· Private foundation
Kraft Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $185k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $580k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $300,000 |
| PASTORAL LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE | $200,000 |
| PHOENIX SEMINARY | $150,000 |
| CORAL RIDGE MINISTRIES MEDIA INC | $100,000 |
| MENTORKIDS USA | $80,000 |
| GRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| ARIZONA URBAN YOUTH EXCEL | $40,000 |
| PAWPRINT MINISTRIES | $35,000 |
| NEW REFORMATION PUBLICATIONS DBA 1517 | $20,000 |
| CHOICES PREGNANCY CENTERS | $20,000 |
| STAND TO REASON | $20,000 |
| LUTEC - CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY - NEBRASKA | $10,000 |
| ARIZONA FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $10,000 |
| LUTHERAN URBAN MISSION AGENCY | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 78% 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
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 17% of Kraft Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +52% since the first grant, against +45% for those funded once.
21 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 6 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PLPASTORAL LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE4× · 2022–2025 · $600k · revenue +104%
- MUMentorKids USA5× · 2021–2025 · $360k · revenue +54%
ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM3× · 2021–2023 · $60k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- CLCHRIST LUTHERAN BEST PRACTICES CONFone grant, 2021 · $60k
- TLTIMOTHY LUTHERAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $40k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $33k
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.
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
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.
To prepare students to serve christ and his church through biblical, experiential and practical ministry. prts provides theological training and instruction in accordance with the scriptures and the historic reformed creeds for promotion…
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…
Provide education in theology, divinity, religious education, ministerial training, business and organizational leadership.
Raise Up Global Ministries is committed to educating Christian leaders in communities around the world. The three programs of Raise Up equip the global church by 1 Developing biblically based interactive materials and 2 Training…
International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Exalting jesus christ igniting the church in the power of the holy spirit under the authority of the holy bible as the word of god through prayer, leadership development, growing the church, and mission outreach so that the church may be…
Leadership Revolution is a ministry founded to develop leaders globally who will spread the gospel and make disciples in their arena of influence.
To equip and assist christians and their churches to respond to conflict biblically.
To strengthen church planters through discernment, training, coaching and continuing education.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 38 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 PASTORAL LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX SEMINARY INC ↗
- Who funds MentorKids USA ↗
- Who funds MULTIPLI ↗
- Who funds STAND TO REASON ↗
- Who funds Coral Ridge Ministries Media Inc ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds Grand Canyon University ↗
- Who funds Center for Renewing America Inc ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL TRAINING NETWORK INC ↗
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: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Servant Foundation · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kraft Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kraft Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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