· Private foundation
The Reverend Geng Ming Shih Foundation Inc
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 48% of THE REVEREND GENG MING SHIH FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $180k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FREE METHODIST CHURCH USA | $200,000 |
| THE MEDIA EVANGELISM ASSOCIATION (USA) | $100,000 |
| CHINESE PROMISE BAPTIST CHURCH | $50,000 |
| OPERATION DAWN | $50,000 |
| CHICAGO CHINESE CHRISTIAN MISSIONS | $20,000 |
| 7 STAGES DISCIPLESHIP (BRIDGES) | $20,000 |
| FAR EAST BROADCASTING COMPANY INC | $20,000 |
| AMBASSADORS FOR CHRIST INC | $20,000 |
| CHINESE CHRISTIAN HERALD CRUSADES INC | $15,000 |
| OMF INTERNATIONAL | $15,000 |
| NY THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION CENTER INC | $10,000 |
| BOON CHURCH OF OVERSEA CHINESE MISSION | $10,000 |
| OVERSEA CHINESE MISSION | $10,000 |
| CROSSROADS PUBLICATIONS | $10,000 |
| CHINA EVANGELICAL SEMINARY ASSOCIATION INC | $10,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $61k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against -30% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 1 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- AFAMBASSADORS FOR CHRIST INC6× · 2019–2024 · $220k · revenue +4%
- TMTHE MEDIA EVANGELISM ASSOCIATION USA5× · 2020–2024 · $141k · revenue +34%
- CCCHINESE CHRISTIAN MISSION INC6× · 2019–2024 · $127k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- HWHOLY WORD FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $30k
- FSFEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INCone grant, 2020 · $23k · revenue -30%
- OMOPERATION MOBILIZATIONone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
Spreading the gospel to chinese people around the world. preaching the gospel to the chinese people; sending mission workers into various countries; helping churches in the u.s. and abroad with a vision for world evangelism.
To spread gospel and provide Christianity training to the people in China through volunteer pastors and church elders from the United States.
Help churches in china fulfill the great commission through training emerging christian leaders. train leaders in evangelism, evangelistic preaching, pastoral care and leadership through seminaries and bible school in china. distribute…
China Christian Evangelic mission development
Preach gospel through internet and serves Chinese churches.
The purpose of this organization is to let people know jesus is the son of god, through holy sprit, for those who believe in him will not be perished, but will have everlasting life.
It is ccf's objective to establish training centers in communities all over the world teaching biblical truth to produce in all who are called to be leaders and participants lives in christ's fullness: 1. study god's word with life…
An evangelical interdenominational missionary society dedicated to reaching chinese for christ.
ChinsSource is a trusted partner and platform for educating the global church on critical issues facing the church and ministries in China and for connecting Christians inside and outside China to advance the kingdom of God globally
To spread and promote gospel and Christian faith to China
The purpose of the organization is to spread the gospel of jesus christ to the chinese people.
Christian Ministry Activities
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ambassadors for Christ Inc and the most unlike its peers is Chinese Promise Baptist Church New York Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 41 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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 31 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 AMBASSADORS FOR CHRIST INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION DAWN ↗
- Who funds THE MEDIA EVANGELISM ASSOCIATION USA ↗
- Who funds CHINESE CHRISTIAN MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Chinese Promise Baptist Church New York Inc ↗
- Who funds CHINA EVANGELICAL SEMINARY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHINESE CHRISTIAN HERALD CRUSADES INC ↗
- Who funds FAR EAST BROADCASTING COMPANY ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHINA SOUL FOR CHRIST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS PUBLICATIONS ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO CHINESE CHRISTIAN MISSIONS ↗
- Who funds CHINESE CHRISTIAN LIFE FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds AGAPE ASIAN MISSION ↗
- Who funds InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN WITNESS THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds CHINATOWN MANPOWER PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds PASS IT ON MINISTRIES OF SO FL ↗
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.
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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 Reverend Geng Ming Shih Foundation Inc 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.
- Feeding South Florida Inc — 5% 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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