· Private foundation
Charis Focus 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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $18k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $76k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAITH COMMUNITY CHURCH | $76,400 |
| CRU GLOBAL INC | $18,450 |
| CITYJOY | $2,700 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $2,400 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN-ST PAUL | $2,000 |
| BETHLEHEM BAPTIST CHURCH | $600 |
| THE VILLAGE CHURCH | $513 |
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 (FY24–24, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +108% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 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, 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
- TITUTAPONA INC2× · 2020–2021 · $20k · revenue +108%
- NLNEW LIFE FAMILY SERVICES2× · 2020–2021 · $8k · revenue +147%
- FOFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES2× · 2024–2025 · $6k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- NLNEW LIFE ACADEMY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +48%
- RFRIVER FALLS PREGNANCY HELPLINEone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +14%
- FOFOCUS ON THE FAMILYone grant, 2021 · $1k
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.
Our mission is to glorify god and serve our community by assisting people in finding freedom from their past, peace in their present, and hope for their future.
Mission is to provide women facing an unplanned pregnancy with truthful medical information and education. we are faith-based with a mission to encourage, through education and outreach, the recognition of human life from the moment of…
Dakota hope offers services that empower women and men to make choices about sexual health and pregnancy that will help them and their children to have a bright future. these services include pregnancy tests, ultrasound, and evidence-based…
Dedicated to igniting personal transformation by affirming faith, inspiring hope, and equipping individuals, to live an intentional life in christ.
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…
North central university is a christian university with a commitment to academic excellence.
To protect the unborn, share the gospel, and transform our communities one life at a time.
The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…
To encourage, promote, support, and elect pro-choice women of all political parties to all levels of public office in minnesota.
Our mission is to display Gods love to children, birth parents, and families by providing Christ-centered adoption services that have an eternal impact by growing forever families.
Protecting a child's right to live and be loved by loving moms and dads.
Minnesota family council (mfc) is a non-profit christian organization that is dedicated to strengthening minnesota families by advancing biblical principles in the public arena, for the glory of the lord jesus christ and the good of…
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 18 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 TUTAPONA INC ↗
- Who funds NEW LIFE FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL ↗
- Who funds NEW LIFE ACADEMY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RIVER FALLS PREGNANCY HELPLINE ↗
- Who funds MAGNUS VETERANS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARRIVE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds ROBBINSDALE WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHADDAH INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MINNESOTA INC ↗
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: Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · The Graco Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Servant Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Charis Focus Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charis Focus Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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