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Tijeras 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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $227k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $330k
- $250k+1 grant · $557k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOUNG LIFE | $557,000 |
| GENEROUS CHURCH | $125,000 |
| NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION | $105,000 |
| FAITH COMES BY HEARING INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| CURE INTERNATIONAL | $25,000 |
| LIGONIER MINISTRIES | $20,000 |
| THE HOPE CENTER FOR AUTISM INC | $15,000 |
| GOT QUESTIONS MINISTRIES | $15,000 |
| GRACE & PEACE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $14,500 |
| THE NAVIGATORS | $12,000 |
| THE BEREAN MISSIONARY CHURCH | $10,000 |
| SHINE SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| PALM CITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 14 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $238k 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
- YLYOUNG LIFE5× · 2020–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +62%
- PLPROJECT LIFT INC2× · 2020–2022 · $510k · revenue +134%
- NCNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC4× · 2020–2024 · $315k · revenue ×103
Funded once
- MDMONTE DE SION CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $44k
- KOKLIFE OF TULSAone grant, 2020 · $25k
- HFHOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERYone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
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.
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
The Signatry advances the Christian faith by carrying out its mission, "to inspire and facilitate revolutionary biblical generosity across generations to solve the world's greatest problems," through financial and other support of I.R.C.…
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.
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Assisting national Christian leaders around the world.
Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.
To encourage and facilitate greater charitable giving by offering simple, innovative, and efficient giving tools to support charities, churches, and christian ministries.
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.
Bibleproject's mission is to help people experience the bible as a unified story that leads to jesus. this is achieved by creating biblical videos to be regularly released on a newly-created youtube channel. (continued on schedule o.)each…
Equipping followers of christ to give wisely to advance his kingdom by inspiring biblical stewardship and generosity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life and the most unlike its peers is Johns Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
35 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. 35 of the 63 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 YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds PROJECT LIFT INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GENEROUSCHURCH INC ↗
- Who funds IMPACT INVESTING CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GENEROUS GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MARTIN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Got Questions Ministries ↗
- Who funds Zuni Christian Mission School ↗
- Who funds CURE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Ligonier Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HOPE CENTER FOR AUTISM INC ↗
- Who funds AXIS ↗
- Who funds BALCONY WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds Cascia Hall Foundation ↗
- Who funds SISTER INDIA LTD ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds MIGHTY OAKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE NM 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: Johns Family Foundation · The Community Foundation - Martin / St Lucie Inc · Servant Foundation · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · The Lichtenberger Foundation Inc · International Generosity Foundation Trust · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 Tijeras 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- United Way of Martin County Inc — 4% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Martin County — 2% of income from government
- Florida Oceanographic Society Inc — 0% of income from government
- Place of Hope Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Hope Center for Autism Inc — 0% of income from government
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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