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Council for Christian Colleges and Universities

The Council's mission is to advance the cause of Christ-centered higher education and to help our institutions transform lives by faithfully relating scholarship and service to biblical truth.

$443k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$57k
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 2024.

Education$1.8M
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $325,572, the rows itemized in this filing. The $442,676 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $117,104 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $194k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $108k
$18,420
Median grant
10
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Gordon College$57,000
Wheaton College$50,952
Seattle Pacific University$48,000
Calvin University$48,000
Whitworth University$48,000
George Fox University$18,420
Concordia University Inc$17,400
Regent University$14,400
Asbury Theological Seminary$9,000
Biola University$9,000
Samford University$5,400
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 10%. 56% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GORDON COLLEGE: $80k → 10%CROWN COLLEGE: $9k → 11%BETHEL UNIVERSITY: $16k → 14%California Baptist University: $9k → 11%BIOLA UNIVERSITY: $19k → 14%Westmont College: $16k → 14%HOUGHTON COLLEGE: $10k → 19%ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $67k → 16%CALVIN UNIVERSITY: $60k → 11%Samford University: $11k → 16%Concordia University Inc: $17k → 6%George Fox University: $18k → 11%LEE UNIVERSITY: $11k → 13%TOCCOA FALLS COLLEGE: $11k → 14%Taylor University: $18k → 19%MALONE UNIVERSITY: $9k → 13%SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $71k → 9%WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY: $70k → 12%WHEATON COLLEGE: $71k → 7%TRINITY CHRISTIAN COLLEGE: $10k → 14%Regent University: $14k → 10%Asbury Theological Seminary: $18k → 12%Gordon College: $57k → 10%AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $56k → 14%WESTMONT COLLEGE: $11k → 14%Abilene Christian University: $48k → 16%DORDT UNIVERSITY: $56k → 8%Calvin University: $48k → 11%Seattle Pacific University: $48k → 9%Whitworth University: $48k → 12%Wheaton College: $59k → 7%Gordon College: $57k → 10%Biola University: $18k → 14%Dordt University: $48k → 8%Calvin University: $48k → 11%Seattle Pacific University: $48k → 9%Whitworth University: $48k → 12%Wheaton College: $51k → 7%GORDON COLLEGE: $19k → 10%Azusa Pacific University: $48k → 14%CALVIN COLLEGE: $27k → 11%SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $10k → 9%WHEATON COLLEGE: $15k → 7%Biola University: $13k → 14%CALVIN COLLEGE: $18k → 11%WHEATON COLLEGE: $10k → 7%AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $10k → 14%Azusa Pacific University: $10k → 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

WA
ID
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
OH
PA
CA
KY
VA
TN
OK
AL
GA
TX
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 12 repeat orgs$208k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
18

Total granted

$1.2M
$158k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+17%

Still filing today

100%
94%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

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

  • CU
    CALVIN UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2018–2024 · $201k · revenue +2%
  • WU
    WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2022–2024 · $166k · revenue +1%
  • DU
    DORDT UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2019–2023 · $112k · revenue +66%

Funded once

  • BU
    BETHEL UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2019 · $16k · revenue -1%
  • FT
    FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
    one grant, 2022 · $11k · revenue -15%
  • TF
    Toccoa Falls College Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $11k · revenue +27%
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
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
2
Los Angeles Pacific University

Los angeles pacific university exists to deliver high quality, accessible christ-centered education to learners everywhere.

Education
3
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
4
Belhaven University

Belhaven university prepares students academically and spiritually to serve jesus christ in their careers, in human relationships, and in the world of ideas.

Education
5
California Lutheran University

The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.

Education
6
Southwestern Christian University

Scu is a christ-centered liberal arts institution equipping students for a life of learning, leadership, and service; integrating faith, learning, and living; and empowering graduates to excel and to positively impact their world for jesus…

Education
7
Union College

Union college is a seventh-day adventist community of higher education, inspired by jesus christ, and dedicated to empowering students to learn, serve, and lead.

