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Christian Education Charitable Trust Co at a glance

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Christian Education Charitable Trust Co

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

Education$6.2MReligion$1.6MSocial Science$290kCommunity Improvement$150kCrime & Legal$145kArts & Culture$115kPhilanthropy$100kYouth Development$30kOther$0
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k9 grants · $250k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $855k
$50,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLSON CENTER$125,000
GORDON COLLEGE$100,000
DISCOVERY INSTITUTE$100,000
COVENANT COLLEGE INC$80,000
COUNCIL ON EDUCATION STANDARDS AND ACCOUNTABILITY INC$50,000
IN MEDIA RES$50,000
GILBERT CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS$50,000
INTERNATIONAL GENEROSITY FOUNDATION TRUST$50,000
REGENTS SCHOOL OF AUSTIN INC$50,000
VERITAS FORUM INC$50,000
GREATER ATLANTA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC$50,000
DES MOINES CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$50,000
HOPE ACADEMY$50,000
CHRISTIAN LEGAL SOCIETY$35,000
CONSORTIUM OF CHRISTIAN STUDY CENTERS$35,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 71% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%GILBERT CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: $50k → 11%GORDON COLLEGE: $100k → 10%HOPE ACADEMY: $50k → 11%CAPISTRANO VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC: $70k → 10%VILLAGE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $50k → 14%THE KING'S COLLEGE: $50k → 17%REGENTS SCHOOL OF AUSTIN INC: $50k → 10%THE BROOK HILL SCHOOL INC: $50k → 17%INTERNATIONAL GENEROSITY FOUNDATION TRUST: $50k → 13%DES MOINES CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $50k → 5%CHRISTIAN HERITAGE SCHOOL: $68k → 9%CHATTANOOGA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: $845k → 12%GREATER RALEIGH AREA CHRISTIAN EDUCATION INC: $61k → 8%COUNCIL ON EDUCATION STANDARDS AND ACCOUNTABILITY INC: $125k → 8%GREATER ATLANTA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC: $50k → 9%MOUNT VERNON PRESBYTERIAN SCHOOL INC: $100k → 13%COVENANT COLLEGE INC: $110k → 15%VALOR CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: $50k → 3%RATIO CHRISTI INC: $50k → 15%RATIO CHRISTI INC: $75k → 19%CARDUS INC: $50k → 6%CINCINNATI HILLS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC: $100k → 16%REFORMED THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $50k → 23%CS LEWIS INSTITUTE: $50k → 6%CONSORTIUM OF CHRISTIAN STUDY CENTERS: $61k → 8%PORTSMOUTH CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $75k → 9%GORDON COLLEGE: $100k → 10%CAPISTRANO VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC: $50k → 10%REGENTS SCHOOL OF AUSTIN INC: $50k → 10%INTERNATIONAL GENEROSITY FOUNDATION TRUST: $50k → 13%CHATTANOOGA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: $710k → 12%COUNCIL ON EDUCATION STANDARDS AND ACCOUNTABILITY INC: $75k → 8%MOUNT VERNON PRESBYTERIAN SCHOOL INC: $50k → 13%COVENANT COLLEGE INC: $100k → 15%RATIO CHRISTI INC: $50k → 19%CINCINNATI HILLS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC: $50k → 16%DISCOVERY INSTITUTE: $140k → 9%CHRISTIAN LEGAL SOCIETY: $50k → 6%CONSORTIUM OF CHRISTIAN STUDY CENTERS: $50k → 8%GORDON COLLEGE: $100k → 10%CHATTANOOGA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: $670k → 12%COVENANT COLLEGE INC: $85k → 15%DISCOVERY INSTITUTE: $100k → 9%LEXINGTON CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $100k → 8%GORDON COLLEGE: $75k → 10%CHATTANOOGA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: $350k → 12%COVENANT COLLEGE INC: $85k → 15%COVENANT COLLEGE INC: $80k → 15%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

VT
NH
WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
NV
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
AZ
AR
TN
NC
DC
MS
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.6M · 29 repeat orgs$887k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

29 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
36

Total granted

$7.6M
$642k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+28%

Still filing today

76%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $245k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationReligionCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • CC
    CHATTANOOGA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $2.6M · revenue +135%
  • CC
    COVENANT COLLEGE
    6× · 2018–2024 · $478k · revenue +14%
  • CO
    CONSORTIUM OF CHRISTIAN STUDY CENTERS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $425k · revenue +608%

Funded once

  • CH
    CHRISTIAN HERITAGE SCHOOL INC
    one grant, 2017 · $68k · revenue -24%
  • GR
    GREATER RALEIGH AREA CHRISTIAN EDUCATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $61k · revenue +229%
  • TB
    THE BROOK HILL SCHOOL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +72%
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
Covenant Christian School

Covenant Christian School (CCS) is committed to the academic, spiritual, physical, and social growth of our children in a Christ-centered environment. Continued on Schedule O Covenant Christian School cultivates a distinctive generation…

Education
2
Greenville Classical Academy

Provide a distinctly Christ-centered, biblical and classical education producing students who glorify God in their thoughts, words and deeds.

Education
3
Carolina Christian Academy

Educational instruciton for students in prek-12th grades.

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4
Axiom Christian Classical School

To provide a comprehensive Christian Classical education to grades 1-12.

Education
5
Summit Classical Christian School

Summit Classical Christian School is a PreK-12 school that exists to cultivate generations of joyful disciples of Christ by partnering with faithful Christian families to educate their children from a Biblical worldview using classical…

Education
6
Christian Schools Inc

Education - private christian school grades k-12

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7
The Christian Academy

The christian academy provides christian education to 300 students from kindergarten to 12th grade. the christian academy is a college-preparatory school.

