· Charitable trust
Nina Jean Obel Charitable Trust
To support the efforts of charitable christian organizations that qualify as public charities.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $120k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $160k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BURNHAM MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL | $100,000 |
| FINISHING WELL MINISTRIES | $60,000 |
| TAYLOR UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
| DALLAS THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $30,000 |
| TWIN OAKS CHURCH | $20,000 |
| DOOR INTERNATIONAL (DEAF OPPORTUNITY OUTREACH) | $20,000 |
| DENVER SEMINARY | $10,000 |
| THE HOPE CENTER | $10,000 |
| CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST | $7,000 |
| HIS MIGHTY WARRIORS | $6,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% 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.
10 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BMBURNHAM MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC6× · 2020–2025 · $340k · revenue +105%
- FWFINISHING WELL MINISTRIES6× · 2020–2025 · $300k · revenue +130% · 29% of their budget
- DTDallas Theological Seminary6× · 2020–2025 · $140k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- DMDISCIPLE MAKERS NETWORKgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +165%
- GCGRACE COMMUNITY CHURCH OF PLANO INCone grant, 2024 · $10k
- HGHUNTERS GLEN BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…
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…
To reach lost people with the transforming Gospel of Jesus Christ
Mobilization of churches in America by taking pastors and laymen on vision and service trips overseas in fulfillment of Jesus command to go ye into all the world, making disciples...
"T-NET" stands for the "Training Network" for Disciplemaking Churches. T-NET is an international Christian training organization. Its mission is "To return the church to its disciplemaking roots, worldwide".
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…
Grace Global Ministries exists to assist local churches in sending global workers to fulfill the Great Commission.
To Identify, Affirm, Train, and Mobilize Ephesians 4 evangelists to equip the church for evangelism.
Proclaim the gospel worldwide, prepare followers of jesus christ, and propel those into their god given destiny.
Train ministers, lay people and students who are involved at any level of ministry in small or large churches at local, national, and international levels. We train to go into the world and spread the gospel by helping people meet their…
International Biblical Training is a teaching, training and equipping religious ministry. IBT staff provide theological teaching and training for the purpose of making Christian disciples who in turn train and disciple others in…
How this is measured
11 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. 11 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.
- Who funds BURNHAM MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds FINISHING WELL MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Taylor University ↗
- Who funds Dallas Theological Seminary ↗
- Who funds The Hope Center Inc ↗
- Who funds PROBE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds DISCIPLE MAKERS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S NONPROFIT ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds BEYOND ORDINARY WOMEN MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds The Center For The Research of Early Christian Documents ↗
- 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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Servant Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Nina Jean Obel Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nina Jean Obel Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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