· Public charity
Tim Tebow Foundation Inc
The tim tebow foundation exists to bring faith, hope and love to those needing a brighter day in their darkest hour of need.
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.
The 135 grants below total $9,660,599 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $28,750,302 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $19,089,703 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k102 grants · $670k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $356k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $304k
- $250k+7 grants · $8.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HER SONG JACKSONVILLE | $3,500,000 |
| OPERATION LIGHT SHINE | $2,227,837 |
| NATIONAL CHILD PROTECTION TASK FORCE | $750,000 |
| LANTERN FOUNDATION | $568,575 |
| CHILD RESCUE COALITION | $475,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN | $448,887 |
| SHOW HOPE | $360,000 |
| LIFESONG FOR ORPHANS | $195,000 |
| PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY | $109,000 |
| GUIDELIGHT | $30,000 |
| REACH HURTING KIDS INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| DEAF MILLENNIAL PROJECT | $21,000 |
| RISING ABOVE MINISTRIES | $20,200 |
| THE FIRST TEE OF NORTH FLORIDA | $20,000 |
| OVERCOMER MINISTRIES INC | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% 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
Grants abroad, by region — $18M on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 9 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: ANTI HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND CHILD EXPLOITATION · NIGHT TO SHINE · NIGHT TO SHINE; PROFOUND MEDICAL NEEDS
Stated purpose: NIGHT TO SHINE · ORPHAN CARE & PREVENTION · ANTI HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND CHILD EXPLOITATION
Stated purpose: ORPHAN CARE & PREVENTION; RELIEF AID · NIGHT TO SHINE · ORPHAN CARE & PREVENTION; ANTI HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND CHILD EXPLOITATION
Stated purpose: NIGHT TO SHINE · INTERNATIONAL SPECIAL NEEDS RESOURCE CENTER · ANTI HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND CHILD EXPLOITATION
Stated purpose: RELIEF AID · NIGHT TO SHINE · ANTI HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND CHILD EXPLOITATION; RELIEF AID
Stated purpose: ANTI HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND CHILD EXPLOITATION · NIGHT TO SHINE · ANTI HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND CHILD EXPLOITATION; RELIEF AID
Stated purpose: PROFOUND MEDICAL NEEDS · NIGHT TO SHINE · ANTI HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND CHILD EXPLOITATION
Stated purpose: ANTI HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND CHILD EXPLOITATION · NIGHT TO SHINE; RELIEF AID · ANTI HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND CHILD EXPLOITATION; NIGHT TO SHINE; RELIEF AID
Stated purpose: NIGHT TO SHINE · ANTI HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND CHILD EXPLOITATION; RELIEF AID
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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 +41% since the first grant, against -5% for the ones you funded once.
117 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 91 since wound down; 109 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M 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
- HSHer Song Jacksonville Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $7.1M · revenue ×13 · 70% of their budget
- OLOPERATION LIGHT SHINE4× · 2021–2024 · $6.7M · revenue +213% · 74% of their budget
- NCNATIONAL CHILD PROTECTION TASK FORC3× · 2022–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +111% · 42% of their budget
Funded once
Back 2 Back Ministries Incone grant, 2018 · $210k · revenue +21%- RARAVEN ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue -57%
- MmyLIFEspeaksone grant, 2018 · $103k · revenue -5%
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.
Redeem's mission is to protect widows and orphans from violent abuse and exploitation.
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.
We minister to orphans and widows in their distress by transitioning children from orphanages into loving families. We do this through Christ- centered care, training and social work.
World orphans vision is to empower the church to care for orphans and vulnerable families. we equip, inspire, and mobilize the church to care for orphans and vulnerable children. churches engaged. children restored. communities transformed…
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.
Organization was established in 2005 as a way to fulfill the biblical mandate given in James 1:27 to Visit orphans and widows in their distress. Today, the mission has expanded to include caring for families and communities, orphan…
SOS provides assistance to poor and marginalized people in the USA & other countries. SOS feeds the hungry, drills water wells, contributes to schools and operates an orphanage. SOS also rescues and rehabilitates victims of sex trafficking.
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.
Sozo International partners with at-risk families to create a sustainable future and transformed lives through education, health, and economic initiatives.
To reach people with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
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…
To share Christian compassion and love in an effort to alleviate spiritual, physical, emotional and mental suffering around the world. We help care for orphans and vulnerable children, teens and women in need. We provide training and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lifesong for Orphans Inc and the most unlike its peers is Breakthrough T1D. 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 44 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
53 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. 53 of the 557 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Her Song Jacksonville Inc ↗
- Who funds OPERATION LIGHT SHINE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CHILD PROTECTION TASK FORC ↗
- Who funds SHAOHANNAHS HOPE INC dba SHOW HOPE ↗
- Who funds LIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD RESCUE COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds LANTERN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOB TEBOW EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Sentinel Foundation ↗
- Who funds CURE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Back 2 Back Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds NIGHT TO SHINE JACKSONVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds RISING ABOVE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds RAVEN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD GOLF FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HANDS AND FEET PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds GUIDELIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds 99 BALLOONS INC ↗
- Who funds KEY MINISTRY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds myLIFEspeaks ↗
- Who funds JONI AND FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN CHURCH FOUNDATION FOR THE HAND ↗
- Who funds Orphan Outreach ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds Nathaniel's Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds Jerome Lejeune Foundation USA ↗
- Who funds ALL BELONG ↗
- Who funds OVERCOMER MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Champions Foundation ↗
- Who funds YOUNG SURVIVAL COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE INTERNATIONAL ↗
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: GiveClear Foundation · In His Steps Foundation · Samaritan's Purse · Dallas Seminary Found Vision Fund · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Crowley Cares Foundation · Convoy of Hope · Pure Inc · Indianapolis Center for Congregations Inc · Servant Foundation · The Signatry Charitable Trust · The US Charitable Gift Trust
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 Tim Tebow Foundation Inc 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.
- Child Rescue Coalition Inc — 20% of income from government
- Pga Tour 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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