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Stewardship 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k44 grants · $1.0M
- $50k–250k18 grants · $1.6M
- $250k+12 grants · $7.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BARNABAS FOUNDATION | $3,000,000 |
| SUNRISE CHRISTIAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $941,384 |
| Individual grant recipient | $400,000 |
| SOLA MEDIA | $400,000 |
| DORDT UNIVERSITY | $400,000 |
| SAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION | $350,000 |
| EURC | $335,000 |
| CALVIN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $310,000 |
| PROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN COLLEGE | $300,000 |
| PROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN COLLEGE | $300,000 |
| PROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN COLLEGE | $300,000 |
| PROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN COLLEGE | $250,000 |
| LIGONIER MINISTRIES | $200,000 |
| REDLANDS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $125,000 |
| MISSION INDIA | $120,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $160k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
87 repeat relationships — 71 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 8 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- PCPROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $4.8M · revenue +42%
- DUDORDT UNIVERSITY6× · 2018–2025 · $3.7M · revenue +61%
- SDSAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INC8× · 2018–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +46%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $3.0M
- AGAbounding Grace Radioone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0% · 25% of their budget
- CRCHRISTIAN REFORMED WORLD MISSIONS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICAone grant, 2018 · $40k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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.
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.
Provide education in theology, divinity, religious education, ministerial training, business and organizational leadership.
Reformation Bible College exists to provide a place for learning devoted to serving both laymen and pastors, offering both undergraduate and graduate degree programs based on Reformed Christian doctrine.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Erskine College exists to glorify God as a Christian academic community where students are equipped to flourish as whole persons for lives of service through the pursuit of undergraduate liberal arts and graduate theological education.
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
Northeastern seminary strives to be a vibrant source for christian theological formation whose students are formed in a biblical vision of gracious christianity and impact wholeness to the world in an expansive array of vocations and…
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.
Bibleproject's mission is to help people experience the bible as a unified story that leads to jesus. this is achieved by creating biblical videos to be regularly released on a newly-created youtube channel. (continued on schedule o.)each…
San Diego Christian College exists to educate and inspire students through the truth of scripture and the development of competencies that prepare graduates whose purpose is to impact the world.
To prepare students to serve christ and his church through biblical, experiential and practical ministry. prts provides theological training and instruction in accordance with the scriptures and the historic reformed creeds for promotion…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Infaith and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
57 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 57 of the 121 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Barnabas Foundation ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds DORDT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds CALVIN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL OF ESCONDIDO INC ↗
- Who funds MEADOWBROOK VILLAGE CHRISTIAN RETIREMENT COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds SOLA MEDIA ↗
- Who funds MID-AMERICA REFORMED SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds Ligonier Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds REDLANDS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WORD AND DEED USA ↗
- Who funds TRINITY CHRISTIAN COLLEGE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Talking Bibles International ↗
- Who funds God's World Publications Inc ↗
- Who funds COVENANT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds World Renew ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Community Services Inc ↗
- Who funds SALEM CHRISTIAN HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds KUYPER COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE LUKE SOCIETY INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Barnabas Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Edgar and Elsa Prince Foundation · Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · Artevel Foundation · Cornucopia Family Foundation · Van Dyke Family Charitable Foundation · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Harry Vermeer Family Foundation · Marion & Marlene Betten Foundation · Vanderark Foundation · Rjdm Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Stewardship Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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