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Upside Down 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 $10k14 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $147k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $35,000 |
| HEAVENLY TREASURES | $22,745 |
| JASON KERNER MISSIONARY MIDDLE EAST | $20,000 |
| AXIAL PROJECT | $15,024 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| ROBERT AND PEARL ALLEN MISSIONARIES IN CHINA | $15,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL CHILDCARE MINISTRIES | $13,680 |
| MISSION FLIGHT | $10,100 |
| INTERVARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP | $8,000 |
| JEWS FOR JESUS | $5,000 |
| JESUS USE ME MOVEMENT | $5,000 |
| THRU THE BIBLE | $5,000 |
| AVENUES PREGNANCY CLINIC | $5,000 |
| AADAP INC | $3,000 |
| PRISON FELLOWSHIP | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 79% of your 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 26% of Upside Down Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 66% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 45% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +18% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 7 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, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $69k 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
- HTHEAVENLY TREASURES4× · 2017–2024 · $43k · revenue +18%
- TTThru The Bible Inc6× · 2018–2024 · $21k · revenue +49%
- APAvenues Pregnancy Clinic3× · 2021–2024 · $9k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- UBUPWARD BOUND STUDY CENTER INCone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +10%
- CCMTAone grant, 2018 · $10k
- SFSERVING FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL INCone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -18%
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.
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…
Provide oversight spititual support, evangelize the word help the poor and needy including aid in the translation of the nible
To spread the gospel of jesus christ through crusades
Since 1816, american bible society has been fulfilling its mission of making the bible available to every person in a language and format each can understand and afford so all people may experience its life-changing message.
Supporing missionaries worldwide
To propagate the gospel of jesus christ; to examine candidates and appoint missionaries. to endorse missionary programs according to standards set forth in the new testament, to establish churches, church schools & mission societies in…
To equip disciples of Jesus Christ to balance and live their lives to glorify God in every area of life; spirituall, personally, communally and physically by
Minister the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Evangelize, preach and teach the Word of God and provide educational materials. Develop clean water, disaster relief, health projects, and Covid19 relief projects.
Global Serve International, Inc.'s sole purpose is to establish a church in the U.S. that supports the spread of the Gospel of Jesus Christ in remote areas of the world/Asia. Members in the United States complete extensive training in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bible Study Fellowship and the most unlike its peers is Axia Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 46 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 I PLANTED A SEED INC ↗
- Who funds HEAVENLY TREASURES ↗
- Who funds Thru The Bible Inc ↗
- Who funds Axia Project ↗
- Who funds MISSION FLIGHT ↗
- Who funds UPWARD BOUND STUDY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SERVING FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Avenues Pregnancy Clinic ↗
- Who funds InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA ↗
- Who funds JESUS USE ME MOVEMENT ↗
- Who funds CONVALESCENT AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP ↗
- Who funds Development Assoc International ↗
- Who funds MILLENNIUM RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT SERVICES 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: Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Upside Down 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 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.