· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| 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 |
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 (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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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…
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 22 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Wing Shadow Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Wing Shadow Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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