· Private foundation
Johanna Van Lenten Charitable Tr
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Johanna Van Lenten Charitable Tr’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Johanna Van Lenten Charitable Tr named its own grantees at scale: 11 organizations, $178k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k7 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $91k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRACE UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $50,000 |
| KENSINGTON CHURCH | $20,000 |
| IMPACT 100 OAKLAND COUNTY | $15,000 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| PAUSE MINISTRIES | $11,250 |
| SERVANTS HEART MINISTRY | $10,000 |
| REDEEMER BROADCASTING | $10,000 |
| CHRISTIAN UNION | $10,000 |
| HOW TO LIFE | $8,750 |
| THE IRELAND FUNDS OF AMERICA | $5,500 |
| NEW CITY KIDS | $5,000 |
| FIRST UMC OF BIRMINGHAM MI | $5,000 |
| INSPIRE SPORTS CAMPS INC | $5,000 |
| LOUIS PALAU ASSOC | $5,000 |
| STREET 2 STREET | $2,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 52% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Dedicated to igniting personal transformation by affirming faith, inspiring hope, and equipping individuals, to live an intentional life in christ.
The mission of worship 24/7 is to ignite a passion for god through worship that results in a life of generosity, discipleship, evangelism, generosity and service.
Distribution of newsletters, production of dvds, cds and publications carrying the message of jesus christ and the kingdom of god to the people throughout the world.
Interdenominational christian ministry reaching men, women, and youth with the gospel message of jesus christ; providing spiritual and material needs in the metropolitan ny area, national and international communities.
Interdenomination ministry dedicated to bringing youth into a growing relationship with jesus christ.
To get the good news to every nation this generation by showing and sharing god's love by providing opportunities and supporting christian missionaries in over fifty seven countries around the world.
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…
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…
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.
Explore god creates and leverages quality content and media that enables young adults, seekers, and christians to explore god, experience god, and engage in god's plan for their life. using cutting-edge technology, we facilitate spiritual…
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
Impacting lives through the message of hope through christ centered programs, activities, and services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christian Union Inc and the most unlike its peers is Luis Palau Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 23 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds IMPACT100 OAKLAND COUNTY ↗
- Who funds PAUSE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds SERVANTS HEART MINISTRY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN UNION INC ↗
- Who funds Redeemer Broadcasting Inc ↗
- Who funds HOWTOLIFE MOVEMENT ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS) ↗
- Who funds INSPIRE SPORTS CAMPS INC ↗
- Who funds Luis Palau Association ↗
- Who funds NEW CITY KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds VANTAGE HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds STREET 2 STREET ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY FAMILY POLICY CENTER ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Frank X & Mary Ethel Weny Charitable Trust · The Mamie and Harold K Randall Charitable Trust · Columbia Bank Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Johanna Van Lenten Charitable Tr funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Vantage Health System Inc — 19% of income from government
- Servants Heart Ministry Corporation — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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