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The Open Charitable Trust at a glance

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The Open Charitable 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.

$65k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$49k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$585kInternational$24kHousing & Shelter$17kPublic Benefit$7kScience & Tech$6kHuman Services$5kCivil Rights$5kCommunity Improvement$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $49k
$2,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$494k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAPE COD CHURCH$49,350
MODERN DAY MISSIONS$6,050
SERGE$3,610
THE BIBLE PROJECT$2,500
2 ACT MINISTRIES$2,000
24-7 PRAYER$1,010
SALVATION ARMY$300
02The need
03

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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 36% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JESUS ONLINE: $5k → 11%CAPE COD CHURCH: $66k → 8%GRACEPOINT COMMUNITY CHURCH: $25k → 10%SERGE: $4k → 7%OPEN COLLECTIVE FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%PREMIER INSIGHT: $5k → 5%NEW HOPE EURESIA: $7k → 8%Campus Crusade for Christ: $100k → 13%THE BIOLOGOS FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 11%ETERNAL PERSPECTIVE MINISTRIES: $3k → 8%ACTS Ministry: $10k → 12%THE RISING CHURCH: $10k → 7%SAT-7 NORTH AMERICA: $3k → 10%CAPE COD CHURCH: $52k → 8%NEW HOPE EURASIA: $5k → 8%CRU Foundation: $5k → 13%THE BIOLOGOS FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 11%ETERNAL PERSPECTIVE MINISTRIES: $3k → 8%ACTS MINISTRY: $5k → 12%THE RISING CHURCH: $8k → 7%SAT-7 NORTH AMERICA: $3k → 10%CAPE COD CHURCH: $49k → 8%GRACEPOINT COMMUNITY CHURCH: $25k → 10%BIOLOGOS: $5k → 11%ACTS MINISTRY: $3k → 12%THE RISING CHURCH: $5k → 7%CAPE COD CHURCH: $23k → 8%THE BIOLOGOS FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 11%ACTS MINISTRY: $3k → 12%THE RISING CHURCH: $5k → 7%CAPE COD CHURCH: $20k → 8%GRACEPOINT COMMUNITY CH: $8k → 10%THE RISING CHURCH: $5k → 7%CAPE COD CHURCH: $10k → 8%THE RISING CHURCH: $5k → 7%CAPE COD CHURCH: $8k → 8%GRACEPOINT COMMUNITY CH: $5k → 10%CAPE COD CHURCH: $5k → 8%CAPE COD CHURCH: $3k → 8%Grace Point Community Church: $3k → 10%CAPE COD CHURCH: $3k → 8%CAPE COD CHURCH: $3k → 8%CAPE COD CHURCH: $3k → 8%CAPE COD CHURCH: $3k → 8%CAPE COD CHURCH: $3k → 8%CAPE COD CHURCH: $3k → 8%CAPE COD CHURCH: $3k → 8%CAPE COD CHURCH: $3k → 8%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

WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
IA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MD
AZ
OK
TX
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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$504k · 16 repeat orgs$166k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +62% since the first grant, against +55% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
23

Total granted

$504k
$160k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
+55%

Still filing today

50%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
ReligionInternationalPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterHealthCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • SN
    SAT-7 NORTH AMERICA
    5× · 2019–2024 · $21k · revenue +69%
  • TB
    THE BIOLOGOS FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $20k · revenue +52%
  • NH
    NEW HOPE EURASIA INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $19k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • CC
    Campus Crusade for Christ
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $13k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $6k
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
Global Media Outreach

Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.

Religion
2
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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3
Mission Without Borders International

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…

International
4
Global Outreach International Inc

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.

International
5
Jewish Voice Ministries Intl

To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…

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6
Biglife International Inc

Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.

Recreation & Sports
7
Blue Letter Bible

The specific purpose of this corporation is to present a biblical, christian ministry of the gospel, hope, encouragement and strength to as many people as possible. the intent of those who will conduct this corporation's work is to present…

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8
Transform Iran Inc

Transform iran is dedicated to religious, charitable, and educational activities designed to advance the christian faith, specifically to iran, surrounding countries, and throughout the middle east. to help fulfill the mission, (continued…

Religion
9
Probe Ministries International

To present the gospel by providing life-long opportunities to integrate faith and learning through balanced, biblically based scholarship, training people to love god by renewing their minds and equipping the church to engage the world for…

Religion
10
Global City Missions Initiative Incorporated

Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…

Religion
11
Next Worldwide Inc

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.

