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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 you fund
0185% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20172024.

Crime & Legal$470kHuman Services$134kReligion$10kHousing & Shelter$10kInternational$7kPhilanthropy$6kEducation$6kOther$118k
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 6 grants below total $246,226 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $253,103 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $6,877 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised 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

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 (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 your 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

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.

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.

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

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you 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

+48%
+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

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

  • SM
    SOAR Ministries Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $470k · revenue +204% · 69% of their budget
  • CI
    CHILDPLACE INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $103k · revenue +48%
  • 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%

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
Safe Haven Counseling Associates in

Biblical counseling

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

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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safe Passage Inc and 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 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 11 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, 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 org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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
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.

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 IncGA8.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Thrift on Mission 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%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
    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, 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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 11 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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