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Vjs Charitable Private 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.

$485k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$2.3MReligion$1.8MHuman Services$297kInternational$163kHealth$69kArts & Culture$21kCivil Rights$15kCommunity Improvement$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $180k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $300k
$25,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COVENANT COLLEGE$100,000
TAYLOR UNIVERSITY$100,000
NORTH COUNTY CHRISTIAN SC$50,000
ANSWERS IN GENESIS$50,000
FIRST BAPTIST CHRISTIAN ACADEMY$30,000
GENESIS UNIVERSITY$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
SHOW HOPE$25,000
LIVING WORD ACADEMY$20,000
TURNING POINT$15,000
GRACE TO YOU$10,000
LOVE WORTH FINDING$10,000
PROMISE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY$10,000
CHALMER CENTER FOR ECONOM$10,000
KIRK DAY SCHOOL$5,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–19, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.

area typical 10%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $1k → 14%CHRISTIAN ACTIVITY CENTER: $3k → 16%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $1k → 14%CHRISTIAN ACTIVITY CENTER: $1k → 16%SUNSHINE MINISTRIES: $5k → 21%Childrens Hope International: $8k → 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

MT
MN
IL
WI
NY
IN
OH
PA
CA
CO
MO
KY
AR
TN
NC
DC
MS
GA
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.7M · 68 repeat orgs$256k to everyone else

68 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 54 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

68
33

Total granted

$3.7M
$256k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+78%

Still filing today

43%
24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionEducationHuman ServicesInternationalYouth DevelopmentHealthOther
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

  • CC
    COVENANT COLLEGE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $776k · revenue +28%
  • NC
    NORTH COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $475k · revenue +29%
  • AI
    ANSWERS IN GENESIS INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $144k · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • BC
    Bethany Christian Services
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • FB
    FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH HARVESTER
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • KO
    KIRK OF THE HILLS PRESBYTERIAN
    one grant, 2017 · $30k
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
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

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…

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2
Walk Thru the Bible Ministries Inc

Walk thru the bible (wtb) ignites passion for god's word. by developing a global network of influential pastors and leaders and then resourcing them with tools and training, wtb fulfills its role in the great commission.

Religion
3
Charis Bible College Inc

Charis Bible Colleges, Inc. (CBC) was established to train and equip individuals to carry out the Gospel of Jesus Christ through practical application through mentoring, training, and teaching.

Religion
4
Precept

Engaging people in relationship with God through knowing His Word

Religion
5
Bibleproject

Bibleproject's mission is to help people experience the bible as a unified story that leads to jesus. this is achieved by creating biblical videos to be regularly released on a newly-created youtube channel. (continued on schedule o.)each…

Religion
6
Tyndale Bible Translators

Bible Translation and acts of Christian Services

Religion
7
Blue Letter Bible

The specific purpose of this corporation is to present a biblical, christian ministry of the gospel, hope, encouragement and strength to as many people as possible. the intent of those who will conduct this corporation's work is to present…

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8
Youth for Christ International Ministries

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.

Religion
9
Asbury Theological Seminary

Asbury Theological Seminary is a community called to prepare theologically educated, sanctified, Spirit-filled men and women to evangelize and to spread scriptural holiness throughout the world through the love of Jesus Christ, in the…

Education
10
Believer's International Inc

Christian publishing company

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11
Biglife International Inc

Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.

Recreation & Sports
12
Bible Thinker Inc

Bible Thinker, Inc is a ministry dedicated to equipping people to think and live biblically. There are three main areas of teaching that we focus on:1. Teaching accurate theology based on exegeting the text of the Bible and confronting…

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chalmers Center for Economic Development; the most unlike its peers is Hope for the Heart. 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

