· Private foundation
Jonathan 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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $178k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VILLAGE SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL | $37,488 |
| CALVARY CHURCH | $30,000 |
| WEDGWOOD CHRISTIAN SERVICES | $27,489 |
| Individual grant recipient | $27,489 |
| CHRIST CHURCH ANGLICAN GRAND RAPIDS | $20,000 |
| GRACE MINISTRIES | $20,000 |
| GRACE ADVENTURES | $16,000 |
| ONE COLLECTIVE | $8,000 |
| PREGNANCY CARE CENTER | $8,000 |
| UP AND OUT MINISTRIES | $6,000 |
| MISSION AVIATION FELLOWSHIP | $4,000 |
| GRACE MINISTRIES PHILIPPINES | $4,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $59k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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
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 +20% since the first grant, against -45% for those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 3 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GCGRACE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY5× · 2017–2021 · $395k · revenue +18%
- GAGRACE ADVENTURES9× · 2017–2025 · $259k · revenue +111%
- WCWEDGWOOD CHRISTIAN SERVICES7× · 2019–2025 · $51k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- SMSalt Ministriesone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -45%
- GGGRACE GOSPEL FELLOWSHIPone grant, 2017 · $4k
- GPGRACE PUBLICATIONS INCone grant, 2017 · $1k
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.
Making Biblical counseling from licensed mental health professionals accessible to anyone who has need regardless of their insurance status or ability to pay.
Life ministries existes to shepherd people in a process of discoverying god's heart through teaching, writing, and spiritual direction in order to usher freedom through jesus christ.
Teach biblical principles and doctrine in a camp setting and provide resources to help in their christian walk.
To teach individuals how to apply the wisdom and depth of the bible's grace-centered message to the problems of daily living; and through various means, work to restore chirst to counseling and christ-centered counseling to the church.
Gull lake ministries provides bible based, christian retreats year-round for families, churches and organizations where we exalt jesus and share his truth.
Christian retreat center
Our mission is to affirm life through evangelism, education, counseling and practical assistance.
Christ-centered counseling
Welch college is a christian higher education institution that educates leaders to serve christ, his church, and his world through biblical thought and life
Biblical counseling
The mission of grace is to empower the christian community through education and training to recognize and respond to the sin of abuse.
Gospel mission
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 26 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.
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: Comerica Charitable Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · 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 Jonathan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jonathan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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