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The Oros 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.

$1.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$511k
Largest
01What you fund
0188% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212025.

Health$692kEducation$511kInternational$332kHuman Services$218kReligion$135kHousing & Shelter$30kArts & Culture$20kSocial Science$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $225k
  • $250k+2 grants · $761k
$225,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAMFORD UNIVERSITY$510,600
INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE$250,000
CENTER FOR ADVANCEMNET OF NEXTGEN DEAF$225,000
LINCOLN VILLAGE MINISTIRES$25,000
WISE$7,500
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 (FY21–25, $758k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%HEARTLIGHT MINISTRIES: $105k → 16%CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT OF NEXTGEN DEF: $350k → 11%ALABAMA HANDS & VOICES: $3k → 16%HEARTLIGHT MINISTRIES: $50k → 16%CENTER FOR ADVANCEMNET OF NEXTGEN DEAF: $225k → 11%HEARTLIGHT MINISTRIES: $25k → 16%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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 5 repeat orgs$782k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
9

Total granted

$1.2M
$247k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-5%
+11%

Still filing today

60%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $536k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationReligionInternationalHealthHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • CF
    CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT OF NEXTGEN DEAF
    2× · 2024–2025 · $575k · 54% of their budget
  • IL
    INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE
    4× · 2021–2025 · $325k · revenue -5%
  • HM
    HEARTLIGHT MINISTRIES INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $180k · revenue -8%

Funded once

  • SG
    SERGE GLOBAL INC
    one grant, 2023 · $90k · revenue +11%
  • TW
    THE WOOLLEY INSTITUTE FOR SPOKEN-LANGUAGE EDUCATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $67k · revenue +57%
  • LV
    LINCOLN VILLAGE PRESERVATION CORPORATION
    one grant, 2022 · $30k · 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
Handicap International

Handicap international dba humanity & inclusion (hi) works with people with disabilities and people living in situations of vulnerability, including poverty, exclusion, conflict, and disaster.

International
2
Regent University

Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.

3
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
4
Lou Engle Ministries

Advancing the kingdom of god through prayer,preaching and teaching.

Religion
5
Childrens House International

Children's house international provides ethical adoption services, child focused recruitment, and family support. we support disadvantaged children with humanitarian aid in countries worldwide.

6
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
7
International Commission Inc

Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.

Religion
8
Houston Christian University

The mission of houston christian university is to provide a learning experience that instills in students a passion for academic, spiritual, and professional excellence as a result of our central confession, "jesus christ is lord."

9
Next Worldwide Inc

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.

10
Heritage Christian University

Heritage Christian University equips servants through undergraduate and graduate and continuing education. HCU produces effective communicators, preachers, teachers and missionaries for real world ministry with a focus on evangelism and a…

Education
11
Hearts for Hearing Foundation

Hearts for hearing advocates for, educates about, and innovatively provides comprehensive, life-changing hearing healthcare for all ages.

Human Services
12
Jewish Voice Ministries Intl

To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alabama Hands & Voices Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Huntsville Hospital Foundationinc. 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 17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT OF NEXTGEN DEAF — $575,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT OF NEXTGEN DEAFHEARTLIGHT MINISTRIES INC — $180,000 · Human ServicesHEARTLIGHT MINISTRIES INC+1 more — $2,500 · Human ServicesSamford University — $510,600 · EducationSamford UniversityINTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE — $325,000 · ReligionINTERNATIONAL LEAD…SERGE GLOBAL INC — $90,000 · OtherSERGE GLOBAL IN…WISE — $68,300 · OtherWISELINCOLN VILLAGE MINISTRIES — $35,000 · OtherLINCOLN VILLAGE…LINCOLN VILLAGE MINISTIRES — $25,000 · OtherLINCOLN VILLAGE…ICONICITY — $20,000 · OtherICONICITYINTERNAITONAL LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE — $10,000 · OtherWESLEYAN CHURCHROCKET CITY CHURCH — $10,000 · OtherLINCOLN VILLAGE MINISTIRIES — $10,000 · OtherTHE WOOLLEY INSTITUTE FOR SPOKEN-LANGUAGE EDUCATION — $67,000 · HealthTHE HUNTSVILLE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONINC — $50,000 · HealthLINCOLN VILLAGE PRESERVATION CORPORATION — $30,000 · Housing & ShelterHIS HANDS MISSION INTERNATIONAL — $7,000 · International
Human Services$757,500Education$510,600Religion$325,000Other$268,300Health$117,000Housing & Shelter$30,000International$7,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT OF NEXTGEN DEAF — $575,000 over 2y, 54% of budgetSamford University — $510,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE — $325,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetHEARTLIGHT MINISTRIES INC — $180,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetSERGE GLOBAL INC — $90,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE WOOLLEY INSTITUTE FOR SPOKEN-LANGUAGE EDUCATION — $67,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetTHE HUNTSVILLE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONINC — $50,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetLINCOLN VILLAGE PRESERVATION CORPORATION — $30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHIS HANDS MISSION INTERNATIONAL — $7,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetALABAMA HANDS & VOICES INC — $2,500 over 1y, 3.6% 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 IncGA10.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Oros 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%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 · 0–5%
    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.

    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 17 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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