· Private foundation
Trent Elijah Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $437k
- $250k+2 grants · $2.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GLOBAL NETWORK MINISTRIES | $1,775,000 |
| INTERVAL HOUSE | $540,000 |
| BEAUTIFUL RESTORATION | $100,000 |
| CHOSEN LITTLE ONES | $100,000 |
| THE MISSION | $100,000 |
| LIVING FREE MINISTRIES INC | $75,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $62,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $35,000 |
| HOUSE OF GLORY CHURCH | $25,000 |
| CHURCH ON THE WAY | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,775 |
| ROOTED MINISTRIES | $2,400 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $725k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +3% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $160k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
INTERVAL HOUSE5× · 2021–2025 · $725k · revenue +3%- LFLiving Free Ministries Inc3× · 2023–2025 · $175k · revenue +17% · 37% of their budget
- CCColorado Christian University2× · 2023–2024 · $24k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- VCVINEYARD CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $1.6M
- OSOPERATION SATURATION INCone grant, 2024 · $1.1M · revenue -90% · 37% of their budget
- BCBATTLE CRY CHURCH INCone grant, 2024 · $90k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Biblical counseling
Christian counseling for individuals with anxiety depression or other emotional struggles. Christian counseling for marriages and other couples.
Christian Church
Religious and counselling
Ministry that turns men from addiction to Jesus Christ by daily engaging them in spiritual, physical and financial guidance and goals
Divine Romance Ministries Inc provides Christ-centered mentoringcoaching Our goal is to strengthen christian marriages in an effort to eliminate divorce The focus of our message is a complete and total submission to the Lord Jesus Christ 1…
Education, Humanitarian, Community outreach and evangelism ministry. Provide Orphan Care, Train Youth in Career Paths, Train Pastors and Others in Bible School, Prison Ministry, Provide Elementary School for about 300 Children
Offers counsel, formal & informal teaching served in a pastoral role, mentored groups,filled numerous speaking invitations, conducted discipling groups & provided spiritual, emotional and
Religious
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Operation Saturation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Chosen Little Ones. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 29 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 OPERATION SATURATION INC ↗
- Who funds INTERVAL HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Beautiful Restoration ↗
- Who funds Living Free Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds Chosen Little Ones ↗
- Who funds BATTLE CRY CHURCH INC ↗
- Who funds Colorado Christian University ↗
- Who funds BLUE BELL FOUNDATION FOR CATS ↗
- Who funds 34 STITCHES ↗
- Who funds CHP 11-99 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Rooted Ministries ↗
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.
Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · 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 Trent Elijah Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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