· Private foundation
Eye on the Sparrow Foundation
Its FY2024 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, FY2021 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $236k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AWANA CLUBS INTERNATIONAL | $43,250 |
| WYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS | $42,500 |
| CORAM DEO ACADEMY | $35,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $30,000 |
| MOUNTAIN RIVER MINISTRIES | $20,800 |
| WORLD MISSIONARY PRESS | $13,000 |
| 413 MINISTRIES | $10,800 |
| INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION | $10,800 |
| LOVE JUSTICE INTERNATIONAL | $10,000 |
| THRIVE WOMEN'S CLINIC | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF NAZARETH BAPTIST SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| CROSS CITY CHURCH | $5,000 |
| SUBLET ROAD BAPTIST CHURCH | $4,500 |
| WOMEN'S CHOICE RESOURCE CENTER | $4,500 |
| THE FIELDS CHURCH | $1,800 |
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 (FY22–23, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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
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 9% of Eye on the Sparrow Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +21% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 6 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ACAWANA CLUBS INTERNATIONAL AND AFFILIATES4× · 2021–2024 · $268k · revenue +21%
- DLDALLAS LIFE INC4× · 2021–2024 · $95k · revenue +1%
- CDCORAM DEO ACADEMY3× · 2022–2024 · $90k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- IAInternational Antioch Ministries Incone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -1%
- FLFIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTEone grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue +13%
- NCNORTHWAY CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $20k
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 provide the bible in accurate, contemporary translations and formats so that more people around the world will have the opportunity to be transformed by jesus christ.
International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures
To provide resources, training, and continuing support to leaders in the us and around the world in order that they may help others find freedom in christ.
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…
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…
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.
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…
Evangelist
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
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…
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.
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 23 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 AWANA CLUBS INTERNATIONAL AND AFFILIATES ↗
- Who funds DALLAS LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds CORAM DEO ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds International Antioch Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION INC ↗
- Who funds LOVE JUSTICE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds WORLD MISSIONARY PRESS INC ↗
- Who funds 413 Ministries dba TCS Foundation ↗
- Who funds East-West Ministries International ↗
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: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · 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 Eye on the Sparrow Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Eye on the Sparrow Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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