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The Signatry Charitable Trust

The mission of The Signatry Charitable Trust (the "Trust") is to inspire and facilitate revolutionary biblical generosity across generations to solve the world's greatest problems.

$572M
Granted FY2024still arriving
1,763
Grants FY2024still arriving
48
States reached
$131M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Religion$344MHuman Services$136MCommunity Improvement$87MPhilanthropy$83MEducation$37MCivil Rights$19MInternational$13MHealth$4.8MOther$0
02FY2024 · 1763 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k541 grants · $3.5M
  • $10k–50k868 grants · $17M
  • $50k–250k238 grants · $23M
  • $250k+116 grants · $523M
$14,600
Median grant
48
States reached
$816M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Come Near Media Inc$130,669,224
Come and See Foundation Inc$55,009,000
Every Home for Christ (World Literature Crusade)$47,328,600
Servant Foundation$36,912,683
One Hope Inc$35,200,674
National Christian Foundation$31,532,088
Alliance Defending Freedom$19,182,600
YouVersion Inc$18,436,650
Highlands College$17,510,000
WaterStone (Christian Community Foundation Inc)$11,000,000
Answers in Genesis$9,183,700
Mission Mutual$8,457,963
LifeChurch Edmond$7,113,250
Conservative Partnership Institute$5,600,532
Evangel University$5,000,100
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:

Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $138.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Buckner Children and Family Services: $26k → 14%Childrens Home of Lubbock and Family Service Agency Inc: $30k → 17%Our Daughters International: $111k → 8%Attention Homes of Northwest Alabama: $26k → 13%Vapor Ministries: $1.8M → 18%Joy Meadows: $26k → 10%Couples a Marriage Ministry: $50k → 18%Living Waters Retreat Ministry Inc: $30k → 3%Outreach Indiana: $155k → 16%Soldiers for Faith: $433k → 11%Mary's Shelter: $33k → 15%Mercy Chefs Inc: $28k → 20%Orphan Care Alliance Inc: $38k → 15%Together For Good: $50k → 14%Professional Christian Counseling Services: $126k → 6%Living Water International: $500k → 8%City Rescue Mission Inc - Oklahoma City: $304k → 16%A Beacon of Hope: $37k → 13%Wellspring Community: $50k → 3%Ordinary Movement: $105k → 7%Come Near Media Inc: $130.7M → 12%CHRISTIAN ALLIANCE FOR ORPHANS: $32k → 6%Open Door Mission: $22k → 12%Bhutan Leaders: $26k → 14%Dress For Success Oklahoma City Inc: $60k → 16%A21 USA: $50k → 11%Miracle Hill Ministries: $27k → 10%Blanket Fort Hope: $33k → 7%Embrace Grace Inc: $47k → 11%American Red Cross: $28k → 15%Acres of Love: $41k → 10%Katy Responds: $24k → 16%Family Research Council: $59k → 14%Abundant Life Foundation: $160k → 10%For Others Collective (Angel Armies Inc): $50k → 4%Harbor House Foundation: $240k → 16%The Institute for Women's Health: $150k → 14%Coalition For Life St Louis: $25k → 11%Eleos the Care Network Inc aka Lift Disability Network: $50k → 13%ChristianWorks for Children: $100k → 14%Water4 Inc: $500k → 16%Cul2vate: $25k → 14%City Center: $45k → 16%ServeNow: $38k → 9%OK Justice Circle: $107k → 16%Hope Faith Ministries: $43k → 15%Council for Life: $273k → 14%Halo Project International Foundation: $236k → 16%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

AK
ME
NH
WA
ID
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
WY
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
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.

7%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$34M · 11 repeat orgs$465M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 1721 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
5

Total granted

$34M
$424k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+2%

Still filing today

73%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $464M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionHuman ServicesEducationInternationalHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • AI
    ANSWERS IN GENESIS INC
    2× · 2021–2024 · $18M · revenue +56%
  • E
    Edify
    2× · 2022–2024 · $3.3M · revenue +32%
  • PO
    PRIORITY ONE SCHOOLS INC
    2× · 2021–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +7% · 32% of their budget

Funded once

  • SA
    SALT AND LIGHT LEADERSHIP TRAINING INC
    one grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue -56%
  • EM
    Elam Ministries
    one grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue +2%
  • DC
    DELAWARE COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +47%
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.

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Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

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…

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2
Serving Beyond Borders

Serving and pastoring overseas workers on their own turf and equipping nationals by training and empowering them in their work of advancing the gospel.

Human Services
3
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
4
Global Outreach International Inc

To get the good news to every nation this generation by showing and sharing god's love by providing opportunities and supporting christian missionaries in over seventy countries around the world.

International
5
Christian Harvest International Min

To provide strategic teaching about prayer, prophecy, and intercession in the US and abroad. Books, manuals, and audio teachings are also used to equip Christians in strategic level spiritual prayer and warfare.

Religion
6
Freedom in Christ Ministries

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.

Religion
7
Timothy Two Project International

Reaching and teaching pastors in the majority world.

Religion
8
What Matters Ministries and Missions

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.

Religion
9
International Commission Inc

Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.

Religion
10
CrossTalk Global

CrossTalk Global is a Christian educational organization that empowers and trains global church leaders to effectively communicate the Scriptures and share the hope of Christ in their communities. These projects are carried out in the USA…

Religion
11
Churches in Missions Inc

Mobilization of churches in America by taking pastors and laymen on vision and service trips overseas in fulfillment of Jesus command to go ye into all the world, making disciples...

Human Services
12
Uncharted Ministries

Uncharted ministries informs, inspires and challenges the christian church to serve the people of the middle east and in uncharted lands.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lifeline Christian Mission; the most unlike its peers is The Larry & Cathy Lung Cancer Foundation. 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

1074 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. 1074 of the 1,767 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.

