· Private foundation
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 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| YOUTH FOR CHRIST | $6,000 |
| NAVIGATORS | $6,000 |
| CBMC INC | $5,000 |
| WHEATON COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| PIONEERS USA | $4,000 |
| POWERQUEST WORLDWIDE | $4,000 |
| NOVO MISSION INC | $4,000 |
| SAINT MICHAEL CHURCH | $3,000 |
| LOUDONVILLE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| OPEN DOOR MISSION | $3,000 |
| CAMP PATTERSONVILLE | $3,000 |
| INTERVARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP | $2,000 |
| OUR DAILY BREAD MINISTRIES | $1,500 |
| MIDAMERICAN NAZARENE UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
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 (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 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 5% of Fernwall 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.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 28 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 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 ↗
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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · 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 Fernwall Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fernwall Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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