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The Pisteos 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 $10k20 grants · $94k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $46k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST JUDE CHARITIES | $29,800 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $16,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,600 |
| GRACE BIBLE CHURCH | $9,000 |
| THE BIBLE PROJECT | $8,400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,400 |
| ONE FOR ISRAEL | $8,400 |
| YOUTH WORLD | $8,400 |
| VOICE OF THE MARTYRS | $8,400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,500 |
| HOPE MEDIA GROUP | $3,600 |
| TUNNELS TO TOWERS | $3,600 |
| NEW LIFE MINISTRIES | $3,600 |
| JONI AND FRIENDS | $3,000 |
| LIFE WITHOUT LIMBS | $3,000 |
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 human-services grants (FY22–25, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 76% 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.
36 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 2 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- BBIBLEPROJECT7× · 2019–2025 · $54k · revenue +336%
K9S FOR WARRIORS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $14k · revenue +138%- LWLife Without Limbs3× · 2023–2025 · $9k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- HMHEARTLIGHT MINISTRIES INCone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
- RLREAL LIFEone grant, 2022 · $8k
- EMESPERANZA MINISTRIESgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue +68%
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…
Since 1816, american bible society has been fulfilling its mission of making the bible available to every person in a language and format each can understand and afford so all people may experience its life-changing message.
To proclaim to the world the everlasting gospel of revelation 14:6-12 and to encourage revival in the remnant church by leading people to embrace salvation by faith in jesus, to establish them in the church, and to disciple all believers…
Awakening to god ministries (atg) provides love, comfort and hope to people who are suffering in the u.s. and around the world by providing spiritual, physical, mental and emotional solutions. in fiscal year 2024, atg partnered with prayer…
Jubal band ministries mission is to invite people to become disciples of christian life with jesus.
Chb's (praisefm) vision is to see every tribe and nation experience jesus together. our mission is simple: together we help people discover and worship jesus. more than a radio station, praisefm is a place where passionate lovers of jesus…
This church will be that place of emergency where people can come any time of day or night. We will be a place that will lead people back to health both spiritually and naturally.
The christian broadcasting network's mission is preaching the gospel of jesus christ into all the world. cbn's mission is preaching the gospel of jesus christ into all the world. the mission of cbn and its affiliated organizations is to…
The overall purpose of this ministry is to carry out the great commission found in matthew 28:19-20, through broadcasting and cybercasting of the gospel of jesus christ and through the dissemination of christian literature. the word…
Our mission is to go into all the world and preach the Gospel through all forms of media and broadcast. We are a Christian organization spreading the word of God to the ends of the earth.
To share the gospel of jesus christ to the world, to teach & equip the disciples of christ, to teach & train the next generation, to bring the people of god closer together using radio, social media, print literature & other audio & video…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bibleproject and the most unlike its peers is Project Dynamo 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 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% 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.
19 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. 19 of the 52 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 LIVING GOD MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds BIBLEPROJECT ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds PARABLE OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds HEARTLIGHT MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE MEDIA GROUP ↗
- Who funds Life Without Limbs ↗
- Who funds IN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds ESPERANZA MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROVERBS 31 MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT DYNAMO INC ↗
- Who funds Ligonier Ministries 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: Servant Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · The Signatry Charitable Trust · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · American Gift Fund · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund
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 Pisteos 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.
- K9S for Warriors 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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