· Private foundation
The Wristen Family 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CASA of McHenry County | $7,500 |
| The Orchard Evangelical Free Church | $5,000 |
| Direct Relief | $5,000 |
| Cary Grove Food Pantry | $5,000 |
| Young Life (Madison WI) | $5,000 |
| The Navigators | $5,000 |
| Safe Families for Children | $4,200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
| Willow Creek Community Church | $3,000 |
| Foundry Church | $3,000 |
| The Orchard Evangelical Free Church | $3,000 |
| Cru | $3,000 |
| Intervarsity | $2,000 |
| The Orchard Evangelical Free Church | $1,000 |
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, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% 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.
18 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 7 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, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ICInterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA7× · 2017–2023 · $42k · revenue +9%
- TCTHE COLUMBUS ACADEMY2× · 2022–2023 · $25k · revenue +12%
- COCASA OF MCHENRY COUNTY INC2× · 2024–2025 · $13k · revenue +0%
Funded once
- MBMIDAMERICA BAPTIST CONFERENCEone grant, 2020 · $10k
- MDMISSIO DEI CHICAGOone grant, 2019 · $10k
- TOTRINITY OAKS CHRISTIAN ACADEMYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +29%
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 Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
We minister to orphans and widows in their distress by transitioning children from orphanages into loving families. We do this through Christ- centered care, training and social work.
Children of Promise provides nutrition education and health care for children in need in developing nations.
We are compelled by god's word to provide security, education and the hope of jesus to children in south africa so they can thrive personally and impact their future families, communities and the kingdom of god.
To glorify the Lord Jesus Christ by ministering to orphans around the world by meeting spiritual, physical, emotional, and educational needs.
Christian Alliance for Orphans (CAFO) exists to unite an alliance in shared initiatives that inspire and equip God's people to care effectively for vulnerable children and families, rooted always in Christian discipleship and the life of…
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.
Our purpose is to provide a safe, loving, Christian environment for children needing long-term care who lack a stable home environment due to circumstances beyond their control. We are committed to equipping each child to build meaningful…
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.
The Orphan's Hands provides a safe home and education for orphaned youth at risk of being trafficked in high-risk countries while bringing the love and hope of Jesus.
Helping the hardest to reach people of North America Develop a relationship with Christ
Empowering orphaned and vulnerable children to break the cycles of extreme poverty, AIDS, and spiritual brokenness through family-based care and discipleship in Jesus Christ.
How this is measured
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 43 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 InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA ↗
- Who funds The Orphanetwork ↗
- Who funds THE COLUMBUS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CASA OF MCHENRY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MISSION EURASIA ↗
- Who funds TRINITY OAKS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds By The Hand Club For Kids ↗
- Who funds CARY GROVE FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds Created for More Ministries NFP ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds WARP CORPS ↗
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: AbbVie Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Wristen Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Wristen Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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