· Private foundation
Jerry & Muriel Caven 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, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $93k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ONE CHALLENGE | $54,621 |
| EVANGELISM RESOURCES | $25,000 |
| BETHESDA MINISTRIES | $19,985 |
| IDAHO LEARNING CENTER | $18,380 |
| FUN IN THE SON MINISTRIES (CAMP TABLE ROCK) | $15,000 |
| GLOBAL CATALYTIC NETWORK | $14,400 |
| ACE DEVELOPMENT FUND | $5,000 |
| ANSWERS IN GENESIS | $5,000 |
| FOREIGN MISSION FOUNDATION | $2,850 |
| LOVE INC | $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 (FY21–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 10% of Jerry & Muriel Caven Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +30% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 5 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, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $104k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OGONECHILD GLOBAL5× · 2019–2023 · $37k · revenue +30%
- AIANSWERS IN GENESIS INC3× · 2022–2025 · $20k · revenue +19%
- GCGlobal Catalytic Network2× · 2023–2025 · $15k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- YWYOUTH WITH A MISSIONone grant, 2022 · $20k
- CCCAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRISTone grant, 2019 · $10k
- MCMOKOKCHURY CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $9k
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.
Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.
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…
International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures
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.
Non-denominational missions organization taking the gospel to russia, asia and middle east using television, radio and the internet. also ministering to churches throughout the united states.
To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…
Far Reaching Ministries (FRM) was founded to carry the Gospel Jesus Christ to the world with discipleship as our primary objective. We plant and edify evangelical churches, found Bible schools, gather intimate small groups, and sustain…
North America Bible Institute (NABI) is an evangelical graduate school, made up of students who are diverse in both ethnicity and ministry aims -- but united in great love for Jesus and his gospel. As a graduate school, NABI offers them…
Crossway is a not-for-profit Christian publishing ministry of Good News Publishers that exists to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ through publishing and other means, in order, by God's grace: to bring people to Christ as their Lord and…
Ambassadors for Christ International - USA is a fellowship of gospel preachers and teachers whose mission is to preach Christ, edify the Church, and to glorify God and serve as a catalyst for revival, evangelism, and training of Christians…
How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 41 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.
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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: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · G II Charities · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · The Signatry Charitable Trust · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jerry & Muriel Caven Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jerry & Muriel Caven Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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