· Private foundation
Branches Foundation
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, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $330k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+6 grants · $2.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL INC | $500,000 |
| DWELLING PLACE | $500,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $400,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION | $380,000 |
| NEW LIFE FAMILY SERVICES | $362,000 |
| MINNESOTA TEEN CHALLENGE INC | $250,000 |
| LIBERTY CLASSICAL ACADEMY | $150,000 |
| FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN | $150,000 |
| HOPE ACADEMY INC | $150,000 |
| RURAL CARE FOUNDATION | $134,000 |
| EAGLE BROOK CHURCH | $127,000 |
| GRACE FOR LIFE FOUNDATION | $112,000 |
| ENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTITUTE IN CHINA | $71,000 |
| EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH OF AMERICA | $67,500 |
| SIM USA INCORPORATED | $66,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
38 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Compassion International Incorporated8× · 2018–2025 · $4.2M · revenue +7%- IJINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION8× · 2018–2025 · $2.9M · revenue +88%
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE8× · 2018–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +163%
Funded once
- MRMANUSCRIPT RESEARCH GROUPgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $35k · revenue +353% · 51% of their budget
- IEINSPIRED EXHIBIT INCone grant, 2018 · $35k
- FIFRIENDS IN ACTION INTERNATIONALone grant, 2021 · $22k · revenue -4%
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.
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.
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…
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…
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
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.
Bible Translation and acts of Christian Services
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.
Manna University is a biblical higher education institution dedicated to educating, equipping, and empowering emerging leaders to change the world.
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 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.
Bibleproject's mission is to help people experience the bible as a unified story that leads to jesus. this is achieved by creating biblical videos to be regularly released on a newly-created youtube channel. (continued on schedule o.)each…
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
How this is measured
24 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. 24 of the 51 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 Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds NEW LIFE FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc ↗
- Who funds The Dwelling Place ↗
- Who funds HOPE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds ENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTITUTE IN CHINA ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY CLASSICAL ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL ↗
- Who funds PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S SHELTER OF CEBU ↗
- Who funds PARABLE FUND ↗
- Who funds PRAIRIE BRIDGE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds MANUSCRIPT RESEARCH GROUP ↗
- Who funds PRIORITY LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS IN ACTION INTERNATIONAL ↗
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: Christian Community Foundation Inc · The Minneapolis Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Larson Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Branches Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Branches Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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