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Walk By Faith Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$107k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$31k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2024.

Religion$779kEducation$249kArts & Culture$161kHousing & Shelter$139kPhilanthropy$117kInternational$55kHealth$43kFood & Nutrition$40kOther$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $90k
$1,052
Median grant
7
States reached
$37k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OC RESCUE MISSION$31,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$26,904
SADDLEBACK CHURCH$12,100
SIGMA CHI FOUNDATION$10,466
Segerstrom Center for the Arts$10,000
DISCOVERY CUBE$5,000
WORLD VISION$2,532
Friends of Normie$2,350
LION'S HEART$1,052
US SKI AND SNOWBOARD$1,028
Balboa Island Museum$1,000
NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION$1,000
Stephen Siller Tunnel To Towers Fou$630
United States Soccer Federation$500
The Balboa Island Legacy Alliance$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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $5k → 22%Napa Valley Community Foundation: $5k → 9%Segerstrom Center for the Arts: $10k → 10%All In Change Foundation: $6k → 14%TJ Martell Foundation: $5k → 14%The Brook Denver: $5k → 12%Operation Second Chance: $15k → 8%Segerstrom Center for the Arts: $8k → 10%Augie's Quest to Cure ALS: $14k → 12%Sigma Chi Foundation Cannery Seafoo: $5k → 14%Segerstrom Center for the Arts: $7k → 10%Segerstrom Center for the Arts: $6k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $52k → 14%Segerstrom Center for the Arts: $5k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $40k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $32k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $27k → 14%Second Harvest Food Bank of OC: $20k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $10k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $9k → 14%CHOC FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $6k → 14%SADDLEBACK CHURCH: $306k → 10%SADDLEBACK CHURCH: $150k → 10%SADDLEBACK CHURCH: $135k → 10%SADDLEBACK CHURCH: $125k → 10%Daily Hope: $20k → 10%Philanthropic Impact Fund: $100k → 14%SADDLEBACK CHURCH: $12k → 10%SIGMA CHI FOUNDATION: $35k → 14%PBJ: $50k → 10%SIGMA CHI FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%SIGMA CHI FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%OC RESCUE MISSION: $41k → 10%OC RESCUE MISSION: $35k → 10%OC RESCUE MISSION: $31k → 10%OC RESCUE MISSION: $16k → 10%OC RESCUE MISSION: $10k → 10%OC RESCUE MISSION: $6k → 10%DISCOVERY CUBE: $46k → 10%DISCOVERY CUBE: $34k → 10%DISCOVERY CUBE: $10k → 10%DISCOVERY CUBE: $9k → 10%DISCOVERY CUBE: $5k → 10%Golden State Foods Foundation GSF: $20k → 10%DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST: $10k → 10%THE PEACE PLAN RWANDA: $15k → 10%THE PEACE PLAN RWANDA: $10k → 10%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

AK
WA
ID
IL
NY
OH
PA
CA
UT
CO
KY
MD
TN
NC
DC
GA
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 13% of Walk By Faith Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 94% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 90%.

Walk By Faith Foundationlessmore 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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 20 repeat orgs$322k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
55

Total granted

$1.1M
$317k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+25%

Still filing today

60%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
HealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyAnimalsEducationPublic BenefitOther
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

  • OC
    Orange County Rescue Mission Inc
    7× · 2018–2024 · $139k · revenue +26%
  • DS
    DISCOVERY SCIENCE CENTER OF ORANGE COUNTY
    7× · 2018–2024 · $110k · revenue +79%
  • SC
    Segerstrom Center for the Arts
    6× · 2018–2024 · $39k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • PI
    PHILANTHROPIC IMPACT FUND
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +30%
  • P
    PBJ
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
  • GS
    Golden State Foods Foundation GSF
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
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
American Society of Clinical Oncology Inc

See schedule o:asco is a professional oncology society committed to conquering cancer through research, education, and promotion of the highest quality patient care.

Health
2
Asco Association

Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…

Community Improvement
3
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
4
The Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation

The jonsson cancer center foundation is the single most important vehicle for raising private funds for cancer research at ucla and plays a key role in advancing cancer treatments and care. please see schedule o for additional information.

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5
Arc Research Institute

Our mission is to accelerate scientific progress, understand the root causes of disease, and narrow the gap between discoveries and impact on patients.

