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Fernwall Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| YOUTH FOR CHRIST | $6,000 |
| NAVIGATORS | $6,000 |
| CBMC INC | $5,000 |
| WHEATON COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| POWERQUEST WORLDWIDE | $4,000 |
| PIONEERS USA | $4,000 |
| NOVO MISSION INC | $4,000 |
| CAMP PATTERSONVILLE | $3,000 |
| LOUDONVILLE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| OPEN DOOR MISSION | $3,000 |
| SAINT MICHAEL CHURCH | $3,000 |
| INTERVARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP | $2,000 |
| OUR DAILY BREAD MINISTRIES | $1,500 |
| MIDAMERICAN NAZARENE UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of Fernwall Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
19 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- OYOMAHA YOUTH FOR CHRIST3× · 2020–2024 · $18k · revenue +10%
- CPCAMP PATTERSONVILLE INC4× · 2020–2024 · $14k · revenue +92%
- ODOPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE3× · 2020–2024 · $9k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- CICBMC INCone grant, 2020 · $5k
- SMSAINT MICHAELS CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $3k
- FOFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETESone grant, 2018 · $3k
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.
Providing guality Christian education to the network generation
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Mid-america christian university prepares students through a wesleyan perspective to create, collaborate, and innovate to solve local and global problems for the glory of god through jesus christ and the good of society.
Post secondary and graduate educational institution The mission of Faith Baptist Bible College and Theological Seminary is to equip vocational Christian workers and other servant leaders while inspiring them to take the Word to the world.
Provide education in theology, divinity, religious education, ministerial training, business and organizational leadership.
Northeastern seminary strives to be a vibrant source for christian theological formation whose students are formed in a biblical vision of gracious christianity and impact wholeness to the world in an expansive array of vocations and…
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
As an institution of higher education committed to the reformed christian perspective, dordt university equips students, alumni, and the broader community to work effectively toward christ-centered renewal in all aspects of contemporary…
The Master's University and Seminary (TMUS) exists to advance the Kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ through education. This is accomplished through unreserved commitment to worshipping God, authority of Scripture, personal holiness, serving…
Ohio christian university (ocu) is committed to offering a complete education that develops students intellectually, professionally, and spiritually. (continued on schedule o)ocu offers degree programs designed to equip students to become…
Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.
Welch college is a christian higher education institution that educates leaders to serve christ, his church, and his world through biblical thought and life
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA and the most unlike its peers is Camp Pattersonville Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 28 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
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 OMAHA YOUTH FOR CHRIST ↗
- Who funds Wheaton College ↗
- Who funds CAMP PATTERSONVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds POWERQUEST WORLDWIDE LTD ↗
- Who funds InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Institute for Bible Reading ↗
- Who funds MIDAMERICA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY ↗
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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Fernwall 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.
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.