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Vineyard Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$27k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
16
Grants FY2025
13
Organizations funded FY2024
38%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$335
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,786
Organizations funded a year
5 to 13
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
9
Total assets, FY2025
$550k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 38% of the organizations Vineyard Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalReligionEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving16$27k44%
FY202413$42k38%
FY20238$54k25%
FY20225$75k20%
FY20218$110k25%
FY20206$104k67%
FY20197$103kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Religion$364kInternational$132kYouth Development$9kEducation$7kEnvironment$316Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
IL
WI
IN
PA
CA
MD
AR
TN
AL
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Barnabas International$172,50061%
Modern Day Missions$118,72171%
Global Development Group USA Inc$77,59054%
The Freedom Story$38,02333%
Southside Church of Christ$37,5001n/a
Resourcing Christian Education International$18,99430%
Youth With a Mission of Montana a Corporation$9,0003n/a
Final Command Ministries$6,85720%
Teachbeyond Inc$6,5912n/a
Ub Global$5,0001n/a
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All grantees of Vineyard Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Barnabas International$172,50061%
Modern Day Missions$118,72171%
Global Development Group USA Inc$77,59054%
The Freedom Story$38,02333%
Southside Church of Christ$37,5001n/a
Resourcing Christian Education International$18,99430%
Youth With a Mission of Montana a Corporation$9,0003n/a
Final Command Ministries$6,85720%
Teachbeyond Inc$6,5912n/a
Ub Global$5,0001n/a
Global Childrens Awareness Inc$4,5001n/a
Hamilton Life Church$4,3542n/a
The Christian Relief Fund$3,45650%
Antioch Ministries International$2,3022n/a
Lifesong for Orphans Inc$2,00010%
Ezekiel Rain Inc$82830%
Mission Chattanooga Parish$4571n/a
Chattanooga Audubon Society$31620%
Chinese Agape Foundation$21710%
Clear Creek Church of Christ$2001n/a
Nehemiah Teams$20010%
World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals$18010%
Bridge Refugee Services Inc$1001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($7k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Vineyard Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBarnabas International: $172,500 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetModern Day Missions: $118,721 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetGlobal Development Group USA Inc: $77,590 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetThe Freedom Story: $38,023 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetResourcing Christian Education International: $18,994 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFinal Command Ministries: $6,857 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Christian Relief Fund: $3,456 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLifesong for Orphans Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEzekiel Rain Inc: $828 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetChattanooga Audubon Society: $316 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChinese Agape Foundation: $217 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNehemiah Teams: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWorld Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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.

Chattanooga Christian Community FoundationTN23.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Servant Foundation · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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.

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About Vineyard Foundation

How much does Vineyard Foundation give?
Vineyard Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $27,417 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 13 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Vineyard Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (70%), International (25%), Youth Development (2%).
Who are Vineyard Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Barnabas International ($173k), Modern Day Missions ($119k), Global Development Group USA Inc ($78k).
Does Vineyard Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Vineyard Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Vineyard Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation, Christian Community Foundation Inc, Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund.
Where is Vineyard Foundation based?
Vineyard Foundation is based in TN.

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 28 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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