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8
Seattle Classical Christian School

Sccs builds the city of god by forming servant leaders who love goodness, truth, and beauty.

Education
9
Central Texas Christian School Inc

To educate students with the transforming truth of christ, inspiring academic excellence, godly character, and integrity in life pursuits.

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10
Colleyville Covenant Christian

The mission is to provide a biblically based classical college preparatory education that inspires a passion for excellence a heart of grace and the character of Christ.

Education
11
Artesia Classical Academy Inc

In partnership with parents, Artesia Classical Academy equips students to be Christlike disciples and servant-leaders who know and share God's Word.

Education
12
Charlotte Christian School

Charlotte christian school is a christ-centered, college preparatory school, equipping and developing students to effectively integrate biblical truth and learning nto their daily lives and to impact the culture for christ.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lexington Christian Academy; the most unlike its peers is Talented Foundation. 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

52 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. 52 of the 72 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/52
Grantees still filing
37/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHATTANOOGA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: $2,575,000 · EducationCHATTANOOGA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INCCOVENANT COLLEGE: $478,000 · EducationCOVENANT COLLEGEGORDON COLLEGE: $395,000 · EducationGORDON COLLEGECouncil on Educational Standards and Accountability Inc: $368,750 · EducationCouncil on Educational Standards and Accountability IncASSOCIATION OF CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INT'L: $355,000 · EducationASSOCIATION OF CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INT'L+32 more: $1,575,902 · Education+32 moreCONSORTIUM OF CHRISTIAN STUDY CENTERS: $425,000 · ReligionCONSORTIUM OF CHRISTI…THE VERITAS FORUM INC: $425,000 · ReligionTHE VERITAS FORUM INCThe Colson Center for Christian Worldview: $400,000 · ReligionThe Colson Center for…Ratio Christi Inc: $200,000 · ReligionRatio Christi IncINTERNATIONAL GENEROSITY FOUNDATION TRUST: $100,000 · ReligionINTERNATIONAL GENEROS…+3 more: $85,000 · ReligionDISCOVERY INSTITUTE: $290,000 · OtherDISCOVERY INST…MOUNT VERNON PRESBYTERIAN SCHOOL INC: $150,000 · OtherMOUNT VERNON P…CHRISTIAN LEGAL SOCIETY: $145,000 · OtherCHRISTIAN LEGA…PORTSMOUTH CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $125,000 · OtherPORTSMOUTH CHR…VILLAGE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $87,000 · OtherVILLAGE CHRIST…PELLA CHRISTIAN GRADE SCHOOL: $60,050 · OtherPELLA CHRISTIA…CHRISTIAN HERITAGE SCHOOL: $48,000 · Other+19 more: $216,700 · Other+19 moreCARDUS INC: $115,000 · Community Improvement
Education$5,747,652Religion$1,635,000Other$1,121,750Community Improvement$115,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHATTANOOGA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: $2,575,000 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetCOVENANT COLLEGE: $478,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCONSORTIUM OF CHRISTIAN STUDY CENTERS: $425,000 over 8y, 21% of budgetTHE VERITAS FORUM INC: $425,000 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetThe Colson Center for Christian Worldview: $400,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetGORDON COLLEGE: $395,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCouncil on Educational Standards and Accountability Inc: $368,750 over 5y, 20% of budgetASSOCIATION OF CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INT'L: $355,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetDISCOVERY INSTITUTE: $290,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetRatio Christi Inc: $200,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetCincinnati Hills Christian Academy: $150,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPORTSMOUTH CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $125,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCS Lewis Institute: $125,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetCapistrano Valley Christian Schools Inc: $120,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCARDUS INC: $115,000 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetLEXINGTON CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $100,400 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetREGENTS SCHOOL OF AUSTIN INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetINDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetIN MEDIAS RES: $100,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL GENEROSITY FOUNDATION TRUST: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRINITY CLASSICAL ACADEMY: $72,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCHRISTIAN HERITAGE SCHOOL INC: $68,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGREATER RALEIGH AREA CHRISTIAN EDUCATION INC: $60,932 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPELLA CHRISTIAN GRADE SCHOOL: $60,050 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHOPE ACADEMY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BROOK HILL SCHOOL INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetREFORMED THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGilbert Christian Schools Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe King's College: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER ATLANTA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBelhaven University: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVALOR CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDES MOINES CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJOHN JAY INSTITUTE FOR FAITH SOCIETY AND LAW INC: $50,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN HERITAGE SCHOOL: $48,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetDORDT UNIVERSITY: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Friends of Tyndale House Cambridge Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCouncil for Christian Colleges and Universities: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRELIGIOUS FREEDOM INSTITUTE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetLITTLE ROCK CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC: $12,470 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTALENTED FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetMUSTARD SEED SCHOOL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFORT WORTH CHRISTAIN SCHOOL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUSCH RIDGE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARANATHA HIGH SCHOOL: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOLLAND CHRISTIAN EDUCATION SOCIETY: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMonte Vista Christian School: $200 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Christian Community F…Servant FoundationChattanooga Christian…The Signatry Charitab…Folds of Honor Founda…M J Murdock Charitabl…Natl Christian Charit…John Templeton Founda…The Maclellan Foundat…United Way WorldwideRaymond James Charita…The Grace and Mercy F…
Christian Community Foundation IncCO30.7× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Folds of Honor Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · John Templeton Foundation · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · United Way Worldwide · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Grace and Mercy 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 Christian Education Charitable Trust Co funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Christian Education Charitable Trust Co. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Gordon College: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Christian Education Charitable Trust Co?

Find your warmest path to Christian Education Charitable Trust Co 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.

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 72 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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