· Private foundation
Act 4 Advent Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Act 4 Advent Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Moody Bible Institute Of Chicago, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Act 4 Advent Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 13 organizations, $89k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k13 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 4220 FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $10,000 |
| CHRISTIAN AID MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL | $10,000 |
| FIELDSTONE COUNSELING | $5,500 |
| CHRISTIAN CHILDREN'S HOME OF OHIO | $5,000 |
| SPRINGS RESCUE MISSION | $5,000 |
| PREGNANCY CARE CENTER OF WAYNE COUN | $5,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL ANGLICAN CHURCH | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN | $5,000 |
| CRU | $3,500 |
| ORPHAN WORLD RELIEF | $3,000 |
| MOODY RADIO | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–23, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 19% of Act 4 Advent Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.
4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2022, 0 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CAChristian Aid Ministries2× · 2022–2024 · $13k · revenue -5%
- IAINTERNATIONAL ANGLICAN CHURCH2× · 2021–2022 · $6k
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2022–2024 · $6k
Funded once
- MGMercy's Gateone grant, 2020 · $500 · revenue -5%
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2020 · $500
- MFMid-Ohio Foodbankone grant, 2020 · $500 · revenue +5%
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.
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.
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How this is measured
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 21 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago ↗
- Who funds Christian Aid Ministries ↗
- Who funds THE 4220 FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN CHILDREN'S HOME OF OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds FIELDSTONE COUNSELING INC ↗
- Who funds THE SPRINGS RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds PREGNANCY CARE CENTER OF WAYNE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds ORPHAN WORLD RELIEF ↗
- Who funds Mercy's Gate ↗
- Who funds Mid-Ohio Foodbank ↗
- Who funds PROMISE KEEPERS ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Act 4 Advent Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Act 4 Advent Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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