· Private foundation
Joan W Cress Charitable Trust Tr
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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAMARITANS PURSE | $13,328 |
| PRISON FELLOWSHIP | $6,664 |
| HOSPICE OF LANSING INC | $6,664 |
| FAIR PLAY CAMP SCHOOL | $6,664 |
| PEOPLES CITY MISSION | $6,664 |
| RAFIKI FOUNDATION | $6,664 |
| GREATER LANSING FOOD BANK | $6,664 |
| FOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC | $6,664 |
| RECONCILIATION MINISTRIES | $6,664 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 79% of its 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.
11 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PCPEOPLE'S CITY MISSION6× · 2020–2025 · $98k · revenue +12%
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE5× · 2020–2025 · $45k · revenue +106%
- FPFAIR PLAY CAMP SCHOOL INC5× · 2020–2025 · $32k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $7k
- RRAFIKIone grant, 2020 · $6k
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.
To reach out with the message of the gospel of jesus to the last, least, and the lost
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…
Glorify and serve god by providing meals for hungry men, women, and children, emergency shelter and transition to independence for homeless men, and spiritual hope through jesus christ.
World christian broadcasting exists so that people in places best served by broadcast media become aware of the good news of jesus christ and want to know more. geographic areas that cannot be easily served by missionaries are a priority.
This church will be that place of emergency where people can come any time of day or night. We will be a place that will lead people back to health both spiritually and naturally.
Ministry
To create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home health care…
World orphans vision is to empower the church to care for orphans and vulnerable families. we equip, inspire, and mobilize the church to care for orphans and vulnerable children. churches engaged. children restored. communities transformed…
To engage in worship services as a christian church - twice a week prayer service - once a week. members and friends receive a deeper understanding of god and the holy bible. we minister to the poor, pray for the sick and counsel with…
To strengthen marriages and families, to encourage Christian fellowship as we evangelize the lost around us and minister to the needy with the resources God has blessed us.
To encourage and demonstrate grace in the body of christ across racial lines, so that communities throughout mississippi can see practical evidence of the gospel message.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 13 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 PEOPLE'S CITY MISSION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds GREATER LANSING FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC ↗
- Who funds RAFIKI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAIR PLAY CAMP SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF LANSING ↗
- Who funds Reconciliation Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Joan W Cress Charitable Trust Tr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joan W Cress Charitable Trust Tr. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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