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Ta Edwin M Nygaard

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.

$16k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$56kReligion$34kArts & Culture$19kEmployment$19kHuman Services$3kCivil Rights$510
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,280
Median grant
10
States reached
$288k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE PINEY WOODS SCHOOL$2,280
TEAM WORK ASSOCIATES$2,280
GORDON COLLEGE$2,280
GORDON CONWELL THEOLOGICAL SEMIN$2,280
OLD TIME GOSPEL HOUR$2,280
CAIRN UNIVERSITY$2,280
WORLD PROPHETIC MINISTRY INC$640
AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY$640
THE SALVATION ARMY$320
BILLY GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSOC$240
OUR DAILY BREAD MINISTRIES$240
CHANGED LIVES BEN HADEN$240
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 26% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%GORDON COLLEGE: $2k → 10%CAIRN UNIVERSITY: $5k → 6%AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY: $680 → 22%THE PINEY WOODS SCHOOL: $2k → 10%OLD TIME GOSPEL HOUR: $2k → 20%TEAM WORK ASSOCIATES: $2k → 7%GORDON COLLEGE: $2k → 10%CAIRN UNIVERSITY: $2k → 6%THE PINEY WOODS SCHOOL: $2k → 10%OLD TIME GOSPEL HOUR: $2k → 20%TEAM WORK ASSOCIATES: $2k → 7%GORDON COLLEGE: $2k → 10%CAIRN UNIVERSITY: $2k → 6%THE PINEY WOODS SCHOOL: $2k → 10%OLD TIME GOSPEL HOUR: $2k → 20%TEAM WORK ASSOCIATES: $2k → 7%GORDON COLLEGE: $2k → 10%CAIRN UNIVERSITY: $2k → 6%THE PINEY WOODS SCHOOL: $2k → 10%OLD TIME GOSPEL HOUR: $2k → 20%TEAM WORK ASSOCIATES: $2k → 7%GORDON COLLEGE: $2k → 10%CAIRN UNIVERSITY: $2k → 6%THE PINEY WOODS SCHOOL: $2k → 10%OLD TIME GOSPEL HOUR: $2k → 20%TEAM WORK ASSOCIATES: $2k → 7%GORDON COLLEGE: $2k → 10%CAIRN UNIVERSITY: $2k → 6%THE PINEY WOODS SCHOOL: $2k → 10%OLD TIME GOSPEL HOUR: $2k → 20%TEAM WORK ASSOCIATES: $2k → 7%GORDON COLLEGE: $2k → 10%CAIRN UNIVERSITY: $2k → 6%THE PINEY WOODS SCHOOL: $2k → 10%OLD TIME GOSPEL HOUR: $2k → 20%TEAM WORK ASSOCIATES: $2k → 7%GORDON COLLEGE: $2k → 10%THE PINEY WOODS SCHOOL: $2k → 10%OLD TIME GOSPEL HOUR: $2k → 20%TEAM WORK ASSOCIATES: $2k → 7%GORDON CONWELL THEOLOGICAL SEMIN: $2k → 10%GORDON CONWELL THEOLOGICAL SEMIN: $2k → 10%GORDON CONWELL THEOLOGICAL SEMIN: $2k → 10%GORDON CONWELL THEOLOGICAL SEMIN: $2k → 10%GORDON CONWELL THEOLOGICAL SEMIN: $2k → 10%GORDON CONWELL THEOLOGICAL SEMIN: $2k → 10%GORDON CONWELL THEOLOGICAL SEMIN: $2k → 10%GORDON CONWELL THEOLOGICAL SEMIN: $2k → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
MA
PA
CA
KY
VA
TN
NC
MS
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$130k · 14 repeat orgs$480 to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
2

Total granted

$130k
$480

Still filing today

50%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationReligionOther
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

  • CU
    CAIRN UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2018–2025 · $19k · revenue +5%
  • PW
    Piney Woods School
    8× · 2018–2025 · $19k · revenue +22%
  • GT
    Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary Inc
    8× · 2018–2025 · $19k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • CL
    CHANGED LIVES BEN HADEN EVANGELICAL
    one grant, 2021 · $240
  • CL
    CHANGED LIVES
    one grant, 2022 · $240
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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 16 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
4/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CAIRN UNIVERSITY: $18,526 · EducationCAIRN UNIVERSITYGORDON COLLEGE: $18,526 · EducationGORDON COLLEGEPiney Woods School: $18,526 · EducationPiney Woods SchoolGordon-Conwell Theological Seminary Inc: $18,526 · EducationGordon-Conwell Theological Seminary IncTEAM WORK ASSOCIATES: $18,526 · OtherTEAM WORK ASSOCIATESOLD TIME GOSPEL HOUR INC: $18,526 · OtherOLD TIME GOSPEL HOUR INCWORLD PROPHETIC MINISTRY INCORPORATED: $5,200 · OtherWORLD PROPHETIC MINISTRY INCORPORATEDTHE SALVATION ARMY: $2,600 · OtherBILLY GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION: $1,950 · Other+5 more: $2,430 · OtherAMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY: $5,200 · ReligionRBC MINISTRIES: $1,470 · Religion
Education$74,104Other$49,232Religion$6,670

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCAIRN UNIVERSITY: $18,526 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGORDON COLLEGE: $18,526 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPiney Woods School: $18,526 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetOLD TIME GOSPEL HOUR INC: $18,526 over 8y, 14% of budgetGordon-Conwell Theological Seminary Inc: $18,526 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY: $5,200 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetRBC MINISTRIES: $1,470 over 6y, 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 CAIRN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds GORDON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Piney Woods School ↗
  • Who funds OLD TIME GOSPEL HOUR INC ↗
  • Who funds Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary Inc ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds RBC MINISTRIES ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Ta Edwin M Nygaard funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ta Edwin M Nygaard. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Gordon College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report 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 16 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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