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The Pal Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $116k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $67k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MENTAL HEALTH GRACE ALLIANCE | $67,000 |
| ANTIOCH MINISTRIES INTL | $36,000 |
| SOUL HARVEST CHURCH | $34,004 |
| THE BRIDGE FELLOWSHIP | $24,000 |
| MERCY INTERNATIONAL | $12,000 |
| BASE INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| BIBLE ARCHAEOLOGY SEARCH EXPLORATIO | $6,000 |
| DLM MINISTRIES | $6,000 |
| ANTIOCH MINISTRIES - WACO | $1,500 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $1,200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,200 |
| ONLY A SERVANT MINISTRIES | $1,200 |
| MISSION AVIATION FELLOWSHIP | $500 |
| CHURCH TRIUMPHANT DDM INC | $500 |
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 human-services grants (FY17–23, $68k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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
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.
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.
40 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- MHMENTAL HEALTH GRACE ALLIANCE8× · 2017–2024 · $576k · revenue +16% · 28% of their budget
- MIMERCY INTERNATIONAL8× · 2017–2024 · $188k · revenue +147%
- 1F1HOPE FOR KIDS INC5× · 2019–2023 · $49k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- PLPADILLA LEININGER LEGACY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $500k
- CECUSH EMPOWERMENT GROUPgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $14k · revenue +62%
- DLD L MURRAY MINISTRIESone grant, 2017 · $9k
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.
The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…
Religious Purposes
To glorify god by equipping the church with proper christian doctrine and to help non-believers come to a saving knowledge of jesus christ.
Missionary work primarily in mexico and central america
Our mission is to make disciples of jesus christ by engaging indigenous pastors around the world. our vision is to train pastors and their congregants to share the gospel in a friendly, non-denominational approach across all ethnicities,…
None
Passionlife ministries is a global missions initiative to spread the gospel of life and expand the pregnancy help movement among nations plagued by abortion, infanticide and gendercide.
Spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ
Ptm worldwide publishes christianity without the religion magazine and plain truth magazine. ptm further serves with daily radio programs, blogs, bible surveys and many other free inspirational resources on its website, www.ptm.org
Christ Life Ministries' vision is transforming lives for Christ through the preaching of the gospel and discipleship.
Promote christian religion through conferences and group meetings.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Public Policy Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. 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 27 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% 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 74 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 MENTAL HEALTH GRACE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds MERCY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds 1HOPE FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds KINGDOM RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds ANY WOMAN CAN NP ↗
- Who funds CUSH EMPOWERMENT GROUP ↗
- Who funds HILL COUNTRY PREGNANCY CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Only A Servant Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds THE JUSTICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Pregnancy Care Center ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds Christian Journey Courses ↗
- Who funds TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Triple H Equitherapy Center ↗
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: Covenant Foundation Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Jhl Foundation · Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Pal 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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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