· Private foundation
David and Karen Bere 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 $10k16 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $140k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHRIST CHURCH OF OAK BROOK | $50,000 |
| CHRISTIANITY TODAY INTERNATIONAL | $50,000 |
| MIKE KRUGER MINISTRIES INC | $33,000 |
| FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $25,000 |
| LAWNDALE COMMUNITY CHURCH | $18,000 |
| CHAMPIONSHIP GREATNESS | $12,000 |
| THORNSTON EDUCATIONAL FUND | $12,000 |
| THILLEN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| ALTAR FLY FISHING | $10,000 |
| NORTHERN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $10,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $10,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $7,200 |
| PILLAR CHURCH | $6,000 |
| GOOD WORKS COLLECTIVE | $6,000 |
| COME AND SEE FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
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 human-services grants (FY17–25, $105k) 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
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.
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.
45 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CTChristianity Today International9× · 2017–2025 · $635k · revenue +150%
- LCLAWNDALE CHRISTIAN LEGAL CENTER3× · 2019–2021 · $300k · revenue +67%
- YLYOUNG LIFE9× · 2017–2025 · $175k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- HCHINSDALE CENTRAL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +591% · 62% of their budget
- CPCHRIST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF EDINAone grant, 2017 · $12k
- CFCommunity Frontline Of Fort Worthone grant, 2020 · $9k · revenue -9%
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.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
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.
TWCA is an independent, Christ-centered college preparatory school that integrates learning with biblical faith and challenges our students to reach their highest potential - intellectually, creatively, physically, and socially - for the…
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
Providing guality Christian education to the network generation
Asbury Theological Seminary is a community called to prepare theologically educated, sanctified, Spirit-filled men and women to evangelize and to spread scriptural holiness throughout the world through the love of Jesus Christ, in the…
The mission of Taylor University is to develop servant-leaders marked with a passion to minister Christ's redemptive love, grace, and truth to a world in need.
Kingdom advisors is a discipleship ministry serving christian financial professionals. the organization encourages, educates, and empowers christian financial professionals with biblical wisdom to be effective disciples of jesus christ in…
The King's University integrates Biblical education and practical ministry to shape Spirit-formed individuals who follow Jesus, serve His Church, and are sent to impact the world.
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christian Community Development Association and the most unlike its peers is Hope for Children Foundation. 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 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 61 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 Christianity Today International ↗
- Who funds LAWNDALE CHRISTIAN LEGAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Mike Kruger Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds THORNSTON EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds THE BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY LITERACY INC ↗
- Who funds TIMOTHY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
- Who funds Championship Greatness ↗
- Who funds Friends of Young Life DuPage County Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE FULLER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO WEST SIDE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HINSDALE CENTRAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN FRONTIER FELLOWSHIP ↗
- Who funds ALTAR FLY FISHING ↗
- Who funds THE HOPE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Good Works Collective ↗
- Who funds EDUCATIONAL MEDIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ENCOUNTERING THE LOGOS MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds Wheaton College ↗
- Who funds THILLEN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION ↗
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: Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Christian Community Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · James and Susan Bere Family Foundation · Servant Foundation · Barnabas Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · The Dallas 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 David and Karen Bere 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.
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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