47
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
67
Early backer (in before they grew)
1043/1074
Grantees still filing
422/1074
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Servant Foundation: $182,077,889 · ReligionServant FoundationANSWERS IN GENESIS INC: $17,683,700 · ReligionANSWERS IN GENESIS INC+35 more: $27,111,941 · Religion+35 moreCOME AND SEE FOUNDATION INC: $55,009,000 · OtherCOME AND SEE FOUNDATION INCWORLD LITERATURE CRUSADE: $47,328,600 · OtherWORLD LITERATURE CRUSADEONEHOPE INC: $35,200,674 · OtherONEHOPE INCYOUVERSION INC: $18,436,650 · OtherYOUVERSION INCHIGHLANDS COLLEGE: $17,510,000 · OtherHIGHLANDS COLLEGEONEHOPE INC: $7,950,000 · Other+93 more: $54,002,606 · Other+93 moreCome Near Media Inc: $130,669,224 · Human ServicesCome Near Media Inc+15 more: $5,156,595 · Human ServicesNATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC: $31,532,088 · PhilanthropyCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $11,000,000 · PhilanthropyIMPACT INVESTING CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $1,607,080 · Philanthropy+8 more: $2,630,536 · PhilanthropyALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $19,182,600 · Civil Rights1792 Exchange: $950,200 · Civil Rights+1 more: $369,550 · Civil RightsConservative Partnership Institute: $5,600,532 · EducationEvangel University: $5,000,100 · EducationSANTA FE SOUTH SCHOOLS INC: $2,000,000 · EducationCouncil for Christian Colleges and Universities: $1,000,000 · EducationAugustine Institute Inc: $800,100 · EducationTRINITY ACADEMY INCORPORATED: $747,202 · Education+11 more: $3,306,761 · EducationMISSION MUTUAL: $8,457,963 · InternationalEdify: $3,253,661 · InternationalWORLD VISION INC: $1,247,162 · InternationalEXTREME RESPONSE INTERNATIONAL INC: $807,000 · InternationalINDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S TECHNOLOGY & EDUCATION CENTER: $701,750 · InternationalHOPE INTERNATIONAL: $677,025 · InternationalALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC: $666,285 · International+10 more: $2,273,679 · International
Religion$226,873,530Other$235,437,530Human Services$135,825,819Philanthropy$46,769,704Civil Rights$20,502,350Education$18,454,695International$18,084,525

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetServant Foundation: $182,077,889 over 6y, 9.6% of budgetNATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC: $31,532,088 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $19,182,600 over 1y, 17% of budgetANSWERS IN GENESIS INC: $17,683,700 over 2y, 18% of budgetCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $11,000,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetConservative Partnership Institute: $5,600,532 over 1y, 16% of budgetEvangel University: $5,000,100 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL GENEROSITY FOUNDATION TRUST: $4,821,380 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $4,077,365 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetEdify: $3,253,661 over 2y, 22% of budgetPRIORITY ONE SCHOOLS INC: $3,050,000 over 2y, 32% of budgetSANTA FE SOUTH SCHOOLS INC: $2,000,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetPULSE OUTREACH: $1,853,500 over 1y, 15% of budgetVapor Ministries Inc: $1,756,200 over 1y, 15% of budgetA LIGHT TO THE NATIONS: $1,637,800 over 1y, 50% of budgetIMPACT INVESTING CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $1,607,080 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $1,513,916 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUSATransform: $1,355,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $1,247,162 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSave the Storks: $1,203,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetPRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES: $1,201,550 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $1,141,514 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEGACY STONE INC: $1,071,121 over 1y, 33% of budgetThe Rosser Foundation dba International Cooperating Ministries: $1,031,491 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetCouncil for Christian Colleges and Universities: $1,000,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetREACHING SOULS INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 11% of budget1792 Exchange: $950,200 over 1y, 12% of budgetHOPE IS ALIVE MINISTRIES INC: $856,500 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetWIND RIVER MINISTRIES INC: $850,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetEXTREME RESPONSE INTERNATIONAL INC: $807,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetAugustine Institute Inc: $800,100 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetDISCOVERY INSTITUTE: $757,080 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetMAKING DISCIPLES INC: $750,679 over 1y, 87% of budgetTRINITY ACADEMY INCORPORATED: $747,202 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetINDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S TECHNOLOGY & EDUCATION CENTER: $701,750 over 1y, 30% of budgetHOPE INTERNATIONAL: $677,025 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC: $667,914 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC: $666,285 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetPraxis Inc: $650,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetJONI AND FRIENDS: $552,250 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPRISON ALLIANCE INC: $552,100 over 1y, 19% of budgetFEMM Foundation: $550,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetDALLAS ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $521,365 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHE SPERO PROJECT INC: $512,625 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetWATER4 INC: $500,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetLiving Water International: $500,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetURBAN BRIDGE INC: $500,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetTall Oaks Inc: $500,000 over 1y, 75% 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.

Servant FoundationInternational Generos…The Maclellan Foundat…The Shumard Foundatio…Christian Community F…GiveClear FoundationFirst Fruit IncDallas Seminary Found…Tyndale House Ministr…The Bolick FoundationG II CharitiesChattanooga Christian…
Servant FoundationKS136.8× affinity1110 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Servant Foundation · International Generosity Foundation Trust · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · The Shumard Foundation Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · GiveClear Foundation · First Fruit Inc · Dallas Seminary Foundation · Tyndale House Ministries · The Bolick Foundation · G II Charities · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation

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 Signatry Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Signatry Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 210%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Southern Nazarene University: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
21get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Signatry Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to The Signatry Charitable Trust 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 1767 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 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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