How much did Barnabas Foundation grant in FY2017?

Barnabas Foundation reported 726 grants totaling $60,753,779 in its FY2017 IRS filing.

Where is Barnabas Foundation based?

Barnabas Foundation is based in IL.

Barnabas Foundation

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· Public charity

Barnabas Foundation

Encourage God-glorifying stewardship, based on Biblical principles, of material resources among Christians who actively support Barnabas Foundation member church and ministry organizations.

$61M

Granted FY2017

726

Grants

Communities

$3.5M

Largest

01What you fund

01FY2017 · 726 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2017

Under $10k226 grants · $1.4M
$10k–50k348 grants · $7.3M
$50k–250k107 grants · $11M
$250k+45 grants · $38M

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$428M

Total assets

Largest grants

World Renew (fka CRWRC)$3,515,927
Westminster Seminary California$3,130,100
Illiana Christian High School$2,976,432
Calvin College$2,857,880
Dordt College Inc$1,950,500
Elim Christian Services$1,606,757
Calvin Christian Schools - Escondido CA$1,164,750
Calvin Theological Seminary$1,154,157
Hope College$1,019,750
Holland Home of Grand Rapids$1,011,350
Meadowbrook Village$1,000,000
Kuyper College$986,951
Bible League International$970,589
Christian Reformed World Missions$838,537
Providence Christian College$812,150

02The need

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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Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 10%. 87% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your 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.

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.

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Covenant Christian School

To provide education in a Christ-centered environment.

Education

Christian Schools Inc

Education - Private Christian SchoolGrades K - 12

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Covenant Christian Schools of Indianapolis Inc

Christ-centered education equipping students for a life of scholarship, leadership & service.

Education

Christianity Today International

Equipping Christians to renew their minds, serve the church, and create culture to the glory of God

Religion

Christian Mission for the United Nations

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

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Olivet University

Providing guality Christian education to the network generation

Education

Concordia Christian Academy

Provide excellent Christian education that equips students to use their God-given gifts in a life of service to the Lord in a changing, global society.

Education

Reformed University Inc

Provide education in theology, divinity, religious education, ministerial training, business and organizational leadership.

Education

Colleyville Covenant Christian

The Christian education of children ages three through eighteen

Education

Horizon Christian School

Private education: pre-kindergarten - 12th grade. our mission is to build a solid foundation for life by providing students with an excellent education that integrates academic achievement, biblical truth, and christ-like character.

Education

Wesley Biblical Seminary

Wesley biblical seminary is a multi-denominational school of theology that provides undergraduate, graduate and doctorate level education for individuals who are preparing for christian service.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Infaith and the most unlike its peers is English Language Institute in China. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1.0%7/705

the rest of the field

11%

206,157/1,818,860

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

03the grantee network

428 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

157

Early backer (in before they grew)

405/428

Grantees still filing

322/428

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$30,576,464Education$16,349,590Religion$2,955,403Human Services$2,307,659Health$2,298,540Housing & Shelter$1,723,654International$1,491,216

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

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.

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.

The Community Foundation of TheMI77.2× affinity52 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of The · Edgar and Elsa Prince Foundation · Gordon Christian Trust · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Grand Haven Area Community · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · Dick and Betsy Devos Family Foundation · The Brandsma Family Foundation · The John and Phyllis Groot Foundation · Cdv5 Foundation · The Richard and Helen Devos Foundation · Stewardship Foundation

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 organisation Barnabas 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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7get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

04Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Atlas For Life Ltd.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~24 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 201813304 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Atlas For Life Ltd, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 24 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 59% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Barnabas Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Barnabas Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Barnabas Foundation

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

428 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Barnabas Foundation?

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Barnabas Foundation

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

428 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Barnabas Foundation?

More from the funding graph