· Private foundation
Melchizedek 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $5k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $46k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $349k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| REDEEMER BIBLE CHURCH | $95,100 |
| VALERIE'S VICTORY FOR VETERANS INC | $72,945 |
| Individual grant recipient | $71,500 |
| SHEPHERD'S HOUSE BIBLE CHURCH | $55,500 |
| GILBERT CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS | $53,972 |
| MT NEBO MINISTRIES | $35,800 |
| CENTER FOR RENEWING AMERICA | $10,000 |
| THE CHURCH | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSAL LIFE CHURCH | $98 |
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 (FY20–23, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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
Which US states its grants reach
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 +66% since the first grant, against +39% for those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 4 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, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $139k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ANARIZONA NEXT LEVEL BASKETBALL FOUND5× · 2017–2021 · $167k · revenue +85% · 33% of their budget
- AIAESOP INC2× · 2019–2020 · $110k · revenue +66%
- GCGilbert Christian Schools Inc5× · 2017–2025 · $104k · revenue +100%
Funded once
- JCJOY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $30k
- CICHILDHELP INCone grant, 2020 · $26k · revenue -6%
- ASARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $25k
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.
The mission of christian family care is to strengthen families and serve at-risk children in the name of jesus christ. the outcome of our work results in building flourishing families and communities focusing on three pillars: preserve,…
Dedicated to igniting personal transformation by affirming faith, inspiring hope, and equipping individuals, to live an intentional life in christ.
The family research council's primary exempt purpose is to reaffirm and promote nationally, and particularly in washington, dc, the traditional family unit and the judeo-christian value system upon which it is built. frc's activities in…
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 mission of the ankerberg theological research institute is to reach viewers and listeners for the gospel of christ through radio tv, and internet evangelism via the john ankerberg show.
To glorify god by equipping the church with proper christian doctrine and to help non-believers come to a saving knowledge of jesus christ.
Fostering the christian faith
Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…
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How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 41 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 CELEBRITY FIGHT NIGHT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA NEXT LEVEL BASKETBALL FOUND ↗
- Who funds AESOP INC ↗
- Who funds Gilbert Christian Schools Inc ↗
- Who funds MAN IN THE MIRROR INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDHELP INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ARIZONA POLICY INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF REFUGE INC ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds AWAKENED HEART MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Center for Renewing America Inc ↗
- Who funds DREAM CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LARRY AND MARTHA DAY CHARITABLE TRU ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN BIBLE COLLEGES INC ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX SEMINARY INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds IN TOUCH MISSION INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds JUNDT FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CASA HOGAR ↗
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: Servant Foundation · Arizona Community Foundation · Larry and Martha Day Charitable Tru · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Melchizedek Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Melchizedek Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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