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Venture

In tough places - unsafe, unreached, and unresourced - VENTURE partners with courageous leaders to make the gospel known and fight injustice by bringing relief to war-torn families, combating human trafficking, and equipping marginalized women - all while planting churches and making disciples.

$3.6M
Granted FY2022
6
Grants FY2022
5
States reached
$78k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2022.

Human Services$222kReligion$53kYouth Development$44kInternational$44kCivil Rights$16k
02FY2022 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $211,789, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,629,903 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $3,418,114 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $72k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $131k
$35,264
Median grant
5
States reached
$6.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$77,952
RIVER VALLEY CHURCH$53,049
THE REEL HOPE PROJECT$35,264
ICCM$20,835
JOYCORPS$16,173
FRIENDS OF WHITE PLAINS YOUTH BUREAU$8,516
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 27% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%RIVER VALLEY CHURCH: $53k → 6%THE REEL HOPE PROJECT: $35k → 11%FRIENDS OF WHITE PLAINS YOUTH BUREAU: $9k → 9%JOYCORPS: $16k → 14%ICCM: $23k → 16%SPEED THE LIGHT: $144k → 5%ICCM: $21k → 16%SPEED THE LIGHT: $78k → 5%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Grants abroad, by region: $5.3M on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 5 regions, $5.0M to organizations and $337k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

East Asia and the Pacific$3.8M · 72% · 6 grants · 7 people

Stated purpose: REFUGEE SUPPORT · FEEDING · MISSION SUPPORT

South Asia$1.2M · 23% · 9 grants · 8 people

Stated purpose: ANTI TRAFFICKING · REHAB & REFUGEE SUPPORT · REFUGEE SUPPORT

Middle East and North Africa$161k · 3% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: MISSION SUPPORT

Sub-Saharan Africa$68k · 1% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: MISSION SUPPORT

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$31k · 1% · 1 person

Stated purpose: MISSION SUPPORT & FEEDING

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s 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.
03Its field

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.

1
A Family for Every Orphan

A FAMILY FOR EVERY ORPHAN'S mission is to create paths to help orphans and vulnerable children find care in safe and loving families in their home country.

International
2
Family Housing Network of Fort Collins Inc

Faith Family Hospitality's mission is to support families experiencing homelessness to achieve sustainable self-sufficiency in a timely and dignified manner. This interfaith volunteer effort coordinates the work of 30 diverse Fort Collins…

Human Services
3
Family Promise - Salt Lake

We help families experiencing homelessness find lasting independence and security.

Housing & Shelter
4
Kingdom Family Resources

Our mission is to equip families to live their best lives daily, with values and principles consistent with a healthy lifestyle, that will enable a family to live productive lives in the community.

Health
5
Hope for the Fatherless

HFTF serves orphaned and vulnerable children in Ethiopia, and its mission is to see every child thriving in a loving family. HFTF accomplishes this through five primary initiatives: in-country adoption training and placement, family…

International
6
Futuro Infantil Hispano

Futuro Infantil Hispano is a non-profit Foster Family Agency devoted to providing quality care and we strongly believe in and support family reunification.

Unclassified
7
Families Thrive Inc

Families thrive, inc. is dedicated to finding loving adoptive families for children waiting in foster care. roughly half a million children in the u.s. have been removed from unsafe homes, and of these, 120,000 are free for adoption. the…

Human Services
8
Go On the Mission

GO equips impoverished children to conquer the cycle of poverty through holistic Christ-centered care, enabling them to become followers of Christ who bring hope and healing to their worlds.

Religion
9
The Orphans Hands Inc

The Orphan's Hands provides a safe home and education for orphaned youth at risk of being trafficked in high-risk countries while bringing the love and hope of Jesus.

International
10
Family Promise of Orange County

To provide emergency shelter, hospitality, and services to homeless families, helping to eliminate their homelessness and place each family in a home of their own in about two months.

Human Services
11
Freed People

Freed People ignites hope by redeeming destinies and restoring families. Our faith leads us to believe there are no hopeless situations, only hopeless feelings Freed People supports organizations that rescue girls from sex trafficking ,…

Human Services
12
Family Reentry Inc

Family reentry's mission is to break cycles of violence, crime and incarceration by providing client centered interventions and support services to empower and strengthen individuals, families and communities.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Families Forward; the most unlike its peers is Friends of the White Plains Youth Bureau Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
9/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $222,198 · OtherIndividual grant recipientRIVER VALLEY CHURCH: $53,049 · OtherRIVER VALLEY CHURCHICCM: $43,597 · OtherICCMJOYCORPS: $16,173 · OtherTHE REEL HOPE PROJECT: $35,264 · Youth DevelopmentTHE REEL HOPE…FRIENDS of THE WHITE PLAINS YOUTH BUREAU INC: $8,516 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS of TH…
Other$335,017Youth Development$43,780

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE REEL HOPE PROJECT: $35,264 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetFRIENDS of THE WHITE PLAINS YOUTH BUREAU INC: $8,516 over 1y, 9.3% of budget
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 THE REEL HOPE PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS of THE WHITE PLAINS YOUTH BUREAU 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.

Renaissance Charitable Foundation IncIN10.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Venture funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Venture. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
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no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Venture?

    Find your warmest path to Venture through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 6 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $5.5M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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