· Private foundation
The George Edward Durell 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, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $88k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $102k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $440k
- $250k+2 grants · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $250,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $250,000 |
| NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION | $140,000 |
| ACTON INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| FORGE LEADERSHIP NETWORK | $50,000 |
| THE GLOBAL ORPHAN PROJECT INC | $50,000 |
| MERCATUS CENTER | $50,000 |
| INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $20,000 |
| PREVENTION ACTION ALLIANCE | $15,000 |
| PREVENTION ACTION ALLIANCE | $12,000 |
| FOR COLUMBUS | $10,000 |
| CENTRAL OHIO YOUTH FOR CHRIST | $10,000 |
| LIVING ON THE EDGE | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $210k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 81% 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 35% of The George Edward Durell Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 23% of the giving stays in OH; by stated purpose, 30%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
59 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2024, 39 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AIActon Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +3%
- NCNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2023 · $1.1M · revenue ×103
- ISINTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $505k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- TETHE ENDOWMENT FUND OF PHI KAPPA PSI FRATone grant, 2017 · $50k
- CCCanine Companions - North Central Rone grant, 2022 · $20k
- APAmerican Principles Projectgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +224%
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.
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.
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…
To contend for the credibility of christian resources in public life, for the public good.
The Center of Theological Inquiry is an independent research institution with an international visiting scholar program which convenes researchers in an ideal setting for interdisciplinary inquiries where theology casts light on global…
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
To provide resources, training, and continuing support to leaders in the us and around the world in order that they may help others find freedom in christ.
Provide education in theology, divinity, religious education, ministerial training, business and organizational leadership.
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
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…
Asbury Theological Seminary is a community called to prepare theologically educated, sanctified, Spirit-filled men and women to evangelize and to spread scriptural holiness throughout the world through the love of Jesus Christ, in the…
The institute's mission is to conduct research on key issues facing society to help both the church and society deal thoughtfully with the major issues they face globally. the institute also sponsors and conducts research and scholarship…
How this is measured
58 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 58 of the 91 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.
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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: Columbus Foundation · Donors Trust Inc · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · Siemer Family Foundation · Harry C Moores Foundation · The Chase Foundation of Virginia · Delaware County Foundation · Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated · The Randolph Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The George Edward Durell Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The George Edward Durell Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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