Illinois · Public charity
Interest Ministries
To equip and encourage those who serve God in difficult places among the poor, marginalized and spiritually unreached. We especially assist programs that touch children, youth and those who are most needy.
- $735k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $399k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 24
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.5M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 12% of the organizations Interest Ministries funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 15 | $399k | 7% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $403k | 12% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $460k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $430k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $505k | 32% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $288k | 13% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $343k | 11% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $278k | 7% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bright Hope International | $531,325 | 9 | 3% |
| Central Arizona Shelter Services Inc | $233,000 | 9 | 0% |
| First Place Az | $190,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Nourishphx | $185,000 | 7 | 1% |
| The Foster Alliance | $174,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Southwest Autism Research and Resource Center | $165,000 | 7 | 0% |
| City Hope | $165,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Tempe Community Action Agency Inc | $150,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Arizona Cancer Foundation for Children Inc | $125,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Treasures 4 Teachers Inc | $125,000 | 5 | 2% |
Show all 46 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Interest Ministries supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Arizona Community Foundation · Thunderbirds Charities · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Phoenix Suns Charities Inc · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · American Express Foundation · John F Long Foundation Inc · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · Executive Council Charities · The Foundation for Community and Health Advancement · BHHS Legacy Foundation · Fiesta Events Inc
How this is measured
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About Interest Ministries
- How much does Interest Ministries give?
- Interest Ministries reported 15 itemized grants totaling $398,500, out of $734,801 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Interest Ministries fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (21%), Human Services (18%), International (16%).
- Who are Interest Ministries's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Bright Hope International ($531k), Central Arizona Shelter Services Inc ($233k), First Place Az ($190k).
- Does Interest Ministries fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Interest Ministries?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arizona Community Foundation, Thunderbirds Charities, Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust.
- Where is Interest Ministries based?
- Interest Ministries is based in IL.
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