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Bart Ehrman Foundation

The Foundation provides support to various charities that provide shelter, food, medical assistance and other necessities to homeless and other disadvantage individuals.

$551k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$185k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

International$869kHousing & Shelter$672kFood & Nutrition$326kEducation$240kPhilanthropy$50k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $531k
$88,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$47k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Urban Ministries of Durham$185,000
Food Bank of North Carolina$101,500
Doctors without Borders$88,500
CARE Inc$80,500
Durham Literacy Center$75,000
Families Moving Forward$20,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 81% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Doctors Without Borders: $112k → 17%Food Bank of North Carolina: $102k → 8%Urban Ministries of Durham: $185k → 11%The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina: $50k → 12%Doctors without Borders: $110k → 17%Food Bank of Eastern North Carolina: $83k → 8%Urban Ministries of Durham: $124k → 11%Doctors without Borders: $89k → 17%Food Bank of Eastern North Carolina: $61k → 8%Urban Ministries of Durham: $121k → 11%Doctors Without Borders: $69k → 17%Food Bank of Eastern North Carolina: $46k → 8%Urban Ministries of Durham: $110k → 11%Doctors Without Borders: $31k → 17%Food Bank of North Carolina: $35k → 8%Urban Ministries of Durham: $97k → 11%Durham Literacy Center: $75k → 11%Durham Literacy Center: $70k → 11%Families Moving Forward: $20k → 11%Families Moving Forward: $15k → 11%Durham Literacy Center: $42k → 11%Durham Literacy Center: $33k → 11%Durham Literacy Center: $20k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 6 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
0

Total granted

$2.1M
$0

Still filing today

100%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’20’21’22’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’24’25
InternationalFood & NutritionEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • Urban Ministries of Durham Inc
    5× · 2020–2025 · $637k · revenue +22%
  • COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $459k · revenue +37%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $410k · revenue +39%

Funded once

    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.

    04Its field
    04the grantee network

    7 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.

    Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

    0
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    0
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    7/7
    Grantees still filing
    7/7
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $459,166 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWH…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $410,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCUrban Ministries of Durham Inc: $636,760 · OtherUrban Ministries of Durham IncFAMILIES MOVING FORWARD: $35,000 · OtherFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC: $326,300 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF CENT…DURHAM LITERACY CENTER INC: $240,200 · EducationDURHAM LITER…THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC: $50,000 · Philanthropy
    International$869,166Other$671,760Food & Nutrition$326,300Education$240,200Philanthropy$50,000

    Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

    25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUrban Ministries of Durham Inc: $636,760 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $459,166 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $410,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC: $326,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDURHAM LITERACY CENTER INC: $240,200 over 5y, 12% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILIES MOVING FORWARD: $35,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budget
    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.

    How much its grantees rely on government

    Each dot is one organization Bart Ehrman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bart Ehrman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

    2024
    ’20’21’22’23’24’25
    no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
      no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
      0get no government money at all
      3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
      0rely on government for over half their income
      ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
      typical government reliance, FY20–25
      How this is measured
      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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

      On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 7 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

      How this is measured
      Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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