR Ministries IncCHILDPLACE INC: $102,753 · Human ServicesCHILDPLACE INCPURE INITIATIVE INC: $24,000 · Human ServicesPURE INITIATIVE INCOLIVE TREE RESOURCES INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesFE MINISTRY LTD: $61,000 · OtherFE MINISTRY LTDSAFE PASSAGE INC: $56,500 · OtherSAFE PASSAGE INCRESTORATION IN CHRIST MINISTRIES: $10,000 · ReligionREFUGE FOR WOMEN INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterCEIBA VIDA INTERNATIONAL INC: $7,000 · InternationalJACOBS WELL INC: $6,000 · PhilanthropyTHE SEATTLE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY & PSYCHOLOGY: $5,502 · Education
Crime & Legal$469,507Human Services$133,753Other$117,500Religion$10,000Housing & Shelter$10,000International$7,000Philanthropy$6,000Education$5,502

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSOAR Ministries Inc: $469,507 over 8y, 69% of budgetCHILDPLACE INC: $102,753 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSAFE PASSAGE INC: $56,500 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetPURE INITIATIVE INC: $24,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetRESTORATION IN CHRIST MINISTRIES: $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetREFUGE FOR WOMEN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCEIBA VIDA INTERNATIONAL INC: $7,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetJACOBS WELL INC: $6,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE SEATTLE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY & PSYCHOLOGY: $5,502 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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…Amazonsmile Foundation
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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 Mustard Seed Thrift on Mission Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mustard Seed Thrift on Mission Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's 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
    4report 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, FY20–25
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Mustard Seed Thrift on Mission Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Mustard Seed Thrift on Mission Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 11 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 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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