· Private foundation
The Underwood 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN ANGLICAN COUNCIL | $6,000 |
| OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| DAN MCKINNEY FAMILY YMCA | $4,000 |
| CHRISTIAN LEGAL SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| COVENANT HOUSE | $2,800 |
| NASHOTAH HOUSE | $2,600 |
| FOOD FOR THE POOR | $2,500 |
| HOPE INTERNATIONAL | $2,000 |
| MAP INTERNATIONAL | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES | $1,400 |
| ST STEPHEN'S CHURCH | $500 |
| INTL JUSTICE MISSION | $500 |
| COURTSIDE MINISTRIES | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 38% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OCOUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES3× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +64%
- COCHINA OUTREACH MINISTRIESINC3× · 2021–2023 · $12k · revenue +8%
MAP International Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $11k · revenue +134%
Funded once
- TMTRAILSIDE MINISTRIESone grant, 2020 · $3k
- CNCARE NETWORKone grant, 2020 · $3k
- DCDAVID C COOK-GLOBAL MISSIONone grant, 2020 · $2k
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.
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.
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…
Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.
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.
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.
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.
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…
Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.
To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.
To free the poorest of the poor from physical, emotional and spiritual bondage.
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 31 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ANGLICAN COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds CHINA OUTREACH MINISTRIESINC ↗
- Who funds MAP International Inc ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds COVENANT PLAYERS ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Episcopal Community Services ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL AMBASSADORS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds RESTORATION MINISTRIES INC ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Underwood Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Underwood Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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