· Private foundation
The Covenant Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $85k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MINNESOTA FAMILY INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| MORELIA HOME FOR CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| OPTIONS FOR WOMEN | $10,000 |
| LIBERTY BIBLE CHURCH | $10,000 |
| MINNESOTA ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE | $10,000 |
| LIBERTY CLASSICAL ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| CANOPY GLOBAL FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| TEENS FOR CHRIST | $6,000 |
| TRAINING LEADERS INTERNATIONAL | $5,000 |
| BRYDGES CENTRE | $5,000 |
| YOUTH INVESTMENT FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| LIVE ACTION | $3,000 |
| CRU | $3,000 |
| NORTHERN YOUTH PROGRAMS | $2,000 |
| FOREVER ADVENTURE | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 62% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 13% of The Covenant Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 74% of the giving stays in MN; read by stated purpose it is 67% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +73% since the first grant, against -45% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 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
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
- MFMINNESOTA FAMILY INSTITUTE8× · 2017–2024 · $231k · revenue +92%
- MTMinnesota Teen Challenge Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $127k · revenue +88%
- TFTEENS FOR CHRIST INC8× · 2017–2024 · $107k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $5k
- TMTIME MINISTRIESone grant, 2017 · $1k
- HCHOSANNA CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $1k
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.
Reaching and teaching pastors in the majority world.
Bible Translation and acts of Christian Services
International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures
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.
International Biblical Training is a teaching, training and equipping religious ministry. IBT staff provide theological teaching and training for the purpose of making Christian disciples who in turn train and disciple others in…
Promote christian religion through conferences and group meetings.
North America Bible Institute (NABI) is an evangelical graduate school, made up of students who are diverse in both ethnicity and ministry aims -- but united in great love for Jesus and his gospel. As a graduate school, NABI offers them…
Training pastors in third world countries
Ministry
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…
Reconciliaton Ministries Intl. is a Christian evangelical organization preaching and teaching the Word of God in over 60 countries. The ministry equips and encourages Christians everywhere to be saved, healed, and delivered according to…
Serving and pastoring overseas workers on their own turf and equipping nationals by training and empowering them in their work of advancing the gospel.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minnesota Family Institute and the most unlike its peers is As Unto Him. 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 30 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 43 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 MINNESOTA FAMILY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc ↗
- Who funds TEENS FOR CHRIST INC ↗
- Who funds MORELIA HOME FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Training Leaders International ↗
- Who funds LIVE ACTION ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL FATHERING MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds LEGACY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY CLASSICAL ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds The Dwelling Place ↗
- Who funds BRYDGES CENTRE ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN YOUTH PROGRAMS OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL SERVICE FELLOWSHIP ↗
- Who funds CANOPY GLOBAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAR EAST BROADCASTING COMPANY ↗
- Who funds AS UNTO HIM ↗
- Who funds FOREVER ADVENTURE ↗
- Who funds GODS DAILY WORD MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds LIVING STONES INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Pro-Life Action Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUTH INVESTMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OLIVE TREE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds MARTIN AND GRACIA BURNHAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Talking Bibles International ↗
- Who funds God's World Publications Inc ↗
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: 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
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 Covenant 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.