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Calvin University

The mission of CALVIN UNIVERSITY is to equip students to think deeply, to act justly, and to live wholeheartedly as christ's agents of renewal in the world.

$78M
Granted FY2025still arriving
160
Grants FY2025still arriving
35
States reached
$75k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$7.4MEducation$313kArts & Culture$84kHuman Services$60kSocial Science$32kHousing & Shelter$25kFood & Nutrition$17kCivil Rights$13k
02FY2025 · 160 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 160 grants below total $2,693,139, the rows itemized in this filing. The $78,321,982 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $75,628,843 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k20 grants · $151k
  • $10k–50k135 grants · $2.2M
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $300k
$12,500
Median grant
35
States reached
$613M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY$74,538
SAMFORD UNIVERSITY$61,858
WHEATON COLLEGE$60,756
PRINCETON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY$52,500
ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY$50,375
DUKE UNIVERSITY$46,500
SCHOLARLEADERS INTERNATIONAL$40,000
EMORY UNIVERSITY$37,500
BAYLOR UNIVERSITY$37,495
COOPERATIVE CHRISTAN MINISTRY IN HIGHER EDUCATION INC$25,000
SOCIETY FOR PENTECOSTAL STUDIES$25,000
MOUNT OLIVE LUTHERAN CHURCH OF FOLSOM CA$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS$25,000
STORY DWELLING$25,000
THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY$25,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $166k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 70% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MADE TO FLOURISH: $8k → 5%DISABILITY MINISTRY NETWORK INC: $25k → 13%RESPECTABILITY: $13k → 6%AFRICAN RESOURCE CENTER OF WEST MICHIGAN: $8k → 11%MADE TO FLOURISH: $8k → 5%DISABILITY MINISTRY NETWORK INC: $25k → 13%RESPECTABILITY: $13k → 6%Holden Village: $9k → 9%HOLLAND HOME: $24k → 11%SEABURY RESOURCES FOR AGING: $9k → 14%SEABURY RESOURCES FOR AGING: $7k → 14%Seabury Resources for Aging: $7k → 14%JUST FOR U MINISTRIES INC: $13k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
WA
ID
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
DE
AZ
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.2M · 201 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

201 repeat relationships: 81 still active in FY2025, 120 since wound down; 75 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

201
124

Total granted

$5.2M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+11%

Still filing today

33%
22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
EducationReligionHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyInternationalOther
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

  • FT
    FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
    6× · 2019–2025 · $180k · revenue +9%
  • Samford University
    4× · 2022–2025 · $117k · revenue +1%
  • EU
    Emory University
    6× · 2019–2025 · $105k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $32k · revenue +22%
  • PC
    Penn Center Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $17k · revenue +33%
  • MC
    Modus Church Iglesis Modus
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · 33% of their budget
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

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.

1
Regent University

Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.

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2
Reformed University Inc

Provide education in theology, divinity, religious education, ministerial training, business and organizational leadership.

Education
3
Loyola University

Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…

Education
4
Evangel University

Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.

Education
5
Erskine College and Theological Seminary

Erskine College exists to glorify God as a Christian academic community where students are equipped to flourish as whole persons for lives of service through the pursuit of undergraduate liberal arts and graduate theological education.

Education
6
Trinity Western University

Trinity Western University's mission is to produce positive, goal-oriented graduates with thoroughly Christian minds-growing disciples of Jesus Christ who glorify God through fulfilling the Great Commission, serving God and people in…

Education
7
Benedictine University

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…

Education
8
Olivet University

Providing guality Christian education to the network generation

Education
9
John Brown University

John brown university (jbu) provides christ-centered education that prepares students to honor god and serve others by developing their intellectual, spiritual, and professional lives. (continued on schedule o)jbu serves traditional…

Education
10
Union University

Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.

Education
11
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
12
The King's University

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wheaton College; the most unlike its peers is Modus Church Iglesis Modus. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

