· Private foundation
The Ergon Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $102k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $970k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WALKER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| PILLAR CHURCH PLANTING NETWORK | $150,000 |
| REACHING AND TEACHING INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES INC | $140,000 |
| PILLAR CHURCH PLANTING NETWORK | $125,000 |
| GRACE COVENANT CHURCH OF BAY COUNTY | $120,000 |
| REACHING AND TEACHING INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES INC | $100,000 |
| PILLAR CHURCH PLANTING NETWORK | $75,000 |
| POIEMA PUBLICACIONES USA | $60,000 |
| REACHING AND TEACHING INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES INC | $50,000 |
| CAPITOL HILL BAPTIST CHURCH | $50,000 |
| PILLAR CHURCH PLANTING NETWORK | $50,000 |
| CROSS VISION MISSIONS | $50,000 |
| GRACE COVENANT CHURCH OF BAY COUNTY | $25,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL MISSION BOARD OF THE SOUTHERN BAPTIS | $25,000 |
| REACHING AND TEACHING INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES INC | $17,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 72% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +6% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PCPILLAR CHURCH PLANTING NETWORK5× · 2021–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +31%
- RAREACHING AND TEACHING INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES INCORPORATED5× · 2021–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +171%
- CVCROSS VISION MISSIONS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $632k · revenue +6% · 31% of their budget
Funded once
- FCFREEDOM CHURCH BALTIMORE INCone grant, 2017 · $100k
- IBINTERSTATE BAPTIST ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2017 · $18k
- PBPARK BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $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.
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.
Training pastors in third world countries
Religious
Amea ministries international advances the proclamation of the christian gospel and the church throughout africa, the middle east, and asia.
Equip Ministries trains overseas pastors and leaders, empowers the church, provides humanitarian aid, and attempts to reach the unreached peoples around the world by working with church leaders to fulfil
To spread the gospel of jesus christ through crusades
Rmi's activities include evangelism, discipleship, leadership training & other activities to spread the christian gospel in asia.
Our mission is to make disciples of jesus christ by engaging indigenous pastors around the world. our vision is to train pastors and their congregants to share the gospel in a friendly, non-denominational approach across all ethnicities,…
Religious
To propagate the gospel of jesus christ; to examine candidates and appoint missionaries. to endorse missionary programs according to standards set forth in the new testament, to establish churches, church schools & mission societies in…
Supporing missionaries worldwide
Petra International Ministries exists in order to establish Christ-Centered churches in Latin America, and in the United States, by discipling, teaching, and training nationals and internationals how to believe, obey, abide, serve, and…
To bring the gospel of jesus christ to those who have never heard it and take care of orphans
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 21 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds PILLAR CHURCH PLANTING NETWORK ↗
- Who funds REACHING AND TEACHING INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CROSS VISION MISSIONS INC ↗
- Who funds MANAS DEVELOPMENT GROUP ↗
- Who funds WALKER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds POIEMA PUBLICACIONES USA ↗
- Who funds Be Love Orphan Outreach MissionsInc ↗
- Who funds LAST BELL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds Footprints Abroad International Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds LINC Up Missions 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.
Open a dossier: Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Ergon Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ergon Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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