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Artevel 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.

$278k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Religion$884kEducation$696kInternational$400kHealth$240kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $228k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$30,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$5.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DORDT UNIVERSITY$50,000
SUMMER INSTITUTE OF LINGUS$40,000
WORLD RENEW$40,000
CALVIN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY$30,000
Individual grant recipient$30,000
CALVIN UNIVERSITY$25,000
QUIET WATERS MINISTRIES$25,000
REFRAME MINISTRIES$20,000
MISSION INDIA$18,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 71% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ONTARIO CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: $38k → 14%VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: $25k → 14%ASCENDING LEADERS: $17k → 8%SUMMER INSTITUTE OF LINGUS: $49k → 14%DORDT COLLEGE: $50k → 8%CALVIN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $30k → 11%QUIET WATERS MINISTRIES: $25k → 8%LIFE FOCUS COMMUNICATION: $30k → 7%BACK TO GOD MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL: $20k → 14%VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SYSTEM: $25k → 14%SUMMER INSTITUTE OF LINGUS: $40k → 14%DORDT UNIVERSITY: $50k → 8%CALVIN COLLEGE: $25k → 11%QUIET WATERS MINISTRIES: $20k → 8%LIFE FOCUS COMMUNICATION: $25k → 7%BACK TO GOD MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL: $18k → 14%VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: $25k → 14%SIL INTERNATIONAL MAINLAND SE ASIA GROUP: $34k → 14%DORDT UNIVERSITY: $50k → 8%CALVIN UNIVERSITY: $25k → 11%LIFE FOCUS COMMUNICATIONS: $20k → 7%VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: $25k → 14%SUMMER INSTITUTE OF LINGUS: $34k → 14%DORDT UNIVERSITY: $50k → 8%CALVIN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $25k → 11%SIL INTERNATIONAL MAINLAND SE ASIA GROUP: $33k → 14%CALVIN COLLEGE: $25k → 11%SIL INTERNATIONAL DBA SUMMER INSTITUTE OF LINGUISTICS: $23k → 14%CALVIN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $25k → 11%CALVIN COLLEGE: $25k → 11%CALVIN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $25k → 11%CALVIN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $25k → 11%CALVIN UNIVERSITY: $25k → 11%WORLD RENEW: $61k → 11%CALVIN UNIVERSITY: $25k → 11%WORLD RENEW: $47k → 11%CALVIN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $22k → 11%WORLD RENEW: $45k → 11%CALVIN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $22k → 11%WORLD RENEW: $45k → 11%CALVIN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $22k → 11%REFRAME MINISTRIES: $20k → 11%CALVIN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $22k → 11%REFRAME MINISTRIES: $18k → 11%MISSION FRENCH AFRICA MINISTRY: $20k → 11%KUYPER COLLEGE: $20k → 11%KUYPER COLLEGE: $20k → 11%KUYPER COLLEGE: $20k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 9% of Artevel Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Artevel Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 14% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.1M · 18 repeat orgs$190k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
9

Total granted

$2.1M
$190k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+54%

Still filing today

56%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationReligionInternationalHealthOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • WR
    World Renew
    9× · 2017–2025 · $374k · revenue +47%
  • DU
    DORDT UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $250k · revenue +66%
  • CT
    CALVIN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $218k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • OC
    ONTARIO CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $38k · revenue +27%
  • WB
    WYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS INC
    one grant, 2020 · $28k
  • VC
    VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SYSTEMgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +38%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Global Scholars

Global scholars exists so that christian academics are adequately equipped to have a redemptive influence among their students, colleagues, universities and disciplines, at a reasonable cost.

2
Central Christian College of the Bible

Central christian college of the bible (central) exists to develop servant-leaders for the church. as a traditional undergraduate bible college of the restoration movement, central equips faithful men and women for leadership ministry.

Education
3
Regent University

Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.