Education
8
LaGrange College

Education - lagrange college challenges the minds and inspires the souls of its students. founded in 1831 and committed to its relationship with the united methodist church and its wesleyan and liberal arts traditions, the college supports…

Education
9
Augustana University Association

Inspired by lutheran scholarly tradition and the liberal arts, augustana provides an education of enduring worth that challenges the intellect, fosters integrity and integrates faith with learning and service in a diverse world.

Education
10
Roberts Wesleyan University

As new york's leading university for character education, rwu is a community of learners committed to historic christianity which seeks to prepare thoughtful, spiritually mature, service-oriented people who will transform society.

Education
11
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
12
Greenville College

Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Baptist University; the most unlike its peers is Biola University Inc. 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

35 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. 35 of the 36 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
25/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GORDON COLLEGE: $227,470 · EducationGORDON COLLEGEWheaton College: $205,386 · EducationWheaton CollegeCALVIN UNIVERSITY: $200,985 · EducationCALVIN UNIVERSITYSEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $184,805 · EducationSEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITYWHITWORTH UNIVERSITY: $166,000 · EducationWHITWORTH UNIVERSITYAZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $124,235 · EducationAZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITYDORDT UNIVERSITY: $112,280 · EducationDORDT UNIVERSITYBIOLA UNIVERSITY INC: $59,255 · Education+22 more: $331,442 · Education+22 moreABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $115,000 · OtherABILENE CH…REGENT UNIVERSITY: $14,400 · OtherREGENT UNI…LEE UNIVERSITY: $11,000 · OtherLEE UNIVER…CROWN COLLEGE: $9,150 · OtherCROWN COLL…FRESNO PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $7,805 · OtherNEW SAINT ANDREWS COLLEGE: $7,805 · Other
Education$1,611,858Other$165,160

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGORDON COLLEGE: $227,470 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWheaton College: $205,386 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCALVIN UNIVERSITY: $200,985 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $184,805 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWHITWORTH UNIVERSITY: $166,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $124,235 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $115,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDORDT UNIVERSITY: $112,280 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBIOLA UNIVERSITY INC: $59,255 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWESTMONT COLLEGE: $34,573 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSamford University: $33,455 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOUGHTON UNIVERSITY: $28,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTaylor University: $27,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetASBURY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $27,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTRINITY CHRISTIAN COLLEGE ASSOCIATION: $23,555 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY: $18,420 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY INC: $17,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETHEL UNIVERSITY: $15,610 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREGENT UNIVERSITY: $14,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetToccoa Falls College Inc: $11,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEE UNIVERSITY: $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $9,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMALONE UNIVERSITY: $9,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROWN COLLEGE: $9,150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGENEVA COLLEGE: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLeTourneau University: $7,805 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBelmont University: $7,805 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUBBOCK CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $7,805 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN NAZARENE UNIVERSITY: $7,805 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRESNO PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $7,805 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWESTERN COLLEGE: $7,805 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOINT LOMA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY: $7,692 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY IRVINE: $5,712 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCornerstone University: $5,500 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.

Tulsa Community Found…National Collegiate A…Folds of Honor Founda…Lilly Endowment IncThe Blackbaud Giving …The Robert D and Patr…Council of Independen…Servant FoundationVerizon FoundationCalvin UniversityAtherton Family Found…Natl Christian Charit…
Tulsa Community FoundationOK25.7× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tulsa Community Foundation · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Folds of Honor Foundation · Lilly Endowment Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Robert D and Patricia E Kern Family Foundation Inc · Council of Independent Colleges · Servant Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Calvin University · Atherton Family Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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 Council for Christian Colleges and Universities funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Council for Christian Colleges and Universities. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • George Fox University: 3% of income from government
  • Southern Nazarene University: 1% of income from government
  • Gordon College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get 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
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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 36 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $2.7M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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