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Covenant Foundation Inc at a glance

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Covenant Foundation Inc

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.

$3.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
58
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$812k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0180% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$861kPhilanthropy$717kHealth$465kInternational$211kPublic Benefit$175kPublic Safety & Disaster$101kSocial Science$100kHuman Services$83kOther$0
02FY2025 · 58 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k25 grants · $67k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $217k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.7M
$10,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE DAVIS ACADEMY$811,840
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA$611,000
CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION$250,000
AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION$185,000
THE FOUNDATION FOR DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACIES(FDD)$175,000
GILEE$111,000
ATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION$100,000
OVARIAN CANCER INSTITUTE$100,000
JEWISH INSTITUTE FOR NATIONAL SECURITY AFFAIRS(JINSA)$100,000
BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FUND$70,000
JEWISH HOMELIFE$65,250
CAMP TWIN LAKES$60,000
SHEPPERD CENTER FOUNDATION$60,000
FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE$50,000
AMERICAN JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATERATLANTA$50,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.

area typical 11%SHELTERBOX USA: $5k → 14%JEWISH INTEREST-FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION OF GA(JIFLA): $3k → 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

NY
MA
NV
CA
CO
MD
DC
GA
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 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
University of Judaism Foundation
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2
The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc
Religion
3
Idf Memorial Foundation
Philanthropy
4
The Bnai Jacob Foundation
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5
Jewish Life Foundation
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6
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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7
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
8
Hadassah the Women's Zionist Org of America Inc

Hadassah, the women's zionist organization of america, inc., a new york not-for-profit corporation ("hwzoa") enhances the health and lives of people in israel, the united states and worldwide through education, advocacy, women's…

Community Improvement
9
American Friends of Jewish Hospitals and Education Centers of Brazil Inc
Philanthropy
10
American Society for Technion Israel Institute of Technology Inc

The american technion society supports the technion's critical research and (continued on sch o)

International
11
American Jewish Committee

AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…

Civil Rights
12
Jewish War Veterans of the Usa National Memorial Inc

The mission of the Jewish War Veterans of the USA National Memorial, Inc., doing business as the National Museum of American Jewish Military History, is to preserve, interpret, and share the history of Jewish Americans who have served in…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shepherd Center Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Maccabee Task Force 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

30 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. 30 of the 57 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
10/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SEE DETAILED ATTACHED LIST: $18,856,046 · OtherSEE DETAILED ATTACHED LIST+38 more: $838,650 · OtherTHE ALFRED AND ADELE DAVIS ACADEMY INC: $811,840 · Education+2 more: $20,000 · EducationJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA INC: $661,000 · PhilanthropySHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 · HealthTHE OVARIAN CANCER INSTITUTE INC: $100,000 · Health+4 more: $20,308 · HealthAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $185,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $14,500 · International+1 more: $1,000 · InternationalATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · Crime & LegalJewish Home Life Communities Inc: $65,250 · Housing & ShelterZABAN PARADIES CENTER FOR HOMELESS COUPLES INC: $5,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$19,694,696Education$831,840Philanthropy$722,000Health$370,308International$200,500Crime & Legal$100,000Housing & Shelter$70,250

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 budgetTHE ALFRED AND ADELE DAVIS ACADEMY INC: $811,840 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA INC: $661,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $185,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJewish Home Life Communities Inc: $65,250 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCAMP TWIN LAKES INC: $60,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FELICIA PENZELL WEBER JEWISH COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORT AMERICA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetZABAN PARADIES CENTER FOR HOMELESS COUPLES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGeorgia Historical Society: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE 300 CLUB OF ATLANTA INC: $700 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $258 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOUTHERN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $50 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.

The Selig Foundation …The Marcus Foundation…The Community Foundat…The Zaban Foundation …Hertz Douglas J Famil…The Zalik Foundation …Cooper Family Foundat…Rosenberg Family Foun…Morris Family Foundat…The Engel Foundation …The Billi Marcus Foun…Jewish Community Foun…
The Selig Foundation IncGA17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Selig Foundation Inc · The Marcus Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The Zaban Foundation Inc · Hertz Douglas J Family Foundation · The Zalik Foundation Inc · Cooper Family Foundation Inc · Rosenberg Family Foundation Inc · Morris Family Foundation Inc · The Engel Foundation Inc · The Billi Marcus Foundation Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego

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 Covenant Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Covenant Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report 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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Covenant Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Covenant Foundation Inc 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 57 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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