· Private foundation
Aim 5 Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $315k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $995k
- $250k+4 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDRENS DISCOVERY CENTER | $250,000 |
| GO MINISTRIES | $250,000 |
| ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE OF KS | $250,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250,000 |
| KINSMEN INITIATIVE | $157,500 |
| EQUIP LEADERSHIP | $100,000 |
| ALLEYWAY RECOVERY CHURCH | $100,000 |
| LIFEHOUSE CAC | $100,000 |
| DOXAZO | $100,000 |
| ROLLLING HILLS CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $100,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB TOPEKA | $79,358 |
| KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $77,974 |
| THE BRIDGE | $70,000 |
| WOOLY FARMS FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| CHRISTIAN CHALLENGE | $50,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $334k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 25% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +12% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
48 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LCLIFELINE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC7× · 2017–2023 · $1.9M · revenue +159%
- YLYOUNG LIFE9× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +59%
- GMGO MINISTRIES INC2× · 2017–2025 · $675k · revenue +61%
Funded once
- MCMANHATTAN CHRISTIAN COLLEGE INCone grant, 2017 · $340k · revenue -43%
- AFALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $250k · revenue +144%
- FOFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $214k · revenue +48%
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.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
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.
Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.
Kingdom advisors is a discipleship ministry serving christian financial professionals. the organization encourages, educates, and empowers christian financial professionals with biblical wisdom to be effective disciples of jesus christ in…
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The King's University integrates Biblical education and practical ministry to shape Spirit-formed individuals who follow Jesus, serve His Church, and are sent to impact the world.
The mission of Taylor University is to develop servant-leaders marked with a passion to minister Christ's redemptive love, grace, and truth to a world in need.
The mission of Toccoa Falls College is to glorify God through seeking and developing Christian servant leaders who will impact their world with the love and message of Jesus Christ.
Our goal is to come alongside the church in its gospel-first mission to transform lives and transform culture.
Preparing people for a life of learning, work, and service for Christ and His kingdom.
Mid-america christian university prepares students through a wesleyan perspective to create, collaborate, and innovate to solve local and global problems for the glory of god through jesus christ and the good of society.
The King's University integrates Biblical education and practical ministry to shape Spirit-formed individuals who follow Jesus, serve His Church, and are sent to impact the world.
How this is measured
46 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 46 of the 138 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 LIFELINE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds GO MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Jones Project Inc ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN CHRISTIAN COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds LIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC ↗
- Who funds TOPEKA COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Christian Alliance for Orphans ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KINSMEN INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds THE V FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRASH MOUNTAIN PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN TOPEKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EQUIP Leadership Inc ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds WOOLLY FARMS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF TOPEKA ↗
- Who funds KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
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: Topeka Community Foundation · Greater Horizons · Kansas Independent College Association · The Pete Henry Foundation · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Douglas County Community Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Aim 5 Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Aim 5 Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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