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Thomas Joseph Charitable 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.

$64k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$245kHuman Services$101kInternational$67kHealth$12kHousing & Shelter$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
$2,500
Median grant
7
States reached
$13k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WOODSIDE BIBLE CHURCH$15,000
GRACE CENTERS OF HOPE$10,000
PREBORN$5,000
DOMINICAN SISTER OF CHARITY$5,000
DIVYABALAKA ASHRAMAM CHARITABLE TRUST (INDIAN ORPHANAGE)$4,000
LAUNCH A MISSIONARY$4,000
EMMANUEL BIBLE CHURCH$3,000
MARANATHA CHURCH$2,500
DREAM CENTERS$2,500
JUSTICE VENTURES INTERNATIONAL$2,500
MONASTRY OF BLESSED SACRAMENT$2,500
MEM CHURCH$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,000
YOU VERSION BIBLE APP$2,000
SHEPHERD'S HOUSE MINISTRY$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

US giving: 82% of grant dollars ($391k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 18% that went abroad ($83k) is mapped below.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 33% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%DOMINICAN SISTER OF CHARITY: $5k → 11%LAUNCH A MISSIONARY: $7k → 11%SKYLINE MINISTRIES: $3k → 16%ZION CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $3k → 8%ABIGAYLE MINISTRIES: $10k → 10%MOTOR CITY CHURCH: $3k → 21%ST JUDE: $6k → 17%RZIM: $5k → 9%INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS AND JEWS: $5k → 14%JUSTICE VENTURES INTERNATIONAL: $3k → 8%LAUNCH A MISSIONARY: $4k → 11%ZION CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $3k → 8%COMPASSION PREGNANCY CENTER: $10k → 10%ST JUDE: $5k → 17%RZIM: $5k → 9%TROY INTERNATIONAL CHURCH OF GOD: $6k → 8%ST JUDE: $5k → 17%RZIM: $3k → 9%ZION CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $3k → 8%KERALA CLUB (FLOODING IN KERALA INDIA): $4k → 10%ZION CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $3k → 8%MCREST: $6k → 10%DMA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION (FLOODING IN INDIA): $3k → 8%MCREST: $5k → 10%MCREST: $5k → 10%GRACE CENTERS OF HOPE: $10k → 8%MCREST: $5k → 10%GRACE CENTERS OF HOPE: $10k → 8%MCREST: $5k → 10%GRACE CENTERS OF HOPE: $10k → 8%MCREST: $3k → 10%WOODSIDE BIBLE CHURCH: $40k → 8%MARANATHA CHURCH: $3k → 10%GRACE CENTERS OF HOPE: $6k → 8%WOODSIDE BIBLE CHURCH: $15k → 8%GRACE CENTERS OF HOPE: $5k → 8%WOODSIDE BIBLE CHURCH: $11k → 8%GRACE CENTERS OF HOPE: $5k → 8%WOODSIDE BIBLE CHURCH: $10k → 8%DREAM CENTERS: $5k → 8%WOODSIDE BIBLE CHURCH: $8k → 8%DREAM CENTERS: $3k → 8%WOODSIDE BIBLE CHURCH: $6k → 8%DREAM CENTERS: $3k → 8%WOODSIDE BIBLE CHURCH: $5k → 8%DREAM CENTERS: $3k → 8%WOODSIDE BIBLE CHURCH: $5k → 8%WOODSIDE BIBLE CHURCH: $3k → 8%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

IL
MI
MA
IN
CA
MD
TN
OK
GA
TX

Beyond the US: 18% of all-years giving ($83k)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
India$83k · 18 grants
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
$426k · 18 repeat orgs$48k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
8

Total granted

$426k
$29k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
0%

Still filing today

17%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionHuman ServicesHealthInternationalOther
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

  • GRACE CENTERS OF HOPE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $46k · revenue +60%
  • MP
    Mission Pre-Born Inc
    4× · 2022–2025 · $40k · revenue +46%
  • CP
    COMPASSION PREGNANCY CENTER
    2× · 2022–2023 · $12k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • AM
    ABIGAYLE MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
  • DA
    DIVYABALAKA ASHRAMAM CHARITABLE TRUST
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • IF
    INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 33 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
5/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WOODSIDE BIBLE CHURCH OF TROY: $102,500 · OtherWOODSIDE BIBLE CHURCH OF TROYDIVYABALAKA ASHRAMAM CHARITABLE TRUST (INDIAN ORPHANAGE): $52,025 · OtherDIVYABALAKA ASHRAMAM CHARITABLE TRUST (INDIAN ORPHANAGE)GRACE CENTERS OF HOPE: $45,520 · OtherGRACE CENTERS OF HOPEEMMANUEL BIBLE CHURCH: $34,500 · OtherEMMANUEL BIBLE CHURCHMCREST: $28,000 · OtherMCRESTJESUS IS ALIVE MINISTRIES: $16,500 · OtherST JUDE: $15,500 · OtherDREAM CENTERS: $15,000 · Other+20 more: $99,064 · Other+20 moreMission Pre-Born Inc: $40,000 · Human ServicesMission P…COMPASSION PREGNANCY CENTER: $11,500 · HealthABIGAYLE MINISTRIES: $10,000 · ReligionBIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP: $1,000 · ReligionJUSTICE VENTURES INTERNATIONAL: $2,500 · International
Other$408,609Human Services$40,000Health$11,500Religion$11,000International$2,500

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 budgetGRACE CENTERS OF HOPE: $45,520 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMission Pre-Born Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOMPASSION PREGNANCY CENTER: $11,500 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetABIGAYLE MINISTRIES: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds GRACE CENTERS OF HOPE ↗
  • Who funds Mission Pre-Born Inc ↗
  • Who funds COMPASSION PREGNANCY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ABIGAYLE MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC ↗
  • Who funds JUSTICE VENTURES INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 33 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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