· Private foundation
His First Foundation % John S Wieland
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k28 grants · $425k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $300k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WTVP | $300,000 |
| DREAM CENTER PEORIA | $100,000 |
| PATHWAY MINISTRIES | $100,000 |
| WPEO | $50,000 |
| CITI VISION | $50,000 |
| YOUTH FOR CHRIST | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| LIFESONG | $25,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP HOUSE | $25,000 |
| SOUTH SIDE MISSION | $25,000 |
| LONE PINE MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| UNION RESCUE MISSION | $20,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $20,000 |
| CRESCENT PROJECT | $20,000 |
| HANDS OF LOVE | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $365k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +35% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.
54 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 6 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PCPEORIA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +35%
- PMPATHWAY MINISTRIES9× · 2017–2025 · $312k · revenue +64%
- CECHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP OF ILLINOIS INC5× · 2017–2021 · $288k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- JFJCH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $1.0M
- UGUNLIMITED GRADE MEDIAone grant, 2018 · $200k
- GCGALESBURG CHRISTIAN SCHOOLone grant, 2024 · $75k
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.
The mission of youth for christ - peoria area is to communicate the life-changing message of jesus christ to every young person.
To provide resources, training, and continuing support to leaders in the us and around the world in order that they may help others find freedom in christ.
Our mission is to make disciples of jesus christ by engaging indigenous pastors around the world. our vision is to train pastors and their congregants to share the gospel in a friendly, non-denominational approach across all ethnicities,…
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…
To propagate the gospel of jesus christ; to examine candidates and appoint missionaries. to endorse missionary programs according to standards set forth in the new testament, to establish churches, church schools & mission societies in…
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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…
Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
As part of the body of christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of jesus christ and become a part of the local church.
International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures
Our mission is to carry out the commands of our Lord Jesus Christ to take the Good News of the gospel to the whole world teaching people to obey everything He commanded. We work among mostly low-literacy populations so we do this by…
How this is measured
30 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. 30 of the 86 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 PEORIA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS VALLEY PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Citivision Inc ↗
- Who funds PATHWAY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP OF ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds DREAM CENTER OF PEORIA NFP ↗
- Who funds LIFESONG INC ↗
- Who funds CRESCENT PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds LONE PINE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds YOUTH HORIZONS INC ↗
- Who funds Taylor University ↗
- Who funds THE CHRISTIAN CENTER ↗
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: Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Christian Charities Foundation · Share Foundation · Hedden Charitable Trust · Gilmore Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization His First Foundation % John S Wieland funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from His First Foundation % John S Wieland. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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