· Private foundation
Epaphroditus Foundation
Its FY2026 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, FY2017 to 2026.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k6 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $359k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEAM | $80,000 |
| BY THE HAND CLUB FOR KIDS | $24,500 |
| HOPE ACADEMY | $22,000 |
| Global Christian Forum Foundation | $21,600 |
| SAFE FAMILIES | $19,500 |
| COVENANT POINT BIBLE CAMP | $19,500 |
| Convenant Harbor Bible Camp | $19,500 |
| INTERNATIONAL GENEROSITY FOUNDATION | $17,500 |
| Lake Geneva Youth Camp | $17,500 |
| Bangladesh Youth First Concerns | $17,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $17,500 |
| RECLAIMING HOPE | $17,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $17,000 |
| North Park Theological Seminary | $17,000 |
| DAYSTAR US | $17,000 |
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 (FY17–26, $303k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 27% of Epaphroditus Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 46% of the giving stays in IL; by stated purpose, 32%.
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 +54% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.
42 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2026, 22 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GCGlobal Christian Forum Foundation10× · 2017–2026 · $278k · revenue +193%
- BTBy The Hand Club For Kids10× · 2017–2026 · $249k · revenue +54%
- BUBREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC10× · 2017–2026 · $190k · revenue +207%
Funded once
- UFUrban Farm Table Community Churchone grant, 2025 · $15k
- FBFUSION BIBLE CHURCH INCORPORATEDone grant, 2021 · $10k
- QLQUESTSCOPE LTDone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +16%
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.
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…
Partnering with Indigenous Leaders to Spread the Gospel, Serve Others, and Build Community
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.
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.
Pilgrim Africa's mission is to challenge despair, love boldly, and help African people create a future of sustainable prosperity and health. We give ourselves in service to others regardless of economic, religious, or social standing,…
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.
Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.
The organization exists to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ while providing support and serving the poor through benevolent assistance, medical services, education, orphan care, church planting, etc.
The purpose of world hope international, inc. (whi) includes providing assistance to economically disadvantaged people through long-term social transformation projects, including anti-trafficking protection, clean water, economic…
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…
Empowering Lives International (ELI) ignites world changers. We equip families and orphans to crush poverty, embrace Christ, and share their transformation with others through their God-honoring income, their deepening relationship with…
World orphans vision is to empower the church to care for orphans and vulnerable families. we equip, inspire, and mobilize the church to care for orphans and vulnerable children. churches engaged. children restored. communities transformed…
How this is measured
34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 79 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 Global Christian Forum Foundation ↗
- Who funds By The Hand Club For Kids ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE SANTIAGO PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds RESTORE INNOCENCE ↗
- Who funds The New Horizons Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds DAYSTAR US INC ↗
- Who funds LYDIA HOME ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS ↗
- Who funds The Friendship Center ↗
- Who funds SERAJ LIBRARY PROJECT ↗
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: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Nkc Family Foundation · Tyndale House Ministries · The Minneapolis Foundation · Barnabas Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Epaphroditus Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Epaphroditus Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals: 67% of income from government
- Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
How this is measured
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