· Private foundation
Alvin S Engle 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.
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 · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $76k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PENNSYLVANIA FAMILY INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| BIBLE 2 SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| NORTHSTAR INITIATIVE | $20,000 |
| DAYSPRING CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $11,000 |
| RAISE 28 YOUTH SERVICES | $5,000 |
| MOUNT CALVARY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| RAINBOW'S END YOUTH CENTER | $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 (FY21–25, $135k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +50% since the first grant, against +40% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DCDAYSPRING CHRISTIAN ACADEMY5× · 2020–2025 · $173k · revenue +612%
- PFPENNSYLVANIA FAMILY INSTITUTE4× · 2021–2025 · $95k · revenue +24%
- BBIBLE2SCHOOL4× · 2020–2025 · $80k · revenue +129%
Funded once
- TPTHE POCKET TESTAMENT LEAGUE INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +40%
- CECHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIPone grant, 2023 · $3k
- BOBLESSINGS OF HOPEone grant, 2023 · $3k
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.
Private non-denominational christian day school.
Reaching and teaching pastors in the majority world.
The school provides a biblically sound education program of high academic standards in a loving environment that meets the need of the whole child: spiritually, academically, physically, and socially.
The mission is to provide a biblically based classical college preparatory education that inspires a passion for excellence a heart of grace and the character of Christ.
Freedom seekers international is a christian organization that exists to rescue the most severely persecuted for their religious faith in hostile and restrictive countries. through collaborative partnerships we deliver those who are…
Culpeper christian school exists to please the lord jesus christ and to train students by working with the home to build academic excellence on the word of god. the school served approximately 150 students from k-3 preschool through 8th…
Educational nbsp;christian nbsp;school
Educational instruciton for students in prek-12th grades.
Scripture publishing products
Christian day school
To operate a christian school serving grades k-12
Serving and empowering pastors and church leaders to equip healthy and dynamic churches globally by using the corporates strategies and training
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 15 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 DAYSPRING CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA FAMILY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds BIBLE2SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH STAR INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds BIBLE VISUALS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR PARENT YOUTH UNDERSTANDING ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES SET FREE INC ↗
- Who funds THE POCKET TESTAMENT LEAGUE INC ↗
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: Lancaster County Community Foundation · Burkholder Family Foundation · Clark Associates Charitable Foundation · Eden Bridge Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · Faithful Journey Foundation · Shady Maple Foundation · Pennsylvania Automotive Association Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Alvin S Engle Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alvin S Engle Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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