· Private foundation
Vine and Branches Foundation Inc
Its FY2023 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 FY2020–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k17 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $390k
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+3 grants · $2.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION | $1,784,403 |
| THE LEGACY FOUNDATION AT SHELL POINT INC | $250,000 |
| ALPHA USA | $250,000 |
| CITY ON A HILL INC | $175,000 |
| THE LEGACY FOUNDATION AT SHELL POINT INC | $170,000 |
| NEW HORIZONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC | $160,000 |
| COMMUNIO FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| HUMAN COALITION | $100,000 |
| STRONGER FAMILIES | $100,000 |
| THE INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY STUDIES | $100,000 |
| SOUL SHEPHERDING | $75,000 |
| YOUTH FOR CHRIST USA INC | $70,000 |
| LIFE CHOICE CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER INC | $60,000 |
| LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH CENTER INC | $60,000 |
| RESONATE CHURCH | $60,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $3.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 49% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against -10% for the ones you funded once.
50 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2023, 12 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M 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
- HCHUMAN COALITION4× · 2020–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +86%
- AUAlpha USA4× · 2020–2023 · $890k · revenue +145%
- GCGeorgia Center for Opportunity Inc4× · 2020–2023 · $800k · revenue +98%
Funded once
- SGSLINGSHOT GROUP INCone grant, 2020 · $75k
- BIBUILDING INTIMATE MARRIAGES INCone grant, 2022 · $70k · revenue -26%
- HPHouston Pregnancy Help Center Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +45%
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.
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.
Life Network provides support and mentoring to women and men facing unexpected pregnancies; offers parenting support, material resources, and referrals; and promotes sexual risk avoidance through education to foster a culture that values…
Mission is to provide women facing an unplanned pregnancy with truthful medical information and education. we are faith-based with a mission to encourage, through education and outreach, the recognition of human life from the moment of…
Our mission is to affirm life through evangelism, education, counseling and practical assistance.
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…
to spread the gospel to the world by planting and serving churches, training local Christian leaders and to transform the world through prayer,
The Pregnancy Care Center is a Christian organization to promote the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and to boldly endorse the sacredness of all human life, by providing comprehensive, practical services as enduring alternatives to abortion.
Passionlife ministries is a global missions initiative to spread the gospel of life and expand the pregnancy help movement among nations plagued by abortion, infanticide and gendercide.
To provide christian based outreach to clients by providing services and information free of charge to anyone in a crisis pregnancy situation, with the goal of assisting the client to carry the pregnancy to term and with continued care…
Biblical support of single moms. To encourage and support single moms to thrive and not just survive.
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
Human Life Services is a life affirming Christ-centered pregnancy care organization serving York through medical services, peer counseling, education and community referrals.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life and the most unlike its peers is Better Together. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
54 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. 54 of the 77 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 HUMAN COALITION ↗
- Who funds Alpha USA ↗
- Who funds BETTER TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds Georgia Center for Opportunity Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW HORIZONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds CITY ON A HILL INC ↗
- Who funds MILITARY COMMUNITY YOUTH MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds STRONGER FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds COMMUNIO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Legacy Foundation At Shell Point Inc ↗
- Who funds Soul Shepherding ↗
- Who funds Save the Storks ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY STUDIES ↗
- Who funds Life Choice Crisis Pregnancy Center Inc ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds MADE TO FLOURISH INC ↗
- Who funds Care Net ↗
- Who funds The New York City Leadership Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Live the Life Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds PROGRACE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Embrace Grace Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds GBNPC Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMPUS OUTREACH SERVE INC ↗
- Who funds BUILDING INTIMATE MARRIAGES INC ↗
- Who funds CARE NET PREGNANCY CENTER OF MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC ↗
- Who funds Houston Pregnancy Help Center Inc ↗
- Who funds AVAIL NYC ↗
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 · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Ed and Josie Toogood Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Timothy and Barbara Michels Family Foundation · Jerome J and Dorothy H Holz Family Foundation C/O Donald Tushaus · STACKNER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC co KRISTIN A OCCHETTI · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Youth Foundation Inc
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 Vine and Branches 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.
- Live the Life Ministries Inc — 66% of income from government
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.