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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.

$54M
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$250k
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.

Religion$5.0MEducation$682kEmployment$415kRecreation & Sports$360kInternational$356kYouth Development$324kHealth$157kHousing & Shelter$150kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 19 grants below total $796,125, the rows itemized in this filing. The $54,264,681 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $53,468,556 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $212k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $304k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$15,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$1.2B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
WINDRIDER INSTITUTE$10,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$10,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE MERCY KIDS FOUNDATION: $20k → 11%Living with Hope: $12k → 15%Project Belong VA: $10k → 7%Calvary Homes Retirement Community: $10k → 9%The Mercy Kids Foundation: $15k → 11%Living with Hope: $10k → 15%The Mercy Kids Foundation: $10k → 11%Living with Hope: $8k → 15%OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $17k → 7%OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $17k → 7%WESTLAWN YOUTH NETWORK: $10k → 14%Whosoever Gospel: $50k → 22%Bethany House: $10k → 6%Chicago Friends of Haiti: $11k → 14%Chicago Friends of Haiti: $62k → 14%Outreach Community Ministry: $20k → 7%Chicago Friends of Haiti: $10k → 14%Outreach Community Ministry: $18k → 7%Outreach Community Ministry: $18k → 7%Outreach Community Ministries: $18k → 7%Outreach Community Ministry: $18k → 7%Outreach Community Ministries: $16k → 7%OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $14k → 7%Emmanuel Hospital Association (USA): $20k → 14%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

WA
ID
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 14% of Wheaton College’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Wheaton Collegelessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.2% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.2M · 49 repeat orgs$2.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
66

Total granted

$5.2M
$2.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+16%

Still filing today

43%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $267k 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
ReligionHuman ServicesEducationInternationalHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    6× · 2018–2025 · $197k · revenue +131%
  • OC
    OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES
    9× · 2017–2025 · $154k · revenue +49%
  • GV
    GOSPEL VOLUNTEERS INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $100k · revenue +131%

Funded once

  • GI
    GOODWILL INDUSTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC
    one grant, 2024 · $382k · revenue -28%
  • CE
    CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP INC
    one grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue +1%
  • TW
    TRANS WORLD RADIO
    one grant, 2021 · $150k
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
Christianity Today International

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.

Religion
2
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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3
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
4
Reformed University Inc

Provide education in theology, divinity, religious education, ministerial training, business and organizational leadership.

Education
5
Regent University

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.

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6
Olivet University

Providing guality Christian education to the network generation

Education
7
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
8
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
9
Teaching Truth International

Provide christian teaching for pastors, teachers and other church leaders in various parts of the world. the teaching includes the bible, theology, church history, apologetics and practical ministry and related fields.

Religion
10
Evangel University

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.

Education
11
Freedom in Christ Ministries

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.

Religion
12
The King's University

The King's University integrates Biblical education and practical ministry to shape Spirit-formed individuals who follow Jesus, serve His Church, and are sent to impact the world.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Infaith; 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.
05the grantee network

