· Private foundation
Tom Raper Foundation Inc
Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k2 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $343k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| West Coast Baptist College | $38,000 |
| Crown College | $38,000 |
| Hope Children's Home | $38,000 |
| Five Star Christian Ministries | $38,000 |
| Medical Missions Outreach Inc | $38,000 |
| The Gospel Film Project | $26,900 |
| Colonial Hills Baptist Church | $26,000 |
| Fellowship Baptist Church | $23,200 |
| First Baptist Church Scripture | $19,500 |
| Southern CA Liberty Baptist Church | $19,500 |
| Thabisa Baby House | $15,208 |
| Pacific Baptist Church | $12,100 |
| Harbor Evangelism International | $11,000 |
| Byron Foxx Evangelistic Association | $8,400 |
| Cranberry Baptist Church | $8,400 |
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 (FY21–22, $88k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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.
7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2022, 3 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $219k 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
- CCCROWN COLLEGE3× · 2017–2022 · $820k · revenue +41%
- HCHYLES-ANDERSON COLLEGE INC3× · 2019–2021 · $105k · revenue +35%
- HIHope International Ministries Inc2× · 2021–2022 · $88k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- LDLifeSigns Deaf Baptist Churchone grant, 2021 · $100k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $100k
- BIBaptist Int'l Leadership Ministryone grant, 2021 · $50k
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.
North America Bible Institute (NABI) is an evangelical graduate school, made up of students who are diverse in both ethnicity and ministry aims -- but united in great love for Jesus and his gospel. As a graduate school, NABI offers them…
The organization exists to seek and to save those who are lost.
Spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ
To spread the gospel of jesus christ through crusades
Pastor training
Training pastors in third world countries
Religious
Heart Bridge International exists to equip and empower Christians around the world to fulfill the Great Commission. The organization provides free ministry training, discipleship resources, and practical coaching to under-resourced…
To see renewal of the evangelical church in north america
Timbrel Ministries International is a charitable corporation organized exclusively to provide educational programs, projects and services. Our vision seeks to provide a voice and empowerment to under-represented and economically…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Final Frontiers Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Gospel Film Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 27 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 CROWN COLLEGE ↗
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- Who funds HYLES-ANDERSON COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds Hope International Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds FINAL FRONTIERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE GOSPEL FILM PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL MISSIONS OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds Five Star Christian Ministries ↗
- Who funds Ambassador Baptist College ↗
- Who funds HARBOR EVANGELISM INTERNATIONAL 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.
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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 Tom Raper 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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