How much did THE COVENANT FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 65% of THE COVENANT FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

payments guidanceguidance unplannedunplanned pregnancieschrist

2020

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2021

—

2022

—

2023

—

2024

liberty

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k17 grants · $39k
$10k–50k7 grants · $85k

$3,000

Median grant

States reached

$30k

Total assets

Largest grants

MINNESOTA FAMILY INSTITUTE$25,000
OPTIONS FOR WOMEN$10,000
MINNESOTA ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE$10,000
LIBERTY CLASSICAL ACADEMY$10,000
MORELIA HOME FOR CHILDREN$10,000
LIBERTY BIBLE CHURCH$10,000
CANOPY GLOBAL FOUNDATION INC$10,000
TEENS FOR CHRIST$6,000
BRYDGES CENTRE$5,000
TRAINING LEADERS INTERNATIONAL$5,000
YOUTH INVESTMENT FOUNDATION$4,000
CRU$3,000
LIVE ACTION$3,000
NORTHERN YOUTH PROGRAMS$2,000
FOREVER ADVENTURE$2,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$894k · 29 repeat orgs$55k to everyone else

29 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$894k

$29k

Still filing today

62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

ReligionHuman ServicesEducationInternationalCivil RightsHealthOther

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

MF
MINNESOTA FAMILY INSTITUTE
7× · 2018–2024 · $181k · revenue +64%
TF
TEENS FOR CHRIST
7× · 2018–2024 · $97k · revenue +50%
MH
MORELIA HOME FOR CHILDREN
7× · 2018–2024 · $55k · revenue +73%

Funded once

LB
LIBERTY BIBLE CHURCH
one grant, 2018 · $15k
MA
MMS AVIATION
one grant, 2022 · $5k
FE
FAR EAST BROADCASTING CO
one grant, 2019 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Tyndale House Ministries

Minister to the spiritual needs of people, primarily through the publication of literature consistent with Biblical principles and through grants to other charitable entities.

Religion

Timothy Two Project International

Reaching and teaching Pastors in the majority world

Religion

Christian Ministries International

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Jesus Ministries International

Promote christian religion

Religion

Mission Mobilization International

We reach the authorities for Christ in the USA and in different countries around the world. We use many different strategies including volunteer teams to help us do training and seminars. We have conferences, luncheons etc. for…

Religion

L I F E Ministries Inc

Our mission is to affirm life through evangelism, education, counseling and practical assistance.

Health

Barnabas Leadership Ministries

Ministry

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Teaching Ministry of the Word of Truth

A training ministry that equips the saints more focusing on preparing leaders and ministers of the word for the work of ministry to the building up of the body of Christ.

Religion

International Christian Partners

Childrens Home and Ministry in India

Religion

Heartbeat International Ministries

A 501(c)(3) organization incorporated and headquartered in connecticut (usa). with extensive experience in coordinating relief and charitable efforts in disparate locations domestic and worldwide; heartbeat works tirelessly around the…

Human Services

Living Faith Ministries International

Our mission is to impact communities by transforming lives. We seek to fulfill the Great Commission by ministering to individuals holistically, meeting their spiritual, physical, and emotional needs.

Religion

Frontline Missions International

Fmi works among people in areas of war,persecution,and poverty,primarily in restricted-access countries, seeking to strengthen the church,give voice to persecuted christians,and preach and publish the gospel

Religion

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.

Your grantees are a median of 28 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/25

the rest of the field

3,300/38,964

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.

05the grantee network

21 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

21/21

Grantees still filing

18/21

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$613,750Religion$155,000International$55,400Education$44,685Human Services$39,000Civil Rights$31,500Health$10,000

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.

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.

Larson FoundationFL16× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Larson Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Minneapolis Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Barnabas Foundation · Communitygiving · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Servant Foundation · United Way Worldwide · The Blackbaud Giving 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 organisation 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.

2024

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1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: FOREVER ADVENTURE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 822705268 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on FOREVER ADVENTURE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 8% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to The Covenant Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Covenant Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE COVENANT FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

21 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Covenant Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE COVENANT FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

21 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Covenant Foundation?

More from the funding graph