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Vision Communications Inc

Supports christian radio broadcasting, and people working in christian educational and evangelism outreach.

$104k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$53k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Religion$692kYouth Development$441kInternational$147kHuman Services$88kRecreation & Sports$43kEmployment$28kEducation$24kAnimals$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $96,845, the rows itemized in this filing. The $104,345 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $7,500 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $4k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $53k
$12,766
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Straight Street$52,500
Young Life$17,500
Fellowship of Christian Athletes$12,766
Grace Inside$10,000
Wild at Heart$4,079
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–20, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Teen Challenge: $31k → 8%Teen Challenge: $15k → 8%Teen Challenge: $1k → 8%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.
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 11 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +61% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
5

Total granted

$1.4M
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%
+34%

Still filing today

91%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’23’24’25
Youth DevelopmentReligionInternationalHuman ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterHealthOther
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

  • SS
    STRAIGHT STREET ROANOKE VALLEY INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $223k · revenue +61%
  • YL
    YOUNG LIFE
    7× · 2017–2025 · $168k · revenue +59%
  • MF
    My Father's House International Inc
    7× · 2017–2024 · $126k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • FH
    FRIENDSHIP HOUSE INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $10k
  • NW
    NOBLE WARRIORS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $9k · revenue +34%
  • CM
    CENTERSHOT MINISTRIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue +60%
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
Life House Church

Christian teaching and the spreading of the gospel throughout the beaufort south carolina area.

Religion
2
Frontlines Ministries

Connecting biblical soul care to missions through the local church.

Religion
3
L I F E Ministries Inc Community Pregnancy Center

Our mission is to affirm life through evangelism, education, counseling and practical assistance.

Health
4
Reach Ministries International

Rmi's activities include evangelism, discipleship, leadership training & other activities to spread the christian gospel in asia.

Religion
5
Arrow Creek International Ministrie Stands Over Bull
Religion
6
Leadership Revolution Inc

Leadership Revolution is a ministry founded to develop leaders globally who will spread the gospel and make disciples in their arena of influence.

Religion
7
Alongside Inc

Restore hope, purpose, passion and relationships among Christian leaders who are making an impact around the world.

Religion
8
Real Life Ministries

Real Life Ministries invites couples to take the next step in their relationship with God, themselves and others. This is done through individual and couples counseling as well as life coaching. Real Life offers teaching and training…

Human Services
9
Lead With Your Life Inc

Lead with your life inc. disciples and coaches christian leaders,in small groups, one on one appts, and through a monthly newsletter.

Religion
10
In Christ Ministries Inc

In Christ Ministries exists to bring the message of Gods love grace and truth to children teens and adults. We do this through training and outreach events.

Religion
11
Gospel Revivals Inc

To engage in christian evangelism through the publication and worldwide distribution of "herald of his coming" periodical

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12
Follow Him Media Inc
Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life; the most unlike its peers is Live the Life 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

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 17 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
12/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LIVE THE LIFE INC: $639,220 · ReligionLIVE THE LIFE INC+2 more: $13,079 · ReligionSTRAIGHT STREET ROANOKE VALLEY INC: $222,500 · Youth DevelopmentSTRAIGHT STREET ROANOKE VALLEY IN…YOUNG LIFE: $167,800 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFEFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $42,629 · Youth DevelopmentFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES+1 more: $3,521 · Youth DevelopmentBLUE RIDGE FELLOWS PROGRAM INC: $73,500 · OtherBLUE RIDGE …GRACEINSIDE: $57,625 · OtherGRACEINSIDEFRIENDSHIP HOUSE INC: $10,000 · OtherFRIENDSHIP …GILES COUNTY CHRISTIAN SERVICE MISSION INC: $7,500 · Other+1 more: $2,500 · OtherMy Father's House International Inc: $125,530 · InternationalMy Father's…ANSWERING THE CALL INC: $21,543 · InternationalANSWERING T…EASTERN APPALACHIAN TEEN CHALLENGE INC: $47,150 · Human ServicesGODS PIT CREW INC: $30,000 · Public Safety & DisasterCAMP BRAVEHEARTS INC: $1,125 · Health
Religion$652,299Youth Development$436,450Other$151,125International$147,073Human Services$47,150Public Safety & Disaster$30,000Health$1,125

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 budgetLIVE THE LIFE INC: $639,220 over 7y, 97% of budgetSTRAIGHT STREET ROANOKE VALLEY INC: $222,500 over 7y, 14% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $167,800 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMy Father's House International Inc: $125,530 over 7y, 7.3% of budgetBLUE RIDGE FELLOWS PROGRAM INC: $73,500 over 5y, 11% of budgetEASTERN APPALACHIAN TEEN CHALLENGE INC: $47,150 over 4y, 7.9% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $42,629 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGODS PIT CREW INC: $30,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetANSWERING THE CALL INC: $21,543 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetGILES COUNTY CHRISTIAN SERVICE MISSION INC: $7,500 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetRansomed Heart Ministries: $4,079 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTERSHOT MINISTRIES INC: $3,521 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCAMP BRAVEHEARTS INC: $1,125 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

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.

Servant FoundationNatl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Servant FoundationKS11.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Vision Communications Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vision Communications Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%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
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Vision Communications Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Vision Communications Inc 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 17 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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