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The Ebenezer Charitable Trust

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.

$594k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$270k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$1.8MHuman Services$893kPublic Safety & Disaster$56k
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $18k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $270k
  • $250k+1 grant · $270k
$18,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$4.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IN TOUCH MINISTRIES$270,000
SOUTHEASTERN FREE WILL BAPTIST$135,000
THE SALVATION ARMY MANSFIELD$67,500
THE SALVATION ARMY NORTHEAST OHIO$67,500
AMERICA RED CROSS RICHLAND COUNTY$18,000
MOODY BIBLE INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO$9,000
FRIENDLY HOUSE ASSOC OF MANSFIELD$9,000
RBC MINISTRIES$9,000
CORNERSTONE FREE WILL BAPTIST CHURC$4,500
LES FELDICK MINISTRIES$4,500
02The need
03

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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 54% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%RBC MINISTRIES: $9k → 11%SOUTHEASTERN FREE WILL BAPTIST: $135k → 8%THE SALVATION ARMY MANSFIELD: $68k → 15%THE SALVATION ARMY NORTHEAST OHIO: $68k → 17%MOODY BIBLE INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $9k → 14%RBC MINISTRIES: $9k → 11%SOUTHEASTERN FREE WILL BAPTIST: $135k → 8%THE SALVATION ARMY MANSFIELD: $68k → 15%THE SALVATION ARMY NORTHEAST OHIO: $68k → 17%MOODY BIBLE INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $9k → 14%RBC MINISTRIES: $8k → 11%SOUTHEASTERN FREE WILL BAPTIST: $120k → 8%THE SALVATION ARMY MANSFIELD: $60k → 15%THE SALVATION ARMY NORTHEAST OHIO: $60k → 17%MOODY BIBLE INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $8k → 14%RBC MINISTRIES: $8k → 11%SOUTHEASTERN FREE WILL BAPTIST: $120k → 8%THE SALVATION ARMY MANSFIELD: $60k → 15%THE SALVATION ARMY NORTHEAST OHIO: $60k → 17%MOODY BIBLE INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $8k → 14%RBC MINISTRIES: $8k → 11%SOUTHEASTERN FREE WILL BAPTIST: $90k → 8%THE SALVATION ARMY MANSFIELD: $45k → 15%THE SALVATION ARMY NORTHEAST OHIO: $45k → 17%MOODY BIBLE INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $6k → 14%RBC MINISTRIES: $6k → 11%SOUTHEASTERN FREE WILL BAPTIST: $60k → 8%THE SALVATION ARMY MANSFIELD: $30k → 15%THE SALVATION ARMY NORTHEAST OHIO: $30k → 17%SOUTHEASTERN FREE WILL BAPTIST: $60k → 8%THE SALVATION ARMY MANSFIELD: $30k → 15%THE SALVATION ARMY NORTHEAST OHIO: $30k → 17%SOUTHEASTERN FREE WILL BAPTIST: $60k → 8%THE SALVATION ARMY MANSFIELD: $30k → 15%THE SALVATION ARMY NORTHEAST OHIO: $30k → 17%SOUTHEASTERN FREE WILL BAPTIST: $57k → 8%THE SALVATION ARMY MANSFIELD: $29k → 15%THE SALVATION ARMY NORTHEAST OHIO: $29k → 17%AMERICA RED CROSS RICHLAND COUNTY: $18k → 15%AMERICA RED CROSS RICHLAND COUNTY: $10k → 15%FRIENDLY HOUSE ASSOC OF MANSFIELD: $9k → 15%FRIENDLY HOUSE ASSOC OF MANSFIELD: $9k → 15%FRIENDLY HOUSE ASSOC OF MANSFIELD: $8k → 15%AMERICA RED CROSS RICHLAND COUNTY: $8k → 15%FRIENDLY HOUSE ASSOC OF MANSFIELD: $8k → 15%AMERICA RED CROSS RICHLAND COUNTY: $8k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS RICHLAND CT: $8k → 15%FRIENDLY HOUSE ASSOC OF MANSFIELD: $6k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 10 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
0

Total granted

$2.7M
$0

Still filing today

20%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • IT
    IN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $837k · revenue +40%
  • RM
    RBC MINISTRIES
    8× · 2017–2025 · $56k · revenue +55%
  • LF
    LES FELDICK MINISTRIES INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $28k · revenue +2%

Funded once

    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
    04the grantee network

    4 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. 4 of the 11 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.

    0
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    0
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    3/4
    Grantees still filing
    4/4
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    SOUTHEASTERN FREE WILL BAPTIST: $837,000 · OtherSOUTHEASTERN FREE WILL BAPTISTTHE SALVATION ARMY MANSFIELD: $418,500 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY MANSFIELDTHE SALVATION ARMY NORTHEAST OHIO: $418,500 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY NORTHEAST OHIO+4 more: $139,500 · Other+4 moreIN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC: $837,000 · ReligionIN TOUCH MINISTRIES INCRBC MINISTRIES: $55,800 · ReligionRBC MINISTRIES+1 more: $27,900 · ReligionThe Moody Bible Institute of Chicago: $55,800 · Education
    Other$1,813,500Religion$920,700Education$55,800

    Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

    25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC: $837,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetThe Moody Bible Institute of Chicago: $55,800 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetRBC MINISTRIES: $55,800 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLES FELDICK MINISTRIES INC: $27,900 over 8y, 0.0% of budget
    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 IN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC ↗
    • Who funds The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago ↗
    • Who funds RBC MINISTRIES ↗
    • Who funds LES FELDICK MINISTRIES INC ↗

    How much its grantees rely on government

    Each dot is one organization The Ebenezer Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ebenezer Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

    2024
    ’20’21’22’23’24’25
    no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
      no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
      1get no government money at all
      0rely on government for over half their income
      ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
      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.
      05Through Plinth

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      How do I get to The Ebenezer Charitable Trust?

      Find your warmest path to The Ebenezer Charitable Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

      Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

      On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

      How this is measured
      Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

      Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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