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Christian Charities Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$119k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
51
Grants FY2025
49
Organizations funded FY2024
6%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$7,800
Organizations funded a year
39 to 51
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
14
Total assets, FY2025
$874k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 6% of the organizations Christian Charities Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
ReligionHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationCivil RightsInternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving50$118k8%
FY202449$153k6%
FY202351$110k10%
FY202250$96k18%
FY202149$96k35%
FY202039$119kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$325kHuman Services$99kInternational$58kFood & Nutrition$55kHealth$42kEducation$27kYouth Development$22kPhilanthropy$22kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
IA
IN
OH
CA
CO
VA
AZ
NC
DC
MS
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Dream Center of Peoria Nfp$47,23051%
Midwest Food Bank Nfp$35,80060%
Mercury One Inc$29,40060%
The Nazarene Fund$19,20061%
Peoria Christian School$19,00020%
Children's Home Foundation$14,30060%
Samaritan's Purse$13,60030%
Capitol Ministries$10,30060%
Turning Point USA Inc$10,30060%
Rock Church Inc$10,0001n/a
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All grantees of Christian Charities Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Dream Center of Peoria Nfp$47,23051%
Midwest Food Bank Nfp$35,80060%
Mercury One Inc$29,40060%
The Nazarene Fund$19,20061%
Peoria Christian School$19,00020%
Children's Home Foundation$14,30060%
Samaritan's Purse$13,60030%
Capitol Ministries$10,30060%
Turning Point USA Inc$10,30060%
Rock Church Inc$10,0001n/a
South Side Mission of Peoria$9,5006n/a
Focus on the Family$9,5006n/a
Food for the Poor Inc$9,20060%
American Family Association Inc$8,80060%
The Heritage Foundation$8,65060%
Madonna of the Streets Inc$8,40050%
The Timber Pointe Charitable Foundation Inc$8,30062%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$7,70050%
Indopartners Agency Inc$7,70050%
Child Evangelism Fellowship of Illinois Inc$7,70050%
Fellowship of Christian Athletes$7,70050%
Passion for Souls$7,10043%
Jesusonline Ministries$7,10060%
Young Life$6,80060%
Campus Crusade for Christ Inc$6,7506n/a
Men of Strongholds Inc$6,5004n/a
Jentezen Franklin Ministries Inc$6,0003n/a
Elite Community Outreach Inc$6,00040%
Mission Pre-Born Inc$6,00040%
Pathway Ministries$5,80030%
First Liberty Institute$5,10040%
Goya Ministries Inc$5,00011%
Miracle Camp and Retreat Center Inc$3,20030%
International Fellowship of Christians & Jews Inc$2,0001n/a
Paar Cares Foundation$2,00014%
Wycliffe Bible Translators Inc$2,0004n/a
Peoria Ballet Company$1,27510%
Family House Inc$1,10010%
Operation Helo Inc$1,00010%
Bayview Baptist Church$5001n/a
Nitsch Theatre Arts$40010%
Illinois Central Christian School$3001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($308k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Christian Charities Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDream Center of Peoria Nfp: $47,230 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetMidwest Food Bank Nfp: $35,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMercury One Inc: $29,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Nazarene Fund: $19,200 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetPeoria Christian School: $19,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetChildren's Home Foundation: $14,300 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $13,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCapitol Ministries: $10,300 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTurning Point USA Inc: $10,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFood for the Poor Inc: $9,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Family Association Inc: $8,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Heritage Foundation: $8,650 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMadonna of the Streets Inc: $8,400 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetThe Timber Pointe Charitable Foundation Inc: $8,300 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $7,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetIndopartners Agency Inc: $7,700 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetChild Evangelism Fellowship of Illinois Inc: $7,700 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFellowship of Christian Athletes: $7,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPassion for Souls: $7,100 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetJesusonline Ministries: $7,100 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetYoung Life: $6,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetElite Community Outreach Inc: $6,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMission Pre-Born Inc: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPathway Ministries: $5,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFirst Liberty Institute: $5,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGoya Ministries Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMiracle Camp and Retreat Center Inc: $3,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPaar Cares Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetPeoria Ballet Company: $1,275 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFamily House Inc: $1,100 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOperation Helo Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNitsch Theatre Arts: $400 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 32.

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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.

His First Foundation % John S WielandIL17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: His First Foundation % John S Wieland · Gilmore Foundation · Otto Baum Company Inc Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Share Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust

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.

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How do I get to Christian Charities Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Christian Charities Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Christian Charities Foundation

How much does Christian Charities Foundation give?
Christian Charities Foundation reported 51 grants totaling $119,150 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 39 and 51 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Christian Charities Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (46%), Human Services (14%), International (8%).
Who are Christian Charities Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Dream Center of Peoria Nfp ($47k), Midwest Food Bank Nfp ($36k), Mercury One Inc ($29k).
Does Christian Charities Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Christian Charities Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Christian Charities Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include His First Foundation % John S Wieland, Gilmore Foundation, Otto Baum Company Inc Foundation.
Where is Christian Charities Foundation based?
Christian Charities Foundation is based in IL.

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 79 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-PF 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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