· Private foundation
The Nord 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 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $173k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $575k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Healing Waters | $111,200 |
| Reasons to Believe | $84,000 |
| TEARS | $83,500 |
| Christian World Outreach Inc | $76,380 |
| Foundation for the Nations | $75,600 |
| SERGE | $73,880 |
| CrossPurpose | $70,000 |
| AsOne Ministries | $25,690 |
| NYC International Project | $20,000 |
| Alpha USA | $15,000 |
| Global Health Ministries | $15,000 |
| CRU | $15,000 |
| Shepherd's Heart Ministry | $12,000 |
| Horizons International | $10,020 |
| Love Inc of Littleton | $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.
US giving: 89% of grant dollars ($5.0M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 11% that went abroad ($599k) is mapped below.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $176k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 11% of all-years giving ($599k)
2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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 +45% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.
45 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 3 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CCROSSPURPOSE9× · 2017–2025 · $585k · revenue ×13
- SGSERGE GLOBAL INC7× · 2019–2025 · $473k · revenue +56%
- AMAsOne Ministries6× · 2020–2025 · $136k · revenue +501%
Funded once
- YFYouth for Christ Internationalone grant, 2019 · $55k
- HOHOSPICE OF METRO DENVER INCone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue -1%
- CIChristaid Incone grant, 2022 · $13k
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.
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…
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.
To advance the gospel in closed and hard-to-reach nations and to impact those nations for christ.
i58 Global is a Christian ministry dedicated to recruiting, sending and organizing relief workers to provide aid and share hope to refugees in various European countries.
To provide support for the efforts of christians of the former soviet union in reaching the influencers of their countries for christ.
To get the good news to every nation this generation by showing and sharing god's love by providing opportunities and supporting christian missionaries in over fifty seven countries around the world.
World reach is a global, evangelical missions organization serving fields in east africa, central and south america, europe and the u.s. our purpose is to fulfill the the great commission of jesus christ by reaching the world with the…
With a desire to see the Gospel proclaimed in all nations, we exist to make and multiply disciples of the next generation through the vehicles of church-planting missions and missional leadership training.
International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures
Assisting national Christian leaders around the world.
Serving and pastoring overseas workers on their own turf and equipping nationals by training and empowering them in their work of advancing the gospel.
The organization is dedicated to reaching people for christ through an international network of christians who journey with the poor and marginalized, bringing practical and spiritual support with hope of a better future,(continued on…
How this is measured
32 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. 32 of the 66 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 CROSSPURPOSE ↗
- Who funds TEARS INC ↗
- Who funds SERGE GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN WORLD OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds REASONS TO BELIEVE ↗
- Who funds AsOne Ministries ↗
- Who funds Acts4 Community Outreach Services ↗
- Who funds DENVER RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Alternatives Pregnancy Center Inc ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERDS HEART MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL HEALTH MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Horizons International ↗
- Who funds Alpha USA ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Colorado Christian University ↗
- Who funds THE INN BETWEEN ↗
- Who funds SAVE OUR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds THIRD MILLENNIUM MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF METRO DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds Orphanos 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: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Colorado Gives Foundation · Servant Foundation · Tyl Foundation · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · The Denver Foundation · The New Horizons Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Eugene C and Florence Armstrong Family Foundation Inc · Adolph Coors Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Nord Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Nord Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals: 67% of income from government
How this is measured
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