· Private foundation
The Northern Cross 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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $129k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOLT - SOCIETY OF OUR LADY | $100,000 |
| KENTWOOD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| EQUEST CENTER FOR THERAPEUTIC RIDIN | $32,775 |
| ST JOHN VIANNEY CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| THE CROSS MINISTRY GROUP | $20,000 |
| BEYOND 26 | $20,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL PROMISE FOUNDATION | $16,000 |
| SEWARD CHILD CARE CENTER | $15,000 |
| ND ROCKNE ATHLETICS FUND | $7,500 |
| SYLVIAS PLACE | $2,000 |
| 4 ONE 2 CARES | $2,000 |
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: 79% of grant dollars ($1.1M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 21% that went abroad ($282k) is mapped below.
Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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
Beyond the US: 21% of all-years giving ($282k)
1 country, 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 +76% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 7 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, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $172k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ECEquest Center for Therapeutic Riding Inc7× · 2017–2025 · $490k · revenue +142% · 30% of their budget
- IPINTERNATIONAL PROMISE FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2025 · $49k · revenue +2%
- B2BEYOND 26 INC2× · 2021–2025 · $40k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- SOSOCIETY OF OUR LADYone grant, 2024 · $150k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $58k
- YYMCAone grant, 2018 · $40k
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.
Biblical counseling
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Meeting with special needs families, provide training to teachers in order to advise and consult special needs families, conduct meetings to discuss organizational needs and training to expand ministry and reach. Provide content and…
The mission of Kingdom Rock Children's Village is to provide a quality education in a warm and loving environment, based on the teaching and examples of Jesus Christ. We seek to nurture and develop each child?s educational, social,…
A ministry without walls, based in West Michigan, Salt Ministries offers friendship, pastoral care and counseling, preaching, teaching and music for people with special needs or problems. Salt also has relationships with persons or…
We are a team with the shared passion of seeing others walk in spiritual freedom and living out the identity they have in christ jesus.
Pregnancy Choices is a Christian ministry caring for those touched by unplanned pregnancy by providing options and resources that promote life.
To help individuals, couples and families to identify and resolve personal and spiritual issues through the teachings of Jesus Christ in the Scriptures. We teach, train, counsel and produce resources to accomplish this purpose.
The mission of Selah International Counseling Ministries is to glorify God as we serve and equip His church, providing leadership and service through counseling, counseling resources, and counseling training.
We exist to provide a safe retreat for hurting women to experience the healing love of Jesus Christ. Our rural flower farm is a safe and unhindered environment that is able to provide a therapeutic setting for women who have endured trauma.
We exist to mobilize churches to transform lives in the name of Christ. Love INC equips, trains, organizes and mobilizes local churches.
Tell the community at large the message of the lord jesus christ
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 37 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 Equest Center for Therapeutic Riding Inc ↗
- Who funds KENTWOOD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BEYOND 26 INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS' FOOD BASKET INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS IN SERVICE ↗
- Who funds The Cross Ministry Group ↗
- Who funds Seward Child Care Center Inc ↗
- Who funds SYLVIA'S PLACE ↗
- Who funds GRACE ADVENTURES ↗
- Who funds STARLIGHT MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Pregnancy Resource Center ↗
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: Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · 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 Northern Cross Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Northern Cross Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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