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The Aletheia Foundation at a glance

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The Aletheia Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$410k
Granted FY2025still arriving
31
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$877kHuman Services$606kCivil Rights$303kEducation$236kHousing & Shelter$194kPublic Benefit$140kYouth Development$91kInternational$84kOther$0
02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k20 grants · $77k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $153k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $180k
$5,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$516k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
ETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY$10,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$10,000
CRANHILL RANCH$10,000
WEST MICHIGAN FRIENDSHIP CENTER$5,000
GRACE'S TABLE$5,000
LIGONIER MINISTRIES$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
02The need
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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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PAWS WITH A CAUSE: $6k → 10%ALPHA GRAND RAPIDS: $10k → 11%PAWS WITH A CAUSE: $5k → 10%ALPHA GRAND RAPIDS: $10k → 11%LOVE INC OF BOONE COUNTY: $3k → 5%PAWS WITH A CAUSE: $5k → 10%LOVE INC OF BOONE COUNTY: $3k → 5%FINDING FREEDOM RANCH: $3k → 10%ALPHA GRAND RAPIDS: $5k → 11%FINDING FREEDOM RANCH: $5k → 10%ALPHA GRAND RAPIDS: $3k → 11%ALPHA GRAND RAPIDS: $3k → 11%NORTH KENT CONNECT: $500k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
IL
MI
NY
IA
IN
OH
KY
AZ
NC
SC
DC
GA
FL
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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 37 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +20% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
21

Total granted

$1.9M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+20%

Still filing today

59%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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

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Human ServicesReligionEducationInternationalHousing & ShelterHealthOther
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

  • ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM
    6× · 2019–2025 · $223k · revenue +97%
  • SC
    SERVANTS CENTER
    6× · 2020–2025 · $148k · revenue +28%
  • CU
    Cedarville University
    4× · 2019–2025 · $110k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • RC
    ROCKFORD COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue +11%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $250k
  • NC
    NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION DONOR ADVISED FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
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
Freedom That Lasts Ministries

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.

Human Services
2
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

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…

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3
Christianity Today International

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.

Religion
4
Tyndale Bible Translators

Bible Translation and acts of Christian Services

Religion
5
Turning Point for God

To broadcast the Gospel of Jesus Christ through the available means including television, radio, internet, recorded, and written formats.

Religion
6
Ransomed Heart Ministries

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…

Religion
7
Mark Driscoll Ministries

To proclaim the gospel of jesus christ

Religion
8
A Jesus Mission

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.

Religion
9
Walk Thru the Bible Ministries Inc

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.

Religion
10
Servants Ministry

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.

Religion
11
Christian Harvest International Min

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.

Religion
12
Christian Healthcare Ministries Inc

To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

41 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. 41 of the 66 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
39/41
Grantees still filing
29/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $250,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPINE RIDGE BIBLE CAMP: $206,746 · OtherPINE RIDGE BIBLE CAMPMISSION INDIA: $175,000 · OtherMISSION INDIABRIDGE ST MINISTRIES: $167,500 · OtherBRIDGE ST MINISTRIESETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY: $80,000 · OtherETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICYNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION DONOR ADVISED FUND: $50,000 · Other+33 more: $457,000 · Other+33 moreROCKFORD COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER: $500,000 · Human ServicesROCKFORD COMMUNITY SER…Alpha Grand Rapids: $30,500 · Human Services+5 more: $54,000 · Human Services+5 moreREFORMATION HERITAGE BOOKS INC: $150,000 · EducationREFORMATION HE…Cedarville University: $109,610 · EducationCedarville Uni…NORTHPOINTE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: $106,180 · EducationNORTHPOINTE CH…Faith Baptist Bible College: $15,000 · Education+1 more: $5,000 · EducationALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $222,500 · Civil RightsALLIANCE DE…Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty: $80,500 · Civil RightsActon Insti…SERVANTS CENTER: $148,000 · ReligionLigonier Ministries Inc: $22,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $15,000 · Religion+3 more: $7,500 · ReligionThe Luke Commission: $32,000 · InternationalLIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC: $32,000 · InternationalUNITED SERVANTS ABROAD INC: $27,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $5,000 · InternationalCOREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION WEST MICHIGAN: $22,500 · HealthAMERICAN AUTOIMMUNE RELATED DISEASES ASSOCIATION: $20,000 · HealthARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC: $5,500 · Health
Other$1,386,246Human Services$584,500Education$385,790Civil Rights$303,000Religion$192,500International$96,000Health$48,000

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 budgetROCKFORD COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER: $500,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $222,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetREFORMATION HERITAGE BOOKS INC: $150,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetSERVANTS CENTER: $148,000 over 6y, 7.7% of budgetCedarville University: $109,610 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHPOINTE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: $106,180 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetActon Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty: $80,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetLINCOLN LAKE BAPTIST YOUTH CAMP INC: $45,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Luke Commission: $32,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC: $32,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAlpha Grand Rapids: $30,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED SERVANTS ABROAD INC: $27,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetCONTINENTAL BAPTIST MISSIONS: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMEL TROTTER MINISTRIES: $23,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION WEST MICHIGAN: $22,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCRAN-HILL MINISTRIES: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFORGOTTEN MAN MINISTRIES: $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN AUTOIMMUNE RELATED DISEASES ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE LIGHTHOUSE FOR TEEN MOTHERS: $20,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetPaws With A Cause: $16,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFaith Baptist Bible College: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPINE REST FOUNDATION: $14,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPregnancy Resource Center: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGRACE'S TABLE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE BIBLE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFinding Freedom Ranch Inc: $8,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetLOVE INC OF BOONE COUNTY INC: $6,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetLEAD COLLECTIVE INCCHA: $6,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES WEST MICHIGAN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe West Michigan friendship center: $5,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget2ND CHANCE CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetPOTTERS RANCH INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOMES GIVING HOPE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUPPER PENINSULA BIBLE CAMP: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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 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 CRAN-HILL MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds FORGOTTEN MAN MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN AUTOIMMUNE RELATED DISEASES ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds THE LIGHTHOUSE FOR TEEN MOTHERS ↗
  • Who funds Paws With A Cause ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds Faith Baptist Bible College ↗
  • Who funds PINE REST FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Grand Rapids Communit…Peter C & Emajean Coo…Christian Community F…Two Fish FoundationNatl Christian Charit…Mojo FoundationBuist FoundationThe Zondervan Foundat…Edgar and Elsa Prince…The Meijer FoundationDouglas & Maria Devos…Gordon Christian Trust
Grand Rapids Community FoundationMI23.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The Aletheia Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Aletheia Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get 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 · 0–40%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Aletheia Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Aletheia Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 66 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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