Minnesota · Private foundation
The Covenant 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.
- $117k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $4,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $16,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 27
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $79k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations The Covenant Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 23 | $117k | 9% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $124k | 21% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $97k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $135k | 5% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $93k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $184k | 13% |
| FY2019 | 27 | $131k | 15% |
| FY2018 | 24 | $185k | 29% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota Family Institute | $241,000 | 9 | 6% |
| Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc | $141,900 | 8 | 0% |
| Teens for Christ Inc | $123,000 | 9 | 4% |
| Morelia Home for Children | $87,400 | 9 | 14% |
| Training Leaders International | $55,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Evangelical Free Church of America | $40,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Live Action | $34,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Legacy Christian Academy | $33,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Liberty Bible Church | $32,000 | 3 | n/a |
| The National Fathering Ministry Inc | $30,000 | 8 | 7% |
Show all 34 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($193k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Covenant Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Larson Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Rjdm Inc · Barnabas Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund
How this is measured
About The Covenant Foundation
- How much does The Covenant Foundation give?
- The Covenant Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $117,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Covenant Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (52%), Health (16%), Human Services (9%).
- Who are The Covenant Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Minnesota Family Institute ($241k), Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc ($142k), Teens for Christ Inc ($123k).
- Does The Covenant Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Covenant Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Covenant Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Christian Community Foundation Inc, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, Larson Foundation.
- Where is The Covenant Foundation based?
- The Covenant Foundation is based in MN.
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