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Crown Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$113k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$97k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$313kReligion$217kInternational$20kEducation$5k
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $16k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $97k
$1,200
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PITTSBURG CHURCH OF CHRIST$97,192
Ghana Missions$1,200
World English Institute$1,200
World Video Bible School$1,200
World Bible School$1,200
Search of the Lords Way$1,200
Baptistries Around the World$1,200
Westview Boys Home$1,200
Zambia Mission Fund$1,200
Pathway Inc$1,200
Apologetics Press$1,200
Village of Hope$1,200
World Christian Broadcasting$1,200
Partners in Progress$600
Hiawatha Church of Christ$600
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%World Video Bible School: $2k → 15%World Christian Broadcasting: $4k → 17%Baptistries Around the World: $2k → 17%Search for the Lord's Way: $2k → 19%Westview Boys Home: $1k → 26%Gospel Tracts International: $5k → 14%Partners in Progress: $1k → 17%Apologetics Press: $2k → 18%Hiawatha Church of Christ: $2k → 14%PITTSBURG CHURCH OF CHRIST: $99k → 18%World English Institute: $2k → 12%World Bible School: $1k → 15%World Christian Broadcasting: $2k → 17%Baptistries Around the World: $1k → 17%Search of the Lord's Way: $1k → 19%Westview Boys Home: $1k → 26%Gospel Tracts International: $3k → 14%Partners in Progress: $1k → 17%Apologetics Press: $1k → 18%Hiawatha Church of Christ: $1k → 14%PITTSBURG CHURCH OF CHRIST: $97k → 18%World English Institute: $1k → 12%World Bible School: $1k → 15%Pathway Inc: $2k → 17%Baptistries Around the World: $1k → 17%Search of the Lord's Way: $1k → 19%Westview Boys Home: $1k → 26%Partners in Progress: $1k → 17%Apologetics Press: $1k → 18%Hiawatha Church of Christ: $1k → 14%PITTSBURG CHURCH OF CHRIST: $97k → 18%World English Institute: $1k → 12%World Video Bible School: $1k → 15%World Christian Broadcasting: $1k → 17%Search of the Lords Way: $1k → 19%Apologetics Press: $1k → 18%Hiawatha Church of Christ: $1k → 14%Pittsburg Church of Christ: $89k → 18%World English Institute: $1k → 12%World Bible School: $1k → 15%Pathway Inc: $1k → 17%Pittsburg Church of Christ: $67k → 18%World English Institute: $1k → 12%World Bible School: $1k → 15%World Christian Broadcasting: $1k → 17%World Bible School: $1k → 15%Pathway Inc: $1k → 17%Sunset School of Preaching: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$541k · 17 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against -18% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
5

Total granted

$541k
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
-18%

Still filing today

47%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionInternationalArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • ZC
    Zambia Christian College Inc dba Zambia Mission Fund
    5× · 2020–2024 · $8k · revenue +46%
  • GT
    GOSPEL TRACTS INTERNATIONAL INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $8k · revenue +17%
  • AP
    APOLOGETICS PRESS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $6k · revenue +117%

Funded once

  • SS
    Sunset School of Preaching
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • GW
    GHANA WEST AFRICA MISSIONS
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue -18%
  • SF
    Search for the Lord's Way
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Worldcast Ministries

Publishing, writing, sales & distribution of Christian Books; speaking throughout the US and foreign countries on Christian subjects. Attending orphanages, Christian schools and Bible colleges in the US and foreign countries assisting in…

Religion
2
Gospel Crusade Ministries Inc
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3
Worldwide Bible Society

We do bible translation with the kingdom perspective, therefore we go beyond making "a" new chinese translation for the chinese only; we strive to serve the ethnic minority groups in china and other countries as well. crossing national and…

Religion
4
International Christian Publishers

Religious corp, charitable, educational and cultural, conduct all activities relate to publishingchristian literature

Religion
5
Talking Bibles International

The distribution of Talking Bibles worldwide in as many different languages as possible.

Religion
6
Christian Literature for Africa

Literature for africa

Religion
7
World Outreach Ministries Inc

World outreach ministries, inc. exists to assist christian leaders and to reach the nations with a positive message of faith, grace, and victory through jesus christ. this is accomplished through support of missionaries, missionary…

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8
Wordsower Africa

The mission of wordsower africa is to equip and encourage christians in west african countries to bring the gospel to the unreached people groups, to disciple, become spiritual leaders and start healthy churches in every village god sends…

Religion
9
Propagate Media Incorporaton

This media outreach tool affords preachers and teachers of the Word in Christs Kingdom the global projection of media gospel. Our vision of Propagate Media Incorporation is to lift Jesus Christ higher for the world to see! But I, when I am…

Religion
10
Bible Passages

Bible passages is dedicated to helping others understand the bible, sharing the gospel of christ, defending the faith, and passing it along to the next generation.

Religion
11
Verse By Verse Ministry International Inc

Verse by verse ministry international is a non-profit, non-denominational, unafflliated christian ministry dedicated to promoting the preaching and teaching of gods word clearly and boldly. we present the study of gods word in its proper…

Philanthropy
12
Pastoral Bible Institute Inc

Publish and distribute the herald of christ's kingdom to approximately 2500 recipients and online readers. supply religious booklets and other formats such as dvds publish and sell revised version imporved and corrected english bible

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is World Bible School Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ghana West Africa Missions. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 22 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PITTSBURG CHURCH OF CHRIST: $449,134 · OtherPITTSBURG CHURCH OF CHRIST+13 more: $61,500 · Other+13 moreGOSPEL TRACTS INTERNATIONAL INC: $7,500 · ReligionWORLD BIBLE SCHOOL INC: $6,000 · ReligionWORLD VIDEO BIBLE SCHOOL: $4,500 · ReligionVILLAGE OF HOPE INC: $9,170 · InternationalZambia Christian College Inc dba Zambia Mission Fund: $8,400 · InternationalAPOLOGETICS PRESS INC: $6,300 · Arts & CultureFOCUS PRESS INC: $1,200 · Arts & CultureGHANA WEST AFRICA MISSIONS: $1,500 · Human Services
Other$510,634Religion$18,000International$17,570Arts & Culture$7,500Human Services$1,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVILLAGE OF HOPE INC: $9,170 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetZambia Christian College Inc dba Zambia Mission Fund: $8,400 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGOSPEL TRACTS INTERNATIONAL INC: $7,500 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetAPOLOGETICS PRESS INC: $6,300 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD BIBLE SCHOOL INC: $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD VIDEO BIBLE SCHOOL: $4,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWESTVIEW BOYS HOME INC: $4,200 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGHANA WEST AFRICA MISSIONS: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOCUS PRESS INC: $1,200 over 3y, 0.3% of budget
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 VILLAGE OF HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds Zambia Christian College Inc dba Zambia Mission Fund ↗
  • Who funds GOSPEL TRACTS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds APOLOGETICS PRESS INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD BIBLE SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD VIDEO BIBLE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds WESTVIEW BOYS HOME INC ↗
  • Who funds GHANA WEST AFRICA MISSIONS ↗
  • Who funds FOCUS PRESS 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.

Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA7.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Crown Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Crown Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 22 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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