· Private foundation
The Wing Shadow 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CRU | $1,942,547 |
| OPEN DOORS INTERNATIONAL USA | $1,800,292 |
| MERCY INC | $1,696,522 |
| FRONTLINES INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS INC | $1,542,850 |
| BIBLE LEAGUE | $1,317,983 |
| BIBLICA | $1,263,013 |
| GLOBAL AID INC | $1,174,000 |
| CROSSROADS PRISON MINISTRIES | $750,000 |
| 3XM | $723,178 |
| ALPHA USA | $700,000 |
| ONE MISSION | $513,375 |
| WORLD MISSIONARY PRESS | $500,000 |
| LUKE SOCIETY | $427,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $5.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
19 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 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; $700k 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
- ODOpen Doors With Brother Andrew Inc4× · 2019–2022 · $5.7M · revenue +27%
- CRCROSS ROAD CORRECTIONAL MINISTRIES5× · 2020–2024 · $3.6M · revenue +35% · 27% of their budget
- ODOPEN DOORS INTERNATIONAL USA INC2× · 2023–2024 · $3.6M · revenue +70%
Funded once
- MFMERCY-USA FOR AID & DEVELOPMENTINCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $536k · revenue +68%
- IMIMPACT MIDDLE EAST INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $204k · revenue +56% · 26% of their budget
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.
Global Outreach Mission, Inc. is an inter-denominational foreign and domestic ministry organization that is engaged in a wide variety of ministries, including church planting, Christian camps, personal work, literature, community…
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…
The organization is dedicated to reaching people for christ through an international network of christians who journey with the poor and marginalized, bringing practical and spiritual support with hope of a better future,(continued on…
Religious
Bible Translation and acts of Christian Services
To help spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ by providing resources and financial support to projects throughout Asia
Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.
International missions and evangelism
International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures
The organizations mission is enhancing the legal distribution of free bibles and equipping and discipling pastors and trainers to use the word of god effectively.
Our Gospel Radio Program in Arabic was inaugurated in 1993, broadcast from the Middle East on 5 transmitters and on the internet. Approximately 350 million Arabs can receive the programs. Our Farsi Gospel Radio Program was inaugurated in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Open Doors International Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Global Aids Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 22 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 Open Doors With Brother Andrew Inc ↗
- Who funds CROSS ROAD CORRECTIONAL MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOORS INTERNATIONAL USA INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Incorporated ↗
- Who funds FRONTLINES INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Global Aid Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD MISSIONARY PRESS INC ↗
- Who funds THE LUKE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ONE MISSION INC DBA 1MISSION ↗
- Who funds BIBLICA INC ↗
- Who funds Alpha USA ↗
- Who funds MERCY-USA FOR AID & DEVELOPMENTINC ↗
- Who funds IMPACT MIDDLE EAST 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.
Open a dossier: Servant Foundation · Tyndale House Ministries · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Network for Good
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 Wing Shadow 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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