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The Teknion Foundation Inc

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.

$159k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What you fund
0186% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20222025.

Religion$580kEducation$70kInternational$18kYouth Development$7kEmployment$5kHuman Services$5kRecreation & Sports$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $51k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $108k
$9,600
Median grant
7
States reached
$621k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS INC$40,200
GOSPEL MISSIONARY UNION - AVANT MINISTRIES$25,200
STRATEGIC WORLD IMPACT INC$12,000
CAMPUS CRUSADE FO CHRIST INC (DBA CRU)$10,800
DISCIPLEFIRST$10,200
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$10,000
LIKEWISE MINISTRY$9,600
EUROPEAN INITIATIVE$9,600
EAST-WEST MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL$7,800
YOUTH WITH A MISSION COLORADO SPRINGS YWAM-COS$7,200
GLOBAL SERVE INTERNATIONAL$4,800
UNITED WORLD MISSION$4,800
IMPACT CITY$4,200
COMMISSION TO EVERY NATION$3,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $20k → 14%EAST-WEST MINISTRIES INT: $8k → 5%HARVEST BIBLE CHAPEL: $5k → 8%FREEDOM CHURCH: $45k → 9%EUROPEAN INITIATIVE: $22k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS: $10k → 14%UNITED WORLD MISSION: $5k → 14%GLOBAL SERVE INERNATIONAL: $5k → 10%CRU: $16k → 13%AVANT MINISTRIES: $25k → 8%NORTH COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $10k → 11%UNITED WORLD MISSION: $5k → 10%YWAM-COS: $16k → 9%LIKEWISE MINISTRY: $10k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $10k → 14%EAST-WEST MINISTRIES INT: $8k → 5%FREEDOM CHURCH: $36k → 9%DISCIPLEFIRST: $10k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS: $10k → 14%GLOBAL SERVE INERNATIONAL: $5k → 10%CRU: $16k → 13%GOSPEL MISSIONARY UNION - AVANT MINISTRIES: $25k → 8%UNITED WORLD MISSION: $5k → 10%YOUTH WITH A MISSION COLORADO SPRINGS YWAM-COS: $7k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $10k → 14%EAST-WEST MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL: $8k → 5%DISCIPLEFIRST: $10k → 11%LIKEWISE MINISTRY: $10k → 14%GLOBAL SERVE INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 10%CAMPUS CRUSADE FO CHRIST INC (DBA CRU): $11k → 13%AVANT MINISTRIES: $25k → 8%YWAM-COS: $7k → 9%EAST-WEST MINISTRIES INT: $5k → 5%DENTON BIBLE CHURCH: $25k → 8%DISCIPLEFIRST: $10k → 11%LIKEWISE MINISTRY: $10k → 14%CRU: $10k → 13%AVANT MINISTRIES: $17k → 8%YWAM-COS: $5k → 9%STRATEGIC IMPACT: $12k → 5%EUROPEAN INITIATIVE: $10k → 11%LIKEWISE MINISTRY: $6k → 14%STRATEGIC IMPACT: $12k → 5%EUROPEAN INITIATIVE: $10k → 11%C7 HUMAN TRAFFICKING COALITION: $5k → 14%STRATEGIC IMPACT: $8k → 5%DISCIPLEFIRST: $7k → 11%EUROPEAN INITIATIVE: $6k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$634k · 15 repeat orgs$117k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
4

Total granted

$634k
$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
+8%

Still filing today

33%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $72k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
ReligionEducationEmploymentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • LM
    LIKEWISE MINISTRY
    4× · 2022–2025 · $35k · revenue +47%
  • GS
    GLOBAL SERVE INTERNATIONAL INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $18k · revenue +125%
  • CT
    COMMISSION TO EVERY NATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $11k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • DB
    DENTON BIBLE CHURCH
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
  • NC
    NORTH COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -22%
  • MDRC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +8%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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International Impact Ministries in
Religion
2
Great Commission University Inc

Gcu serves the global church by educating mission leaders to fulfill the great commission of jesus christ. gcu accomplishes this mission through a comprehensive program of biblical and general education, christ-centered service and…

Education
3
Asia Us Impact

Religious

Religion
4
Dozen Ministries

Religious

Religion
5
North America Bible Institute

North America Bible Institute (NABI) is an evangelical graduate school, made up of students who are diverse in both ethnicity and ministry aims -- but united in great love for Jesus and his gospel. As a graduate school, NABI offers them…

Education
6
More International Ministries

To spread the gospel of jesus christ through crusades

Religion
7
International Needs

International needs has the vision to transform lives and change communities by helping christian nationals serve both god and neighbor within their own countries.

8
Sole Ministries

None

Religion
9
Euromedia Missions
10
Europe Campus Ministry

The Organization is formed for Christian evangelism and discipleship training as afundamentalist, evangelical, and non-denominational faith-based missionorganization. Its mission is to reach out to students with the whole of gospel ofJesus…

Religion
11
Disciple Maker Ministries

Disciple Maker Ministries is devoted to fulfilling the Great Commission through evangelism and reproducing discipleship.

Religion
12
Wounded Spirits Ministries

The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…

Recreation & Sports

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Commission to Every Nation and the most unlike its peers is University of Southern California. 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

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 27 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
5/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS INC — $172,400 · OtherWYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS INCAVANT MINISTRIES — $67,200 · OtherAVANT MINISTRIESCRU — $42,350 · OtherCRUDISCIPLEFIRST — $37,400 · OtherDISCIPLEFIRSTIndividual grant recipient — $32,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $27,911 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGOSPEL MISSIONARY UNION — $25,200 · OtherDENTON BIBLE CHURCH — $25,000 · OtherEAST-WEST MINISTRIES INT — $20,800 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS — $20,000 · Other+6 more — $49,800 · Other+6 moreFREEDOM CHURCH — $81,000 · ReligionFREEDOM CHURCHEUROPEAN INITIATIVE — $47,199 · ReligionEUROPEAN INITIATIVELIKEWISE MINISTRY — $35,200 · ReligionLIKEWISE MINISTRYGLOBAL SERVE INTERNATIONAL INC — $17,600 · ReligionGLOBAL SERVE INTERNATIONAL INCSTRATEGIC WORLD IMPACT INC — $12,000 · ReligionSTRATEGIC WORLD IMPACT INCCOMMISSION TO EVERY NATION — $11,000 · ReligionEast-West Ministries International — $7,800 · Religion+1 more — $4,200 · ReligionUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $40,000 · EducationNORTH COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — $10,000 · EducationMDRC — $5,000 · Employment
Other$520,061Religion$215,999Education$50,000Employment$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFREEDOM CHURCH — $81,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetEUROPEAN INITIATIVE — $47,199 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLIKEWISE MINISTRY — $35,200 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetGLOBAL SERVE INTERNATIONAL INC — $17,600 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSTRATEGIC WORLD IMPACT INC — $12,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCOMMISSION TO EVERY NATION — $11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMDRC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIMPACT CITY FC — $4,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds FREEDOM CHURCH
  • Who funds EUROPEAN INITIATIVE
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
  • Who funds LIKEWISE MINISTRY
  • Who funds GLOBAL SERVE INTERNATIONAL INC
  • Who funds STRATEGIC WORLD IMPACT INC
  • Who funds COMMISSION TO EVERY NATION
  • Who funds NORTH COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
  • Who funds East-West Ministries International
  • Who funds MDRC
  • Who funds IMPACT CITY FC

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

American Endowment FoundationOH10× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Teknion Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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