· Private foundation
Tru Needs Inc
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
- $250k+4 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIFENET | $450,000 |
| ONE WAY MINISTRIES | $300,000 |
| HEART FOR LEBANON | $300,000 |
| CURE INTERNATIONAL | $250,000 |
| CHOSEN PEOPLE MINISTRIES | $100,000 |
| WASHINGTON EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–18, $310k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +136% since the first grant, against +38% for those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $260k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OWONE WAY MINISTRIES4× · 2018–2024 · $365k · revenue +136%
- LTLove the Nations Inc3× · 2017–2022 · $175k · revenue +154% · 25% of their budget
- WIWATERSTEP INC2× · 2017–2021 · $55k · revenue +97%
Funded once
- BBBELMONT BIBLE CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $138k
- HFHeart for Lebanon Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $120k · revenue +81%
- FFFREEDOM FIRMone grant, 2022 · $50k
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.
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.
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…
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 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…
The goal of crossover ministries is to educate young girls and boys and be proactive before they enter a lifestyle of human trafficking and prostitution by teaching them life skills, english, and the love of jesus.
(See Schedule O for description.)
i58 Global is a Christian ministry dedicated to recruiting, sending and organizing relief workers to provide aid and share hope to refugees in various European countries.
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.
Fountains of Hope is committed to serving God by providing safe water and community needs in developing countries and in disaster relief areas worldwide.
Mission Without Borders (MWB) 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,…
Christar international serves as a catalyst to the network of christar ministries by facilitating and encouraging partnerships with churches who sen dout men and women who proclaim the gospel for life-giving transformation in communitiesw…
The organization cares for the sick and suffering in Jesus name by partnering with Christian mission hospitals, helping patients unable to afford treatment, and supporting Mustard Seed House ministry locations in Kenya.
Provide assistance to persons in foreign countries
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 39 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 ONE WAY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds CURE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Love the Nations Inc ↗
- Who funds Heart for Lebanon Foundation ↗
- Who funds WATERSTEP INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTS HOPE U S A INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HOPE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S RELIEF INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Cross Commission ↗
- Who funds Agape Flights Inc ↗
- Who funds The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago ↗
- Who funds ONE BALL ONE VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds China Aid Association Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MAILBOX CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP ↗
- Who funds Matthew 25 Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds HEALING KADI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRONTLINE FOUNDATIONS INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Tru Needs Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tru Needs Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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