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Barnabas Foundation
Barnabas Foundation provides education and guidance to Christians of all ages and generations to help them grow in their understanding of Biblical Stewardship and experience the joy of living a generous life by supporting charitable organizations and activities.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 726 grants below total $57,702,526 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $60,753,779 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $3,051,253 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2017
- Under $10k226 grants · $1.4M
- $10k–50k348 grants · $7.3M
- $50k–250k107 grants · $11M
- $250k+45 grants · $38M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
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.
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…
Covenant Christian School (CCS) is committed to the academic, spiritual, physical, and social growth of our children in a Christ-centered environment. Continued on Schedule O Covenant Christian School cultivates a distinctive generation…
Provide education in theology, divinity, religious education, ministerial training, business and organizational leadership.
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…
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.
Providing guality Christian education to the network generation
Education - private christian school grades k-12
Bethlehem christian school is a non-denominational school that provides a complete educational program that is biblically sound, christ-centered and of excellent academic standards
To provide christian education to students in grades pre-k to 12.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Equip young people for life and service for jesus christ through biblical foundations, christ-like character development, and academic preparation in partnership with the home and local church.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bethany Christian Services and the most unlike its peers is The Center for Sharing. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
429 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 429 of the 720 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
- Who funds World Renew ↗
- Who funds THE ASSOCIATION OF ILLIANA CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL OF INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds CALVIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DORDT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ELIM CHRISTIAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CALVIN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL OF ESCONDIDO INC ↗
- Who funds CALVIN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds HOPE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Holland Home ↗
- Who funds MEADOWBROOK VILLAGE CHRISTIAN RETIREMENT COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds KUYPER COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds COREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds DUTTON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TRINITY CHRISTIAN COLLEGE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SET FREE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PURITAN REFORMED THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds LANSING CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PINE REST CHRISTIAN MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN LIVING COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds REST HAVEN ILLIANA CHRISTIAN CONVALESCENT HOME ↗
- Who funds Southwest Chicago Christian School Association ↗
- Who funds BETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds MADISON AVE - CROSSROADS COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago ↗
- Who funds CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF EVANGELICAL STUDENTS USA INC ↗
- Who funds Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds EASTERN UKRAINE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY BOARD OF MINISTRY DEVELOPMENT ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Edgar and Elsa Prince Foundation · The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · Stewardship Foundation · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · Dick and Betsy Devos Family Foundation · Gordon Christian Trust · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · The John and Phyllis Groot Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · Cdv5 Foundation · Marion & Marlene Betten 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 organization 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.
- Rutland Area Christian School — 13% of income from government
- Servants Heart Ministry Corporation — 0% of income from government
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.
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