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Kerith 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $85k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WILMINTON COMMUNITY EVENGELICAL CHURCH(WCEC) | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASS | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE | $50,000 |
| ISLAND CHURCH | $25,000 |
| AMBASSADORS FOR CHRIST | $25,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - TAMPA BAY | $25,000 |
| ECM (EUROPE CAMPUS MINISTRY) | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| WYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS | $3,500 |
| CHINA OUTREACH MINISTRIES | $3,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| SUNDAY BREAKFAST MISSION | $3,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF DELAWARE | $3,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
37 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 17 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE9× · 2017–2025 · $671k · revenue +37%- OFOSA Foundation Inc3× · 2018–2021 · $70k · revenue +92%
- SBSunday Breakfast Mission9× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $100k
- DUDREXEL UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +4%
- WMWINTERTHUR MUSEUM GARDEN & LIBRARYone grant, 2022 · $50k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
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.
Provide education in theology, divinity, religious education, ministerial training, business and organizational leadership.
Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.
Providing guality Christian education to the network generation
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
Asbury Theological Seminary is a community called to prepare theologically educated, sanctified, Spirit-filled men and women to evangelize and to spread scriptural holiness throughout the world through the love of Jesus Christ, in the…
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…
The organization is dedicated to reaching people for christ through an international network of christians who journey with the poor and marginalized, bringing practical and spiritual support with hope of a better future,(continued on…
With a desire to see the Gospel proclaimed in all nations, we exist to make and multiply disciples of the next generation through the vehicles of church-planting missions and missional leadership training.
Post secondary and graduate educational institution The mission of Faith Baptist Bible College and Theological Seminary is to equip vocational Christian workers and other servant leaders while inspiring them to take the Word to the world.
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Overseas Campus Ministries Inc and the most unlike its peers is Drexel University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 33% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
26 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. 26 of the 66 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 UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗
- Who funds OSA Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Sunday Breakfast Mission ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds EUROPE CAMPUS MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds CHINA OUTREACH MINISTRIESINC ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels Delaware Inc ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE GOSPEL MISSION ↗
- Who funds THE INDEPENDENCE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MX SERVELEAD INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds HARVEST USA ↗
- Who funds InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA ↗
- Who funds TOUCH LIFE MISSION DR GORDON S LEE ↗
- Who funds Developing Leaders Ministries ↗
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: The Hsieh Christian Foundation · Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Verizon Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment 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 Kerith Foundation 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.
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
- Food Bank of Delaware Inc — 26% of income from government
- Delaware Technology Park Inc — 11% of income from government
- Center for Creative Arts Inc — 9% of income from government
- The Independence School Inc — 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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