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The Nord Foundation
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 $10k5 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $173k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $575k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Healing Waters | $111,200 |
| Reasons to Believe | $84,000 |
| TEARS | $83,500 |
| Christian World Outreach Inc | $76,380 |
| Foundation for the Nations | $75,600 |
| SERGE | $73,880 |
| CrossPurpose | $70,000 |
| AsOne Ministries | $25,690 |
| NYC International Project | $20,000 |
| Alpha USA | $15,000 |
| Global Health Ministries | $15,000 |
| CRU | $15,000 |
| Shepherd's Heart Ministry | $12,000 |
| Horizons International | $10,020 |
| Love Inc of Littleton | $10,000 |
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 giving — 89% of grant dollars ($5.0M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 11% that went abroad ($599k) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $176k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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
Beyond the US — 11% of all-years giving ($599k)
2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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.
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 +29% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 22 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
- CCROSSPURPOSE9× · 2017–2025 · $585k · revenue ×13
- SGSERGE GLOBAL INC7× · 2019–2025 · $473k · revenue +56%
- AMAsOne Ministries6× · 2020–2025 · $136k · revenue +501%
Funded once
- YFYouth for Christ Internationalone grant, 2019 · $55k
- HOHOSPICE OF METRO DENVER INCone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue -1%
- CIChristaid Incone grant, 2022 · $13k
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.
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…
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.
To advance the gospel in closed and hard-to-reach nations and to impact those nations for christ.
i58 Global is a Christian ministry dedicated to recruiting, sending and organizing relief workers to provide aid and share hope to refugees in various European countries.
To provide support for the efforts of christians of the former soviet union in reaching the influencers of their countries for christ.
To get the good news to every nation this generation by showing and sharing god's love by providing opportunities and supporting christian missionaries in over fifty seven countries around the world.
World reach is a global, evangelical missions organization serving fields in east africa, central and south america, europe and the u.s. our purpose is to fulfill the the great commission of jesus christ by reaching the world with the…
With a desire to see the Gospel proclaimed in all nations, we exist to make and multiply disciples of the next generation through the vehicles of church-planting missions and missional leadership training.
International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures
Assisting national Christian leaders around the world.
Serving and pastoring overseas workers on their own turf and equipping nationals by training and empowering them in their work of advancing the gospel.
The organization is dedicated to reaching people for christ through an international network of christians who journey with the poor and marginalized, bringing practical and spiritual support with hope of a better future,(continued on…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is World Vision Inc and the most unlike its peers is Anchor International. 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 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 66 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 CROSSPURPOSE ↗
- Who funds TEARS INC ↗
- Who funds SERGE GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN WORLD OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds REASONS TO BELIEVE ↗
- Who funds AsOne Ministries ↗
- Who funds Acts4 Community Outreach Services ↗
- Who funds DENVER RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Alternatives Pregnancy Center Inc ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERDS HEART MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL HEALTH MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Horizons International ↗
- Who funds Alpha USA ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Colorado Christian University ↗
- Who funds SAVE OUR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds THE INN BETWEEN ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds THIRD MILLENNIUM MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Orphanos Foundation ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF METRO DENVER INC ↗
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: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Colorado Gives Foundation · Servant Foundation · Tyl Foundation · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · The Denver Foundation · The New Horizons Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Eugene C and Florence Armstrong Family Foundation Inc · Adolph Coors Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation
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 Nord 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.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% 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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