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The R B Nordick Foundation at a glance

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The R B Nordick 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.

$2.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

International$2.5MReligion$2.2MCommunity Improvement$1.1MPhilanthropy$385kHealth$100kFood & Nutrition$60kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $85k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.1M
$115,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$40M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LeaderSource$1,050,000
Youth for Christ Intl$210,000
Bethany International$200,000
illumiNations$150,000
Missions International$135,350
Church of Glad Tidings$115,000
Individual grant recipient$113,850
South Asia Advocates$100,000
Hope and Grace International$50,000
Church Growth Ministries$45,000
Awana Clubs International$25,000
Operations Mobilization$15,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Church Growth Ministries: $45k → 7%National Christian Charitable Foundation Inc: $385k → 11%General Conference of the Brethren in Christ Inc: $60k → 8%Healing Grace Ministries: $47k → 14%Global Evangelical Team: $60k → 20%unfoldingWord: $350k → 13%Ministry Developers Network: $15k → 13%Global Empowerment: $20k → 13%Lifeway Global: $114k → 14%Operations Mobilization: $15k → 6%illumiNations: $150k → 13%Strategic Global Assistance Inc: $1.1M → 13%Hope and Grace International: $50k → 9%New India Evangelistic Association: $200k → 19%Church Growth Ministries: $45k → 7%Bethany International: $200k → 11%Unfolding Word: $150k → 13%LeaderSource: $1.1M → 13%Hope and Grace International: $50k → 9%New India Evangelistic Association: $200k → 19%Church Growth Ministries: $45k → 7%Strategic Global Assistance Inc: $885k → 13%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
IN
PA
CA
CO
MO
WV
KS
TN
GA
TX
FL
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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.0M · 9 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
7

Total granted

$4.0M
$647k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
-1%

Still filing today

78%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
ReligionPhilanthropyInternationalHealthOther
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

  • SG
    STRATEGIC GLOBAL ASSISTANCE INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $1.9M · revenue +25% · 33% of their budget
  • U
    unfoldingWord
    2× · 2021–2023 · $500k · revenue +66%
  • NI
    NEW INDIA EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $400k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • NC
    National Christian Charitable Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $385k
  • GC
    GENERAL CONFERENCE OF THE BRETHREN IN CHRIST INC
    one grant, 2023 · $60k
  • GE
    GLOBAL EVANGELICAL TEAM INC
    one grant, 2023 · $60k · revenue -2%
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
Grow Gospel Initiatives

The primary objective of Grow Gospel Initiatives is to start new churches in South Asia-India Nepal and Sri Lanka involve in mercy initiatives through local churches and train pastors who are not formally trained.

Religion
2
Gospel Operation International for Chinese Christians

Our mission is to accomplish the Great Commission through the use of resources of Chinese churches worldwide in mission education, recruitment, training, missionary sending, and all other effective means in collaboration with the Global…

Religion
3
Global Gospel Initiative Inc
Religion
4
Training Pastors International

Training pastors in third world countries

Religion
5
Global City Missions Initiative Incorporated

Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…

Religion
6
Global Impact Resources Inc

Global Impact Resources partners with Christian missionaries around the world, providing spiritual support and practical administration to make the fundraising side of ministry an easier process.The organization provides credibility,…

International
7
Grace Global Ministries Inc

Grace Global Ministries exists to assist local churches in sending global workers to fulfill the Great Commission.

International
8
Ambassadors for Christ International Ltd

Teams of Nationals accelerating the spread of the Gospel through local churches worldwide.

Religion
9
Sunrise International Ministries

Christian missionary activity throughout the world: evangelism, discipleship, church planting and leadership development.

Religion
10
Gdi

In partnership with the local church GDI motivates equips and coaches pastors and Christian leaders to establish indigenous micro group-based disciplemaking churches both nationally and internationally.

Religion
11
GlobalChurch Inc

To equip the global Church for discipleship, service, and impactful collaboration with the goal of fulfilling the Great Commission of Jesus Christ.

Religion
12
Crossing Cultures International Inc

Crossing Cultures International, Inc. exists to glorify God by equipping Christ followers globally with comprehensive training for effective ministry.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Strategic Global Assistance Inc; the most unlike its peers is South Asia Advocates. 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

14 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. 14 of the 23 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
6/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LeaderSource: $1,050,000 · OtherLeaderSourceNational Christian Charitable Foundation Inc: $385,000 · OtherNational Christian Charitable Foundation IncMISSIONS INTERNATIONAL: $270,350 · OtherMISSIONS INTERNATIONALCHURCH OF GLAD TIDINGS: $235,000 · OtherCHURCH OF GLAD TIDINGSYouth for Christ Intl: $210,000 · OtherYouth for Christ IntlBETHANY FELLOWSHIP INC: $200,000 · OtherBETHANY FELLOWSHIP INCChurch Growth Ministries: $135,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $113,850 · Other+2 more: $75,000 · OtherSTRATEGIC GLOBAL ASSISTANCE INC: $1,942,500 · PhilanthropySTRATEGIC GLOBAL ASSISTANCE INCILLUMINATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · PhilanthropyILLUMINATIONS FOUNDATION INCunfoldingWord: $500,000 · ReligionunfoldingWordNEW INDIA EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION: $400,000 · ReligionNEW INDIA EVANGELISTIC AS…AWANA CLUBS INTERNATIONAL AND AFFILIATES: $355,000 · ReligionAWANA CLUBS INTERNATIONAL…GLOBAL EVANGELICAL TEAM INC: $60,000 · ReligionChina Harvest Inc: $60,000 · Religion+3 more: $82,000 · Religion+3 moreHOPE AND GRACE INTERNATIONAL: $100,000 · InternationalCORNERSTONE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL: $60,000 · InternationalSOUTH ASIA ADVOCATES: $100,000 · Health
Other$2,674,200Philanthropy$2,092,500Religion$1,457,000International$160,000Health$100,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSTRATEGIC GLOBAL ASSISTANCE INC: $1,942,500 over 2y, 33% of budgetunfoldingWord: $500,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetNEW INDIA EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION: $400,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetAWANA CLUBS INTERNATIONAL AND AFFILIATES: $355,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetILLUMINATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetChurch Growth Ministries: $135,000 over 3y, 26% of budgetSOUTH ASIA ADVOCATES: $100,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetHOPE AND GRACE INTERNATIONAL: $100,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetGLOBAL EVANGELICAL TEAM INC: $60,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetChina Harvest Inc: $60,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCORNERSTONE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL: $60,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetHEALING GRACE MINISTRIES INC: $47,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetGLOBAL EMPOWERMENT: $20,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetGLOBAL DEVELOPERS NETWORK INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.8% 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.

International Generos…Christian Community F…Servant FoundationFirst Fruit IncThe Maclellan Foundat…Chattanooga Christian…Natl Christian Charit…The Signatry Charitab…Christian Community F…The Harry J Lloyd Cha…Summit FoundationG II Charities
International Generosity Foundation TrustFL26.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: International Generosity Foundation Trust · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Servant Foundation · First Fruit Inc · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Christian Community Foundation Inc · The Harry J Lloyd Charitable Trust · Summit Foundation · G II Charities

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%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
    1get no government money at all
    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.
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    How do I get to The R B Nordick Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The R B Nordick Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 23 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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