40 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. 40 of the 102 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/40
Grantees still filing
30/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COVENANT COLLEGE: $775,972 · EducationCOVENANT COLLEGETaylor University: $725,000 · EducationTaylor UniversityNORTH COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $475,000 · EducationNORTH COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLPROMISE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $75,000 · EducationAFRICAN BIBLE COLLEGES INC: $75,000 · Education+2 more: $11,000 · EducationCOVENANT THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $300,000 · OtherCOVENANT THEOLOGICAL SEMINARYTURNING POINT: $147,500 · OtherTURNING POINTIndividual grant recipient: $145,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGENESIS UNIVERSITY: $144,750 · OtherGENESIS UNIVERSITYIndividual grant recipient: $125,018 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF H: $100,000 · OtherFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF HGRACE TO YOU: $97,500 · OtherGRACE TO YOUBETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICE: $75,000 · OtherFIRST BAPTIST CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $60,000 · Other+57 more: $584,553 · Other+57 moreANSWERS IN GENESIS INC: $144,000 · ReligionANSWERS IN…SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $50,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN'…LOVE WORTH FINDING MINISTRIES INC: $47,500 · ReligionLOVE WORTH…KIDS ACROSS AMERICA: $43,600 · ReligionKIDS ACROS…INSIGHT FOR LIVING: $27,500 · ReligionINSIGHT FO…The Urban Alternative: $22,500 · ReligionWORLD MISSIONARY PRESS INC: $15,000 · Religion+12 more: $75,000 · Religion+12 moreSHAOHANNAHS HOPE INC dba SHOW HOPE: $166,000 · Human ServicesSUNSHINE MINISTRIES INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S HOPE INTERNATIONAL: $8,000 · Human Services+2 more: $5,500 · Human ServicesCHALMERS CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: $80,000 · InternationalAfrican Vision of Hope: $7,200 · InternationalTHRIVE ST LOUIS INC: $30,129 · HealthCHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $5,000 · Youth Development
Education$2,136,972Other$1,779,321Religion$425,100Human Services$194,500International$87,200Health$30,129Youth Development$15,000

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 budgetCOVENANT COLLEGE: $775,972 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetTaylor University: $725,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $475,000 over 9y, 3.6% of budgetSHAOHANNAHS HOPE INC dba SHOW HOPE: $166,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetANSWERS IN GENESIS INC: $144,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHALMERS CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: $80,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetPROMISE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $75,000 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetAFRICAN BIBLE COLLEGES INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLOVE WORTH FINDING MINISTRIES INC: $47,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetKIDS ACROSS AMERICA: $43,600 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHRIVE ST LOUIS INC: $30,129 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetINSIGHT FOR LIVING: $27,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Urban Alternative: $22,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSUNSHINE MINISTRIES INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetThru The Bible Inc: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKanakuk Ministries: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUTH FOR LIFE: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDallas Theological Seminary: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC: $8,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOPE INTERNATIONAL: $8,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetLiving on the Edge Ministries Inc: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAfrican Vision of Hope: $7,200 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPowerPoint Ministries: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE FOR THE HEART: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTELLING THE TRUTH INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPurpose Driven Connection DBA Pastor Ricks Daily Hope: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDr James Dobson Family Institute: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLigonier Ministries Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChristianity Today International: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHRIST IN YOUTH INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOCAL POINT CORPORATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWESTMINSTER CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 COVENANT COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Taylor University ↗
  • Who funds NORTH COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds SHAOHANNAHS HOPE INC dba SHOW HOPE ↗
  • Who funds ANSWERS IN GENESIS INC ↗
  • Who funds CHALMERS CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ↗
  • Who funds PROMISE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds AFRICAN BIBLE COLLEGES INC ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds LOVE WORTH FINDING MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds KIDS ACROSS AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds THRIVE ST LOUIS INC ↗
  • Who funds INSIGHT FOR LIVING ↗
  • Who funds The Urban Alternative ↗
  • Who funds SUNSHINE MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD MISSIONARY PRESS INC ↗
  • Who funds Thru The Bible Inc ↗
  • Who funds Kanakuk 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.

Servant FoundationChristian Community F…Hcg Jr Family Foundat…Christian Community F…Chattanooga Christian…The Signatry Charitab…The Ayco Charitable F…Raymond James Charita…St Louis Community Fo…Dallas Seminary Found…American Endowment Fo…Community Foundation …
Servant FoundationKS34× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Servant Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Hcg Jr Family Foundation · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · The Signatry Charitable Trust · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Dallas Seminary Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc

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 Vjs Charitable Private Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vjs Charitable Private Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 102 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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