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Orthodox Vision Foundation at a glance

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Orthodox Vision 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.

$2.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
47
Grants FY2025still arriving
15
States reached
$906k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Religion$6.5MFood & Nutrition$1.0MEducation$564kInternational$548kCrime & Legal$50kHuman Services$41kRecreation & Sports$21kHealth$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k26 grants · $84k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $284k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $533k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
$5,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$6.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ANTIOCHIAN ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN ARCHDIOCESE$905,774
FOCUS NORTH AMERICA$365,260
FAITHTREE$103,000
SAINT John Chrysostom Academy$100,000
SAINT MICHAEL ANTIOCHIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH$60,396
ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN PRISON MINISTRY$60,000
SAINT VLADIMIR'S ORTHODOX THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY$55,000
SAINT BARBARA ORTHODOX MONASTERY$53,000
INTERNATIONAL ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHARITIES$52,000
THE CAMP CATANESE FOUNDATION$50,000
SACRED MONASTERY OF SAINT NINA$40,000
SAINT ANDREW ACADEMY$35,700
SUPRASL$35,000
ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP$30,679
ANCIENT FAITH MINISTRIES$30,620
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE TREEHOUSE: $13k → 16%FOCUS NORTH AMERICA: $365k → 11%THE TREEHOUSE: $8k → 16%FOCUS NORTH AMERICA: $325k → 11%THE TREEHOUSE: $3k → 16%FOCUS NORTH AMERICA: $68k → 11%THE TREEHOUSE: $3k → 16%FOCUS NORTH AMERICA: $63k → 11%THE TREEHOUSE: $2k → 16%FOCUS NORTH AMERICA: $54k → 11%THE TREEHOUSE: $2k → 16%FOCUS NORTH AMERICA: $53k → 11%THE TREEHOUSE: $2k → 16%FOCUS NORTH AMERICA: $53k → 11%THE TREEHOUSE: $2k → 16%FOCUS NORTH AMERICA: $36k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
AZ
KS
DC
OK
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.3M · 58 repeat orgs$483k to everyone else

58 repeat relationships: 41 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

58
29

Total granted

$8.3M
$332k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+34%

Still filing today

40%
28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $152k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationReligionYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesInternationalCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • FN
    FOCUS NORTH AMERICA
    8× · 2018–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +75%
  • AF
    Ancient Faith Ministries Formerly Conciliar Media Ministries
    8× · 2018–2025 · $206k · revenue +79%
  • TS
    THE SAINT CONSTANTINE SCHOOL
    7× · 2018–2024 · $115k · revenue +274%

Funded once

  • SM
    SAINT MICHAEL CHURCH
    one grant, 2018 · $152k
  • SA
    ST ANDREW ACADEMY
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • SJ
    SAINT JOSEPH ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2024 · $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.

04Its field

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.

1
Imperial Order of Constantine the Great and St Helen Inc
Arts & Culture
2
Saint Athanasius & Saint Cyril Coptic Orthodox Theological School
Religion
3
St Vakhtang Gorgasali Orthodox Church

it's Georgian Orthodox church

Religion
4
St John Chrysostom Academy

Mission st. john chrysostom academy unites classical education and orthodox christian formation. students benefit from the reliable disciplines of formal education and the nurturing environment of faith. young minds are directed toward the…

Education
5
Bethel Classical Academy

The fundamental purpose of BCA, as a school, is to educate with excellence. We believe that truly outstanding education can never be accomplishedapart from a central recognition of God as Truth and the source of all wisdom. The wisdom of…

Education
6
Instituto De Estudios Teologicos

Conference

Education
7
Orthodox Christian Ministries Inc

To advance the cause of the Orthodox Christian faith by the publication of materials for catechesis designed both for the edification of Orthodox believers and the illumination of a wide array of non-Orthodox inquirers.

Religion
8
American Christian Orthodox Foundation

To support the growth of Orthodox Christianity in America The corporation is organized and operated exclusively for religious and charitable purposes within the meaning of Section 501c3 of the Internal Revenue Code

Religion
9
Saint Basil Academy of Classical St

St basil academy is a religious orthodox k-12 school which strives to develop and administer traditional orthodox educational programs by embracing several stages of classical education.

