· Private foundation
Arthur S Demoss Foundation
Its FY2024 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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
- $250k+2 grants · $5.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LITERATURE FOR LITTLE ONES | $5,063,162 |
| MISSION EURASIA | $695,000 |
| CRU - EAST ASIA SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY | $29,620 |
| SCRIPTURE UNION | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
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 (FY22–22, $250k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LFLITERATURE FOR LITTLE ONES5× · 2020–2024 · $23M
- MEMISSION EURASIA3× · 2022–2024 · $3.0M · revenue -30%
- LILOGOSDOR INC2× · 2021–2022 · $631k · revenue -43% · 47% of their budget
Funded once
- ODOPEN DOORSone grant, 2020 · $645k
- FIFRONTLINES INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +110%
- LCLIGHT CORPS INCone grant, 2022 · $250k
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.
To spread the gospel of jesus christ through crusades
Religious
Jubal band ministries mission is to invite people to become disciples of christian life with jesus.
SWM Mission is an abbreviation for Silk Wave Mission, and is an organization that serves as a united prayer movement, church planting movement, and missionary church movement for spiritual recovery and revival in Turkey and the Islamic…
Heart Bridge International exists to equip and empower Christians around the world to fulfill the Great Commission. The organization provides free ministry training, discipleship resources, and practical coaching to under-resourced…
Reaching the world with the Gospel of Jesus Christ through evangelical activities, primarily in Russia. These activities include; teaching biblical principles, training teachers how to express their world view in the public schools,…
Spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 20 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.
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: Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Arthur S Demoss Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arthur S Demoss Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Straight Ahead Ministries Inc: 27% of income from government
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