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Vision in Mission Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$304k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$70k
Largest
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$1.5MYouth Development$1.3MEducation$303kInternational$180kHuman Services$149kHousing & Shelter$143kEnvironment$136kSocial Science$115kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $106k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $180k
$10,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$6.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOYS'S & GIRLS CLUB$70,000
HAVEN OF HOPE$60,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ELK COUNTY$50,000
LCC INTERNATIONAL FUND$40,000
SARASOTA COMMUNITY CHURCH$20,000
WATER 4 LIFE INC$15,605
GLOBAL DISCIPLES$10,000
PORTRAIT CHURCH$10,000
URBAN LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES$10,000
FIGHT MINISTRIES$6,000
FAITH MISSION$5,000
FULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING$2,500
WINFIELD MINISTRIES$2,000
HOMES FOR TRACY$2,000
ROSEDALE INTERNATIONAL CENTER$500
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 (FY19–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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%FIGHT MINISTRIES: $6k → 10%RETA: $1k → 13%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
WI
MI
MA
IA
IN
OH
PA
CA
KY
VA
AR
TN
GA
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.0M · 21 repeat orgs$964k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
27

Total granted

$3.0M
$822k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+31%

Still filing today

52%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $143k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionInternationalEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • LI
    LCC INTERNATIONAL FUND INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $115k · revenue +47%
  • MM
    MICHIANA MENNONITE RELIEF SALE INCORPORATED
    4× · 2017–2020 · $100k · revenue +33%
  • SI
    STUDENTS INTERNATIONAL
    6× · 2017–2022 · $95k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • BO
    BLESSINGS OF HOPE
    one grant, 2023 · $500k
  • LY
    LIFELINE YOUTH MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • HO
    Haven of Hope Ministry
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +10%
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
Reconciliation Ministries International Inc

Reconciliaton Ministries Intl. is a Christian evangelical organization preaching and teaching the Word of God in over 60 countries. The ministry equips and encourages Christians everywhere to be saved, healed, and delivered according to…

Religion
2
World of Opportunity

World of Opportunity is an evangelical ministry that supports missionaries in the United States and around the world as they bring the Word of the Lord into peoples lives. The missionaries supported by World of Opportunity share the Gospel…

Human Services
3
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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4
Africa Harvest Mission Inc

Evangelism, education, providing for the poor.

Religion
5
Global Mobilization Ministries Inc

To support christian ministries throughout the world

Religion
6
Worldserve Ministries

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

International
7
Waymaker International Ministries

WayMaker International Ministries is an inter-denominational mission organization committed to leading Christians in sharing Jesus Christ with the world, encouraging believers, and ministering to the international community.

Religion
8
World Hope Ministries International

Training pastors, growing churches, and transforming communities for christ.

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9
Manna University

Manna University is a biblical higher education institution dedicated to educating, equipping, and empowering emerging leaders to change the world.

Education
10
Equip Ministries International

Equip ministries trains overseas pastors and leaders, empowers the church, provides humanitarian aid, and attempts to reach the unreached peoples around the world by working with church leaders to fulfil

Religion
11
Caleb International Ministries

Serving those who minister within the universal body of christ through ministry development, theological training, ministerial & biblical counseling and administrative consultation to church leaders within a variety of settings. to provide…

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12
Reach Ministries International

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

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Faith Mission of Elkhart Inc; the most unlike its peers is Urban Lighthouse Ministries. 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

28 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. 28 of the 56 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/28
Grantees still filing
18/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOYS'S & GIRLS CLUB: $1,198,451 · OtherBOYS'S & GIRLS CLUBBLESSINGS OF HOPE: $500,000 · OtherBLESSINGS OF HOPERESTOR CHURCH INC: $360,000 · OtherRESTOR CHURCH INCMENNONITE MISSION: $310,000 · OtherMENNONITE MISSIONELKHART CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC: $191,300 · OtherELKHART CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INCSARASOTA COMMUNITY CHURCH: $118,000 · Other+29 more: $626,802 · Other+29 moreSTUDENTS INTERNATIONAL: $95,000 · InternationalWater For Life Inc: $83,000 · InternationalOPEN LEARNING EXCHANGE INC: $36,300 · InternationalFundameno: $10,000 · International+1 more: $1,500 · InternationalLCC INTERNATIONAL FUND INC: $115,000 · Social ScienceMICHIANA MENNONITE RELIEF SALE INCORPORATED: $100,000 · Human ServicesFIGHT MINISTRIES INC: $6,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesGOSHEN THEATER INC: $60,000 · Arts & CultureGLOBAL DISCIPLES: $30,000 · Arts & CultureELKHART EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $40,000 · EducationROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGE: $25,000 · EducationURBAN LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES: $10,000 · EducationHaven of Hope Ministry: $50,000 · ReligionWORLD MISSIONARY PRESS INC: $10,000 · Religion+5 more: $4,600 · Religion
Other$3,304,553International$225,800Social Science$115,000Human Services$107,000Arts & Culture$90,000Education$75,000Religion$64,600

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLCC INTERNATIONAL FUND INC: $115,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetMICHIANA MENNONITE RELIEF SALE INCORPORATED: $100,000 over 4y, 7.1% of budgetSTUDENTS INTERNATIONAL: $95,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetWater For Life Inc: $83,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetGOSHEN THEATER INC: $60,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetHaven of Hope Ministry: $50,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetWELLFIELD BOTANIC GARDENS INC: $48,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetELKHART EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetOPEN LEARNING EXCHANGE INC: $36,300 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetGLOBAL DISCIPLES: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBeacon Health Foundation Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAITH MISSION OF ELKHART INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCHILD AND PARENT SERVICES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetREFUGE FOR WOMEN INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFundameno: $10,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetURBAN LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetFIGHT MINISTRIES INC: $6,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetWINGFIELD MINISTRIES INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAWAKE AND ALIVE INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetRHYME & REASON MINISTRY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRETA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSCORE INTERNATIONAL INC: $100 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 LCC INTERNATIONAL FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds MICHIANA MENNONITE RELIEF SALE INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds STUDENTS INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds Water For Life Inc ↗
  • Who funds GOSHEN THEATER INC ↗
  • Who funds BAHIA VISTA COMMUNITY BUILDERS INC ↗
  • Who funds Haven of Hope Ministry ↗
  • Who funds WELLFIELD BOTANIC GARDENS INC ↗
  • Who funds ELKHART EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds OPEN LEARNING EXCHANGE INC ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL DISCIPLES ↗
  • Who funds Beacon Health Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds FAITH MISSION OF ELKHART INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILD AND PARENT SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds REFUGE FOR WOMEN INC ↗
  • Who funds Fundameno ↗
  • Who funds URBAN LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds WORLD MISSIONARY PRESS INC ↗
  • Who funds FIGHT MINISTRIES 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.

Community Foundation of Elkhart County IncIN29.4× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Elkhart County Inc · Anabaptist Foundation · The Community Foundation of Harrisonburg & Rockingham County · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Welter Foundation Inc · 1st Source Bank Foundation Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Jpmorgan Chase 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 in Mission Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vision in Mission Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 56 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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