· Private foundation
Christian Scholarships Missions and Projects Foundations
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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Central Church of Christ | $7,165 |
| Agape | $5,000 |
| Hope for Haiti's Children | $5,000 |
| Compassionate Hands | $5,000 |
| Heritage Christian University | $3,300 |
| The Barnabas Vision | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
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, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 8% of Christian Scholarships Missions and Projects Foundations’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 90% of the giving stays in TN; by stated purpose, 85%.
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 +182% since the first grant, against +44% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CHCompassionate Hands Inc7× · 2018–2025 · $32k · revenue +308%
- TBTHE BARNABAS VISION INC5× · 2018–2025 · $9k · revenue +182%
- LULIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY2× · 2017–2020 · $900 · revenue +44%
Funded once
- AKAgape Kids and Couples Fundone grant, 2022 · $8k
- NINASHVILLE INNER CITY MINISTRY INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue +44%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
Christian counseling ministry
Pastoral support of missionaries
Furthering the gospel of christ
Train and Counsel Pastors, Missionaries and others to meet the spiritual and physical needs of all peoples.
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…
The organization provided religious and non religious education and training to numurous haitian nationals. their work also includes feeding the hungry and delivering needed supplies to the people of haiti
Teach the Gospel
Provide support to ministers of christ's gospel
Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.
To operate a church to worship god, to preach the gospel of jesus
Mobilization of churches in America by taking pastors and laymen on vision and service trips overseas in fulfillment of Jesus command to go ye into all the world, making disciples...
Spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ by any available means, including building and funding churches worldwide, funding foreign missionaries, funding for Bible Colleges, and for other similar ministries.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 31 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 Compassionate Hands Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BARNABAS VISION INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE INNER CITY MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds CHURCHES OF CHRIST DISASTER RELIEF EFFORT INC ↗
- Who funds HAPPY HAVEN HOME INC ↗
- Who funds CHURCHES OF CHRIST DISASTER ↗
- Who funds THE TIMOTHY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds HEALING HANDS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE BARNABAS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FREED-HARDEMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds myLIFEspeaks ↗
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 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Christian Scholarships Missions and Projects Foundations funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Christian Scholarships Missions and Projects Foundations. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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