· Private foundation
Trent Elijah Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| CHOSEN LITTLE ONES | $100,000 |
| THE MISSION | $100,000 |
| BEAUTIFUL RESTORATION | $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 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +3% since the first grant, against -5% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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
How this is measured
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
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 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 ↗
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: American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · 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 Trent Elijah Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Trent Elijah Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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