· Private foundation
Esbenshade Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k10 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MENNONITE CENTRAL COMMITTEE | $10,000 |
| MENNONITE DISASTER SERVICE | $10,000 |
| NEFFSVILLE MENNONITE CHURCH | $10,000 |
| WATER STREET RESCUE MISSION | $6,000 |
| RAINBOWS END YOUTH SERVICES | $5,000 |
| GLOBAL DISCIPLES | $5,000 |
| BLACK ROCK RETREAT | $5,000 |
| BRIDGE OF HOPE | $5,000 |
| WOODROW KROLL MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| MESSIAH UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| THE JESUS FILM PROJECT | $5,000 |
| TURNING POINT | $4,000 |
| MOUNT JOY HELPING SVC | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against -39% for those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2023, 2 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 FY2023, 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
- BRBLACK ROCK RETREAT7× · 2017–2023 · $100k · revenue +32%
- P1Psalm 119 Association Inc7× · 2017–2023 · $45k · revenue +21%
- WSWATER STREET MINISTRIES7× · 2017–2023 · $42k · revenue +89%
Funded once
- SASummit Adventure Incone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -75%
- EHEnd-Time Handmaidens Incone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -39%
- SISEND INTERNATIONAL INCone grant, 2019 · $5k
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.
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…
Missions training
To educate and prepare students for biblical gospel ministry as educators, pastors, and foreign missionaries.
To prepare students to serve christ and his church through biblical, experiential and practical ministry. prts provides theological training and instruction in accordance with the scriptures and the historic reformed creeds for promotion…
The mission of portersville christian school is to glorify god by preparing students to serve christ and instilling high standards spiritually, academically, socially, and physically. the school provides a high-quality academic program, a…
Motivated by the knowledge that the Word of the Lord will go forth from Jerusalem to the Nations, and guided by a commitment to read the New Testament in its first century context, Jerusalem Seminary provides cutting-edge ministry training…
Wesley biblical seminary is a multi-denominational school of theology that provides undergraduate, graduate and doctorate level education for individuals who are preparing for christian service.
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…
To foster biblical literacy through studies of all 66 books of the bible, cultivate professional and lay leadership skills, and deploy trained christian disciples in service worldwide.
Provides non-denominational education, and other activities including school for bible study, lecture series, seminars and retreats, all designed to increase the understanding of the bible.
Training pastors and leaders in christian faith
To work towards the great commission both locally and globally by partnering with the church to mobilize, equip, send and care for short-term teams and long-term workers who will take the gospel to the unreached.
How this is measured
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 19 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 BLACK ROCK RETREAT ↗
- Who funds Psalm 119 Association Inc ↗
- Who funds WATER STREET MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds MESSIAH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds RAISE28 ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL DISCIPLES ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds BIBLICAL MENNONITE ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Cedarville University ↗
- Who funds Summit Adventure Inc ↗
- Who funds End-Time Handmaidens Inc ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN SERVICES ↗
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: Lancaster County Community Foundation · Eden Bridge Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Clark Associates Charitable Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Esbenshade Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Esbenshade Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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