· Private foundation
Eight Torches 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, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k7 grants · $150k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $745k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE NAVIGATORS | $683,500 |
| WHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES INC | $550,000 |
| PULSE OUTREACH | $250,000 |
| CHRISTIAN HERALD ASSN INC | $230,000 |
| LAUSANNE COMMITTEE FOR WORLD EVANGELIZATION | $200,000 |
| SALTEXCHANGE INC | $100,000 |
| THE NEW YORK CITY LEADERSHIP CENTER INC | $100,000 |
| RE SOURCE GLOBAL | $65,000 |
| PROFESSIONAL & EDUCATIONAL SERVICES INTERNATIONAL | $50,000 |
| IGNITE MINISTRIES | $35,000 |
| CITY CHURCH FOR ALL NATIONS INC | $30,000 |
| YOUTH FOR CHRIST USA INC | $25,000 |
| BASEBALL CHAPEL INC | $25,000 |
| VAIL BIBLE CHURCH | $15,000 |
| SINAPIS GROUP | $10,000 |
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 (FY23–25, $933k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +27% since the first grant, against -17% for those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 1 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CHChristian Herald Association Inc5× · 2018–2025 · $856k · revenue +46%
- LCLAUSANNE COMMITTEE FOR WORLD EVANGELIZATION3× · 2022–2025 · $720k · revenue +27%
- POPULSE OUTREACH3× · 2023–2025 · $450k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- YFYOUTH FOR CHRISTUSA INCone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -17%
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.
Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…
Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.
Raise Up Global Ministries is committed to educating Christian leaders in communities around the world. The three programs of Raise Up equip the global church by 1 Developing biblically based interactive materials and 2 Training…
Our mission is to accelerate the great commission by equipping leaders, developing networks, and catalyzing collaboration toward spiritual breakthroughs among the least reached peoples and places of the world.
Leadership Revolution is a ministry founded to develop leaders globally who will spread the gospel and make disciples in their arena of influence.
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.
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 international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures
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 18 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 WHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Christian Herald Association Inc ↗
- Who funds LAUSANNE COMMITTEE FOR WORLD EVANGELIZATION ↗
- Who funds PULSE OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds The New York City Leadership Center Inc ↗
- Who funds RESOURCE GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds SALTEXCHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds PROFESSIONAL AND EDUCATIONAL SERVICES INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds IGNITE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Ascend Vail Inc ↗
- Who funds SINAPIS GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH FOR CHRISTUSA 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: Servant Foundation · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Eight Torches Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Eight Torches Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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