· Private foundation
Family Benevolent 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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| New Life Lutheran Church | $25,000 |
| The Reehl Mission Vision | $10,000 |
| Concordia Univ Harvest Fund | $3,500 |
| Our Place | $3,000 |
| The Walker Borum Foundation | $2,500 |
| Concordia Univ Ch Worker Scholarship Endow | $2,500 |
| Concordia Univ Paul Scholars | $2,000 |
| Homestead Refuge | $2,000 |
| Our Community Salutes | $1,000 |
| Heartland Lutheran High School | $1,000 |
| Phils Friends | $1,000 |
| Dollywood Foundation Finance | $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 (FY18–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 77% 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 32% of Family Benevolent Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
21 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OGORPHAN GRAIN TRAIN INC6× · 2017–2022 · $54k · revenue +25%
- PFPHIL'S FRIENDS NFP8× · 2017–2024 · $19k · revenue +134%
- CUCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY2× · 2018–2023 · $9k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- THTopical Health Allianceone grant, 2022 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $2k
- CTCONCORDIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARYone grant, 2019 · $2k
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.
Support the needs of non-domestic Christian missions
Our mission is simple: make it easy to give back in ways that are effective, transparent and instant. our aim is to deliver "instant aid" with nutrient dense meals to communities facing crisis and protecting vulnerable children. we want to…
Feeding the spiritual and physical hunger, especially in at-risk children.
We provide aid to refugees, both at home and abroad. Simply humanitarian.
Glorify and serve god by providing meals for hungry men, women, and children, emergency shelter and transition to independence for homeless men, and spiritual hope through jesus christ.
The corporation is organized to provide nutritious fortified meals throughout the world to children and families that are most vunerable to hunger and malnutriion.
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, community, and hope.
The Organization provides worldwide relief and aid to reduce human suffering as a result of hunger, poverty, war and natural disasters.
To mobilize churches, individuals and community groups to provide food and basic necessities to the poor and needy around the world.
Aid to poverty stricken areas in the u.s. and abroad.
Our mission is to promote the cause of christian religion; to engage people and resources to help the extreme poor in developing nations with a focus on orphans, health care, vocational training and spiritual growth.
World orphans vision is to empower the church to care for orphans and vulnerable families. we equip, inspire, and mobilize the church to care for orphans and vulnerable children. churches engaged. children restored. communities transformed…
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 39 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 ORPHAN GRAIN TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds The Reehl Mission Vision ↗
- Who funds PHIL'S FRIENDS NFP ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HELP FOR HAITI INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds TABLE GRACE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds HOMESTEAD REFUGE ↗
- Who funds CASA OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds ANGELS AMONG US ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BBQ RELIEF ↗
- Who funds GIVING THE BASICS INC ↗
- Who funds OUR COMMUNITY SALUTES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HOLIDAY HEROES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HASTINGS COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
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: LeRoy Thom Jean Thom and T-L Foundation · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Edward Jones Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Family Benevolent Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Family Benevolent Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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