· Private foundation
Acorn Investing Inc
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $19k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOOR International | $18,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,000 |
| Cornerstone Ministries Intl | $8,000 |
| SIM USA | $7,800 |
| Arabian World Partnership | $6,000 |
| Not Forgotten Intl | $5,000 |
| InterLit Foundation | $4,000 |
| Sports Catalyst | $3,500 |
| Pioneers | $2,500 |
| Hope4MENA | $2,300 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 66% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 7% of Acorn Investing Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +39% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.
22 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GWGOD'S WORD FOR THE NATIONS INC3× · 2021–2023 · $25k · revenue +90%
- FEFAR EAST BROADCASTING COMPANY2× · 2022–2023 · $24k · revenue +36%
- SCSports Catalyst Inc3× · 2020–2025 · $23k · revenue +90%
Funded once
- NGNEW GENERATIONSone grant, 2022 · $67k · revenue +10%
- SCSEED COMPANY INCone grant, 2022 · $54k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
The organization is dedicated to reaching people for christ through an international network of christians who journey with the poor and marginalized, bringing practical and spiritual support with hope of a better future,(continued on…
To join in the completion of the Great Commission through Scripture Engagement in all languages and every people group.
Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
i58 Global is a Christian ministry dedicated to recruiting, sending and organizing relief workers to provide aid and share hope to refugees in various European countries.
International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures
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.
With a desire to see the Gospel proclaimed in all nations, we exist to make and multiply disciples of the next generation through the vehicles of church-planting missions and missional leadership training.
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.
Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.
Our Gospel Radio Program in Arabic was inaugurated in 1993, broadcast from the Middle East on 5 transmitters and on the internet. Approximately 350 million Arabs can receive the programs. Our Farsi Gospel Radio Program was inaugurated in…
Bible Translation and acts of Christian Services
How this is measured
22 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. 22 of the 43 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 NEW GENERATIONS ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN RESPONSE USA ↗
- Who funds GOD'S WORD FOR THE NATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds FAR EAST BROADCASTING COMPANY ↗
- Who funds Sports Catalyst Inc ↗
- Who funds ARABIAN WORLD PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds VISIONSYNERGY ↗
- Who funds Not Forgotten International Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUTH FOR CHRISTUSA INC ↗
- Who funds Pioneer Bible Translators ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF EVANGELICAL STUDENTS USA INC ↗
- Who funds International Literacy and Development ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE CONNECT USA ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN DEVELOPMENT WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds INTERLIT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds REVIVAL SPORT INC ↗
- Who funds KRIN International Inc ↗
- Who funds Reaching Unreached Nations Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPE4MENA INC ↗
- Who funds ALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS 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.
Open a dossier: Gordon Christian Trust · International Generosity Foundation Trust · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Tyndale House Ministries · First Fruit Inc · The New Horizons Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Summit Foundation · Henry P & Susan C Crowell Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Acorn Investing Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Acorn Investing Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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