· Private foundation
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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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $274k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $121k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $65,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $55,645 |
| Every Nations Church Bhutan | $35,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,300 |
| New Day for Children | $30,000 |
| SOLVA | $24,824 |
| Friends Lanka Child Foundation | $14,000 |
| Freedom House Foundation | $12,100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| Coast Hills Church | $12,000 |
| Physically Challenged Action Foundation | $12,000 |
| Surf n' Turf | $11,000 |
| Youth for Christ International | $11,000 |
| United Bible Theological College | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 90% of grant dollars ($6.5M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 10% that went abroad ($749k) is mapped below.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $221k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 42% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 10% of all-years giving ($749k)
17 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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 +47% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.
40 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down; 21 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, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $387k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LALIVE ACTION2× · 2021–2022 · $861k · revenue +9%
- JAJONI AND FRIENDS4× · 2020–2023 · $500k · revenue +73%
- CMCHAMPION MINISTRIES INC3× · 2020–2022 · $424k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- PHPROJECT HOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONone grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -51%
- TGTrustBridge Globalone grant, 2020 · $150k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $120k
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.
Provide safe housing and training to women who were victims of addiction,sex trafficking, abuse, homelesness or previously incarcerated.
SOS provides assistance to poor and marginalized people in the USA & other countries. SOS feeds the hungry, drills water wells, contributes to schools and operates an orphanage. SOS also rescues and rehabilitates victims of sex trafficking.
The Orphan's Hands provides a safe home and education for orphaned youth at risk of being trafficked in high-risk countries while bringing the love and hope of Jesus.
Misfits Mission purpose is to lead women to restoration in Christ through transitional living and godly counsel of Christian leaders.
Alive at Last helps victims of sexual exploitation and trafficking live free and discover their God-given purpose.
Ftlm seeks to equip churches to minister to those who are suffering from addiction and equip christians with the resources needed to facilitate spiritual growth in christlike character and biblical wisdom.
Providing transitional housing and quality restorative services that move women and their children to lives of stability independence and new life.
We are compelled by god's word to provide security, education and the hope of jesus to children in south africa so they can thrive personally and impact their future families, communities and the kingdom of god.
Refuge for women inc is a faith-based organization that provides housing, counseling, and life and work skills training for women who have escaped human trafficking or sexual exploitation.
House of Hope Kansas City is unique, because we work with teens and their parents to find solutions and ultimately, restoration of healthy family relationships. We serve families in crisis with our program for residents to experience the…
See schedule oour mission is the integration of women and children into society, transformed through the power of healing and complete discipleship and vocational training within a safe, loving, and serving community. our vision is to see…
We aim to assist hurting women that demonstrate the desire for a life change with a helping hand up, not a hand out, through a biblically-based, Christ-centered, mentoring and discipleship program. In order to facilitate life-long change,…
How this is measured
148 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. 148 of the 261 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 LIVE ACTION ↗
- Who funds JONI AND FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds CHAMPION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds The Network Group Inc ↗
- Who funds LIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC ↗
- Who funds FOR THE CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds OBRIA MEDICAL CLINICS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds ONE GENERATION ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR FAITH AND FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds OC UNITED TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds Precept ↗
- Who funds BRAVE GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds EQUIPNET ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL FUND ↗
- Who funds AGUA VIVA MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Hitching Post Ministries ↗
- Who funds Surf and Turf Therapy ↗
- Who funds UNCHARTED MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds GREATER EUROPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds PASS IT ON MINISTRY ↗
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: Orange County Community Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Sisters of St Joseph Healthcare Foundation · Servant Foundation · Inland Empire Community Foundation · Optivest Foundation · Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian · In-N-Out Burgers Foundation · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Liferay Foundation · O L Halsell Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Giving University funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Giving University. Bigger dots raise more.
- Adelante Mujeres: 31% of income from government
- The Contingent: 5% of income from government
- Community Rowing Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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