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The Kharis Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$330k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$206k
Largest
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1000kHealth$247kReligion$169kHuman Services$55kArts & Culture$6kCrime & Legal$2kInternational$1kYouth Development$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k19 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $257k
$2,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$42k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Crown Point Christian School$206,000
Illiana Christian High School$51,000
Providence Life Services$30,000
Ada Christian School$10,000
Little Sisters of the Poor$4,500
Elim Christian Services$3,500
Women's Center of NWI$3,000
Hope Church$2,700
Family Church Network$2,500
Crossroads Church$2,500
Living Stones Church$2,500
Activation International Ministries$2,000
Anew Ministries$1,500
Moody Bible Institute$1,500
Chicagoland Prison Outreach$1,000
02The need
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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 (FY25–25, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Sheltered 91: $1k → 15%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

MN
IL
WI
MI
IN
OH
NC
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 20 repeat orgs$69k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
12

Total granted

$1.4M
$64k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+9%

Still filing today

55%
8%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionEducationHealthCivil RightsHuman ServicesOther
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

  • CP
    CROWN POINT CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSN
    7× · 2017–2025 · $864k · revenue +98%
  • TA
    THE ASSOCIATION OF ILLIANA CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL OF INDIANA INC
    5× · 2017–2025 · $65k · revenue +77%
  • AC
    ADA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SOCIETY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $43k · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • IC
    Illiana Christian School
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
  • PL
    Providence Life Service
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • LS
    Little Sisters of the Pooe
    one grant, 2023 · $12k
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
Association of Certified Biblical

Training & certification of christian biblical counselors

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2
Olivet University

Providing guality Christian education to the network generation

Education
3
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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4
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
5
Charis Bible College Inc

Charis Bible Colleges, Inc. (CBC) was established to train and equip individuals to carry out the Gospel of Jesus Christ through practical application through mentoring, training, and teaching.

Religion
6
Chicago Embassy Church

To help people find purpose and live on their mission with Jesus.

Religion
7
Asbury Theological Seminary

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…

Education
8
In Christ Ministries Inc

In Christ Ministries exists to bring the message of Gods love grace and truth to children teens and adults. We do this through training and outreach events.

Religion
9
Abilene Christian School Inc

The mission of Abilene Christian School, Inc. is to equip students to excel academically, serve meaningfully, and walk faithfully with God.

Education
10
Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary

To prepare students to serve christ and his church through biblical, experiential and practical ministry. prts provides theological training and instruction in accordance with the scriptures and the historic reformed creeds for promotion…

Education
11
Churches in Missions Inc

Mobilization of churches in America by taking pastors and laymen on vision and service trips overseas in fulfillment of Jesus command to go ye into all the world, making disciples...

Human Services
12
Imi Sos International

Our mission is to provide traditional churches with consultation, pastors and counseling.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Elim Christian Services; the most unlike its peers is Activation International Ministries. 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

15 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. 15 of the 38 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)
13/15
Grantees still filing
10/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CROWN POINT CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSN: $863,500 · EducationCROWN POINT CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSNADA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SOCIETY: $43,000 · Education+2 more: $13,100 · EducationCROSSROADS CHURCH: $67,600 · OtherCROSSROADS CHURCHTHE ASSOCIATION OF ILLIANA CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL OF INDIANA INC: $64,700 · OtherTHE ASSOCIATION OF ILLI…Little Sisters of the Poor: $40,000 · OtherLittle Sisters of the P…ALLIANCE OF REFORMED CHURCHES: $32,500 · OtherALLIANCE OF REFORMED CH…Illiana Christian School: $20,000 · OtherIlliana Christian Schoo…Providence Life Service: $20,000 · OtherProvidence Life ServiceLittle Sisters of the Pooe: $11,500 · Other+19 more: $50,150 · Other+19 moreREST HAVEN ILLIANA CHRISTIAN CONVALESCENT HOME: $247,000 · HealthREST HAVEN ILLIANA…ACTIVATION INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES: $3,700 · ReligionInterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA: $2,000 · ReligionCHICAGOLAND PRISON OUTREACH: $2,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $1,000 · ReligionCOURTSIDE MINISTRIES: $500 · ReligionTHE WOMENS CENTER OF NORTHWEST INDIANA: $5,700 · Civil RightsSHELTERED91 INC: $4,000 · Human Services
Education$919,600Other$306,450Health$247,000Religion$9,200Civil Rights$5,700Human Services$4,000

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 budgetCROWN POINT CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSN: $863,500 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetREST HAVEN ILLIANA CHRISTIAN CONVALESCENT HOME: $247,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ASSOCIATION OF ILLIANA CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL OF INDIANA INC: $64,700 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetADA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SOCIETY: $43,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetELIM CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $8,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WOMENS CENTER OF NORTHWEST INDIANA: $5,700 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetThe Moody Bible Institute of Chicago: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTERED91 INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetANEW MINISTRIES: $4,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetACTIVATION INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES: $3,700 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetCHICAGOLAND PRISON OUTREACH: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOURTSIDE MINISTRIES: $500 over 1y, 0.4% 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 CROWN POINT CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSN ↗
  • Who funds REST HAVEN ILLIANA CHRISTIAN CONVALESCENT HOME ↗
  • Who funds THE ASSOCIATION OF ILLIANA CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL OF INDIANA INC ↗
  • Who funds ADA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds ELIM CHRISTIAN SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds THE WOMENS CENTER OF NORTHWEST INDIANA ↗
  • Who funds The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds SHELTERED91 INC ↗
  • Who funds ANEW MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds ACTIVATION INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGOLAND PRISON OUTREACH ↗
  • Who funds LIFELINE MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds COURTSIDE MINISTRIES ↗

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.

Barnabas FoundationIL19.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Barnabas Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Kharis Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kharis Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–5%
    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 38 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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