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Visionlaunch Ministries Inc

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$5k
Granted FY2022
6
Grants FY2022
6
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Religion$42kHousing & Shelter$6kInternational$6kCrime & Legal$2kArts & Culture$923Human Services$600Food & Nutrition$500
02FY2022 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,490
Median grant
6
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MIAMI RESCUE MISSION$1,691
LIFE SEEDS INTERNATIONAL$1,490
PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES$1,490
CARIS CONSULTING$410
KINGDOM GLOBAL MINISTRIES PC$200
WAY MEDIA INC$120
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LIFE SEEDS INTERNATIONAL: $1k → 12%REACH FELLOWSHIP LA: $10k → 14%KINGDOM GLOBAL MINISTRIES PC: $1k → 11%CHURCH PLANTING INTERNATIONAL: $1k → 11%TOGETHER LAST FOREVER INC: $600 → 11%BEFORE THE THRONE CHURCH INC: $3k → 11%WYCLIFFE ASSOCIATION: $250 → 13%SOUNDWAVE COMMUNITY: $2k → 13%BLAZING FIRE MINISTRIES: $10k → 15%SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $880 → 21%COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL: $340 → 9%PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES: $1k → 4%LIFE SEEDS INTERNATIONAL: $515 → 12%KINGDOM GLOBAL MINISTRIES PC: $1k → 11%CARIS CONSULTING: $513 → 11%IGREJA PRESBITERIANA PETROPOLIS: $5k → 11%MIAMI RESCUE MISSION: $2k → 15%SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $250 → 21%PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES: $516 → 4%KINGDOM GLOBAL MINISTRIES PC: $400 → 11%CARIS CONSULTING: $410 → 11%PALM BEACH COUNTY FOOD BANK: $500 → 11%MIAMI RESCUE MISSION: $2k → 15%KINGDOM GLOBAL MINISTRIES PC: $200 → 11%DIONTE DO TRONO: $5k → 11%MIAMI RESCUE MISSION: $2k → 15%LIFE OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL: $2k → 11%MIAMI RESCUE MISSION: $810 → 15%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

WA
PA
CA
CO
VA
NC
SC
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of Visionlaunch Ministries Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 54% of the giving stays in FL; by stated purpose, 49%.

Visionlaunch Ministries Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.1% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

30%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$17k · 7 repeat orgs$39k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2022, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
13

Total granted

$17k
$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+16%

Still filing today

43%
23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22
ReligionHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalFood & NutritionInternationalOther
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

  • PF
    PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES
    2× · 2021–2022 · $2k · revenue +13%
  • WM
    Way Media Inc
    4× · 2019–2022 · $1k · revenue +9%
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    2× · 2019–2020 · $1k · revenue +151%

Funded once

  • BF
    BLAZING FIRE MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    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
Christianity Today International

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.

Religion
2
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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3
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
4
Youth for Christ International Ministries

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.

Religion
5
Angel Christian Television Trust Inc

Our mission is to go into all the world and preach the Gospel through all forms of media and broadcast. We are a Christian organization spreading the word of God to the ends of the earth.

Religion
6
Mission Without Borders International

The organization 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,(continued on…

International
7
Next Worldwide Inc

With a desire to see the Gospel proclaimed in all nations, we exist to make and multiply disciples of the next generation through the vehicles of church-planting missions and missional leadership training.

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8
Ason International Inc

Assisting national Christian leaders around the world.

Human Services
9
Timothy Two Project International

Reaching and teaching pastors in the majority world.

Religion
10
Global City Missions Initiative Incorporated

Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…

Religion
11
Christar International Inc

Christar international serves as a catalyst to the network of christar ministries by facilitating and encouraging partnerships with churches who sen dout men and women who proclaim the gospel for life-giving transformation in communitiesw…

Religion
12
Walk Thru the Bible Ministries Inc

Walk thru the bible (wtb) ignites passion for god's word. by developing a global network of influential pastors and leaders and then resourcing them with tools and training, wtb fulfills its role in the great commission.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is World Vision Inc; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 21 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BLAZING FIRE MINISTRIES: $10,000 · OtherBLAZING FIRE MINISTRIESIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $5,260 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $4,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientKINGDOM GLOBAL MINISTRIES PC: $3,105 · OtherKINGDOM GLOBAL MINISTRIES PCBEFORE THE THRONE CHURCH INC: $2,500 · OtherBEFORE THE THRONE CHURCH INCLIFE OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CHURCHES INC: $2,399 · OtherLIFESEEDS INTERNATIONAL INC: $2,005 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,582 · Other+5 more: $4,023 · Other+5 moreMiami Rescue Mission Inc: $6,164 · Housing & ShelterMiami Rescue…WORLD VISION INC: $2,200 · InternationalCompassion International Incorporated: $340 · InternationalPRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES: $2,006 · Crime & LegalSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $1,130 · ReligionTHE TIMOTHY INITIATIVE INC: $480 · ReligionPalm Beach County Food Bank Inc: $500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$45,374Housing & Shelter$6,164International$2,540Crime & Legal$2,006Religion$1,610Food & Nutrition$500

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMiami Rescue Mission Inc: $6,164 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $2,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES: $2,006 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWay Media Inc: $1,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $1,130 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPalm Beach County Food Bank Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TIMOTHY INITIATIVE INC: $480 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 Miami Rescue Mission Inc ↗
  • Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
  • Who funds PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds Way Media Inc ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds CHURCH PLANTING INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE TIMOTHY INITIATIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2022
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    0get no government money at all
    2report 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 21 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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