· Private foundation
Christian Services 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $196k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Cross Point Church of Christ | $145,500 |
| Outreach Reentry Ministry | $50,275 |
| Mars Hill Bible School | $20,000 |
| Harding University | $12,500 |
| Cloverdale Church of Christ | $12,000 |
| Mission of Mercy Shoals | $5,000 |
| University of Alabama Birmingham | $5,000 |
| International Health Care Foundatio | $4,500 |
| Harding University | $1,000 |
| College Counts 529 Plan | $1,000 |
| John Oubre Foundation | $600 |
| St Jude Hospital | $200 |
| St Labre Indian School | $100 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 70% of Christian Services Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 90% of the giving stays in AL; read by stated purpose it is 10% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
12 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 5 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- CPCROSS POINT CHURCH OF CHRIST6× · 2020–2025 · $1.5M
- CCCOLLEGE CHURCH OF CHRIST4× · 2020–2023 · $61k
- MOMission of Mercy Shoals6× · 2020–2025 · $56k
Funded once
- EPEast Point Church of Christone grant, 2022 · $2k
- WBWORLD BIBLE SCHOOL INCone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +9%
- IFInternational Fellowship of Christione grant, 2021 · $2k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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…
North America Bible Institute (NABI) is an evangelical graduate school, made up of students who are diverse in both ethnicity and ministry aims -- but united in great love for Jesus and his gospel. As a graduate school, NABI offers them…
Providing guality Christian education to the network generation
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
Gcu serves the global church by educating mission leaders to fulfill the great commission of jesus christ. gcu accomplishes this mission through a comprehensive program of biblical and general education, christ-centered service and…
Christian missions and ministries oversea countries; in Cambodia and Mali, church planting, evangelism, medical mission, schools (K - 12), helping the poor and the needy, Crusades, mercy missions (distributing rice, medicine, etc),…
United Saints is committed to taking the Gospel to both major cities and the most remote regionsreaching places like the Amazon Jungle and beyondwith the power and love of Jesus.
Heritage Christian University equips servants through undergraduate and graduate and continuing education. HCU produces effective communicators, preachers, teachers and missionaries for real world ministry with a focus on evangelism and a…
To provide affordable, accessible, accredited education to pastors and leaders to finish the great commission by multiplying disciple makers.
Biola university is a private christian university located in southern california. for over 116 years, biola has stood out as an institution grounded on biblically centered education, intentional spiritual development, and career…
The mission of houston christian university is to provide a learning experience that instills in students a passion for academic, spiritual, and professional excellence as a result of our central confession, "jesus christ is lord."
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is World Bible School Inc and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 23 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Harding University Inc ↗
- Who funds HEALING HANDS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD BIBLE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Rochester Christian University ↗
- Who funds LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Christian Services Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.