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12
Bible Open Air Mission

Purpose is sending individuals around the world to win souls to jesus christ by preaching the gospel evangelism.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Modern Day Missions; the most unlike its peers is Texas Diaper Bank. 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

26 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. 26 of the 44 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/26
Grantees still filing
17/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CAPE COD CHURCH: $270,550 · OtherCAPE COD CHURCHCampus Crusade for Christ: $100,000 · OtherCampus Crusade for ChristGRACEPOINT COMMUNITY CHURCH: $54,000 · OtherGRACEPOINT COMMUNITY CHURCHTHE RISING CHURCH: $37,500 · OtherTHE RISING CHURCHACTS Ministry: $32,000 · OtherACTS Ministry+17 more: $66,007 · Other+17 moreSAT-7 NORTH AMERICA: $21,131 · ReligionSAT-7 NORTH AM…THE BIOLOGOS FOUNDATION INC: $20,199 · ReligionTHE BIOLOGOS F…NEW HOPE EURASIA INC: $19,150 · ReligionNEW HOPE EURAS…MODERN DAY MISSIONS: $9,230 · ReligionMODERN DAY MIS…Eternal Perspective Ministries: $8,000 · ReligionEternal Perspe…BIBLEPROJECT: $3,000 · ReligionACTS Ministries International Inc: $3,000 · Religion+5 more: $5,000 · Religion+5 moreBOSTON RESCUE MISSION INC: $14,500 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $150 · Housing & ShelterOPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION: $5,100 · PhilanthropyTHE CLEAR FUND: $1,100 · PhilanthropyWORLD VISION INC: $2,205 · InternationalFRIENDS OF ST BARTHOLOMEW'S ANGLICAN CHURCH: $2,000 · InternationalCHRISTIAN MEDICAL MISSIONS INC: $1,500 · International2 ACT MINISTRIES: $2,000 · HealthTEXAS DIAPER BANK: $1,000 · HealthGREENLIGHT FUND INC: $2,000 · Community Improvement
Other$560,057Religion$88,710Housing & Shelter$14,650Philanthropy$6,200International$5,705Health$3,000Community Improvement$2,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAT-7 NORTH AMERICA: $21,131 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BIOLOGOS FOUNDATION INC: $20,199 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetNEW HOPE EURASIA INC: $19,150 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetBOSTON RESCUE MISSION INC: $14,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMODERN DAY MISSIONS: $9,230 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEternal Perspective Ministries: $8,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetOPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION: $5,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSERGE GLOBAL INC: $3,610 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIBLEPROJECT: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetACTS Ministries International Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 59% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $2,205 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGREENLIGHT FUND INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF ST BARTHOLOMEW'S ANGLICAN CHURCH: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFELLOWSHIP FOR PERFORMING ARTS INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget2 ACT MINISTRIES: $2,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCHRISTIAN MEDICAL MISSIONS INC: $1,500 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetTHE CLEAR FUND: $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS DIAPER BANK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTAND TO REASON: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREASONS TO BELIEVE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChristianity Today International: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmirah Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTURNING POINT INC AND AFFILIATES: $150 over 1y, 0.0% 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 SAT-7 NORTH AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds THE BIOLOGOS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW HOPE EURASIA INC ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds MODERN DAY MISSIONS ↗
  • Who funds Eternal Perspective Ministries ↗
  • Who funds OPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SERGE GLOBAL INC ↗
  • Who funds BIBLEPROJECT ↗
  • Who funds ACTS Ministries International Inc ↗
  • Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
  • Who funds GREENLIGHT FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF ST BARTHOLOMEW'S ANGLICAN CHURCH ↗
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP FOR PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds 2 ACT MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN MEDICAL MISSIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds VOTER CHOICE EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CLEAR FUND ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS DIAPER BANK ↗
  • Who funds STAND TO REASON ↗
  • Who funds REASONS TO BELIEVE ↗
  • Who funds Christianity Today International ↗
  • Who funds Living Proof Ministries ↗
  • Who funds Amirah Inc ↗

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.

Servant FoundationChristian Community F…Natl Christian Charit…Raymond James Charita…The Blackbaud Giving …American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…Fidelity Investments …
Servant FoundationKS16.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Servant Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Open Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Open Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 97%
  • Turning Point Inc and Affiliates: 97% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 44 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home