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The Restoration 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 $10k16 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $154k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| GRUNDY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| UNIT-E | $13,500 |
| NATIONAL CENTER ON | $10,000 |
| OPTIMA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FRONTIERS | $10,000 |
| NEW GENERATIONS | $10,000 |
| WIRED HUMAN | $10,000 |
| SAT 7 | $10,000 |
| 917 SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| FRONTIERS | $10,000 |
| PRISON FELLOWSHIP | $10,000 |
| NAHT | $5,000 |
| HIS BATTLE AX MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| PEOPLE LOVING NASHVILLE | $5,000 |
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 (FY23–25, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 90% 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 — 17 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 8 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k 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
- MFMIO Frontiers9× · 2017–2025 · $120k · revenue +11%
- SNSAT-7 NORTH AMERICA7× · 2017–2025 · $110k · revenue +48%
- NGNEW GENERATIONS5× · 2019–2025 · $85k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- OONWARDone grant, 2024 · $30k
- BTBACK TO JERUSALEM INCone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue -28%
- HIHorizons Internationalone grant, 2021 · $11k · revenue -13%
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.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Jesus for asia exists for one purpose: to see as many people as possible accept eternal life before it's too late. we do this by going to the least reached section of the planet and by calling the church to re-engage its mission. in other…
Freedom seekers international is a christian organization that exists to rescue the most severely persecuted for their religious faith in hostile and restrictive countries. through collaborative partnerships we deliver those who are…
Serving and pastoring overseas workers on their own turf and equipping nationals by training and empowering them in their work of advancing the gospel.
To provide resources, training, and continuing support to leaders in the us and around the world in order that they may help others find freedom in christ.
Heaven's family's mission is to advance the kingdom of the lord jesus christ. we do that by strategically linking kingdom needs and opportunities with resources that the lord has entrusted to those who love him. through god-given…
The Signatry advances the Christian faith by carrying out its mission, "to inspire and facilitate revolutionary biblical generosity across generations to solve the world's greatest problems," through financial and other support of I.R.C.…
Unknown nations is christian nonprofit organization that delivers the word of god to people who live in areas of the world that are less than 2% christian. this is accomplished through our network of indigenous leaders using solar powered…
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…
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.
Entrust's mission is to multiply church leaders through accessible, locally owned, reproducible training systems. this is accomplished through facilitated learning, assisting christians in gaining solid understanding of scripture, and…
The organizations exempt purpose is to rescue orphans and widows, feed the poor, build the local church through ministry, crusades and outreaches and to win souls around the world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Rescue Mission and the most unlike its peers is Christian Fellowship of Nashville. 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 23 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 71 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 MIO Frontiers ↗
- Who funds SAT-7 NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds NEW GENERATIONS ↗
- Who funds GRUNDY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SERVANT GROUP INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds WIRED HUMAN ↗
- Who funds BLUE MONARCH ↗
- Who funds CITYTEAM MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds NEW HARVEST GLOBAL MINISTRIES NFP ↗
- Who funds LIVING WATER PROJECT ↗
- Who funds LATCOM ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP OF NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds BACK TO JERUSALEM INC ↗
- Who funds 917 SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HOPE AND LIFE MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIT-E ↗
- Who funds Horizons International ↗
- Who funds THE OPTIMA FOUNDATION DBA EDUCATION FREEDOM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MY FATHERS HOUSE MISSIONS INTL INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT VERITAS ↗
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 · The Signatry Charitable Trust · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Ebs Foundation · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · Memorial Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · 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 Restoration 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.
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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