· Private foundation
Clayton Brown Family 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, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k6 grants · $140k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Josiah Venture | $200,000 |
| Wheaton Academy | $150,000 |
| Naples Christian Academy | $150,000 |
| By the Hand Club for Kids | $125,000 |
| Ligonier Ministries | $125,000 |
| The Navigators | $125,000 |
| Moody Global Ministries | $125,000 |
| South Point Youth | $125,000 |
| Outreach Community Ministries | $100,000 |
| Samaritan's Purse | $100,000 |
| Dallas Theological Seminary | $100,000 |
| Concentric | $100,000 |
| Prison Fellowship | $25,000 |
| Global Scholars | $25,000 |
| Project Medsend | $25,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $236k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 1% 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.
34 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 4 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $390k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OCOUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES5× · 2021–2025 · $218k · revenue +19%
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE5× · 2021–2025 · $176k · revenue +83%
- DTDallas Theological Seminary4× · 2021–2025 · $160k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- CPCovenant Pres Ch Naplesone grant, 2024 · $50k
- GEGREATER EUROPE MISSIONone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +12%
- IHIN HIS STEPS MINISTRIES INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +30%
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.
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.
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.
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
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…
To provide the bible in accurate, contemporary translations and formats so that more people around the world will have the opportunity to be transformed by jesus christ.
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…
The Master's University and Seminary (TMUS) exists to advance the Kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ through education. This is accomplished through unreserved commitment to worshipping God, authority of Scripture, personal holiness, serving…
To get the good news to every nation this generation by showing and sharing god's love by providing opportunities and supporting christian missionaries in over fifty seven countries around the world.
To glorify God by providing biblically sound resources and structured study material to teach people from every nation to accept Christ as their Savior and Lord, grow in Christ, and share their faith with others.
Northeastern seminary strives to be a vibrant source for christian theological formation whose students are formed in a biblical vision of gracious christianity and impact wholeness to the world in an expansive array of vocations and…
Asbury Theological Seminary is a community called to prepare theologically educated, sanctified, Spirit-filled men and women to evangelize and to spread scriptural holiness throughout the world through the love of Jesus Christ, in the…
Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.
How this is measured
29 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. 29 of the 47 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 FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds Josiah Venture ↗
- Who funds OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds WHEATON ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago ↗
- Who funds By The Hand Club For Kids ↗
- Who funds Dallas Theological Seminary ↗
- Who funds Ligonier Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds Naples Christian Academy ↗
- Who funds PROJECT MEDSEND ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ↗
- Who funds ENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTITUTE IN CHINA ↗
- Who funds AWANA CLUBS INTERNATIONAL AND AFFILIATES ↗
- Who funds WORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS ↗
- Who funds Inner City Impact ↗
- Who funds MISSION EURASIA ↗
- Who funds Wheaton College ↗
- Who funds Luis Palau Association ↗
- Who funds EVANGELICAL CHILD AND FAMILY AGENCY ↗
- Who funds WITNESS BREAKTHROUGH INC ↗
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: Tyndale House Ministries · The Cornerstone Center Foundation · James E Elliot Charitable Trust · Servant Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Domanada Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The Richard H and Janice R Popp Charitable Found · The Chatlos Foundation Inc · International Generosity Foundation Trust · The Signatry Charitable Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Clayton Brown Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Clayton Brown Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals: 67% of income from government
How this is measured
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