· Private foundation
The Wanvig 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.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE NAVIGATORS - ENSTMINGERS | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST INTERNATIONAL | $2,500 |
| AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE INTERNATIONAL RELIEF | $2,000 |
| MISSIO SERVE ALLIANCE | $2,000 |
| EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH OF AMERICA - VANGS | $2,000 |
| SUNNYSIDE FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| CHILDRENS HAVEN INTERNATIONAL | $1,000 |
| WHEATON ACADEMY | $500 |
| HARVEST HOUSE | $500 |
| ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK | $100 |
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, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +33% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SFSUNNYSIDE FOUNDATION INC8× · 2018–2025 · $20k · revenue +33%
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE5× · 2021–2025 · $9k · revenue +83%
- CHChildrens Haven International8× · 2017–2025 · $8k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- PPIONEERSone grant, 2017 · $1k
- HMHaven Ministriesone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue -3%
- CPCHURCH PLANTING INTERNATIONALone grant, 2022 · $1k · 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.
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.
Spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ
To reach out with the message of the gospel of jesus to the last, least, and the lost
Christian missions and ministries oversea countries; in Cambodia and Mali, church planting, evangelism, medical mission, schools (K - 12), helping the poor and the needy, Crusades, mercy missions (distributing rice, medicine, etc),…
To propagate the gospel of jesus christ; to examine candidates and appoint missionaries. to endorse missionary programs according to standards set forth in the new testament, to establish churches, church schools & mission societies in…
To spread the gospel of jesus christ through crusades
None
Help farmers-foreign countries/grow food & tell their people about Jesus.
How this is measured
15 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. 15 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.
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 SUNNYSIDE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Childrens Haven International ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL GOSPEL OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds Agape Flights Inc ↗
- Who funds WHEATON ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds HARVEST HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HAVEN MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Haven Ministries ↗
- Who funds CHURCH PLANTING INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds PROJECT MERCY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMISSION TO EVERY NATION ↗
- Who funds MEXICO MEDICAL MISSIONS ↗
- Who funds ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK 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.
Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Wanvig Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Wanvig Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- All Faiths Food Bank Inc: 1% of income from government
- Harvest House Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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