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D James Kennedy Foundation Inc

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.

$57k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$210kEducation$54kArts & Culture$5kCivil Rights$3kInternational$2kHuman Services$1kPublic Benefit$900Youth Development$200Other$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
$1,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$60k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WESTMINISTER ACADEMY$12,500
Individual grant recipient$12,000
CORAL RIDGE MINISTRIES$9,000
CORAL RIDGE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$7,000
CORAL RIDGE MINISTRIES$5,000
CORAL RIDGE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$2,500
CORAL BRIDGE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$2,500
AUBURN UNIVERSITY$2,000
CORAL RIDGE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$1,000
CORAL RIDGE MINISTRIES$1,000
CORAL RIDGE MINISTRIES$1,000
COUNCIL FOR NATIONAL POLICY$800
TANGLEWOOD MINISTRIES INC$500
MUSIC MISSION KIEV$100
HOPE WOMEN CENTERS$100
02The need
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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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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WOMEN'S REFUGE OF VERO BEACH: $375 → 12%NATIONAL CENTER FOR LIFE & LIBERTY: $100 → 12%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $400 → 14%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $100 → 14%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $100 → 14%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $100 → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IN
VA
AZ
NC
DC
OK
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$239k · 16 repeat orgs$38k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against -2% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
9

Total granted

$239k
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
-2%

Still filing today

56%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesReligionPublic BenefitCivil RightsInternationalOther
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

  • CR
    Coral Ridge Ministries Media Inc
    7× · 2017–2023 · $27k · revenue +50%
  • ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM
    3× · 2020–2022 · $3k · revenue +84%
  • FR
    FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL
    4× · 2018–2024 · $700 · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • AU
    AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -7%
  • WA
    WESTMINSTER ACADEMY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +248%
  • MO
    MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE
    one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue -44%
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
Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry Inc

To glorify god by equipping the church with proper christian doctrine and to help non-believers come to a saving knowledge of jesus christ.

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2
Jewish Voice Ministries Intl

To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…

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3
Christianity Today International

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.

Religion
4
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

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…

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5
Bibleproject

Bibleproject's mission is to help people experience the bible as a unified story that leads to jesus. this is achieved by creating biblical videos to be regularly released on a newly-created youtube channel. (continued on schedule o.)each…

Religion
6
Bible Thinker Inc

Bible Thinker, Inc is a ministry dedicated to equipping people to think and live biblically. There are three main areas of teaching that we focus on:1. Teaching accurate theology based on exegeting the text of the Bible and confronting…

Religion
7
Ankerberg Theological Research Institute

The mission of the ankerberg theological research institute is to reach viewers and listeners for the gospel of christ through radio tv, and internet evangelism via the john ankerberg show.

Arts & Culture
8
The Faith and Law Project

Faith and Law's mission is to encourage and equip Christian policymakers to more fully understand the Biblical worldview and its implication in their calling to the public square.

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9
Intentional Life Media

Dedicated to igniting personal transformation by affirming faith, inspiring hope, and equipping individuals, to live an intentional life in christ.

Religion
10
Probe Ministries International

To present the gospel by providing life-long opportunities to integrate faith and learning through balanced, biblically based scholarship, training people to love god by renewing their minds and equipping the church to engage the world for…

Religion
11
Precept

Engaging people in relationship with God through knowing His Word

Religion
12
Nrb Network Inc

NRB Network was founded with a vision of impacting the culture through Christian television. NRBTV equips you to live differently with programming that inspires deep thinking and provides the practical tools you need to put your faith into…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alliance Defending Freedom; the most unlike its peers is Museum of the Bible. 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

17 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. 17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
9/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CORAL RIDGE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $102,010 · OtherCORAL RIDGE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHEVANGELISM EXPLOSION III INTERNATIONAL INC: $46,000 · OtherEVANGELISM EXPLOSION III INTERNATIONAL INCWESTMINISTER ACADEMY: $45,253 · OtherWESTMINISTER ACADEMYCORAL RIDGE MINISTRIES: $16,000 · OtherCORAL RIDGE MINISTRIESIndividual grant recipient: $12,000 · Other+13 more: $18,450 · Other+13 moreCoral Ridge Ministries Media Inc: $26,500 · ReligionCoral Ridge…+1 more: $600 · ReligionAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $2,500 · EducationWESTMINSTER ACADEMY INC: $1,500 · Education+1 more: $100 · EducationALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $3,000 · Civil RightsFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $700 · Human ServicesWomen's Refuge of Vero Beach Inc: $375 · Human ServicesNATIONAL CENTER FOR LIFE & LIBERTY INC: $200 · Human ServicesCOUNCIL FOR NATIONAL POLICY: $800 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $100 · Public BenefitLife Restoration Partners International Inc: $500 · InternationalAMERICAN VALUES: $200 · Arts & Culture
Other$239,713Religion$27,100Education$4,100Civil Rights$3,000Human Services$1,275Public Benefit$900International$500Arts & Culture$200

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCoral Ridge Ministries Media Inc: $26,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCREATION STUDIES INSTITUTE INC: $5,025 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetJOY OF MUSIC INC: $3,500 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTMINSTER ACADEMY INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE BIBLE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR NATIONAL POLICY: $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLife Restoration Partners International Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWomen's Refuge of Vero Beach Inc: $375 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR LIFE & LIBERTY INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN VALUES: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA FAMILY VOICE INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Coral Ridge Ministries Media Inc ↗
  • Who funds CREATION STUDIES INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds JOY OF MUSIC INC ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
  • Who funds AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WESTMINSTER ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE ↗
  • Who funds COUNCIL FOR NATIONAL POLICY ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds Life Restoration Partners International Inc ↗
  • Who funds Women's Refuge of Vero Beach Inc ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR LIFE & LIBERTY INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN VALUES ↗
  • Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
  • Who funds FLORIDA FAMILY VOICE INC ↗
  • Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH 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 Charitable Fdn IncGA14× affinity12 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 D James Kennedy Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from D James Kennedy Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%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
    8get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    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 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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