· Private foundation
The Cec 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $223k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FISHBOWL MINISTRIES | $100,000 |
| SHEEPFOLD | $38,187 |
| Individual grant recipient | $35,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| URBAN YOUTH WORKERS INST | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| BRAIN | $25,000 |
| ROOTED SOUL MINISTRIES | $20,000 |
| WAY OUT MINISTRIES | $15,000 |
| MERCY SHIPS | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 48% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FMFISHBOWL MINISTRIES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $950k · revenue +43% · 52% of their budget
- HMHISPANIC MINISTRY CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $640k · revenue +24%
- TSTHE SHEEPFOLD INC9× · 2017–2025 · $284k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- HLHUME LAKE CHRISTIAN CAMPS INCone grant, 2020 · $50k
- MGMERRILL GARDENS - ASSISTED LIVINGone grant, 2022 · $20k
- JJ316one grant, 2017 · $20k
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.
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.
Church ministering both locally and abroad to spread the word of god and jesus christ.
A ministry dedicated to helping men and women behind bars through discipleship and biblical education.
Ministry
Meeting physical & spiritual needs
Ministry that turns men from addiction to Jesus Christ by daily engaging them in spiritual, physical and financial guidance and goals
Religious ministry
Pastoral and ministry care and rest
To care for orphan, refugee and displaced children along with their caregivers and share the gospel with them so they know they are loved by jesus and become his disciples
To teach, preach, proclaim, publish, distribute and disseminate the gospel and doctrine of the christian faith. the ministry reaches approximately 1.5 million persons through its outreach ministries.
Share the word of god and to empower haitians by means of education and vocational means.
The mission is to advance the kingdom of god.
Religious missions
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 32 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 FISHBOWL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC MINISTRY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE SHEEPFOLD INC ↗
- Who funds ROOTED SOULS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds The Way Out Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPE NOW FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD NEWS MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds PRECIOUS LAMB PRESCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds UGANDAN LAMBS ASSOCIATION USA ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Cec Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Cec Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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