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The Aletheia Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k20 grants · $77k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $153k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $180k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM | $80,000 |
| PINE RIDGE BIBLE CAMP | $50,226 |
| CEDARVILLE UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| MISSION INDIA | $42,000 |
| KENT COUNTY YOUTH FAIR AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| THE FAMILY LIFE CENTER OF WEST MICHIGAN | $20,000 |
| ACTION INSTITUTE | $18,000 |
| SERVANTS CENTER | $18,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $10,000 |
| ETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY | $10,000 |
| CRANHILL RANCH | $10,000 |
| WEST MICHIGAN FRIENDSHIP CENTER | $5,000 |
| LIGONIER MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| ASSURE WOMEN'S CENTER | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $561k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 14 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; $65k 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
ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM6× · 2019–2025 · $223k · revenue +97%- SCSERVANTS CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $148k · revenue +28%
- CUCedarville University4× · 2019–2025 · $110k · revenue +61%
Funded once
- RCROCKFORD COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTERone grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue +11%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $250k
- NCNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION DONOR ADVISED FUNDone grant, 2023 · $50k
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.
Ftlm seeks to equip churches to minister to those who are suffering from addiction and equip christians with the resources needed to facilitate spiritual growth in christlike character and biblical wisdom.
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…
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.
Bible Translation and acts of Christian Services
To broadcast the Gospel of Jesus Christ through the available means including television, radio, internet, recorded, and written formats.
This organization exists to restore men and women to live from their heart - as God's intimate allies - by recovering the treasure of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, entrusting that message to the people who have been transformed by it, and to…
To proclaim the gospel of jesus christ
A Jesus Mission creates unique opportunities for individuals or teams to serves as Christian missionaires around the world through traditional evangelism, discipleship training, and outreach.
Walk thru the bible (wtb) ignites passion for god's word. by developing a global network of influential pastors and leaders and then resourcing them with tools and training, wtb fulfills its role in the great commission.
Servants Ministry fosters Christian fellowship at colleges and universities by organizing social activities bible studies regional conferences and by ministering to the spiritual needs of the students.
To provide strategic teaching about prayer, prophecy, and intercession in the US and abroad. Books, manuals, and audio teachings are also used to equip Christians in strategic level spiritual prayer and warfare.
To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The West Michigan friendship center. 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 36 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 66 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 ROCKFORD COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds REFORMATION HERITAGE BOOKS INC ↗
- Who funds SERVANTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds Cedarville University ↗
- Who funds NORTHPOINTE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN LAKE BAPTIST YOUTH CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Luke Commission ↗
- Who funds LIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC ↗
- Who funds Alpha Grand Rapids ↗
- Who funds UNITED SERVANTS ABROAD INC ↗
- Who funds CONTINENTAL BAPTIST MISSIONS ↗
- Who funds MEL TROTTER MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds COREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Ligonier Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LIGHTHOUSE FOR TEEN MOTHERS ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN MAN MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds CRAN-HILL MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN AUTOIMMUNE RELATED DISEASES ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Paws With A Cause ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Faith Baptist Bible College ↗
- Who funds PINE REST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE ↗
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: Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Two Fish Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Mojo Foundation · Buist Foundation · The Zondervan Foundation · Edgar and Elsa Prince Foundation · The Meijer Foundation · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · Gordon Christian Trust
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 The Aletheia 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.
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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