· Private foundation
Des Plaines Publishing Charitable Trust
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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Center Pointe Church | $5,000 |
| Hope Fellowship | $5,000 |
| Vision Church | $5,000 |
| Asssemblies of God World Missions | $5,000 |
| Gospel for India | $5,000 |
| Grace Covenant Church | $5,000 |
| Church At The Well | $5,000 |
| Ascent College | $5,000 |
| Openhouse Church CLG | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| New York Ministry Network | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| Ascent College - Missions | $4,000 |
| One at the Well | $4,000 |
| River of Life | $3,500 |
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 (FY23–23, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 12% of Des Plaines Publishing Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 51% of the giving stays in VA; by stated purpose, 44%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.
27 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ACAscent College6× · 2020–2025 · $50k · revenue +289%
- AIArrabon Inc4× · 2020–2025 · $13k · revenue +862%
- LHLydia House International5× · 2020–2025 · $11k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- AAGUSMone grant, 2022 · $8k
- NENeedle's Eye Ministryone grant, 2021 · $7k
- WOWord of Life Assemblyone grant, 2022 · $6k
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.
Biblical counseling
We exist to provide educational and training resources for believers to love biblical unity live out reconciliation and lead reconciliation conversations
Expansion of the Gospel of Christ through training literature and digital teaching materials.
North America Bible Institute (NABI) is an evangelical graduate school, made up of students who are diverse in both ethnicity and ministry aims -- but united in great love for Jesus and his gospel. As a graduate school, NABI offers them…
Church
To spread the gospel through public speaking platforms and engagements
mission is to empower women to heal from trauma, grow in faith, and thrive in purpose, fully realizing their full potential
Religious
To promote Christian ministry through campus outreach, student discipleship, missions support, and gospel conversations
How this is measured
23 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. 23 of the 137 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 Ascent College ↗
- Who funds Arrabon Inc ↗
- Who funds Lydia House International ↗
- Who funds UNKNOWN NATIONS ↗
- Who funds RISE PROGRAM INC (RE-ENTRY INVESTMENT/STUDENT ED) ↗
- Who funds A FEARLESS LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds She Rises Inc ↗
- Who funds SaveOne ↗
- Who funds Now I am Known Foundation ↗
- Who funds BURNING HOPE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds TEEN CHALLENGE OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds NEEDLE'S EYE MINISTRIES INC ↗
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: Servant Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Des Plaines Publishing Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Des Plaines Publishing Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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