4
Olivet University

Providing guality Christian education to the network generation

Education
5
Christian Schools Inc

Education - private christian school grades k-12

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Calvary University

Calvary university is an independent non-denominational institution providing undergraduate and graduate education which prepares christians to live and serve in the church and the world according to a biblical worldview. this is…

7
Asbury Theological Seminary

Asbury Theological Seminary is a community called to prepare theologically educated, sanctified, Spirit-filled men and women to evangelize and to spread scriptural holiness throughout the world through the love of Jesus Christ, in the…

Education
8
Evangel University

Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.

Education
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Cincinnati Christian Schools Inc

Cincinnati christian schools, partnering with christian families, provides a bible-centered, quality educational program to equip, train, and disciple students to follow christ and impact culture.

Education
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The King's Christian School

The king's christian school is a k-12 prepatory school that equips and strengthens students through education and example, that they might stand firmly upon the word of god and to become effective servant-leaders who impact the world…

11
Calvary Chapel University Inc
Education
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Erskine College and Theological Seminary

Erskine College exists to glorify God as a Christian academic community where students are equipped to flourish as whole persons for lives of service through the pursuit of undergraduate liberal arts and graduate theological education.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christian Schools International and the most unlike its peers is Life Focus Media Nfp. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 27 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

World Renew — $374,000 · OtherWorld RenewMISSION INDIA — $215,000 · OtherMISSION INDIASUMMER INSTITUTE OF LINGUS — $123,000 · OtherSUMMER INSTITUTE OF LINGUSREFRAME MINISTRIES — $83,000 · OtherREFRAME MINISTRIESQUIET WATER MINISTRIES — $80,000 · OtherQUIET WATER MINISTRIESBACK TO GOD MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL — $68,000 · OtherBACK TO GOD MINISTRIES INTERNATIONALSIL INTERNATIONAL MAINLAND SE ASIA GROUP — $67,000 · OtherSIL INTERNATIONAL MAINLAND SE ASIA GROUPIndividual grant recipient — $55,000 · Other+6 more — $121,000 · Other+6 moreDORDT UNIVERSITY — $250,000 · EducationDORDT UNIVERSITYCALVIN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY — $218,000 · EducationCALVIN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARYCALVIN UNIVERSITY — $150,000 · EducationCALVIN UNIVERSITYVALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS — $75,000 · EducationVALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLSCHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INTERNATIONAL — $60,000 · EducationCHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INTERNATIONALKUYPER COLLEGE — $60,000 · EducationKUYPER COLLEGEONTARIO CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION INC — $37,500 · Education+1 more — $25,000 · EducationASCENDING LEADERS — $82,000 · ReligionMISSION FRENCH AFRICA MINISTRIES — $50,000 · ReligionLIFE FOCUS MEDIA NFP — $20,000 · ReligionBETHESDA FOUNDATION INC — $45,000 · HealthSummer Institute of Linguistics Inc dba SIL Global — $16,000 · International
Other$1,186,000Education$875,500Religion$152,000Health$45,000International$16,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWorld Renew — $374,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetDORDT UNIVERSITY — $250,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCALVIN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY — $218,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetCALVIN UNIVERSITY — $150,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetASCENDING LEADERS — $82,000 over 6y, 6.2% of budgetVALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS — $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INTERNATIONAL — $60,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetKUYPER COLLEGE — $60,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMISSION FRENCH AFRICA MINISTRIES — $50,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetBETHESDA FOUNDATION INC — $45,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetONTARIO CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION INC — $37,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SYSTEM — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIFE FOCUS MEDIA NFP — $20,000 over 1y, 16% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds World Renew
  • Who funds DORDT UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds CALVIN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
  • Who funds CALVIN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds ASCENDING LEADERS
  • Who funds VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INTERNATIONAL
  • Who funds KUYPER COLLEGE
  • Who funds MISSION FRENCH AFRICA MINISTRIES
  • Who funds BETHESDA FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds ONTARIO CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SYSTEM
  • Who funds LIFE FOCUS MEDIA NFP
  • Who funds Summer Institute of Linguistics Inc dba SIL Global

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Barnabas FoundationIL23.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Barnabas Foundation · Stewardship Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The US Charitable Gift Trust · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Artevel Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Artevel Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Artevel Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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