72 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. 72 of the 122 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
69/72
Grantees still filing
51/72
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COVENANT CHURCH OF NAPLES: $1,340,178 · OtherCOVENANT CHURCH OF NAPLESChristian Camps Inc dba Deerfoot Lodge & Subsidiary: $510,000 · OtherChristian Camps Inc dba Deerfoot Lodge & SubsidiaryEL SHADDAI MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC: $298,500 · OtherEL SHADDAI MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL INCCORNERSTONE COMMUNITY CHURCH INC: $240,000 · OtherMCLEAN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $181,000 · Other+70 more: $2,746,525 · Other+70 moreMARS HILL MINISTRIES INC: $250,000 · EducationMARS HILL …The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago: $212,000 · EducationThe Moody …BIOLA UNIVERSITY INC: $50,000 · EducationBIOLA UNIV…Trinity International University: $40,000 · EducationTrinity In…CEO FORUM INC: $30,000 · EducationCEDAR GROVE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC: $25,000 · Education+6 more: $97,300 · Education+6 moreSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $196,500 · ReligionMaranatha Bible and Missionary Conf: $70,950 · ReligionInterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA: $46,645 · ReligionBRIDGE TRUST-USA INC: $40,000 · ReligionSAT-7 NORTH AMERICA: $40,000 · ReligionRedeemer City To City: $37,000 · ReligionWORLD MINISTRIES A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $25,000 · ReligionINFAITH: $25,000 · Religion+9 more: $122,192 · ReligionGOODWILL INDUSTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC: $382,350 · Recreation & SportsGOSPEL VOLUNTEERS INC: $100,000 · Recreation & SportsOUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $154,000 · Human ServicesChicago Friends of Haiti: $82,500 · Human ServicesWHOSOEVER GOSPEL MISSION AND RES CUE HOME ASSO OF GERMANTOWN: $50,000 · Human ServicesTHE MERCY KIDS FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesSUNDAY BREAKFAST RESCUE MISSION: $40,000 · Human ServicesLIVING WITH HOPE: $29,500 · Human ServicesEMMANUEL HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION: $20,000 · Human Services+4 more: $39,500 · Human ServicesCHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP INC: $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP OF OHIO: $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentLIFE FORWARD PREGNANCY CARE OF CINCINNATI INC: $95,000 · HealthAssist Crisis Pregnancy Center: $15,000 · HealthCAPITOL HILL CRISIS PREGNANCY CTR: $10,000 · Health
Other$5,316,203Education$704,300Religion$603,287Recreation & Sports$482,350Human Services$460,500Youth Development$190,000Health$120,000

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 budgetChristian Camps Inc dba Deerfoot Lodge & Subsidiary: $510,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC: $382,350 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMARS HILL MINISTRIES INC: $250,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetThe Moody Bible Institute of Chicago: $212,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $196,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $154,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetCHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGOSPEL VOLUNTEERS INC: $100,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetLIFE FORWARD PREGNANCY CARE OF CINCINNATI INC: $95,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetChicago Friends of Haiti: $82,500 over 3y, 36% of budgetMaranatha Bible and Missionary Conf: $70,950 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSUNSHINE GOSPEL MINISTRIES: $70,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $54,358 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBy The Hand Club For Kids: $53,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBIOLA UNIVERSITY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LAMB CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetWHOSOEVER GOSPEL MISSION AND RES CUE HOME ASSO OF GERMANTOWN: $50,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetInterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA: $46,645 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MERCY KIDS FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetChristian Communications Inc USA: $42,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetBRIDGE TRUST-USA INC: $40,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetSUNDAY BREAKFAST RESCUE MISSION: $40,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSAT-7 NORTH AMERICA: $40,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP OF OHIO: $40,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetTrinity International University: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRedeemer City To City: $37,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTOGETHER CHICAGO INC: $35,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetONE ON ONE: $32,500 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetCEO FORUM INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetLIVING WITH HOPE: $29,500 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetOneWorld Health: $28,496 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWORLD MINISTRIES A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $25,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetNATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCEDAR GROVE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetINFAITH: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY: $22,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEMMANUEL HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetTurning Point for God: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMMAUS BIBLE COLLEGE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJUDSON UNIVERSITY A BAPTIST INSTITUTION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN THE BIBLE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWORLD RADIO MISSIONARY FELLOWSHIP INC: $18,498 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetInterAct Ministries Inc: $17,192 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAFRICAN ENTERPRISE INC: $17,192 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetThe Legacy Foundation At Shell Point Inc: $17,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHEOLOGY OF WORK PROJECT INC: $15,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetREFORMED THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 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 BIOLA UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE LAMB CENTER ↗
  • Who funds WHOSOEVER GOSPEL MISSION AND RES CUE HOME ASSO OF GERMANTOWN ↗
  • Who funds InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA ↗
  • Who funds THE MERCY KIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗

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.

Christian Community F…Tyndale House Ministr…Servant FoundationThe Bolick FoundationThe Signatry Charitab…International Generos…The Maclellan Foundat…T Rowe Price Program …The Chatlos Foundatio…Natl Christian Charit…Domanada FoundationThe Ayco Charitable F…
Christian Community Foundation IncCO39.6× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Wheaton College funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wheaton College. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 35%
  • Goodwill Industries International Inc: 35% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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 122 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 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home