How much does The Russell W and Karen Suda Ekstro give?

The Russell W and Karen Suda Ekstro reported 11 grants totaling $78,299 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Russell W and Karen Suda Ekstro fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (23%), International (20%), Religion (10%).

Who are The Russell W and Karen Suda Ekstro's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Trinity Christian Academy ($100k), South American Mission Inc ($46k), Tarrant Area Food Bank ($38k).

Does The Russell W and Karen Suda Ekstro fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Russell W and Karen Suda Ekstro accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Russell W and Karen Suda Ekstro?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.

Where is The Russell W and Karen Suda Ekstro based?

The Russell W and Karen Suda Ekstro is based in TX.

The Russell W and Karen Suda Ekstro

The Russell W and Karen Suda Ekstro at a glance

· Private foundation

The Russell W and Karen Suda Ekstro

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$78k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$15k

Largest

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.

Education$101kInternational$92kReligion$43kFood & Nutrition$38kScience & Tech$30kPhilanthropy$28kArts & Culture$26kYouth Development$3kOther$0

02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k8 grants · $44k
$10k–50k3 grants · $35k

$8,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.9M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
INTERVARSITY	$14,666
Individual grant recipient	$10,000
SOUTH AMERICA MISSION	$10,000
NAMPA FIRST CHURCH OF NAZARENE	$9,433
ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION	$8,000
TARRANT AREA FOOD BANK	$8,000
KERA FOUNDATION	$6,100
RESCUE HER	$5,000
HEIFER INTERNATIONAL	$4,000
BIBLE PROJECT	$2,000
TURNING POINT ACADEMY	$1,100

02The need

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 (FY22–23, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$414k · 15 repeat orgs$35k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$414k

$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%

+60%

Still filing today

60%

43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyInternationalReligionEducationOther

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

TC
TRINITY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +5%
TA
Tarrant Area Food Bank
4× · 2022–2025 · $38k · revenue +14%
EF
Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc
9× · 2017–2025 · $30k · revenue +24%

Funded once

TR
TWO ROADS FOUNDATIONgraduated
3× · 2022–2024 · $5k · revenue +60%
JI
JEMFRIENDS INC
2× · 2023–2024 · $3k · revenue -21%
CH
Care House Partnerships
3× · 2022–2024 · $3k

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.

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

Timothy Two Project International

Reaching and teaching pastors in the majority world.

Religion

Youth for Christ International Ministries

As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.

Religion

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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Time of Grace Ministry

Time of grace is for people who want more growth and less struggle in their spiritual walk. we share the truth of god's word simply and clearly through television, print, and digital media that people view millions of times each month. we…

Religion

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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Institute for the Future

Institute for the future is the world's leading futures organization. our mission is to prepare the world to create better, more equitable futures by disrupting short-term thinking with visions of transformative possibilities.

Education

Tyndale Bible Translators

Bible Translation and acts of Christian Services

Religion

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

Open Technology Fund

The open technology fund aims to advance internet freedom globally by supporting the research, development, implementation, and maintenance of technologies that provide secure and uncensored access to the internet.

Arts & Culture

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

Davar Partners International

Davar audio bibles' mission is to create opportunities for oral learners to fully experience the bible in their home language.

Religion

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is International Justice Mission; the most unlike its peers is Children of Peace International. 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

14 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. 14 of the 26 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

13/14

Grantees still filing

10/14

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$274,040Education$100,000Philanthropy$26,619Arts & Culture$26,409Human Services$14,700Religion$4,950International$2,286

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.

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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA9.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · 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 Russell W and Karen Suda Ekstro funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Russell W and Karen Suda Ekstro. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

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