· Private foundation
Bond Family 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $23k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
- $250k+2 grants · $570k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KANAKUK MINISTRIES | $320,000 |
| WHEATON CHRISTIAN GRAMMAR SCHOOL | $250,000 |
| BY THE HAND CLUB FOR KIDS | $200,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $13,000 |
| GREATER EUROPE MISSION | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% of its 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.
4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $580k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BTBy The Hand Club For Kids7× · 2017–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +54%
- CSCHARLES SIMEON TRUST2× · 2020–2021 · $650k · revenue +10%
- WAWHEATON ACADEMY2× · 2023–2024 · $550k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- LCLIBERTI COMMUNION OF CHURCHESone grant, 2022 · $50k
- GCGLOBAL CATALYTIC MINISTRYone grant, 2021 · $50k
- BGBilly Graham Centergraduatedone grant, 2020 · $37k · revenue +37%
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.
Wheaton College serves Jesus Christ and advances His kingdom through excellence in liberal arts and graduate programs that educate the whole person to build the church and benefit society worldwide.
The Master's University and Seminary (TMUS) exists to advance the Kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ through education. This is accomplished through unreserved commitment to worshipping God, authority of Scripture, personal holiness, serving…
The King's University integrates Biblical education and practical ministry to shape Spirit-formed individuals who follow Jesus, serve His Church, and are sent to impact the world.
Welch college is a christian higher education institution that educates leaders to serve christ, his church, and his world through biblical thought and life
Simpson university is a christ-centered learning community committed to developing each student in mind, faith, and character for a life-time of meaningful work and service in a constantly changing world.
The mission of criswell college is to provide ministerial and professional higher education for men and women preparing to serve as christian leaders throughout society, while maintaining an institutional commitment to biblical inerrancy.
To equip men to be preachers, pastors, and churchmen for christ's kingdom among the nations.
Wayland baptist university exists to educate students in an academically challenging, learning focused and distinctively christian environment for professional success and service to god and humankind.
Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.
The school provides classical christian education to students in grades junior kindergarten through twelve.
The mission of barclay college is to prepare students in a bible-centered environment for effective christian life, service, and leadership.
To provide christian education to students in grades pre-k to 12.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 12 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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bond Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bond Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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