· Private foundation
Wicks Family Grace Foundation
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.
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
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $78k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST LIGHT MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| JOY FM BOOST RADIO | $21,000 |
| ONE HEART FAMILY MINISTRIES | $17,000 |
| FOCUS ON THE FAMILY | $15,000 |
| FAMILY VISION LIBRARY | $6,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $104k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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 +40% since the first grant, against -11% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- TFTHE FIELD SCHOOL4× · 2018–2021 · $100k · revenue +852%
- OHONE HEART FAMILY MINISTRIES INC4× · 2021–2024 · $77k · revenue +15%
- MCMBCH CHILDREN AND FAMILY MINISTRIES3× · 2021–2023 · $27k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- YOYOUTH OF VISION ACADEMY INCone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -11%
- AFAMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +63%
- GHGENESIS HOUSE INCone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -30%
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 mission of whitefield academy is to support parents by providing students with a top-tier academic foundation in a joyful, christ-centered community of classical learning.
The mission of Grace Christian Academy is to first serve families and children by giving them a Biblically-based education centered on a growing relationship with Jesus Christ, imparting a Christian world view and emphasizing Godly…
The organization is a christian school with certified curriculum and state certified teachers, we partner with families to equip, challenge, and inspire students to impact the world for christ by living out biblical truth.
Whitefield academy is a christ-centered college preparatory school that bolsters christian families in rearing young people who go on to college and life with a passion for learning, for putting others ahead of self, and for the living and…
Faith-based education and care of children
Serving god and his people, timothy christian schools develops academically prepared christian disciples who embrace christ's call to transform the world.
Christ-centered school educating children of diverse racial & socioeconomic backgrounds by establishing a biblical worldview & preparing each child to flourish academically, emotionally, socially & spiritually.
Truth academy works in partnership with families to integrate high-quality education with biblical truth and discipleship in order to train students, spiritually and academically, how to operate in their god-given purpose and live out a…
The mission of trinity academy of portland is to educate middle and high school students within a joyful christian school culture marked by the discovery of truth, the practice of goodness, the creation of beauty, and the development of…
To provide formal instruction via regular faculty, curriculum, enrolled body of students and a place where educational activities are regularly conducted.
A small school community committed to kindness and trust, Whitfield inspires a diverse student body to lead lives of curiosity, integrity, and purpose.
As a ministry of first baptist church centerton, life way christian school will enter into a parternship with christian families in order to equip young people with a biblical worldview so that they can engage the culture in a way that…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Field School and the most unlike its peers is Thrive Nation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 16 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 THE THREAD STL ↗
- Who funds THE FIELD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ONE HEART FAMILY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MBCH CHILDREN AND FAMILY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Thrive Nation ↗
- Who funds YOUTH OF VISION ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds GENESIS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FIELD SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THRIVE ST LOUIS INC ↗
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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Wicks Family Grace Foundation 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.