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The Teknion Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0186% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

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

area typical 10%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $20k → 14%EAST-WEST MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL: $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%GOSPEL MISSIONARY UNION - 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%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 INT: $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
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

NY
IN
CA
CO
MO
NC
DC
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • 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%
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
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.

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Commission to Every Nation; 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 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. 11 of the 27 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
5/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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 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 ↗

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.

American Endowment Fo…Natl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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 Teknion Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Teknion Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's 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, 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 27 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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