· Private foundation
Upside Down Foundation
Its FY2025 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $104k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EPICENTRE CHURCH | $100,000 |
| ROBERT AND PEARL ALLEN MISSIONARIES IN CHINA | $40,000 |
| JASON KERNER MISSIONARY MIDDLE EAST | $20,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL CHILDCARE MINISTRIES | $13,680 |
| HAVING A HOME | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| GABRIELA ZIOLKOWSKI CO MARVELA GOMEZ | $10,000 |
| INTERVARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP | $8,000 |
| THRU THE BIBLE | $5,000 |
| JEWS FOR JESUS | $5,000 |
| BARBARA ALATORRE MISSIONARY | $5,000 |
| JENICE SAMPSON MISSIONARY | $5,000 |
| AVENUES PREGNANCY CLINIC | $3,000 |
| AADAP INC | $3,000 |
| HEAVENLY TREASURES | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 80% of its 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 26% of Upside Down Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 66% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 45%.
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 +18% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
22 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HTHEAVENLY TREASURES5× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +18%
- TTThru The Bible Inc7× · 2018–2025 · $26k · revenue +49%
- ICInterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA2× · 2024–2025 · $16k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $35k
- APAxia Projectone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue 0% · 33% of their budget
- MFMISSION FLIGHTgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +156%
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.
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 spread the gospel of jesus christ through crusades
Serving and pastoring overseas workers on their own turf and equipping nationals by training and empowering them in their work of advancing the gospel.
Sharing Christ's passion for the world by serving the most vulnerable through national churches and leaders.
Provide oversight spititual support, evangelize the word help the poor and needy including aid in the translation of the nible
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
The bridge consulting, inc. has been established to provide support to pastors throughout the world, provide encouragement to pastors and church leaders in the united states of america, teach international pastoral leaders,and mobilize…
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.
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 53 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 I PLANTED A SEED INC ↗
- Who funds HEAVENLY TREASURES ↗
- Who funds Thru The Bible Inc ↗
- Who funds InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA ↗
- Who funds Axia Project ↗
- Who funds Avenues Pregnancy Clinic ↗
- Who funds MISSION FLIGHT ↗
- Who funds UPWARD BOUND STUDY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SERVING FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds CONVALESCENT AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds JESUS USE ME MOVEMENT ↗
- Who funds BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP ↗
- Who funds Development Assoc International ↗
- Who funds MILLENNIUM RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CRESTVIEW PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Upside Down Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Upside Down Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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