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Cherith Christian Private 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| I WILL SHARE ASSOCIATION | $40,000 |
| FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINAR | $20,000 |
| CITY TO CITY TAIWAN ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL GENEROSITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CHINA OUTREACH MINISTRIES | $7,900 |
| NARBERTH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $7,680 |
| PIONEERS | $6,900 |
| PROFESSIONALS INTERNATIONAL | $5,300 |
| AMAZING LOVE INC | $4,000 |
| RENAISSANCE CHURCH | $3,700 |
| BRIDGES OF HOPE INTERNATIONAL | $3,000 |
| BIBLE PROJECT | $3,000 |
| CHINESE CHURCH IN CHRIST | $2,700 |
| BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP INTERNATIONA | $2,700 |
| SUDAN INLAND MISSION USA | $2,400 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your US giving — 55% of grant dollars ($662k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 45% that went abroad ($552k) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
Beyond the US — 45% of all-years giving ($552k)
3 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +10% since the first grant, against +0% for the ones you funded once.
51 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 6 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; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- FTFULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY6× · 2019–2025 · $60k · revenue +9%
- COCHINA OUTREACH MINISTRIESINC9× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +36%
- PIPROFESSIONALS INTERNATIONAL8× · 2018–2025 · $35k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- TWTOGETHER WE RISEgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +27%
- NINON-VIOLENCE INTERNATIONALgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +104%
- TLTHE LORDS GRACE CHRISTIAN CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $8k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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.
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…
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…
Our mission is to accomplish the Great Commission through the use of resources of Chinese churches worldwide in mission education, recruitment, training, missionary sending, and all other effective means in collaboration with the Global…
Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.
To get the good news to every nation this generation by showing and sharing god's love by providing opportunities and supporting christian missionaries in over fifty seven countries around the world.
Mobilization of churches in America by taking pastors and laymen on vision and service trips overseas in fulfillment of Jesus command to go ye into all the world, making disciples...
With a desire to see the Gospel proclaimed in all nations, we exist to make and multiply disciples of the next generation through the vehicles of church-planting missions and missional leadership training.
Crossing Cultures International, Inc. exists to glorify God by equipping Christ followers globally with comprehensive training for effective ministry.
To advance the gospel in closed and hard-to-reach nations and to impact those nations for christ.
Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.
Harvest Bridge equips South Asian Christians to serve their communities more effectively. With our assistance, people and communities in South Asia are transformed by the love of Christ.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Whosoever Gospel Mission and Res Cue Home Asso of Germantown and the most unlike its peers is Systematic Asian Leadership Trainin. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
53 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 53 of the 103 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds GO LIVE SERVE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES OF HOPE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds CHINA OUTREACH MINISTRIESINC ↗
- Who funds PROFESSIONALS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY INC ↗
- Who funds AMAZING LOVE INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER WE RISE ↗
- Who funds NON-VIOLENCE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds BRIDGESTONES INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL SERVICE OFFICE ↗
- Who funds CHINESE CHRISTIAN HERALD CRUSADES INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Signatry Charitable Trust · Servant Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · The Yelp Foundation · Evelyn Job & April Foundation · Adonai Foundation Inc · Ping and Amy Chao Family Foundation · Shp Christian Foundation · G II Charities · Bright Funds Foundation · Tyndale House Ministries · AbbVie Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Cherith Christian Private Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation — 9% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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