· Private foundation
C Dorothy Bader Trust Mercantile Bka United Comm Bkttee
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAITH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $802 |
| CHEERFUL HOME | $802 |
| WOODLAND HOME | $802 |
| SALVATION ARMY CO LEGAL DEPT | $802 |
| SUNSET HOME | $801 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $801 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN HOME | $801 |
| CORBAN UNIVERSITY | $750 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $750 |
| MARCH OF DIMES | $200 |
| AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION | $200 |
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 8%. 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $750 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CHCHEERFUL HOME ASSOCIATION9× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +57%
- SHSUNSET HOME9× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +13%
- ALAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION9× · 2017–2025 · $2k · revenue +175%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMAone grant, 2024 · $650
- CUCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY INCone grant, 2019 · $647 · revenue +9%
- BUBelmont Universitygraduatedone grant, 2019 · $647 · revenue +55%
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.
Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
As an institution of higher education committed to the reformed christian perspective, dordt university equips students, alumni, and the broader community to work effectively toward christ-centered renewal in all aspects of contemporary…
Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
Steadfast in jesus christ as revealed in the holy scriptures, concordia university chicago promotes academic rigor in its liberal arts and professional programs; grounds students in objective truth, integrity, and excellence; and practices…
The mission of houston christian university is to provide a learning experience that instills in students a passion for academic, spiritual, and professional excellence as a result of our central confession, "jesus christ is lord."
Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
Clarkson university is an independent, nationally recognized technological university whose faculty of teacher-scholars aspires to offer superior instruction and engage in high-quality research and scholarship in engineering, business,…
Belhaven university prepares students academically and spiritually to serve jesus christ in their careers, in human relationships, and in the world of ideas.
Xavier is a jesuit catholic university rooted in the liberal arts tradition. our mission is to educate each student intellectually, morally, and spiritually. we create learning opportunities through rigorous academic and professional…
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 23 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 CHEERFUL HOME ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SUNSET HOME ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Maryville University - St Louis ↗
- Who funds QUINCY UNIVERSITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CORBAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Belmont University ↗
- Who funds Wheaton College ↗
- Who funds Cedarville University ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization C Dorothy Bader Trust Mercantile Bka United Comm Bkttee funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from C Dorothy Bader Trust Mercantile Bka United Comm Bkttee. Bigger dots raise more.
- Corban University: 3% of income from government
How this is measured
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