Health
6
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
7
California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy

To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…

Health
8
Lungevity Foundation Inc

Lungevity's vision is a world where no one dies of lung cancer. lungevity foundation is firmly committed to making an immediate impact on increasing quality-of-life and survivorship of people with lung cancer by accelerating research into…

Health
9
Usc Care Medical Group Inc

To promote health by engaging in the practice of medicine for patients of hospitals affiliated with the university of southern california keck school of medicine and elsewhere. to provide medical care to the sick and injured who may come…

Health
10
Dana-Farber Cancer Care Network Inc

The mission of Dana-Farber Cancer Care Network (DFCCN) is to promote and support, directly or indirectly, the interests and purposes of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI).

Health
11
Usc Health System

The Corporation is a nonprofit public benefit corporation and is not organized for the private gain of any person. It is organized under the Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation Law for public and charitable purposes. The Corporation is…

Health
12
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of the Napa Valley; the most unlike its peers is The Balboa Island Legacy Alliance. 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

47 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 47 of the 85 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/47
Grantees still filing
32/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SADDLEBACK CHURCH: $733,100 · OtherSADDLEBACK CHURCHPHILANTHROPIC IMPACT FUND: $100,000 · OtherPHILANTHROPIC IMPACT FUNDSIGMA CHI FOUNDATION: $51,883 · OtherPBJ: $50,000 · Other+58 more: $157,035 · Other+58 moreUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $179,587 · EducationUNIVERSITY O…+4 more: $7,141 · EducationDISCOVERY SCIENCE CENTER OF ORANGE COUNTY: $109,859 · Arts & CultureDISCOVERY …Segerstrom Center for the Arts: $38,711 · Arts & CultureSegerstrom…+4 more: $5,270 · Arts & CultureOrange County Rescue Mission Inc: $139,221 · Housing & ShelterOrange Co…Augies Quest to Cure ALS Inc: $13,850 · HealthCHOC FOUNDATION: $5,262 · HealthDON'T EVER GIVE UP INC: $5,000 · HealthTJ MARTELL FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthJessie Rees Foundation: $2,057 · Health+4 more: $1,732 · HealthSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC: $20,000 · Food & NutritionPurpose Driven Connection DBA Pastor Ricks Daily Hope: $20,000 · Religion
Other$1,092,018Education$186,728Arts & Culture$153,840Housing & Shelter$139,221Health$32,901Food & Nutrition$20,000Religion$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $179,587 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetOrange County Rescue Mission Inc: $139,221 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetDISCOVERY SCIENCE CENTER OF ORANGE COUNTY: $109,859 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetPHILANTHROPIC IMPACT FUND: $100,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetSegerstrom Center for the Arts: $38,711 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPurpose Driven Connection DBA Pastor Ricks Daily Hope: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOperation Second Chance Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAugies Quest to Cure ALS Inc: $13,850 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC: $10,510 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFANATICS ALL IN FOUNDATION: $5,940 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHOC FOUNDATION: $5,262 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $5,229 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NAPA VALLEY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDON'T EVER GIVE UP INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTJ MARTELL FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBALBOA ISLAND MUSEUM: $4,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUnbridled Charitable Foundation Inc: $3,320 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK: $2,640 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF NORMIE RESCUE: $2,350 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJessie Rees Foundation: $2,057 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLion's Heart: $1,302 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSTAND UP TO CANCER: $1,287 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House Global: $1,029 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Dance Movement: $1,010 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDELTA GAMMA FOUNDATION: $1,001 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $630 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $510 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES SOCCER FEDERATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Balboa Island Legacy Alliance: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetESOPHAGEAL CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFestival Of Arts Of Laguna Beach: $160 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMagic Foundation: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN WAYNE CANCER FOUNDATION: $103 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOBILE GIVING FOUNDATION INC: $103 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMENS CHORUS OF DALLAS: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMDRC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLoving Arms Cancer Outreach Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRESQPAWS VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATION: $50 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MUTT SCOUTS INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONSUMER REPORTS INC: $35 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.

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.

Orange County Communi…Chubb Charitable Foun…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Silicon Valley Commun…California Community …The Ayco Charitable F…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…The Pfizer Foundation…
Orange County Community FoundationCA12.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pfizer Foundation 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 Walk By Faith Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Walk By Faith Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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 85 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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