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Thiessen Dedicated Foundation at a glance

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Thiessen Dedicated 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.

$60k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$60k
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 2025.

Religion$4.9MEducation$1.9MInternational$676kFood & Nutrition$110kRecreation & Sports$100kHuman Services$75kHealth$74k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$60,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$961k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN MISSION SERVICES$60,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MAYHEM MISSION: $10k → 19%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

WA
MT
ND
MN
IL
CO
MO
KY
VA
AZ
AR
TN
NC
LA
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.1M · 15 repeat orgs$774k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
15

Total granted

$7.1M
$774k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+51%

Still filing today

67%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionEducationFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentHealthHuman ServicesOther
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

  • MO
    MISSION ONE INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $1.4M · revenue +8% · 36% of their budget
  • SC
    SCOTTSDALE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $1.1M · revenue +124%
  • IC
    International Christian Mission Services
    7× · 2019–2025 · $494k · revenue +111%

Funded once

  • TH
    Tyndale House Ministriesgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $300k · revenue +66%
  • IE
    IGLESIA EVANGELICA CRISTIANA CASA DE DIOS
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • FO
    FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETESgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +54%
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
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
3
Jesus in Vietnam Ministries
Religion
4
Mission Global Usa

(1) To glorify God by making disciples everywhere by proclaiming and practicing the Gospel of Jesus Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit. (2) To engage in international world mission activities in order to take the Gospel of Jesus Christ…

Philanthropy
5
Mission Partners for Christ Aka Community Health Initiatives
Community Improvement
6
Genesis Global Ministries Inc

Evangelism - proclaiming the gospel of jesus christ nationally and internationally by preaching, teaching, training, publishing, church planting, compassion and disaster relief.

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7
Far Reaching Ministries

Far Reaching Ministries (FRM) was founded to carry the Gospel Jesus Christ to the world with discipleship as our primary objective. We plant and edify evangelical churches, found Bible schools, gather intimate small groups, and sustain…

International
8
Gospel Operation International for Chinese Christians

Our mission is to accomplish the Great Commission through the use of resources of Chinese churches worldwide in mission education, recruitment, training, missionary sending, and all other effective means in collaboration with the Global…

Religion
9
Worldserve Ministries

To advance the gospel in closed and hard-to-reach nations and to impact those nations for christ.

International
10
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
11
Mission Without Borders International

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…

International
12
Gods Promise Ministries International

Religious Purposes

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heartfire Missions Inc; the most unlike its peers is Generation Rising Inc. 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

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 30 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/20
Grantees still filing
15/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SCOTTSDALE BIBLE CHURCH: $2,505,000 · OtherSCOTTSDALE BIBLE CHURCHGENERATION RISING INC: $860,000 · OtherGENERATION RISING INC+10 more: $311,000 · Other+10 moreMISSION ONE INC: $1,399,999 · ReligionMISSION ONE INCInternational Christian Mission Services: $494,000 · ReligionInternational Christian Mission ServicesTyndale House Ministries: $300,000 · ReligionTyndale House MinistriesFOR FREEDOM INTERNATIONAL: $220,000 · ReligionFOR FREEDOM INTERNATIONAL+8 more: $436,960 · Religion+8 moreSCOTTSDALE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC: $1,055,000 · EducationSCOTTSDALE CHRI…FEEDING KIDS RIGHT INC: $110,000 · Food & NutritionFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE GEORGIA WELLNESS GROUP INC: $74,000 · HealthMayhem Mission: $10,000 · Human ServicesGODS PIT CREW INC: $5,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$3,676,000Religion$2,850,959Education$1,055,000Food & Nutrition$110,000Youth Development$100,000Health$74,000Human Services$10,000Public Safety & Disaster$5,000

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 budgetMISSION ONE INC: $1,399,999 over 5y, 36% of budgetSCOTTSDALE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC: $1,055,000 over 3y, 8.5% of budgetGENERATION RISING INC: $860,000 over 3y, 99% of budgetInternational Christian Mission Services: $494,000 over 7y, 19% of budgetTyndale House Ministries: $300,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFOR FREEDOM INTERNATIONAL: $220,000 over 2y, 55% of budgetFEEDING KIDS RIGHT INC: $110,000 over 4y, 42% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYouth for Christ International Ministries: $80,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION: $80,460 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $80,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENGAGE YOUR DESTINY: $75,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetTHE GEORGIA WELLNESS GROUP INC: $74,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetMIKE EDEN MINISTRIES INC: $60,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetHEARTFIRE MISSIONS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetHOPE PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetChristian Youth Camps Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMayhem Mission: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetGODS PIT CREW INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMotor Racing Outreach Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 FoundationNatl Christian Charit…Thrivent Financial fo…Morgan Stanley Global…The Blackbaud Giving …American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Paypal Charitable Giv…National Philanthropi…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…
Servant FoundationKS21× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 Thiessen Dedicated Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thiessen Dedicated Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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 · 0–30%
    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 Thiessen Dedicated Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Thiessen Dedicated Foundation 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 30 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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