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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 FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0172% 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
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$3,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$76k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SET FREE MINISTRIES$10,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
NEW LIFE MINISTRIES$3,500
GRAND HAVEN CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS$2,500
INTERNATIONAL PROMISE FOUNDATION$2,400
MEL TROTTER MINISTRIES$2,000
ACROSS MY HEART MINISTRIES$600
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 (FY22–23, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SEEDS OF PROMISE: $500 → 11%SEEDS OF PROMISE: $500 → 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.
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$313k · 17 repeat orgs$48k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +4% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
19

Total granted

$313k
$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
0%

Still filing today

53%
21%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionEducationInternationalHuman 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • SF
    SET FREE MINISTRIES
    4× · 2020–2025 · $40k · revenue +34%
  • IP
    INTERNATIONAL PROMISE FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +2%
  • GH
    Grand Haven Christian School
    4× · 2020–2025 · $5k · revenue +407%

Funded once

  • RC
    RESLIFE CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • BC
    BALDWIN COMMUNITY SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2018 · $7k
  • GA
    GOSPEL AND GRAIN INC
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
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
Explore God Network
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2
Urban Family Ministries

Urban Family Ministries exists to strengthen families and change lives by sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ within the urban core of Grand Rapids through relational, spiritual and economic empowerment.

Human Services
3
New Perspective Ministries

New Perspective Ministry is a faith-based Christian non-profit ministry dedicated to empowering families to experience restoration and healing in Christ by equipping church leaders.The mission of New Perspective Ministries arises out of…

Religion
4
TEN9 Ministries

Proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ worldwide

Religion
5
Dozen Ministries

Religious

Religion
6
Safe Haven Counseling Associates in

Biblical counseling

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7
Scott Nute Global Ministries

Christian evangelism

Religion
8
With God All Things Are Possible

To reach people with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Youth Development
9
Malawi Pioneer Mission

Ministry in Malawi, Africa

Religion
10
Global Radio Outreach

Our Gospel Radio Program in Arabic was inaugurated in 1993, broadcast from the Middle East on 5 transmitters and on the internet. Approximately 350 million Arabs can receive the programs. Our Farsi Gospel Radio Program was inaugurated in…

Religion
11
Rescue Ministries of Mid-Michigan

Expressing God's love by reaching out to the hurting and homeless of the Great Lakes Bay Region by providing shelter and care, proclaiming the Gospel of Christ, and establishing Christian disciples among disadvantaged people.

Housing & Shelter
12
Broken But Not Shattered Ministries

Broken But Not Shattered is an outreach ministry with the vision to teach and train Gods people to live a surrendered life for the Lord, so they can do the Greater works that Jesus came to display. Matthew 9:27 reads, The harvest is…

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Set Free Ministries; the most unlike its peers is Grand Haven Christian School. 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

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 36 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
8/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $101,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $52,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientRESLIFE CHURCH: $25,000 · OtherRESLIFE CHURCH+24 more: $47,986 · Other+24 moreNEW LIFE MINISTRIES: $44,500 · ReligionNEW LIFE MINISTRIESSET FREE MINISTRIES: $40,000 · ReligionSET FREE MINISTRIESMULTIPLICATION NETWORK MINISTRIES: $3,000 · Religion+1 more: $500 · ReligionINTERNATIONAL PROMISE FOUNDATION: $23,120 · InternationalCornerstone University: $17,200 · EducationGrand Haven Christian School: $5,000 · EducationSEEDS OF PROMISE: $1,000 · Human ServicesGARDEN OF HOPE: $500 · Environment
Other$225,986Religion$88,000International$23,120Education$22,200Human Services$1,000Environment$500

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

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
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 NEW LIFE MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds SET FREE MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Cornerstone University ↗
  • Who funds Grand Haven Christian School ↗
  • Who funds MEL TROTTER MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds FEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds MULTIPLICATION NETWORK MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds GOSPEL AND GRAIN INC ↗
  • Who funds SEEDS OF PROMISE ↗
  • Who funds SpringHill Camps ↗
  • Who funds UPPER PENINSULA BIBLE CAMP ↗
  • Who funds GARDEN OF HOPE ↗
  • Who funds Pregnancy Resource Center ↗

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 FoundationGrand Rapids Communit…Natl Christian Charit…Christian Community F…Raymond James Charita…Renaissance Charitabl…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 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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