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Vineyard Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$27k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% 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
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
$335
Median grant
9
States reached
$550k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Modern Day$10,786
Final Command Ministries$6,506
Global Development Group USA$4,703
Youth with A Mission of Montana$2,000
The Freedom Story$523
The Mission Chattanooga$457
Christian Relief Fund$445
Hickory Valley Christian Church$335
The Anglican Relief and Development$300
Chattanooga Audubon Society$259
Agape Asia$217
Seven Rivers Church$206
Ezekiel Rain$200
Clear Creek Church of Christ$200
World Relief$180
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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Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $217) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Agape Asia: $217 → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
IL
WI
IN
PA
CA
MD
AR
TN
AL
TX
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$464k · 15 repeat orgs$52k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
6

Total granted

$464k
$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+135%

Still filing today

60%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalReligionEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • BARNABAS INTERNATIONAL
    6× · 2019–2024 · $173k · revenue +52%
  • MD
    MODERN DAY MISSIONS
    7× · 2019–2025 · $119k · revenue +222%
  • GD
    GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT GROUP USA INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $78k · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • SC
    SOUTHSIDE CHURCH OF CHRIST
    one grant, 2019 · $38k
  • UG
    UB GLOBAL
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • GC
    GLOBAL CHILDRENS AWARENESS INC
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
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.

04Its 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
I58 Global

i58 Global is a Christian ministry dedicated to recruiting, sending and organizing relief workers to provide aid and share hope to refugees in various European countries.

Human Services
2
Asia Us Impact

Religious

Religion
3
Redeem International

Redeem's mission is to protect widows and orphans from violent abuse and exploitation.

International
4
Covenant Frontline International

The mission of CFI is to follow James 127 which states to look after orphans and widows in their distress CFI also partners with churches and organizations overseas to see this fulfilled.

International
5
Fsi-Freedom Seekers International

Freedom seekers international is a christian organization that exists to rescue the most severely persecuted for their religious faith in hostile and restrictive countries. through collaborative partnerships we deliver those who are…

Human Services
6
World Renew

Compelled by a deep passion for justice and mercy, World Renew joins communities around the world to renew hope, reconcile lives, and restore creation with programs focused on disaster response, community health, economic opportunity, food…

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7
Orphan Outreach

To glorify the Lord Jesus Christ by ministering to orphans around the world by meeting spiritual, physical, emotional, and educational needs.

International
8
Great Commission Foundation in

Missions - sponsors foreign and domestic missions and orphanages with a special emphasis on missions in India

—
9
Worldserve Ministries

To advance the gospel in closed and hard-to-reach nations and to impact those nations for christ.

International
10
Asia Connect

The organizations mission is the support, training, and equipping of Christian missionaries to Asia, the Middle East, and Africa

Religion
11
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

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…

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12
Mission Without Borders Incorporated

Mission Without Borders (MWB) is dedicated to reaching people for Christ through an international network of Christians who journey with the poor and marginalized, bringing practical and spiritual support with hope of a better future,…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Modern Day Missions; the most unlike its peers is Chattanooga Audubon Society. 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

14 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. 14 of the 28 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
8/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BARNABAS INTERNATIONAL: $172,500 · ReligionBARNABAS INTERNATIONALMODERN DAY MISSIONS: $118,721 · ReligionMODERN DAY MISSIONSResourcing Christian Education International: $18,994 · ReligionResourcing Christian Education International+2 more: $7,057 · ReligionGLOBAL DEVELOPMENT GROUP USA INC: $77,590 · InternationalGLOBAL DEVELOPMENT GROUP U…The Freedom Story: $38,023 · InternationalThe Freedom Story+4 more: $6,464 · InternationalSOUTHSIDE CHURCH OF CHRIST: $37,500 · OtherSOUTHSIDE CHURCH…YOUTH WITH A MISSION OF MONTANA A CORPORATION: $9,000 · OtherYOUTH WITH A MIS…TEACHBEYOND INC: $6,591 · OtherTEACHBEYOND INCUB GLOBAL: $5,000 · OtherUB GLOBALGLOBAL CHILDRENS AWARENESS INC: $4,500 · OtherGLOBAL CHILDRENS…HAMILTON LIFE CHURCH: $4,354 · OtherHAMILTON LIFE CH…World Mission Continuum Society: $4,169 · OtherWorld Mission Co…+8 more: $5,570 · Other+8 moreChattanooga Audubon Society: $316 · EnvironmentCHINESE AGAPE FOUNDATION: $217 · Human Services
Religion$317,272International$122,077Other$76,684Environment$316Human Services$217

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

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
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 BARNABAS INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds MODERN DAY MISSIONS ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT GROUP USA INC ↗
  • Who funds The Freedom Story ↗
  • Who funds Resourcing Christian Education International ↗
  • Who funds FINAL COMMAND MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds THE CHRISTIAN RELIEF FUND ↗
  • Who funds LIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC ↗
  • Who funds EZEKIEL RAIN INC ↗
  • Who funds Chattanooga Audubon Society ↗
  • Who funds CHINESE AGAPE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Nehemiah Teams ↗
  • Who funds WORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGE REFUGEE SERVICES 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.

Chattanooga Christian…Christian Community F…Raymond James Charita…Servant FoundationThe Maclellan Foundat…The Signatry Charitab…Natl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…The Blackbaud Giving …Renaissance Charitabl…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 67%
  • World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals: 67% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.

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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home