· Private foundation
Eternal Trust Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL | $10,000 |
| VOICE OF THE MARTYRS | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| MISSION ENABLES INTERNATIONAL | $6,000 |
| YOUTH WITH A MISSION | $5,500 |
| HOME FOR UGANDA ORPHANAGE | $5,000 |
| CHILDRENS BIBLE MINISTRIES | $2,500 |
| CHOSEN PEOPLE MINISTRIES | $2,400 |
| JONI AND FRIENDS | $1,000 |
| MARS HILL PRODUCTIONS | $1,000 |
| PONDEROSA STUDENT MINISTRY | $1,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR CREATION RESEARCH | $1,000 |
| HOPE BUILDERS MINISTRIES | $1,000 |
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 (FY21–22, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 25% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +26% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.
22 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CBCHILDRENS BIBLE MINISTRIES INC2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +41%
- GSGRACE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY2× · 2017–2020 · $8k · revenue +10%
- CBChildren Bible Ministries Inc North Alabama Division2× · 2021–2022 · $6k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- IITECone grant, 2019 · $50k
- NDNEW DAY CHARITIESone grant, 2017 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $6k
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.
To spread the gospel of jesus christ through crusades
Supporing missionaries worldwide
Training pastors in third world countries
Heart Bridge International exists to equip and empower Christians around the world to fulfill the Great Commission. The organization provides free ministry training, discipleship resources, and practical coaching to under-resourced…
To present and promote the Gospel of Jesus Christ for the evangelizing of the lost, and to strengthen those in the faith.
Promote christian religion through conferences and group meetings.
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…
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…
How this is measured
28 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. 28 of the 70 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 CHILDRENS BIBLE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY ↗
- Who funds Children Bible Ministries Inc North Alabama Division ↗
- Who funds MISSION ENABLERS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds CBM of the Upper Cumberland Region of TN Inc ↗
- Who funds China Aid Association Inc ↗
- Who funds ANSWERS IN GENESIS INC ↗
- Who funds The Blake House Inc ↗
- Who funds LITTLE LAMBS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds PARACLETE MISSION GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds JONI AND FRIENDS ↗
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 · 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Eternal Trust Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Eternal Trust Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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