How much does Eternal Perspective Ministries give?

Eternal Perspective Ministries reported 36 itemized grants totaling $522,815, out of $759,792 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 31 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Eternal Perspective Ministries fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (53%), International (30%), Civil Rights (6%).

Who are Eternal Perspective Ministries's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Operation Mobilization ($234k), Illuminations Foundation Inc ($214k), Samaritan's Purse ($175k).

Does Eternal Perspective Ministries fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Eternal Perspective Ministries?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Servant Foundation, Christian Community Foundation Inc, The Signatry Charitable Trust.

Where is Eternal Perspective Ministries based?

Eternal Perspective Ministries is based in OR.

Eternal Perspective Ministries

Eternal Perspective Ministries at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

Eternal Perspective Ministries

Teaching, counceling, & facilitating personal growth of a relationship with Jesus Christ.

$760k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$37k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$1.4MInternational$811kCivil Rights$151kHealth$129kCrime & Legal$71kHuman Services$31kRecreation & Sports$16kEducation$16kOther$0

02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 36 grants below total $522,815, the rows itemized in this filing. The $759,792 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $236,977 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k13 grants · $97k
$10k–50k23 grants · $426k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$763k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Water Mission	$36,526
Desiring God Ministries	$32,380
Joni & Friends Ministries	$29,282
International Justice Mission	$28,000
Open Doors	$27,576
Compassion International	$25,520
BILD International	$23,950
Prison Fellowship Ministries	$20,475
Illuminations	$20,000
Operation Mobilization	$19,797
Samaritans Purse	$18,000
Lift up the Vulnerable	$16,228
East West Ministries	$15,500
Life International	$15,500
Alliance Defending Freedom	$13,233

02The need

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 (FY18–25, $88k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 64% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.4M · 37 repeat orgs$240k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +42% for those funded once.

37 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.4M

$138k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%

+42%

Still filing today

59%

82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $102k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

ReligionInternationalHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthEducationOther

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

IF
ILLUMINATIONS FOUNDATION INC
5× · 2020–2025 · $214k · revenue +136%
SP
SAMARITAN'S PURSE
7× · 2017–2025 · $175k · revenue +134%
WM
WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL
5× · 2021–2025 · $124k · revenue +29%

Funded once

JF
JONI & FRIENDS MINISTRIES
one grant, 2021 · $16k
ME
MISSION EURASIAgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $13k · revenue +61%
Soar Detroit
one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -29%

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.

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

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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Youth for Christ International Ministries

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.

Religion

International Leadership Institute

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…

Religion

Mission Without Borders International

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…

International

Tyndale Bible Translators

Bible Translation and acts of Christian Services

Religion

Global Media Outreach

Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.

Religion

Global Outreach International Inc

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.

International

Next Worldwide Inc

With a desire to see the Gospel proclaimed in all nations, we exist to make and multiply disciples of the next generation through the vehicles of church-planting missions and missional leadership training.

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Ason International Inc

Assisting national Christian leaders around the world.

Human Services

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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Biglife International Inc

Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.

Recreation & Sports

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Commission to Every Nation; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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

51 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. 51 of the 66 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

46/51

Grantees still filing

35/51

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$942,122Religion$693,103International$504,008Philanthropy$270,256Human Services$99,957Health$86,453Crime & Legal$67,421

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.

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.

Servant FoundationKS30.8× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Servant Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · The Signatry Charitable Trust · International Generosity Foundation Trust · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · G II Charities · God's Gift · Gordon Christian Trust · The Bolick Foundation · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · GiveClear 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 Eternal Perspective Ministries funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Eternal Perspective Ministries. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

11get no government money at all

1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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.

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