· Private foundation
Hesed 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 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $73k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $137k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCHOLAR LEADERS INTERNATIONAL | $71,500 |
| LAUSANNE MOVEMENT | $65,000 |
| BEL AIR PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $32,000 |
| VENICE FREE MRTHODIST CHURCH | $20,000 |
| CENTER FOR STUDIES IN GLOBAL CHRIST | $10,600 |
| CARE FOR CHILDREN | $10,299 |
| LIFESONG FOR ORPHANS | $7,000 |
| CURE INTERNATIONAL | $5,000 |
| OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL | $5,000 |
| LEADERSHIP RESOURCE GROUP INC | $3,000 |
| LEIGHTON FORD MINISTRIES | $2,000 |
| CHRIST FOR THE CITY INTL INC | $1,600 |
| VISION INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE | $1,120 |
| FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $1,030 |
| LIGHTHOUSE MEDICAL MISSIONS | $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 (FY18–25, $54k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +56% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 4 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SLScholar Leaders International5× · 2019–2025 · $153k · revenue +283%
- CFCARE FOR CHILDREN CARE FOR CHILDREN - USA INC4× · 2018–2025 · $46k · revenue +6%
- CFCENTER FOR STUDIES IN GLOBAL CHRISTIANITY INC4× · 2018–2025 · $36k · revenue +87%
Funded once
- DCDREAM CENTER FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $51k · revenue +39%
- GGKPNone grant, 2024 · $10k
- WMWORLD MARTIAL ARTS MISSIONone grant, 2018 · $8k
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.
Training pastors in third world countries
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…
The organization is dedicated to reaching people for christ through an international network of christians who journey with the poor and marginalized, bringing practical and spiritual support with hope of a better future,(continued on…
International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures
Childrens Home and Ministry in India
Offers counsel, formal & informal teaching served in a pastoral role, mentored groups,filled numerous speaking invitations, conducted discipling groups & provided spiritual, emotional and
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…
Serving and pastoring overseas workers on their own turf and equipping nationals by training and empowering them in their work of advancing the gospel.
Providing responsible evangelism, leadership, development, and humanitarian assistance.
How this is measured
28 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. 28 of the 54 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 FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds Scholar Leaders International ↗
- Who funds LAUSANNE COMMITTEE FOR WORLD EVANGELIZATION ↗
- Who funds DREAM CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CARE FOR CHILDREN CARE FOR CHILDREN - USA INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR STUDIES IN GLOBAL CHRISTIANITY INC ↗
- Who funds CURE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds VISION INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP RESOURCES GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds Leighton Ford Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds LIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC ↗
- Who funds HEAVENLY TREASURES ↗
- Who funds Christianity Today International ↗
- Who funds AMG INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL MESSIAH MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH FOR CHRISTUSA INC ↗
- Who funds HOME ON THE GREEN PASTURES ↗
- Who funds BAJA MISSIONS MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds BURUNDI MIRACLE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds CLARIS HEALTH ↗
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: The Fuller Foundation · First Fruit Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Lilly Endowment Inc · Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Hesed Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hesed Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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