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The Oros Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its 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
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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • 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%
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
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.

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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.

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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."

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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.

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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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alabama Hands & Voices Inc; 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 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 17 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · OtherICONICITYLINCOLN VILLAGE MINISTIRIES: $10,000 · OtherINTERNAITONAL LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $10,000 · OtherWESLEYAN CHURCHROCKET CITY CHURCH: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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 Oros Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Oros Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's 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, 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.

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

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