· Private foundation
Big Joy Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k9 grants · $225k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $397k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DENVER FILM SOCIETY | $100,000 |
| SERVENOW | $90,725 |
| SERVLIFE INTERNATIONAL INC | $56,450 |
| NDOTO | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| NDOTO | $50,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL DEAF EDUCATION ASSOCIATION | $42,000 |
| BIG D VISION ORPHANS | $39,000 |
| SERVENOW | $32,276 |
| MOSAIC INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES | $29,500 |
| STEP INTERNATIONAL INC | $25,000 |
| SERVENOW | $19,500 |
| KIDZ AT HEART INTERNATIONAL | $15,500 |
| KIMS OPEN DOOR INC | $12,500 |
| EDIFY | $10,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $264k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 13% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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 16% of Big Joy Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 46% of the giving stays in CO; by stated purpose, 25%.
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 +10% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 8 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, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $383k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SISERVLIFE INTERNATIONAL INC3× · 2023–2025 · $229k · revenue +10%
- SSERVENOW2× · 2022–2025 · $229k · revenue +21%
- KAKIDZ AT HEART INTERNATIONAL2× · 2023–2025 · $34k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- WVWORLD VISION - NORTHERN ZAMBIA WASHone grant, 2023 · $100k
- WRWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALSone grant, 2024 · $66k · revenue +6%
- IIDEAone grant, 2024 · $49k
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.
International needs has the vision to transform lives and change communities by helping christian nationals serve both god and neighbor within their own countries.
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…
Train ministers, lay people and students who are involved at any level of ministry in small or large churches at local, national, and international levels. We train to go into the world and spread the gospel by helping people meet their…
To propagate the gospel of jesus christ; to examine candidates and appoint missionaries. to endorse missionary programs according to standards set forth in the new testament, to establish churches, church schools & mission societies in…
Zoe Empowers is a global network of local organizations throughout Africa and India providing a replicable and scalable framework whereby youth led or resourced families are provided the training, resources, and community support to become…
Network Beyond is a Christian organization serving vulnerable and under-resourced people. We focus on three areas: 1. Leadership development - equipping global leaders with biblically based training. 2. Compassion and justice - support for…
Religious
Interserve USA recruits, trains, sends, and supports Christian professionals from America who live and work long term, generally among the poor, in places which need their expertise; especially in medicine, development, education, English…
We are a global Christian organization committed to partnering with indigenous peoples, local churches, and community-based organizations to make disciples of Jesus Christ and help end extreme poverty. We serve indigenous pygmies,…
Disciple Maker Ministries is devoted to fulfilling the Great Commission through evangelism and reproducing discipleship.
Empowering Lives International (ELI) ignites world changers. We equip families and orphans to crush poverty, embrace Christ, and share their transformation with others through their God-honoring income, their deepening relationship with…
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 23 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 SERVLIFE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds SERVENOW ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds NDOTO ↗
- Who funds DENVER FILM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS ↗
- Who funds International Deaf Education Association ↗
- Who funds STEP INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds KIDZ AT HEART INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds MOSAIC INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds KIM'S OPEN DOOR INC ↗
- Who funds Edify ↗
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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · 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 Big Joy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Big Joy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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