· Private foundation
The Fellowship 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $32k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIDELITY CHARITABLE DONOR ASSISTED FUND | $32,193 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $1,750 |
| OPEN DOOR MISSION | $1,750 |
| CLEBURNE PREGNANCY CENTER | $1,410 |
| DOWNING STREET FOUNDATION | $1,410 |
| NEW HEIGHTS CHURCH | $1,400 |
| ST THERESA CHURCH | $1,400 |
| ST JAMES UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $1,000 |
| CHRISTIAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $1,000 |
| BELLEVUE LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| CHRIST THE KING CATHOLIC CHURCH | $815 |
| UNBOUND | $480 |
| IOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FNDN | $300 |
| CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY | $250 |
| DRAKE LAW SCHOOL | $250 |
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 (FY17–25, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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.
46 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 8 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, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CPCLEBURNE PREGNANCY CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $8k · revenue +23%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF THE OZARKS3× · 2020–2022 · $3k · revenue +60%
- DSDowning Street Foundation DBA Downing House Attn Jerri Carr3× · 2023–2025 · $3k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- FUFIRST UMC HOT SPRINGSone grant, 2018 · $15k
- HSHOT SPRINGS BOYS & GIRLS CLUBone grant, 2017 · $10k
- SHSECOND HARVESTone grant, 2024 · $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.
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.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Our mission is to strengthen the university of iowa through alumni engagement. we do this through our communications, alumni programs, and events.
To promote the common business interests of member companies without profit and without the inuring of income to the benefit of any member company or individual. to present the executive, legislative, judicial and regulatory bodies…
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.
Engages, equips and empowers learners to explore their vocations, fulfill their potential and serve the world.
Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.
How this is measured
42 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. 42 of the 104 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 OPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Christian Research Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds CLEBURNE PREGNANCY CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE OZARKS ↗
- Who funds Downing Street Foundation DBA Downing House Attn Jerri Carr ↗
- Who funds IOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOLY SPIRIT RETIREMENT HOME INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO FOURTEENERS INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds INTERCONGREGATION COMMUNITIES ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MESSIANIC JEWISH BIBLE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds A3 ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
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: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · The Denver Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Servant Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Colorado Gives Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · United Way Worldwide · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Fellowship Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Fellowship Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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