· Public charity
Eden Bridge Foundation
The EDEN BRIDGE FOUNDATION provides support to lancaster bible college and other christian organizations by making gifts or grants, by providing assistance to the college and other christian organizations with fundraising and other educational activities and by providing other support to said organizations.
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.
The 171 grants below total $9,162,036 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $9,732,602 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $570,566 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k39 grants · $285k
- $10k–50k111 grants · $2.2M
- $50k–250k18 grants · $2.1M
- $250k+3 grants · $4.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EVERENCE FINANCIAL | $3,875,000 |
| SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND | $401,000 |
| THREE SPRINGS MINISTRIES | $359,000 |
| LANCASTER BIBLE COLLEGE | $226,950 |
| RENAISSANCE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC | $217,775 |
| CALVARY CHURCH OF SOUDERTON | $210,000 |
| CORNERSTONE CHURCH OF SKIPPACK | $200,000 |
| CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH OF LANSDALE | $197,000 |
| CROWN FINANCIAL MINISTRIES | $161,000 |
| CALVARY CHURCH-LANCASTER | $95,150 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $94,500 |
| NEXT COMMUNITY CHURCH | $94,000 |
| COCOA PACKS | $91,000 |
| ONE COLLECTIVE | $77,400 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $68,000 |
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, $2.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 59% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
251 repeat relationships — 126 still active in FY2025, 125 since wound down; 33 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $582k 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
- TSTHREE SPRINGS MINISTRIES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +87% · 26% of their budget
- LBLANCASTER BIBLE COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +33%
- CFCROWN FINANCIAL MINISTRIES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +9%
Funded once
- FMFRANCONIA MENNONITE CONFERENCEone grant, 2017 · $403k
- PAPIG AND PORK EDUCATION PROJECT INCone grant, 2017 · $250k · revenue -100% · 52% of their budget
- CSCAMP SWATARAgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $186k · revenue +43%
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.
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…
To provide resources, training, and continuing support to leaders in the us and around the world in order that they may help others find freedom in christ.
To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.
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.
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.
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…
Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.
To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…
Christian services including missions efforts, humanitarian aide, mentoring/discipleship, establishment and covering of churches, licensing/ordaining ministers, pastoral support, all domestically and internationally.
Dualreach furthers the worldwide efforts of the christian church by partnering with other ministries & churches in evangelism ministries.
Gospel mission
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Life Ministries Inc and the most unlike its peers is Next Gen Personal Finance. 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 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
316 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. 316 of the 488 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 EVERENCE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds THREE SPRINGS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER BIBLE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds CROWN FINANCIAL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THRIVENT CHARITABLE IMPACT & INVESTING ↗
- Who funds HORIZON INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds ONE WAY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE MARY CAMPBELL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ASIA'S HOPE ↗
- Who funds SHINING LIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds LINDEN HALL SCHOOL FOR GIRLS ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JESSICA AND FRIENDS COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds Donors Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds BLACK ROCK RETREAT ↗
- Who funds UNIVEST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE POCKET TESTAMENT LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds CURE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds PIG AND PORK EDUCATION PROJECT INC ↗
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: Lancaster County Community Foundation · Faithful Journey Foundation · Burkholder Family Foundation · Clark Associates Charitable Foundation · Robert C Wenger Charitable Trust · Vna Foundation of Greater North Penn · Shady Maple Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Anabaptist Foundation · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Keller Charitable Foundation Inc · W W Smith Charitable Trust
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 Eden Bridge 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.
- The Mary Campbell Center Inc — 6% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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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