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The Underwood 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.

$27k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Religion$61kInternational$32kCrime & Legal$21kEducation$16kFood & Nutrition$15kHuman Services$12kArts & Culture$7kHousing & Shelter$7kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$501k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN ANGLICAN COUNCILE$6,000
OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES$5,000
NASHOTAH HOUSE$3,600
CHRISTIAN LEGAL SOCIETY$3,000
FOOD FOR THE POOR$2,500
MAP INTERNATIONAL$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
HOPE INTERNATIONAL$2,000
INTL JUSTICE MISSION$500
COURTSIDE MINISTRIES$500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 48% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES: $1k → 10%COVENANT HOUSE: $2k → 17%OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $5k → 7%EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES: $690 → 10%COVENANT HOUSE: $2k → 17%EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES: $690 → 10%COVENANT HOUSE: $1k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $1k → 17%OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $5k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

MT
IL
WI
MI
NY
PA
CA
CO
VA
KS
DC
GA
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$157k · 17 repeat orgs$26k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
12

Total granted

$157k
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+219%

Still filing today

47%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
InternationalHuman ServicesReligionOther

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

  • CO
    CHINA OUTREACH MINISTRIESINC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $12k · revenue +8%
  • OC
    OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES
    2× · 2020–2024 · $10k · revenue +64%
  • MAP International Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $9k · revenue +134%

Funded once

  • AA
    AMERICAN ANGLICAN COUNCIL
    one grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue -12%
  • CN
    CARE NETWORK
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
  • TM
    TRAILSIDE MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2020 · $3k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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…

2
International Commission Inc

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

Religion
3
Christianity Today International

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.

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 fifty seven countries around the world.

International
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 Media Outreach

Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.

Religion
7
International Care Ministries

To free the poorest of the poor from physical, emotional and spiritual bondage.

Food & Nutrition
8
Christian Healthcare Ministries Inc

To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.

Religion
9
Youth for Christ International Ministries

As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.

Religion
10
Challenge Ministries Us

The organization exists to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ while providing support and serving the poor through benevolent assistance, medical services, education, orphan care, church planting, etc.

International
11
Los Angeles Mission Inc

The los angeles mission breaks the cycle of homelessness and poverty, by stabilizing people in a safe and spiritual environment, connecting them to solutions and walking with them on their journey.

Housing & Shelter
12
Jewish Voice Ministries Intl

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…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is International Justice Mission and the most unlike its peers is Covenant House. 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

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 29 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AMERICAN ANGLICAN COUNCILE — $24,000 · OtherAMERICAN ANGLICAN COUNCILECHRISTIAN LEGAL SOCIETY — $21,000 · OtherCHRISTIAN LEGAL SOCIETYNASHOTAH HOUSE — $14,250 · OtherNASHOTAH HOUSEHOPE INTERNATIONAL — $12,070 · OtherHOPE INTERNATIONALCHINA OUTREACH MINISTRIESINC — $11,500 · OtherCHINA OUTREACH MINISTRIESINCIndividual grant recipient — $10,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCOVENANT PLAYERS — $5,380 · OtherDAN MCKINNEY FAMILY YMCA — $5,356 · Other+13 more — $25,380 · Other+13 moreFOOD FOR THE POOR INC — $13,330 · InternationalFOOD FOR THE POOR…MAP International Inc — $9,270 · InternationalMAP International…INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION — $3,690 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL JUS…MEDICAL AMBASSADORS INTERNATIONAL — $2,000 · InternationalMEDICAL AMBASSADO…OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES — $10,000 · Human ServicesOUTREACH CO…COVENANT HOUSE — $6,760 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HO…Episcopal Community Services — $2,380 · Human ServicesEpiscopal C…AMERICAN ANGLICAN COUNCIL — $6,000 · Religion
Other$129,436International$28,290Human Services$19,140Religion$6,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC — $13,330 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHINA OUTREACH MINISTRIESINC — $11,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMAP International Inc — $9,270 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — $6,760 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ANGLICAN COUNCIL — $6,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCOVENANT PLAYERS — $5,380 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION — $3,690 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEpiscopal Community Services — $2,380 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEDICAL AMBASSADORS INTERNATIONAL — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRESTORATION MINISTRIES INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 FOOD FOR THE POOR INC
  • Who funds CHINA OUTREACH MINISTRIESINC
  • Who funds OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES
  • Who funds MAP International Inc
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE
  • Who funds AMERICAN ANGLICAN COUNCIL
  • Who funds COVENANT PLAYERS
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION
  • Who funds Episcopal Community Services
  • Who funds MEDICAL AMBASSADORS INTERNATIONAL
  • Who funds RESTORATION 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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA11.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Underwood 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Food for the Poor Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 29 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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