· Private foundation
Pamela K Watanabe-Gerdeskyle E Gerdes Charitable 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 $10k20 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GOOD NEWS JAIL & PRISON MINISTRY | $15,300 |
| MARIO MURILLO MINISTRIES | $3,000 |
| EQUIPNET INC | $2,000 |
| RICK RENNER MINISTRIES | $1,500 |
| THE VOICE OF THE MARTYRS | $1,000 |
| HEARTLAND HOPE MISSION | $1,000 |
| WYCLIFFE ASSOCIATES | $1,000 |
| CAPPS MINISTRIES | $1,000 |
| JOYCE MEYER MINISTRIES | $1,000 |
| ASSURE WOMEN'S CENTER | $1,000 |
| LIVING WATERS | $1,000 |
| LIFE CHURCH | $1,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS | $1,000 |
| BIBLE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL | $500 |
| JEWISH VOICE | $500 |
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 (FY17–25, $80k) 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.
28 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 10 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FBFOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND3× · 2020–2022 · $17k · revenue +43%
- AWAssure Womens Center3× · 2020–2025 · $9k · revenue +106%
- RMReconciliation Ministries Inc3× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +110%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $12k
- YEYOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +142%
- OWOKLAHOMA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY - BASEBALLone grant, 2023 · $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.
The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…
Jubal band ministries mission is to invite people to become disciples of christian life with jesus.
This church will be that place of emergency where people can come any time of day or night. We will be a place that will lead people back to health both spiritually and naturally.
Chb's (praisefm) vision is to see every tribe and nation experience jesus together. our mission is simple: together we help people discover and worship jesus. more than a radio station, praisefm is a place where passionate lovers of jesus…
To strengthen marriages and families, to encourage Christian fellowship as we evangelize the lost around us and minister to the needy with the resources God has blessed us.
To care for the needy, share the good news of jesus christ and change lives by providing counseling, life skill training, dignity gained through work and christ-centered discipleship.
Freedom seekers international is a christian organization that exists to rescue the most severely persecuted for their religious faith in hostile and restrictive countries. through collaborative partnerships we deliver those who are…
To bring widow awareness to pastors, churches and communities nationwide in accordance to james 1:27. to ensure that widows are no longer forgotten.
The goal of the springfield rescue mission since 1892 has been to meet the physical and spiritual needs of the hungry, homeless, addicted, and poor by introducing them to christ and helping them apply the word of god to every area of their…
To reach out with the message of the gospel of jesus to the last, least, and the lost
Organization's mission: courage for life exists to encourage individuals to embrace their god-given courage for life. we create emotional health, spiritual growth, and bible study resources to disciple individuals to grow in their…
How this is measured
27 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. 27 of the 72 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 OPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds Andrew Wommack Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds Assure Womens Center ↗
- Who funds Reconciliation Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds BETA BETA GAMMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT INC ↗
- Who funds ONE VOICE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds MUSTANG BOOSTER CLUB ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA GREAT PLAINS CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds FRESH START INC ↗
- Who funds EQUIPNET ↗
- Who funds BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP ↗
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 · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Midlands Community Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Oliver & Ferrol Barklage Foundation · The Rebensdorf Family Foundation · Gilbert M and Martha H Hitchcock Foundation · Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation · Mutual of Omaha Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Pamela K Watanabe-Gerdeskyle E Gerdes Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pamela K Watanabe-Gerdeskyle E Gerdes Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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