· Private foundation
The Erickson Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $51k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HUME LAKE CHRISTIAN CAMPS | $53,400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| CTAP | $20,500 |
| STUDENTS INTERNATIONAL | $6,000 |
| GIDEONS | $5,000 |
| COMM PRES CHURCH DANVILLE | $2,750 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–18, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +3% for those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HLHUME LAKE CHRISTIAN CAMPS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $312k
- CYCHRISTIAN YOUTH THEATER6× · 2018–2023 · $82k
- SISTUDENTS INTERNATIONAL5× · 2018–2024 · $43k · revenue +6%
Funded once
GLOBAL OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $136k · revenue +33%- WCWATERSTONE CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $100k
- OMOUTDOOR MINISTRY SUPPLYone grant, 2023 · $42k · revenue -78% · 58% of their budget
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.
Religious organization devoted to strengthening members' personal faith.
Training pastors in third world countries
Sending disciples to glorify god
None
Preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Organization travels to churches and conferences throughout the United States and to other countries to teach the Gospel of Jesus Christ through praise, worship, and Bible study.
Supporing missionaries worldwide
International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures
Promote christian religion through conferences and group meetings.
Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 28 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 GLOBAL OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds STUDENTS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds OUTDOOR MINISTRY SUPPLY ↗
- Who funds Alternatives ↗
- Who funds San Diego Spine Foundation ↗
- Who funds GRATEFUL SHEPHERD MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
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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: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Erickson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Erickson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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