· Private foundation
The Sedwick Charitable 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 $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $760k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+2 grants · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DALLAS THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $250,000 |
| GROVE CITY COLLEGE | $250,000 |
| THE CHRISTIAN & MISSIONARY ALLIANCE | $160,000 |
| WORLD LINK MINISTRIES | $150,000 |
| PINE VALLEY BIBLE CONFERENCE | $150,000 |
| SAT-7 NORTH AMERICA | $150,000 |
| MISSION AVIATION FELLOWSHIP | $115,000 |
| SENECA HILLS BIBLE CAMP | $100,000 |
| PIONEERS INC | $100,000 |
| CRU (CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST) | $100,000 |
| THE LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| ISAIAH 117 HOUSE | $75,000 |
| FAMILY GUIDANCE INC | $75,000 |
| PATHFINDER FARMS | $65,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE - NORTHERN BUTLER COUNTY | $65,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $2.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of The Sedwick Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +32% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.
49 repeat relationships: 35 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 4 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; $85k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SNSAT-7 NORTH AMERICA8× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +63%
- PVPINE VALLEY BIBLE CONFERENCE8× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +86%
- WLWORLD LINK MINISTRIES INC8× · 2017–2025 · $978k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- NLNEW LIFE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INCone grant, 2017 · $100k
- EOELLEN O'BRIEN GAISER ADDICTION CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +71%
- SOSPECIALTY OUTREACH SERVICES INCone grant, 2017 · $46k · revenue -22%
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 psychological counseling
Sharing the love of jesus christ by building sustainable communities around the world and providing medical care to low-income households in the united states. the organization is currently building two sustainable communities in haiti and…
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…
Educate children in a christian environment
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.
The organization exists to glorify God by evangelizing, encouraging, and equipping individuals for active ministry through Bible Adventure, leadership training, and camping programs.
God's bible school and college seeks to glorify god and to serve his church by providing higher education centered in holy scripture and shaped by wesleyan conviction, thus preparing faithful servants to proclaim jesus christ and spread…
Christian life academy supports christian families by providing a biblically based education that develops individual academic excellence. we seek to form young men and women who will know and serve the lord jesus christ with all their…
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To teach individuals how to apply the wisdom and depth of the bible's grace-centered message to the problems of daily living; and through various means, work to restore chirst to counseling and christ-centered counseling to the church.
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
Walk thru the bible (wtb) ignites passion for god's word. by developing a global network of influential pastors and leaders and then resourcing them with tools and training, wtb fulfills its role in the great commission.
How this is measured
38 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. 38 of the 67 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 SAT-7 NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds PINE VALLEY BIBLE CONFERENCE ↗
- Who funds WORLD LINK MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Dallas Theological Seminary ↗
- Who funds GROVE CITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA FAMILY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds FAMILY GUIDANCE INC ↗
- Who funds SENECA HILLS BIBLE CONFERENCE ↗
- Who funds GOOD NEWS COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds GPA MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Christ For All Peoples Inc ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY INC ↗
- Who funds RICHARD G SNYDER YMCA ↗
- Who funds BUTLER COUNTY FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF KEYSTONE CROSSROADS ↗
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: The Pittsburgh Foundation · The Jay & Linda Sedwick Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Butler County Bar Association Foundation · Aj and Sigismunda Palumbo Charitable Trust · World Vision Inc · Usher Family Foundation · Concordia Lutheran Ministriesfoundation · Armstrong County Community Foundation · Howard & Nell E Miller Foundat · Staunton Farm Foundation 540-054 Dba Staunton Farm Foundation · Community Foundation of Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Sedwick Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sedwick Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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