· Private foundation
Bjorkman Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COVENANT HARBOR BIBLE CAMP | $30,000 |
| NORTH PARK UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| NORTH PARK UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $9,000 |
| NORTH PARK UNIVERSITY | $7,500 |
| FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| CORNERSTONE COMMUNITY OUTREACH | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| COVENANT POINT BIBLE CAMP | $1,500 |
| COVENANT CHILDREN'S MINISTRIES | $1,000 |
| DUPAGE HABITAT HUMANITY | $1,000 |
| HARBOR POINT MINISTRIES | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
18 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NPNORTH PARK UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $238k · revenue +12%
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY6× · 2020–2025 · $49k · revenue +17%- CCCornerstone Community Outreach9× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2025 · $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.
Cornerstone Counseling empowers people to reach their spiritual, relational, and emotional potential through exceptional counseling and personal development services.
Gmcc is an interfaith, multicultural nonprofit organization with a mission "uniting people of faith, serving people in need." we have a 117 year old history collaborating with communites to addressinequities and disparities throughout…
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…
To promote healing and wholeness through professional counseling, consultation and education from a Christian perspective
Covenant HomeCare provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
Provide Charlotte's low-income children and youth with the academic, spiritual, and social development necessary to become Christian leaders determined to restore their communities.
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.
Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
Crossroads combines innovative clinical counseling with a redemptive worldview to restore people to emotional health, relational unity, and a hopeful future.
Churches united in ministry (chum) is people of faith working together to provide basic necessities, foster stable lives and organize for a just and compassionate community.
Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 19 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 NORTH PARK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds Cornerstone Community Outreach ↗
- Who funds DUPAGE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds Paul Carlson Medical Program Inc ↗
- Who funds Covenant Community Care Inc ↗
- Who funds COVENANT CHILDREN'S MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds LUMUNOS INC ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds COURTSIDE MINISTRIES ↗
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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bjorkman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bjorkman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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