· Private foundation
Kimball Family 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRAND RAPIDS DREAM CENTER | $5,000 |
| BIG LIFE MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| BIG LIFE MINISTRIES | $1,500 |
| BIG LIFE MINISTRIES | $1,500 |
| BIG LIFE MINISTRIES | $1,500 |
| BIG LIFE MINISTRIES | $1,500 |
| BIG LIFE MINISTRIES | $1,500 |
| BIG LIFE MINISTRIES | $1,500 |
| BIG LIFE MINISTRIES | $1,500 |
| BIG LIFE MINISTRIES | $1,500 |
| BIG LIFE MINISTRIES | $1,500 |
| BIG LIFE MINISTRIES | $1,500 |
| BIG LIFE MINISTRIES | $1,500 |
| BIG LIFE MINISTRIES | $1,500 |
| MEL TROTTER MINISTRIES | $1,321 |
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 (FY23–23, $103) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 57% of Kimball Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 82% of the giving stays in FL; by stated purpose, 6%.
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 +141% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BIBIGLIFE INTERNATIONAL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $287k · revenue +141%
- ABADA BIBLE CHURCH7× · 2019–2025 · $24k
- GRGRAND RAPIDS DREAM CENTER5× · 2021–2025 · $24k
Funded once
- PRPregnancy Resources Incone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue -53%
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +106%
- JRJessie Rees Foundationone grant, 2022 · $500 · revenue +4%
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 encourage Christians to be role models- demonstrating that sharing faith ignites everything one says and does with Gods Promise to Make Everying in Life Work for Good, to move everyone, every day closer to Jesus.
Time of grace is for people who want more growth and less struggle in their spiritual walk. we share the truth of god's word simply and clearly through television, print, and digital media that people view millions of times each month. we…
Living Proof Ministries' primary exempt purpose is to disseminate religious teachings through public speaking engagements, seminars, Bible classes, radio and television programs, and distribution of audio, videotapes, and written material.
Passionlife ministries is a global missions initiative to spread the gospel of life and expand the pregnancy help movement among nations plagued by abortion, infanticide and gendercide.
The mission of Selah International Counseling Ministries is to glorify God as we serve and equip His church, providing leadership and service through counseling, counseling resources, and counseling training.
Reconciliaton Ministries Intl. is a Christian evangelical organization preaching and teaching the Word of God in over 60 countries. The ministry equips and encourages Christians everywhere to be saved, healed, and delivered according to…
To broadcast the Gospel of Jesus Christ through the available means including television, radio, internet, recorded, and written formats.
EvanTell exists to advance the Great Commission-this is our purpose. Our Mission is to proclaim the Gospel of grace-clearly and simply and to equip and encourage the global church to do the same. We accomplish this through working with…
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…
Walk thru the bible (wtb) ignites passion for god's word. by developing a global network of influential pastors and leaders and then resourcing them with tools and training, wtb fulfills its role in the great commission.
Far Reaching Ministries (FRM) was founded to carry the Gospel Jesus Christ to the world with discipleship as our primary objective. We plant and edify evangelical churches, found Bible schools, gather intimate small groups, and sustain…
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 18 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: Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · 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 Kimball Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kimball Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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