· Private foundation
Votum Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k4 grants · $100k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $1.0M
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WARNER UNIVERSITY | $250,000 |
| OHIO CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY | $200,000 |
| WORLD HOPE INTERNATIONAL | $200,000 |
| EQUIP LEADERSHIP INC | $200,000 |
| WORLD GOSPEL MISSION (WGM) | $150,000 |
| INDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $100,000 |
| ERSKINE COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| RADIO TRAINING NETWORK | $45,000 |
| MY MEDIC CHARITIES | $25,000 |
| CIRCLE OF FRIENDS | $20,000 |
| H-3 ADVENTURES | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 80% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $210k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- FFFELLOWSHIP FOR PERFORMING ARTS INC3× · 2019–2023 · $1.7M · revenue +62%
- IWINDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +22%
- ELEQUIP Leadership Inc5× · 2019–2024 · $750k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- HCHIGHLANDS COLLEGEone grant, 2023 · $500k
- LTLILIAS TROTTER LEGACY INCone grant, 2020 · $450k · revenue -91% · 85% of their budget
- EMEQUIP MINISTRIES INCone grant, 2017 · $100k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
In partnership with the church, the purpose of william jessup university is to educate transformational leaders for the glory of god.
Asbury Theological Seminary is a community called to prepare theologically educated, sanctified, Spirit-filled men and women to evangelize and to spread scriptural holiness throughout the world through the love of Jesus Christ, in the…
Trinity Western University's mission is to produce positive, goal-oriented graduates with thoroughly Christian minds-growing disciples of Jesus Christ who glorify God through fulfilling the Great Commission, serving God and people in…
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
Biola university is a private christian university located in southern california. for over 116 years, biola has stood out as an institution grounded on biblically centered education, intentional spiritual development, and career…
Founded by the norwegian evangelical lutheran church in 1861, luther college is a four-year, residential liberal arts institution. luther welcomes students of all backgrounds to engage in a way of learning that moves beyond immediate…
John brown university (jbu) provides christ-centered education that prepares students to honor god and serve others by developing their intellectual, spiritual, and professional lives. (continued on schedule o)jbu serves traditional…
See schedule o. founded in 1902, university of northwestern - st. paul is a nondenominational christian university that integrates the educational philosophy of "faith, learning and living" through two focuses: higher education and media.…
The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.
Moody Bible Institute is a higher education and media ministry that exists to equip people with the truth of God's word to be maturing followers of Christ who are making disciples around the world. Moody is best known for its education…
Gcu serves the global church by educating mission leaders to fulfill the great commission of jesus christ. gcu accomplishes this mission through a comprehensive program of biblical and general education, christ-centered service and…
The mission of Taylor University is to develop servant-leaders marked with a passion to minister Christ's redemptive love, grace, and truth to a world in need.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wheaton College and the most unlike its peers is International Muslim Outreach Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 34 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds World Hope International Inc ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP FOR PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Wheaton College ↗
- Who funds INDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds EQUIP Leadership Inc ↗
- Who funds LILIAS TROTTER LEGACY INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LAKE WALES CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL MUSLIM OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of Central Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds RADIO TRAINING NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR BIBLICAL HIGHER EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Erskine College and Theological Seminary ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PRISON FELLOWSHIP INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Duke Energy Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Verizon Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Votum Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Lake Wales Care Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Florida Southern College — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.