· Private foundation
Hedden Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k28 grants · $98k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $143k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Ross Crow Ministries | $30,000 |
| Geffrey Gichure AF Inland Church KE | $21,200 |
| CRU | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $18,000 |
| Commission Every Nation | $12,000 |
| Operation Once in a Lifetime | $12,000 |
| Living Alternatives | $10,000 |
| Peoria Area Youth for Christ | $10,000 |
| The Christian Center | $10,000 |
| Ask and Ye Shall Receive | $9,000 |
| Brazil Gospel Fellowship Mission | $8,000 |
| Resonate Global Mission | $6,000 |
| River City Mission | $5,000 |
| Bible Telling | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $66k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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.
55 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 2 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- YFYOUTH FOR CHRIST - PEORIA AREA8× · 2017–2024 · $120k · revenue +70%
- OOOPERATION ONCE IN A LIFETIME8× · 2017–2024 · $77k · revenue +8%
- PCPEORIA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $58k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- GGGEOFFREY GICHURE AFRICA INLAND CHURone grant, 2018 · $35k
- GGGeffrey Gichure Africa Inlandone grant, 2019 · $25k
- FBFRIST BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2018 · $21k
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.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…
Supporing missionaries worldwide
Mobilization of churches in America by taking pastors and laymen on vision and service trips overseas in fulfillment of Jesus command to go ye into all the world, making disciples...
To present the gospel by providing life-long opportunities to integrate faith and learning through balanced, biblically based scholarship, training people to love god by renewing their minds and equipping the church to engage the world for…
To spread the gospel of jesus christ through crusades
To reach out to the chinese worldwide in local evangelism and foreign missions. this purpose is facilitated through the use of missionaries, evangelism training and literature.
Grace Global Ministries exists to assist local churches in sending global workers to fulfill the Great Commission.
Fulfill evangelism and discipleship ministry through singing, preaching, and teaching the gospel in prisons, churches, and communities. this includes a correspondence bible course ministry to inmates. in addition, compassion ministry is…
Spread the gospel of jesus christ
Training and equipping for evangelism in the christian faith.
Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Commission to Every Nation and the most unlike its peers is Ask and Ye Shall Receive. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 48 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
17 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. 17 of the 102 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 YOUTH FOR CHRIST - PEORIA AREA ↗
- Who funds OPERATION ONCE IN A LIFETIME ↗
- Who funds PEORIA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COMMISSION TO EVERY NATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHRISTIAN CENTER ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP ↗
- Who funds BIBLETELLING ↗
- Who funds RIVER CITY MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds ASK AND YE SHALL RECEIVE ↗
- Who funds PATHWAY MINISTRIES ↗
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: Charles & Kimberly Hemmer Foundation · His First Foundation % John S Wieland · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Hedden Charitable Trust 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.
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