120 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 120 of the 404 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
119/120
Grantees still filing
70/120
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PRINCETON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $140,000 · Other+141 more: $3,377,325 · Other+141 moreFULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $179,917 · EducationFULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARYSamford University: $116,710 · EducationSamford UniversityEmory University: $104,914 · EducationEmory UniversityWheaton College: $103,756 · EducationWheaton CollegeBAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $86,507 · EducationBAYLOR UNIVERSITYHOPE COLLEGE: $82,195 · EducationScholar Leaders International: $78,354 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITY: $76,336 · EducationUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $53,530 · Education+26 more: $688,335 · Education+26 moreTHE BANQUET NETWORK: $50,000 · ReligionARTISTS IN CHRISTIAN TESTIMONY INC: $37,090 · ReligionSociety for Pentecostal Studies: $25,000 · ReligionPROSKUNEO MINISTRIES INC: $25,000 · ReligionTruths Table Foundation: $25,000 · ReligionRUAKH ARTS INC: $25,000 · ReligionCHASING JUSTICE TOGETHER FOUNDATION: $20,000 · ReligionVERTICAL MINISTRIES: $19,600 · ReligionFAITH & PHILANTHROPY INSTITUTE: $18,000 · ReligionCenter of Theological Inquiry: $18,000 · ReligionModus Church Iglesis Modus: $15,000 · ReligionDISABILITY MINISTRY NETWORK INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesFREEDOM OUTREACH: $34,500 · Human ServicesDISABILITY BELONGS: $25,000 · Human ServicesHolland Home: $24,155 · Human ServicesSeabury Resources for Aging: $22,500 · Human ServicesMADE TO FLOURISH INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesDURHAMCARES INC: $47,000 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF THE PAN AFRICAN CATHOLIC NETWORK INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyCONNECTFAITH INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureMORAVIAN MUSIC FOUNDATION: $21,500 · Arts & CultureHOOLA MUSIC AND CULTURAL ARTS: $20,000 · Arts & CultureIskali: $50,000 · Youth Development
Other$3,517,325Education$1,570,554Religion$277,690Human Services$171,155Philanthropy$67,000Arts & Culture$66,500Youth Development$50,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $179,917 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSamford University: $116,710 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University: $104,914 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWheaton College: $103,756 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $86,507 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE COLLEGE: $82,195 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetScholar Leaders International: $78,354 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $76,336 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $57,875 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $53,530 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDISABILITY MINISTRY NETWORK INC: $50,000 over 2y, 47% of budgetTHE BANQUET NETWORK: $50,000 over 2y, 30% of budgetIskali: $50,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetDURHAMCARES INC: $47,000 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetDALLAS INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY: $45,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetSEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $43,776 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCornerstone University: $43,696 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKUYPER COLLEGE: $37,458 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetINDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $37,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetARTISTS IN CHRISTIAN TESTIMONY INC: $37,090 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBelmont University: $36,996 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOM OUTREACH: $34,500 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $34,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEE UNIVERSITY: $33,134 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEDEN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $32,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY: $32,473 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER: $32,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrinity International University: $27,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMENNOMEDIA INC: $27,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $27,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSociety for Pentecostal Studies: $25,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetDISABILITY BELONGS: $25,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROLLINS COLLEGE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOINT UNIVERSITY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROSKUNEO MINISTRIES INC: $25,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetCAMPBELL UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTruths Table Foundation: $25,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetRUAKH ARTS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetCONNECTFAITH INC: $25,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetSCIENCE FOR THE CHURCH: $25,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetGRUNEWALD GUILD: $25,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetGLOBAL SCHOLARS: $24,675 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetASBURY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $24,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHolland Home: $24,155 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDORDT UNIVERSITY: $23,904 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSeabury Resources for Aging: $22,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAU SABLE INSTITUTE: $22,500 over 3y, 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.

  • Who funds FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
  • Who funds Samford University ↗
  • Who funds Emory University ↗
  • Who funds Wheaton College ↗
  • Who funds BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds HOPE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Scholar Leaders International ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
  • Who funds DISABILITY MINISTRY NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BANQUET NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds Iskali ↗
  • Who funds DURHAMCARES INC ↗
  • Who funds DALLAS INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Cornerstone University ↗
  • Who funds KUYPER COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds INDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ARTISTS IN CHRISTIAN TESTIMONY INC ↗
  • Who funds Belmont University ↗
  • Who funds FREEDOM OUTREACH ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds LEE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds EDEN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗

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.

Lilly Endowment IncWabash CollegeAmerican Association …Council of Independen…Barnabas FoundationThe Robert D and Patr…John Templeton Founda…Walker Scholarship Gr…The Scudder Associati…The Community Foundat…E Rhodes and Leona B …The Chatlos Foundatio…
Lilly Endowment IncIN34.2× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lilly Endowment Inc · Wabash College · American Association for the Advancement of Science · Council of Independent Colleges · Barnabas Foundation · The Robert D and Patricia E Kern Family Foundation Inc · John Templeton Foundation · Walker Scholarship Grant · The Scudder Association Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · E Rhodes and Leona B Carpenter Foundation · The Chatlos Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • George Fox University: 2% of income from government
  • Rollins College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 404 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home