· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| THORNSTON EDUCATIONAL FUND | $12,000 |
| CHAMPIONSHIP GREATNESS | $12,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $10,000 |
| THILLEN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| ALTAR FLY FISHING | $10,000 |
| NORTHERN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $10,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $7,200 |
| PILLAR CHURCH | $6,000 |
| GOOD WORKS COLLECTIVE | $6,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
36 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. 36 of the 61 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 THE HOPE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ALTAR FLY FISHING ↗
- Who funds Good Works Collective ↗
- Who funds EDUCATIONAL MEDIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ENCOUNTERING THE LOGOS MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds THILLEN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Wheaton College ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization David and Karen Bere Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David and Karen Bere Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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