Education
10
Diocese of California American Catholic Church

Exaltation of god evangelization of the world

Religion
11
Orphans Institution St Constantine and Elaine Monastery
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12
The King's College

Christian college preparing students for principled leadership around the world.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fellowship of St James; the most unlike its peers is Nasr Orthodox Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 93 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
21/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ANTIOCHIAN ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN ARCHDIOCESE: $1,548,715 · OtherANTIOCHIAN ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN ARCHDIOCESEST MICHAEL ANTIOCHIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH: $1,033,263 · OtherST MICHAEL ANTIOCHIAN ORTHODOX CHURCHFAITHTREE: $499,231 · OtherFAITHTREESAINT VLADIMIR'S ORTHODOX THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $441,140 · OtherSAINT VLADIMIR'S ORTHODOX THEOLOGICAL SEMINARYANTIOCHIAN ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN ARCHDIOCESE: $373,162 · OtherANTIOCHIAN ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN ARCHDIOCESEANTIOCHIAN ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN ARCHDIOCESE CO FR MICHAEL TASSOS: $247,776 · OtherST BARBARA ORTHODOX MONASTERY: $227,000 · Other+62 more: $1,738,668 · Other+62 moreFOCUS NORTH AMERICA: $1,017,078 · Human ServicesFOCUS NORTH A…+1 more: $35,000 · Human ServicesORTHODOX CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE: $373,627 · ReligionAncient Faith Ministries Formerly Conciliar Media Ministries: $205,620 · ReligionOrthodox Christians for Life: $35,000 · Religion+1 more: $17,500 · ReligionINT'L ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHARITIES INC: $484,450 · International+1 more: $2,000 · InternationalTHE SAINT CONSTANTINE SCHOOL: $115,000 · EducationCAMP CATANESE FOUNDATION: $106,000 · EducationCROSSROAD INSTITUTE INC: $65,000 · EducationCHRIST THE SAVIOR ACADEMY INC: $31,000 · EducationUniversity of Saint Katherine: $22,000 · EducationSAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA: $14,250 · Education+7 more: $44,643 · EducationORTHODOX CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: $69,751 · Youth DevelopmentONCE UPON A ROOM INC: $13,000 · Youth DevelopmentChristian Legal Aid of Los Angeles CO Gary Maeder: $28,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$6,108,955Human Services$1,052,078Religion$631,747International$486,450Education$397,893Youth Development$82,751Crime & Legal$28,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFOCUS NORTH AMERICA: $1,017,078 over 8y, 6.0% of budgetINT'L ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHARITIES INC: $484,450 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetORTHODOX CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE: $373,627 over 5y, 64% of budgetAncient Faith Ministries Formerly Conciliar Media Ministries: $205,620 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetTHE SAINT CONSTANTINE SCHOOL: $115,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetCAMP CATANESE FOUNDATION: $106,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetORTHODOX CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: $69,751 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetCROSSROAD INSTITUTE INC: $65,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetTHE TREEHOUSE INC: $35,000 over 8y, 3.4% of budgetOrthodox Christians for Life: $35,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetCHRIST THE SAVIOR ACADEMY INC: $31,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetChristian Legal Aid of Los Angeles CO Gary Maeder: $28,000 over 8y, 6.6% of budgetNASR ORTHODOX FOUNDATION: $27,000 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetUniversity of Saint Katherine: $22,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOrthodox Christian Laity: $20,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF ST JAMES: $17,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetORTHODOX VOCATION AND MINISTRY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA: $14,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetONCE UPON A ROOM INC: $13,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetARAB AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SAINT CONSTANTINE SCHOOL OF PITTSBURGH: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHILDEGARD COLLEGE: $10,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetST JOHN OF SAN FRANCISCO ORTHODOX ACADEMY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetPASADENA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $8,743 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ORTHODOX THEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION: $7,000 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetOCCIDENTAL COLLEGE: $4,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT MEXICO OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFLINTRIDGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAssistance League of Saddleback Valley: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNTAIN AVENUE COMMITTED TO KIDS: $400 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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 FOCUS NORTH AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds INT'L ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHARITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds Ancient Faith Ministries Formerly Conciliar Media Ministries ↗
  • Who funds THE SAINT CONSTANTINE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds CAMP CATANESE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP ↗
  • Who funds CROSSROAD INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TREEHOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds Orthodox Christians for Life ↗
  • Who funds CHRIST THE SAVIOR ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds Christian Legal Aid of Los Angeles CO Gary Maeder ↗
  • Who funds NASR ORTHODOX FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds University of Saint Katherine ↗

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.

The John C Kulis Char…The Katsaros Family F…St Philaret SocietyThe Renaissance Fund …Nehemiah Foundation I…Spell Family Foundati…Hellenic FoundationLaham Family Foundati…Sempra FoundationMorgan Stanley Global…The Ayco Charitable F…National Philanthropi…
The John C Kulis Charitable FoundationFL20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The John C Kulis Charitable Foundation · The Katsaros Family Foundation · St Philaret Society · The Renaissance Fund NFP · Nehemiah Foundation Inc · Spell Family Foundation co William Spell · Hellenic Foundation · Laham Family Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Orthodox Vision Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Orthodox Vision Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Int'l Orthodox Christian Charities Inc: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 93 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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