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The Emmerich Foundation 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.

$251k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$639kEducation$369kReligion$257kHealth$192kCivil Rights$156kHuman Services$73kFood & Nutrition$72kYouth Development$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $110k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $115k
$10,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOPE ACADEMY$65,000
OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL$50,000
HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT$25,000
FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION$15,000
CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST$15,000
ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM$15,000
LIVING WATER INTERNATIONAL$10,000
CURE INTERNATIONAL$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN$10,000
SAT-7 NORTH AMERICA$10,000
CARE NET$8,000
TURNING POINT USA$5,000
VISIONSYNERGY$5,000
PRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION$5,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$3,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $105k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 48% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%YOUTH FRONTIERS: $4k → 11%FAMILY VALUES FOR LIFE: $3k → 14%LIVING WATER INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 8%LIVING WATER INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 8%LIVING WATER INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 8%LIVING WATER INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 8%LIVING WATER INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 8%YOUTH FRONTIERS: $3k → 11%PRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%PRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%PRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%PRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%PRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%PRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%PRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%PRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
SD
IA
PA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
AZ
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 27 repeat orgs$68k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +63% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

27 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
9

Total granted

$1.6M
$55k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+18%

Still filing today

78%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalCivil RightsHuman ServicesEducationReligionHealthOther
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

  • HA
    HOPE ACADEMY INC
    4× · 2017–2025 · $150k · revenue +240%
  • HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $120k · revenue +213%
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    7× · 2017–2024 · $120k · revenue +134%

Funded once

  • RC
    Redfield Community Memorial Hospital Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -50% · 26% of their budget
  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2017 · $8k
  • PF
    PHEASANTS FOREVER
    one grant, 2019 · $6k
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.

1
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
2
Jewish Voice Ministries Intl

To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…

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3
Lifewater Inc

Lifewater international is a non-profit christian water development organization dedicated to effectively serving vulnerable children and families by partnering with underserved communities to overcome water poverty.

Environment
4
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
5
Biglife International Inc

Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.

Recreation & Sports
6
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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7
Bibleproject

Bibleproject's mission is to help people experience the bible as a unified story that leads to jesus. this is achieved by creating biblical videos to be regularly released on a newly-created youtube channel. (continued on schedule o.)each…

Religion
8
Global Outreach International Inc

To get the good news to every nation this generation by showing and sharing god's love by providing opportunities and supporting christian missionaries in over fifty seven countries around the world.

International
9
Corus International Inc

TO MANAGE AN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, HEALTH, AND RELIEF FOCUSED FAMILY OF ORGANIZATIONS HELPING PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES LIFT THEMSELVES OUT OF POVERTY, SUPPORT WELL-BEING OF INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES, AND PROVIDE…

Human Services
10
Life International

To partner with leaders globally to boldly proclaim the biblical truth of the father's heart for life, champion the gospel of jesus christ, and establish life-giving ministries.

Health
11
Blue Letter Bible

The specific purpose of this corporation is to present a biblical, christian ministry of the gospel, hope, encouragement and strength to as many people as possible. the intent of those who will conduct this corporation's work is to present…

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12
International Leadership Institute

The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is World Vision Inc; the most unlike its peers is Redfield Community Memorial Hospital Foundation. 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

31 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. 31 of the 40 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
23/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US: $175,000 · InternationalOPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/…HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC: $120,000 · InternationalHIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INCCURE INTERNATIONAL INC: $85,000 · InternationalCURE INTERNATIONAL INCFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $50,000 · InternationalFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INCWORLD VISION INC: $45,000 · InternationalWORLD VISION INCVISIONSYNERGY: $41,000 · InternationalVISIONSYNERGYHOPE INTERNATIONAL: $38,500 · InternationalHOPE INTERNATIONALHOPE ACADEMY INC: $150,000 · EducationHOPE ACADEMY INCHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $115,000 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGEUNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL: $71,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NORTHWES…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $12,000 · Education+1 more: $10,000 · EducationCAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST: $119,000 · OtherCAMPUS CRUSADE FOR …Individual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant re…REDFIELD COMMUNITY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL AND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherREDFIELD COMMUNITY …THE LUTHERAN HOME ASSOCIATION: $12,000 · OtherRedfield Community Memorial Hospital Foundation: $25,000 · OtherRedfield Community …MATTER: $22,000 · OtherMATTER+8 more: $41,800 · Other+8 moreSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $120,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S P…SAT-7 NORTH AMERICA: $97,000 · ReligionSAT-7 NORTH A…Americans United for Life Inc: $100,000 · Civil RightsAmericans…ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $40,000 · Civil RightsALLIANCE …Care Net: $8,000 · Civil Rights+2 more: $8,000 · Civil RightsFREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION: $87,000 · HealthTREEHOUSE INC: $30,000 · HealthLiving Water International: $55,000 · Human ServicesPRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION: $40,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH FRONTIERS INC: $7,000 · Human Services+2 more: $3,250 · Human Services
International$554,500Education$358,000Other$319,800Religion$217,000Civil Rights$156,000Health$117,000Human Services$105,250

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US: $175,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE ACADEMY INC: $150,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC: $120,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $120,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $115,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmericans United for Life Inc: $100,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetSAT-7 NORTH AMERICA: $97,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetFREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION: $87,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCURE INTERNATIONAL INC: $85,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL: $71,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLiving Water International: $55,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVISIONSYNERGY: $41,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE INTERNATIONAL: $38,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTREEHOUSE INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRedfield Community Memorial Hospital Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetMATTER: $22,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LUTHERAN HOME ASSOCIATION: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCare Net: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH FRONTIERS INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetStudents for Life of America Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIVE ACTION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY VALUES FOR LIFE: $3,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCharity Navigator: $250 over 1y, 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 OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US ↗
  • Who funds HOPE ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Americans United for Life Inc ↗
  • Who funds SAT-7 NORTH AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION ↗
  • Who funds CURE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL ↗
  • Who funds Living Water International ↗
  • Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
  • Who funds VISIONSYNERGY ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
  • Who funds PRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HOPE INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds TREEHOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds Redfield Community Memorial Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds MATTER ↗
  • Who funds THE LUTHERAN HOME ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Care Net ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH FRONTIERS INC ↗
  • Who funds Students for Life of America Inc ↗
  • Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
  • Who funds LIVE ACTION ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY VALUES FOR LIFE ↗
  • Who funds Charity Navigator ↗
  • Who funds BELLE PLAINE FOOD SHELF INC ↗

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.

Saint Paul & Minnesot…The Minneapolis Found…Renaissance Charitabl…Natl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN13× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Emmerich Foundation Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Emmerich Foundation Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    5report 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.

    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 40 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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