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Kingdom Builder Foundation

Solana Beach, CA · EIN 26-0605414. Reported 74 grants totalling $1,683,659 to 41 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

41organizations funded
$9,500median reported grant
$1,683,659granted, 2021-2024
53%of grantees funded again the next year
41%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Kingdom Builder Foundation, by its IRS classification it raises and distributes funds for religion (NTEE X122).
  2. How spread out its giving is. 41 distinct organizations, with 41% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
  3. How much its list changes. 53% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $9,500. Half of what it reported fell between $5,000 and $12,000; the smallest was $1,220 and the largest $191,953. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
Under $5,000
6 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
35 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
18 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
5 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
6 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
4 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Solana Beach Presbyterian ChurchSolana Beach, CA$698,544442024
CASA De Amistad Centro De EnsenanzaSolana Beach, CA$190,000442024
Pathways to CitizenshipSolana Beach, CA$178,597542024
Floresta USA IncorporatedSan Diego, CA$155,000332024
Young LifeColorado Spgs, CO$38,600432023
San Diego Rescue Mission IncSan Diego, CA$31,100442024
International Service Fellowship USAUpper Darby, PA$27,500332024
Amor Ministries IncSan Diego, CA$20,000222024
Pastor of Saint James Catholic Parish in Solana Beach CaliforniaSan Diego, CA$20,000222023
Reality ChangersSan Diego, CA$20,000442024
Word of Life Fellowship IncSchroon Lake, NY$19,798222022
Urban Life Ministries IncorporatedSan Diego, CA$19,000222024
One Collective NfpElgin, IL$18,651222023
Foundation Matthew 633 IncEscondido, CA$18,197222023
Operation MobilizationTyrone, GA$16,941222024
Hope Without BoundariesSolana Beach, CA$13,000222023
Building for Christ MinistryMadera, CA$11,180112022
Mesa GlobalCharlotte, NC$10,500112023
Alliance for African AssistanceSan Diego, CA$10,000112021
Dream Dinner Foundation$10,000112022
First Presbyterian Church of San Diego CaliforniaSan Diego, CA$10,000112021
Friends of Forman Christian College IncAtlanta, GA$10,000112024
Generatehope IncSan Diego, CA$10,000222024
Global Care Alliance IncSpring Valley, CA$10,000112024
Order of Malta Clinic of San Diego IncSolana Beach, CA$10,000112024
Youth With a Mission Gleanings for the HungrySultana, CA$10,000112024
PioneersOrlando, FL$8,950112021
Sonrise Harbor IncLos Angeles, CA$8,790112023
Seeds of Hope$8,400112024
Ascending LeadersSugar Land, TX$8,212222024
Presbyterian Church USALondonderry, NH$8,000112024
United Presbyterian Church in the USASan Diego, CA$8,000112023
Allegro Organizational Solutions IncHouston, TX$6,899112022
Lakeside Community Presbyterian$6,000112021
Christian Associates International IncCentennial, CO$5,000112023
Joy in the Journey IncLa Plata, MO$5,000112024
Mission FlightEl Monte, CA$5,000112023
North Coast Christian Ministries IncSan Diego, CA$5,000112024
Open Road GlobalCarlsbad, CA$5,000112023
South American Teaching & Service IncAltadena, CA$4,800112022
Presbyterian Older Adult Ministry NetworkHenrico, VA$4,000112024

18 of 41 (44%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 28 of 41 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Religion
8 orgs
Human Services
6 orgs
International Affairs
6 orgs
Education
3 orgs
Youth Development
1 org
Housing & Shelter
1 org
Community Improvement
1 org
Health Care
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202116$329,378$9,275
202217$462,904$10,000
202320$445,564$8,645
202421$445,813$10,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

89% of its giving went to organizations in California. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

California
$1.5M
Colorado
$44K
Pennsylvania
$28K
Georgia
$27K
New York
$20K
Illinois
$19K
Texas
$15K
North Carolina
$10K

Down to the city

Solana Beach, CA
$1.1M
San Diego, CA
$308K
Colorado Spgs, CO
$39K
Upper Darby, PA
$28K
Schroon Lake, NY
$20K
Elgin, IL
$19K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc26 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund25 shared recipientsNatl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc20 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program19 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc16 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust14 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $9,500 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Kingdom Builder Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 120 Stevens Avenue, Solana Beach, CA, 92075.

EIN 26-0605414 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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