· Public charity
Believers Stewardship Services Inc
The ministry is designed to glorify god in fulfilling biblical stewardship by assisting christians to accomplish their financial & estate planning goals & by supporting local new testament churches & associated ministries with financial and governance related matters.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $102k
- $10k–50k28 grants · $547k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.5M
- $250k+2 grants · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHRISTIAN MISSIONS IN MANY LANDS INC | $984,991 |
| RENAISSANCE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC | $683,555 |
| MOUNTAIN TOP YOUTH CAMP | $210,147 |
| EMMAUS UNIVERSITY | $167,623 |
| LAND O'LAKES BIBLE CHAPEL | $125,000 |
| CHRISTIAN WORKERS FELLOWSHIP FUND INC | $121,084 |
| REST HAVEN HOMES INC | $106,800 |
| BELIEVERS' CHAPEL | $102,653 |
| CUMBERLAND WILDERNESS RETREAT INC | $100,000 |
| RENEWED LIFE MINISTRIES OUTREACH | $100,000 |
| IMMANUEL MISSION | $96,002 |
| CAMP BEREA | $88,850 |
| EMMAUS WORLDWIDE | $79,400 |
| SCHOOL MINISTRIES INC | $65,000 |
| ARBOR OAKS BIBLE CHAPEL | $62,400 |
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 (FY19–25, $208k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.
77 repeat relationships: 41 still active in FY2025, 36 since wound down; 16 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $590k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- EBEMMAUS BIBLE COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +19%
- CWCHRISTIAN WORKERS FELLOWSHIP FUND INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +45%
- EMECS Ministries9× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +1% · 41% of their budget
Funded once
- PPPORTAGE PARK GOSPEL HALL ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2022 · $1.3M
- GCGENERATIONS CHURCH INCone grant, 2023 · $497k
- VCVERITAS CHURCH OF CEDAR RAPIDSone grant, 2024 · $200k
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.
Reconciliaton Ministries Intl. is a Christian evangelical organization preaching and teaching the Word of God in over 60 countries. The ministry equips and encourages Christians everywhere to be saved, healed, and delivered according to…
The distribution of Talking Bibles worldwide in as many different languages as possible.
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…
Bible Camping, Inc. is a missions-based camping ministry existing to lovingly confront each camper with his or her need of a personal relationship with Jesus Christ in salvation and to encourage each one to a life of obedience and service…
To spread the Gospel of Jesus the Christ
To preach and propogate the gospel of jesus christ in the united states and throughout the world, to provide christian literature and training materials through various forms of media, and to offer christian leadership and discipleship…
Reaching and teaching pastors in the majority world.
Proclaim the gospel worldwide, prepare followers of jesus christ, and propel those into their god given destiny.
Teaching and Spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
To teach individuals how to apply the wisdom and depth of the bible's grace-centered message to the problems of daily living; and through various means, work to restore chirst to counseling and christ-centered counseling to the church.
Spread the gospel of jesus christ
How this is measured
96 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. 96 of the 189 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 EMMAUS BIBLE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN WORKERS FELLOWSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ECS Ministries ↗
- Who funds Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Pittsboro Christian Village ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN TOP YOUTH CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds Ecuadorian Harvest Ministries ↗
- Who funds School Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds GOSPEL MISSIONS OF INDIA ↗
- Who funds WRITE-WAY PRISON MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Horton Haven Christian Camp ↗
- Who funds VOICE OF CHRIST MEDIA MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago ↗
- Who funds EMMAUS CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL-ST LOUIS AKA SET FREE ↗
- Who funds CHRISTAIN YOUTH CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO ROCKIES BIBLE CAMP AND CONFERENCE INC ↗
- Who funds PORTICO INC ↗
- Who funds SHILOH BIBLE CAMP ↗
- Who funds ALLOW THE CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds JONI AND FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds EVANGELISTIC HORIZONS UNLIMITED INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds REST HAVEN HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds CUMBERLAND WILDERNESS RETREAT INC ↗
- Who funds Renewed Life Ministries Outreach 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: The Oscar C Rixson Foundation Inc · Perrin Foundation Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Servant Foundation · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · The Maranatha Foundation Inc · Christian Expansion Inc · Tyndale House Ministries · James E Elliot Charitable Trust · Wheaton College · Word & Deed Foundation of IMMI Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Believers Stewardship Services Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Believers Stewardship Services Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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