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Press on 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.

$31k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2025
7
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 16
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$76k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Press on Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving8$31k0%
FY20247$26k0%
FY20238$29k0%
FY202212$68k33%
FY202116$59k31%
FY202016$57k63%
FY20193$25k33%
FY20185$33k80%
72% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$127kEducation$29kInternational$25kHousing & Shelter$5kFood & Nutrition$4kPhilanthropy$2kHuman Services$2kYouth Development$1kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
New Life Ministries$44,50070%
Set Free Ministries$40,00041%
International Promise Foundation$23,12091%
Cornerstone University$17,20040%
Grand Haven Christian School$5,00040%
Across My Heart Ministries$4,8005n/a
Mel Trotter Ministries$4,50030%
Feeding America West Michigan$3,87020%
Multiplication Network Ministries$3,00020%
Broadway Christian Church Inc$2,5002n/a
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All grantees of Press on Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
New Life Ministries$44,50070%
Set Free Ministries$40,00041%
International Promise Foundation$23,12091%
Cornerstone University$17,20040%
Grand Haven Christian School$5,00040%
Across My Heart Ministries$4,8005n/a
Mel Trotter Ministries$4,50030%
Feeding America West Michigan$3,87020%
Multiplication Network Ministries$3,00020%
Broadway Christian Church Inc$2,5002n/a
Gospel and Grain Inc$2,00011%
Planting of the Lord$2,0001n/a
Seeds of Promise$1,00020%
SpringHill Camps$1,00010%
Upper Peninsula Bible Camp$50010%
Garden of Hope$50011%
Pregnancy Resource Center$50010%

Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($205k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Press on Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNew Life Ministries: $44,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSet Free Ministries: $40,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetInternational Promise Foundation: $23,120 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetCornerstone University: $17,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGrand Haven Christian School: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMel Trotter Ministries: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America West Michigan: $3,870 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMultiplication Network Ministries: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGospel and Grain Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSeeds of Promise: $1,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSpringHill Camps: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUpper Peninsula Bible Camp: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGarden of Hope: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPregnancy Resource Center: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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.

Barnabas FoundationIL15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Barnabas Foundation · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About Press on Foundation

How much does Press on Foundation give?
Press on Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $31,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Press on Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (35%), Education (8%), International (7%).
Who are Press on Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: New Life Ministries ($45k), Set Free Ministries ($40k), International Promise Foundation ($23k).
Does Press on Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Press on Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Press on Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Barnabas Foundation, Grand Rapids Community Foundation, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc.
Where is Press on Foundation based?
Press on Foundation is based in MI.

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 36 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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