· Private foundation
Paul P Tell Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k32 grants · $126k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $179k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MOODY AVIATION | $25,000 |
| CHAPEL HILL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| NEW INTERNATIONAL | $21,000 |
| EMMANUEL CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $17,500 |
| HAVEN OF REST MINISTRIES | $15,000 |
| AKRON PREGNANCY SERVICES | $15,000 |
| FIRST GLANCE STUDENT CENTER INC | $15,000 |
| CAMP CARL | $15,000 |
| THE COME AND SEE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BEHOLD ISRAEL | $10,000 |
| URBAN VISION | $10,000 |
| SAT 7 | $8,000 |
| GLOBAL AWAKENING | $7,000 |
| WYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS | $6,000 |
| OPERATION MOBILIZATION | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
42 repeat relationships: 36 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 5 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CVCUYAHOGA VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY3× · 2021–2023 · $106k · revenue +104%
- CHCHAPEL HILL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL6× · 2020–2025 · $85k · revenue +59%
- UVURBAN VISION4× · 2021–2025 · $60k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- CFCENTER FOR CHRISTIAN VIRTUEgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +526%
- AIANSWERS IN GENESIS INCone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $3k
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.
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…
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…
God's bible school and college seeks to glorify god and to serve his church by providing higher education centered in holy scripture and shaped by wesleyan conviction, thus preparing faithful servants to proclaim jesus christ and spread…
Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.
Providing guality Christian education to the network generation
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…
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
Charis Bible Colleges, Inc. (CBC) was established to train and equip individuals to carry out the Gospel of Jesus Christ through practical application through mentoring, training, and teaching.
Global scholars exists so that christian academics are adequately equipped to have a redemptive influence among their students, colleagues, universities and disciplines, at a reasonable cost.
Central christian college of the bible (central) exists to develop servant-leaders for the church. as a traditional undergraduate bible college of the restoration movement, central equips faithful men and women for leadership ministry.
Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.
How this is measured
25 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. 25 of the 51 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 CUYAHOGA VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago ↗
- Who funds CHAPEL HILL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds URBAN VISION ↗
- Who funds NEW MISSION SYSTEMS INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST GLANCE STUDENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTER CARE INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP CARL LTD ↗
- Who funds Maranatha Bible and Missionary Conf ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN VIRTUE ↗
- Who funds EMMANUEL CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SAT-7 NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE TRUST-USA INC ↗
- Who funds AKRON PREGNANCY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BEHOLD ISRAEL ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL OUTREACH MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds ANSWERS IN GENESIS INC ↗
- Who funds AFRICA 180 INC ↗
- Who funds The Last Reformation Inc ↗
- Who funds MISSION TO MISSIONARIES ↗
- Who funds World Ventures 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: In His Steps Foundation · Gar Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Akron Community Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Berlin Family Foundation Inc · Christ Foundation · Burton D Morgan Foundation Inc · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Servant Foundation · American Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Paul P Tell Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Paul P Tell Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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