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Religious Ministry & Spiritual Development

01 Religious Ministry & Spiritual Development · 977 edit slice
238
orgs
1,008
activities
64
strategies
AZ
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 238 organizations and 1,008 activities — FOR THE GOSPEL MINISTRIES, CATALYST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, SOM, LANGHAM PARTNERSHIP USA INC NFP and others. Activity concentrates in Arizona (96%) and California (4%). The field's most common shared approach is "Alumni-Driven Continuity", run by 1 orgs.
FOR THE GOSPEL MINISTRIES and CATALYST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT hold roughly a third of all activity — know those first.
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who to look at first

shortlist

Ranked by activity breadth, method diversity, and network reach across the slice. Attach a memo to this report and this list re-ranks around your intent.

where this slice is thin

gap signals

Concrete structural gaps — method mix, geographic concentration, coalition density, funder diversity. Evidence is cited from the slice's own numbers.

where the field lives · works

geography

Orange headquarters dots are sized by how many grantees are based in the state. Green circles mark real locations these orgs say they serve — from city-level populations in this slice's impact_map_populations data. Toggle layers at the bottom right.

regional breakdown · hq density
Arizona 96% · 228 orgs
California 4% · 10 orgs
gap signal →
Arizona accounts for 96% of field activity — the other 49 states combined hold less than half.
who's here

organizations in this field · 238

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direct service advocacy research capacity building
where the money comes from

funders already active in this field

Funders named as a funding source on these orgs' own materials. The count is the number of orgs in this slice that cite them — higher means a funder with demonstrable commitment to the field.

USDA 2
Government
Amazon Affiliate Program 1
Earned
Arizona Department of Commerce 1
Government
Arizona Department of Housing 1
Government
Arizona Game & Fish Department 1
Corporate
Arizona@Work 1
Corporate
Baseball Tomorrow Fund, MLB, MLB Players Association 1
Corporate
Book sales 1
Earned
Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts of America 1
Individuals
Cabela’s 1
Corporate
Casa Bernabe 1
Corporate
Center for Jewish Philanthropy 1
Government
City of San Francisco 1
Government
Compatible service providers in the church technology ecosystem 1
Corporate
how the field thinks

strategies in this slice

Theories of action extracted from the orgs in this slice. The count is how many orgs cite each one — a strategy run by many orgs in common is a through-line; one cited by a single org is still surfaced so the reader can gauge the full spread.

where strategy meets practice

strategies × activity types

How each shared strategy breaks down across the four activity types the orgs running it actually do.

direct service
advocacy
research
capacity building
Alumni-Driven Continuity
1
Barter-Based Artist Promotion
5
Biblical Parable Exposition
6
4
Bylaws Compliance
3
Centralized Access Platform
2
Charter School Capacity Building
1
3
Choice-Based Empowerment
1
Community-Informed Spiritual Design
6
who works with whom

named partnerships · coalitions · networks

Entities these orgs explicitly call out as partners, coalition members, or networks. Unlike the strategy-sharing graph below (which is inferred from shared approaches), these are relationships the orgs claim on their own sites.

Arizona State University Partner
shared by 6 orgs
Facebook Partner
shared by 5 orgs
Amazon Partner
shared by 4 orgs
Arizona Christian University Partner
shared by 4 orgs
Phoenix Dream Center Partner
shared by 4 orgs
YouTube Partner
shared by 4 orgs
local churches Partner
shared by 4 orgs
BBYO Partner
shared by 3 orgs
Christ’s Church of the Valley Partner
shared by 3 orgs
Diocese of Phoenix Partner
shared by 3 orgs
Phoenix Suns Partner
shared by 3 orgs
churches Partner
shared by 3 orgs
Alliance Defending Freedom Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Along Side Ministries Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Amazon.com Partner
shared by 2 orgs
American Psychological Association Partner
shared by 2 orgs
where the field connects

strategy-sharing network

Inferred from shared theories of action: each line connects an org to a strategy it runs. Organizations that share many strategies cluster through the same nodes — funders can spot the field's structural bridges.

scale of the field

rollup metrics

Aggregated scale claims from orgs in the slice. Treat as a floor, not a ceiling — many orgs don't publish these numbers, so totals underrepresent real reach. Extreme outliers (often unit-mismatches upstream) are filtered out.

5.0M
annual revenue
from 3 orgs
3.7M
Meals provided
from 5 orgs
996K
Pounds distributed
from 2 orgs
18K
Partner organizations
from 51 orgs