· Private foundation
Wesley W Saul Charitable Organization
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $280k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $410k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OPEN DOORS | $100,000 |
| ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM | $100,000 |
| FAR EAST BROADCASTING | $60,000 |
| PACIFIC GARDEN MISSION | $50,000 |
| NEW HOPE CORRECTIONAL MINISTRIES | $50,000 |
| D JAMES KENNEDY MINISTRIES | $50,000 |
| WYCLIFFE ASSOCIATES | $40,000 |
| WAYSIDE CROSS MINISTRIES | $40,000 |
| EVANGELICAL CHILD & FAMILY AGENCY | $40,000 |
| JESUS FILM PROJECT | $35,000 |
| CEDAR MILL BIBLE CHURCH | $25,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF AURORA | $25,000 |
| INNER CITY IMPACT | $25,000 |
| SHEPHERD'S FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| GOSPEL ASSOCIATION OF INDIA | $20,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
20 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM3× · 2021–2023 · $105k · revenue +52%- FEFAR EAST BROADCASTING COMPANY4× · 2020–2023 · $67k · revenue +90%
- CRCoral Ridge Ministries Media Inc4× · 2020–2023 · $58k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- FPFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $10k
- ADALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOMEone grant, 2020 · $2k
- BIBAPTIST INTERNATIONAL EVANGELISTIC MINISTRIES INCone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue -4%
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.
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…
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
To assist the church, primarily in closed countries, in the establishment of continuing indigenous church-based training centers in which servant leaders are equipped to develop growing and reproducing churches.
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.
Training and equipping for evangelism in the christian faith.
To provide resources, training, and continuing support to leaders in the us and around the world in order that they may help others find freedom in christ.
Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.
e3 Partners Ministry (e3) endeavors to equip believers worldwide with tools and training designed to help evangelize their communities in order to establish thriving churches.
Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.
To provide the bible in accurate, contemporary translations and formats so that more people around the world will have the opportunity to be transformed by jesus christ.
Financial planning ministry, inc. (fpm) is a not-for-profit organization devoted to assisting in the performance of the functions of christian churches by serving their financial needs.
SMI is a religious ministry. It conducts weekly TV and radio ministry. It also does itinerant religious teaching and music ministry and produces religious resources for churches and individuals.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Coral Ridge Ministries Media Inc and the most unlike its peers is Gospel Association of India Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
12 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. 12 of the 26 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 ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds FAR EAST BROADCASTING COMPANY ↗
- Who funds Coral Ridge Ministries Media Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE CORRECTIONAL MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds EVANGELICAL CHILD AND FAMILY AGENCY ↗
- Who funds Inner City Impact ↗
- Who funds GOSPEL ASSOCIATION OF INDIA INC ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA ↗
- Who funds LIFELINE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds BAPTIST INTERNATIONAL EVANGELISTIC MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITOL MINISTRIES ↗
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: Tyndale House Ministries · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Servant Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Wesley W Saul Charitable Organization 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.