· Public charity
Kanakuk Ministries
1) To relieve poverty by providing food, clothing, medical supplies, and other basic needs to underprivileged or impoverished children; 2) To advance the Kingdom of God and promote Christian virtue in individuals by providing support for Christian evangelistic organization and programs; 3) To educate children and advance the Kingdom of…
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k5 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $127k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $371k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Urban St Louis K-Life | $210,918 |
| K-Life Denver | $96,230 |
| K-Life National | $63,510 |
| Kids Across America | $37,350 |
| Kanakuk Institute | $34,045 |
| K-Life of St Louis | $15,900 |
| K-Life of Conway | $15,000 |
| K-Life of Fayetteville | $14,635 |
| H2Ozarks | $10,000 |
| K-Life of Ft Worth | $8,000 |
| Distinctly His Ministries | $7,500 |
| K-Life North Dallas | $7,085 |
| K-Life of Tulsa | $6,350 |
| K-Life of Atlanta | $5,550 |
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 (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% 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
Grants abroad, by region: $442k on the FY2023 return
Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: Support schools in Haiti, housing, land
Stated purpose: Support Rwandan children in poverty
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 +95% since the first grant, against -31% for those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2023, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- KAKIDS ACROSS AMERICA FOUNDATION6× · 2018–2023 · $294k · revenue +133%
- KMK-LIFE MINISTRIES4× · 2020–2023 · $281k · revenue +28%
- TKTHE KANAKUK INSTITUTE3× · 2018–2023 · $71k · revenue +120%
Funded once
- KMK-LIFE MINISTRIESone grant, 2022 · $29k
- EBELEVATE BRANSONone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -31%
- WHWOODLAND HILLS FAMILY CHURCHone grant, 2018 · $10k
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.
Christian sports camp to teach biblical principles and life skills to urban youth and their mentors.
Kingdom advisors is a discipleship ministry serving christian financial professionals. the organization encourages, educates, and empowers christian financial professionals with biblical wisdom to be effective disciples of jesus christ in…
To develop youth servant leaders who will share the message of jesus christ with their peers.
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.
This mission of Forge is to expand Gods Kingdom by challenging people to fully devote their lives to God and equipping them to live lives of active ministry. Our goal is to set hearts on fire and lives on purpose.
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
Grand forks area youth for christ reaches young people everywhere, working together with the local church and other like-minded partners to raise up lifelong followers of jesus who lead by their godliness in lifestyle, devotion to prayer…
To provide resources, training, and continuing support to leaders in the us and around the world in order that they may help others find freedom in christ.
Impacting lives through the message of hope through christ centered programs, activities, and services.
Christian ministry
Yfc reaches young people everywhere, working together with the local church and other likeminded partners to raise up lifelong followers of jesus who lead by their godliness in lifestyle, devotion to the word of god and prayer, passion for…
Engaging people in relationship with God through knowing His Word
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 29 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 KIDS ACROSS AMERICA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds K-LIFE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE KANAKUK INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds UPPER WHITE RIVER BASIN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PULSE OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds Dr James Dobson Family Institute ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE BRANSON ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds Sports Catalyst Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MARGIN OF CHANGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FORGE FOR FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds DISTINCTLY HIS MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Faith Community Health DBA Hope Counseling Center ↗
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: Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc · Servant Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kanakuk Ministries funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kanakuk Ministries. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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