· Private foundation
Mahon Foundation
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2022.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k3 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CRU | $12,482 |
| THE FELLOWSHIP OF AILBE | $8,000 |
| TRAINING LEADERS INTERNATIONAL | $5,000 |
| CENTER FOR COMMUNITY VALUES | $3,000 |
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 (FY18–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 62% 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
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 6% of Mahon 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.
9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2022, 5 since wound down.
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 FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TFTHE FELLOWSHIP OF AILBE5× · 2018–2022 · $40k · revenue +32%
- TLTraining Leaders International5× · 2018–2022 · $17k · revenue +25%
- CFCENTER FOR CHRISTIAN VIRTUE2× · 2019–2020 · $12k · revenue +641%
Funded once
- PHPATRICK HENRY COLLEGEone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +18%
- TCTHE CENTER FOR BIOETHICS AND CULTUREgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +39%
- FPFREEDOMWORKS POST PRISON OUTREACHone grant, 2018 · $14k
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.
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.
The Center of Theological Inquiry is an independent research institution with an international visiting scholar program which convenes researchers in an ideal setting for interdisciplinary inquiries where theology casts light on global…
The training of men and women for ministry in local churches. Specifically, providing a Bachelor's Degree or Certificate of Accomplishment designating the completion of course material required. Also, the rewarding of a Master's Degree…
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.
Provide education in theology, divinity, religious education, ministerial training, business and organizational leadership.
North America Bible Institute (NABI) is an evangelical graduate school, made up of students who are diverse in both ethnicity and ministry aims -- but united in great love for Jesus and his gospel. As a graduate school, NABI offers them…
As an institution of christian higher education, eternity bible college exists to glorify god through graduates whose lives are transformed by rigorous study of the bible as scripture, empassioned love for god, and gracious service in the…
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…
Our mission is to participate in Gods redemption of culture by educating, training, and leading Christ-centered individuals in the public square.
Reaching and teaching pastors in the majority world.
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…
To foster biblical literacy through studies of all 66 books of the bible, cultivate professional and lay leadership skills, and deploy trained christian disciples in service worldwide.
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 16 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 · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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 Mahon Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mahon Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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