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Christian Scholarships Missions and Projects Foundations

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$29k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2025
6
Organizations funded FY2024
17%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$7,165
Organizations funded a year
6 to 10
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$2.2M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Christian Scholarships Missions and Projects Foundations funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterReligionPublic Safety & DisasterInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving7$29k29%
FY20246$28k17%
FY20236$27k17%
FY20227$24k71%
FY20218$23k25%
FY20209$23k11%
FY20196$18k17%
FY201810$24k80%
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$107kHuman Services$45kEducation$22kInternational$15kPublic Safety & Disaster$8kYouth Development$6kFood & Nutrition$4kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 12 grantees
All grantees of Christian Scholarships Missions and Projects Foundations by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Compassionate Hands Inc$31,85673%
The Barnabas Vision Inc$8,75050%
Nashville Inner City Ministry Inc$6,00010%
Churches of Christ Disaster Relief Effort Inc$5,00010%
Happy Haven Home Inc$4,00011%
Churches of Christ Disaster$3,00010%
The Timothy Network Inc$2,75022%
Healing Hands International Inc$2,50010%
The Barnabas Project$2,00016%
Lipscomb University$90020%
Freed-Hardeman University$10010%
myLIFEspeaks$1001n/a

Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($145k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Christian Scholarships Missions and Projects Foundations supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCompassionate Hands Inc: $31,856 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetThe Barnabas Vision Inc: $8,750 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNashville Inner City Ministry Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetChurches of Christ Disaster Relief Effort Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHappy Haven Home Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetChurches of Christ Disaster: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Timothy Network Inc: $2,750 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetHealing Hands International Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Barnabas Project: $2,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetLipscomb University: $900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFreed-Hardeman University: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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.

The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee IncTN18.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Stephens' Christian Trust · Servant Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Christian Scholarships Missions and Projects Foundations?

Find your warmest path to Christian Scholarships Missions and Projects Foundations through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Christian Scholarships Missions and Projects Foundations

How much does Christian Scholarships Missions and Projects Foundations give?
Christian Scholarships Missions and Projects Foundations reported 7 grants totaling $29,465 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Christian Scholarships Missions and Projects Foundations fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (51%), Human Services (21%), Education (10%).
Who are Christian Scholarships Missions and Projects Foundations's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Compassionate Hands Inc ($32k), The Barnabas Vision Inc ($9k), Nashville Inner City Ministry Inc ($6k).
Does Christian Scholarships Missions and Projects Foundations fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Christian Scholarships Missions and Projects Foundations accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Christian Scholarships Missions and Projects Foundations?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc, Stephens' Christian Trust, Servant Foundation.
Where is Christian Scholarships Missions and Projects Foundations based?
Christian Scholarships Missions and Projects Foundations is based in TN.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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