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Eternal Trust Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$56k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2024
18
Organizations funded FY2023
61%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 18
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
11
Total assets, FY2024
$821k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 61% of the organizations Eternal Trust Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 41% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
ReligionHuman ServicesEducationInternationalCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving13$56k31%
FY202318$103k61%
FY202216$50k50%
FY202118$49k44%
FY202010$36k60%
FY201915$103k87%
FY20186$28k67%
FY201716$49kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$377kInternational$89kHealth$3kEducation$3kHuman Services$1kPhilanthropy$1kScience & Tech$1k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Childrens Bible Ministries Inc$20,00022%
Voice of the Martyrs Inc$19,3005n/a
Ethnos360 Inc$15,5002n/a
Chosen People Ministries Inc$14,3006n/a
Four Winds Ecclesia Incorporated$8,7002n/a
Grace School of Theology$8,00020%
Children Bible Ministries Inc North Alabama Division$6,20021%
Mission Enablers International$6,00010%
Samaritan's Purse$5,60020%
CBM of the Upper Cumberland Region of TN Inc$5,0001n/a
Show all 36 grantees
All grantees of Eternal Trust Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Childrens Bible Ministries Inc$20,00022%
Voice of the Martyrs Inc$19,3005n/a
Ethnos360 Inc$15,5002n/a
Chosen People Ministries Inc$14,3006n/a
Four Winds Ecclesia Incorporated$8,7002n/a
Grace School of Theology$8,00020%
Children Bible Ministries Inc North Alabama Division$6,20021%
Mission Enablers International$6,00010%
Samaritan's Purse$5,60020%
CBM of the Upper Cumberland Region of TN Inc$5,0001n/a
China Aid Association Inc$5,00040%
Answers in Genesis Inc$4,00030%
The Blake House Inc$3,20020%
Little Lambs International Inc$3,00011%
Campus Outreach$3,0001n/a
Paraclete Mission Group Inc$2,40010%
Joni and Friends$2,00020%
E3 Volunteers Inc Dba Volunteer Baptists Interntl$2,00010%
Rio Grande Bible Institute Inc$2,00010%
Come and See Foundation Inc$2,0001n/a
Hope Builders Ministries$1,50020%
Hope Builders International$1,50010%
Globeworks International Inc$1,50010%
South American Mission Inc$1,2001n/a
Spear International Ministries Inc$1,20011%
Jaars Inc$1,00010%
Campus Crusade for Christ Inc$1,0001n/a
Campus Outreach Serve Inc$1,0001n/a
The Shepherd's Crook Ministries Inc$1,00010%
Christian Service Mission Inc$1,00010%
Mars Hill Productions Inc$1,00010%
Institute for Creation Research$1,00010%
Tim Tebow Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Cry from the Wilderness Ministries$600111%
Strategic International Assistance$50011%
Summit Ministries Inc$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($321k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Eternal Trust Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChildrens Bible Ministries Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetGrace School of Theology: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChildren Bible Ministries Inc North Alabama Division: $6,200 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMission Enablers International: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $5,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChina Aid Association Inc: $5,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAnswers in Genesis Inc: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Blake House Inc: $3,200 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLittle Lambs International Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetParaclete Mission Group Inc: $2,400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJoni and Friends: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetE3 Volunteers Inc Dba Volunteer Baptists Interntl: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRio Grande Bible Institute Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHope Builders Ministries: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHope Builders International: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGlobeworks International Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSpear International Ministries Inc: $1,200 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJaars Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Shepherd's Crook Ministries Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetChristian Service Mission Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMars Hill Productions Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInstitute for Creation Research: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTim Tebow Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCry from the Wilderness Ministries: $600 over 1y, 11% of budgetStrategic International Assistance: $500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSummit Ministries Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 26.

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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.

Christian Community Foundation IncCO25.7× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Signatry Charitable Trust · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Texas Instruments Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bolick Foundation · Barnabas Foundation · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc

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.

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How do I get to Eternal Trust Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Eternal Trust Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Eternal Trust Foundation

How much does Eternal Trust Foundation give?
Eternal Trust Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $56,400 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Eternal Trust Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (79%), International (19%), Health (1%).
Who are Eternal Trust Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Childrens Bible Ministries Inc ($20k), Voice of the Martyrs Inc ($19k), Ethnos360 Inc ($16k).
Does Eternal Trust Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 61% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Eternal Trust Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Eternal Trust Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Christian Community Foundation Inc, Servant Foundation, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc.
Where is Eternal Trust Foundation based?
Eternal Trust Foundation is based in AL.

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 70 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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