How much does The Covenant Trust give?

The Covenant Trust reported 6 grants totaling $4,706 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 9 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Covenant Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (37%), International (27%), Religion (17%).

Who are The Covenant Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Asia's Hope ($48k), Heart to Honduras Inc ($12k), Samaritan's Purse ($5k).

Does The Covenant Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Covenant Trust 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 Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Columbus Foundation, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, American Endowment Foundation.

Where is The Covenant Trust based?

The Covenant Trust is based in OH.

The Covenant Trust

The Covenant Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

The Covenant Trust

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.

$5k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$2k

Largest

01What it funds

0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$50kInternational$36kReligion$22kHealth$10kYouth Development$7kArts & Culture$5kFood & Nutrition$2kEducation$50Other$0

02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$614

Median grant

States reached

$6k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
CONVOY OF HOPE	$1,726
PREGNANCY DECISION HEALTH CENTER	$1,480
CENTRAL OHIO YOUTH FOR CHRIST	$614
GOD'S VINEYARD	$400
GLOBAL VILLAGE CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP	$250
HEART TO HONDURAS	$236

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $52k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$119k · 11 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$119k

$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-4%

+37%

Still filing today

45%

62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalReligionHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationOther

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

AH
ASIA'S HOPE
4× · 2017–2021 · $48k · revenue -4%
AI
AGAPE INTERNATIONAL
3× · 2020–2022 · $19k
WO
WORLD OUTREACH MINISTRY
2× · 2017–2021 · $13k

Funded once

SP
SAMARITAN'S PURSEgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +40%
KI
Kingdom Investment International Inc
one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue -31%
IT
IN THE GAME MINISTRIES
one grant, 2020 · $1k

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.

Compassion International Incorporated

Compassion exists to release children from poverty in Jesus' name. Compassion serves all children, regardless of religion, race, ethnicity, or gender.

International

Mission Without Borders International

The organization is dedicated to reaching people for christ through an international network of christians who journey with the poor and marginalized, bringing practical and spiritual support with hope of a better future,(continued on…

International

What Matters Ministries and Missions

The organizations exempt purpose is to rescue orphans and widows, feed the poor, build the local church through ministry, crusades and outreaches and to win souls around the world.

Religion

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

Asia Us Impact

Religious

Religion

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

Joy in the Harvest

To serve Christ by providing expertise, resources, and leadership to help the church make Christian Disciples in foreign lands, and to render assistance to the poor, sick, and needy in our places of service.

Religion

Asia Harvest Inc

To help spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ by providing resources and financial support to projects throughout Asia

International

Vine International Inc

Vine international is a christian nonprofit relief organization serving those who serve the poor through medical missions in central america.

Health

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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Cross International Inc

(See Schedule O for description.)

Religion

International Partnerships Inc

To provide support for the efforts of christians of the former soviet union in reaching the influencers of their countries for christ.

Religion

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Convoy of Hope; the most unlike its peers is 5KforJK Inc. 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

15 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. 15 of the 26 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

13/15

Grantees still filing

10/15

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$54,198Human Services$52,230International$14,518Religion$6,500Arts & Culture$4,825Health$1,250Education$50

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.

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.

Columbus FoundationOH18.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Columbus Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home