· Public charity
Wheaton College
Wheaton College serves Jesus Christ and advances His kingdom through excellence in liberal arts and graduate programs that educate the whole person to build the church and benefit society worldwide.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 19 grants below total $796,125 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $54,264,681 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $53,468,556 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $212k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $304k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARS HILL ACADEMY | $250,000 |
| COVENANT CHURCH OF NAPLES | $200,000 |
| FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FND | $54,358 |
| MOODY BIBLE INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| GRACE BIBLE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $40,000 |
| LIFE FORWARD | $35,000 |
| MARANATHA BIBLE & MISSIONARY CONFERENCE | $26,000 |
| THE MERCY KIDS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| MESSIAH LUTHERAN CHURCH OF ROANOKE | $16,000 |
| CEF OF GREATER CINCINNATI | $15,000 |
| THE VILLAGE CHAPEL | $14,000 |
| OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES | $14,000 |
| COLLEGE CHURCH | $12,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $10,000 |
| WINDRIDER INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $421k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 56% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 14% of Wheaton College’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +45% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
49 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 35 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, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $267k 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
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE6× · 2018–2025 · $197k · revenue +163%
- OCOUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES9× · 2017–2025 · $154k · revenue +49%
- GVGOSPEL VOLUNTEERS INC3× · 2020–2022 · $100k · revenue +131%
Funded once
- GIGOODWILL INDUSTRIES INTERNATIONAL INCone grant, 2024 · $382k · revenue -28%
- CECHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP INCone grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue +9%
- VOVOICE OF THE MARTYRS INCone grant, 2021 · $150k
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.
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.
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…
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…
Provide education in theology, divinity, religious education, ministerial training, business and organizational leadership.
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
Providing guality Christian education to the network generation
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.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
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.
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
To provide resources, training, and continuing support to leaders in the us and around the world in order that they may help others find freedom in christ.
Bible Translation and acts of Christian Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Infaith and the most unlike its peers is Windrider Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
72 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. 72 of the 122 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 Christian Camps Inc dba Deerfoot Lodge & Subsidiary ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds MARS HILL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds GOSPEL VOLUNTEERS INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE FORWARD PREGNANCY CARE OF CINCINNATI INC ↗
- Who funds Chicago Friends of Haiti ↗
- Who funds FAITH CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Maranatha Bible and Missionary Conf ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE GOSPEL MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds By The Hand Club For Kids ↗
- Who funds WHOSOEVER GOSPEL MISSION AND RES CUE HOME ASSO OF GERMANTOWN ↗
- Who funds BIOLA UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE LAMB CENTER ↗
- Who funds InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA ↗
- Who funds THE MERCY KIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Tyndale House Ministries · Servant Foundation · The Bolick Foundation · The Signatry Charitable Trust · International Generosity Foundation Trust · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The Chatlos Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Domanada Foundation · The Ayco Charitable 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 Wheaton College 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.
- Goodwill Industries International Inc — 35% of income from government
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.