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Faith and Freedom Foundation at a glance

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Faith and Freedom Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$104k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Education$68kRecreation & Sports$62kHealth$35kReligion$31kScience & Tech$10kPublic Benefit$10kArts & Culture$5kHuman Services$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $77k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$559k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAPSTONE CLASSICAL ACADEMY$25,100
NEW HOPE CHRISTIAN CAMP$21,800
GRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY - ENGINEERS GONE GLOBAL$10,000
HEALTH RESOURCES CENTER$10,000
CITIZENS ALLIANCE OF AMERICA FOUNDATION$10,000
INSTITUTE OF LUTHERAN THEOLOGY$5,000
THE PERRY CENTER$5,000
THE GENERAL COUNCIL OF THE ASSEMBLIES OF GOD$5,000
FATHER'S FARM$5,000
FLAG FAMILY MEDIA$5,000
CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP$2,500
02The need
03

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 (FY25–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%THE PERRY CENTER: $5k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$176k · 6 repeat orgs$52k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
3

Total granted

$176k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+161%

Still filing today

50%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
EducationReligionPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesOther
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

  • NH
    NEW HOPE CHRISTIAN CAMP
    2× · 2024–2025 · $62k
  • CC
    CAPSTONE CLASSICAL ACADEMY
    3× · 2022–2025 · $39k · revenue +139%
  • HR
    HEALTH RESOURCES CENTER
    3× · 2022–2025 · $30k

Funded once

  • HL
    HILLCREST LUTHERAN ACADEMY
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • FA
    FAITH AND FREEDOM CHARITYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +161%
  • PF
    Pray for Graygraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $125 · revenue +40%
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.

1
Lutheran Theological Seminary Henry Grove
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2
Central Iowa Christian School

Provision of christ centered education with scholastic excellence.

Education
3
Grateful Shepherd Ministries

Training pastors and leaders in christian faith

Religion
4
International Christian Scholarship Fdtn
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5
Institute for Christian Renewal

Fostering the christian faith

Religion
6
Valor Christian High School in

To educate students in a biblical worldview, to high academic standards, with good character, as preparation to live victorious lives as christian adults.

Education
7
Gilchrist Institute for the Acheivement Sciences
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8
Faith Evangelical Lutheran Seminary Faith International University

Faith evangelical seminary exists to glorify god by equipping christian leaders with a biblical, theological, and practical education empowering them to apply and proclaim the inerrant word of god for world-wide christian service.

Education
9
Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary

To prepare students to serve christ and his church through biblical, experiential and practical ministry. prts provides theological training and instruction in accordance with the scriptures and the historic reformed creeds for promotion…

Education
10
Carolina Christian Academy

Educational instruciton for students in prek-12th grades.

—
11
Chesterton Academy of Fort Worth

To inspire and influence the culture in Fort Worth by joyfully engaging our students with the classics, which are the foundation of Western civilization and point to the most important historical even of humanity, the Incarnation of our…

Education
12
Association of Certified Biblical

Training & certification of christian biblical counselors

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child Evangelism Fellowship of South Dakota Inc; the most unlike its peers is Fathers Farm. 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

8 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. 8 of the 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW HOPE CHRISTIAN CAMP: $61,800 · OtherNEW HOPE CHRISTIAN CAMPHEALTH RESOURCES CENTER: $30,000 · OtherHEALTH RESOURCES CENTERFREE LUTHERAN BIBLE COLLEGE AND SEMINARY: $19,500 · OtherFREE LUTHERAN BIBLE COLLEGE AND SEMINARYGRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY - ENGINEERS GONE GLOBAL: $10,000 · OtherGRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY - ENGINEERS GONE GLOBALHILLCREST LUTHERAN ACADEMY: $9,500 · OtherHILLCREST LUTHERAN ACADEMYFLAG FAMILY MEDIA: $5,000 · OtherTHE GENERAL COUNCIL OF THE ASSEMBLIES OF GOD: $5,000 · OtherCAPSTONE CLASSICAL ACADEMY: $39,100 · EducationCAPSTONE CLASSICAL A…FAITH AND FREEDOM CHARITY: $2,000 · EducationINSTITUTE OF LUTHERAN THEOLOGY: $19,000 · ReligionINSTITUTE…CITIZENS ALLIANCE OF AMERICA FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Community ImprovementCHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP OF SOUTH DAKOTA INC: $7,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE PERRY CENTER INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesFATHERS FARM: $5,000 · HealthPray for Gray: $125 · Philanthropy
Other$140,800Education$41,100Religion$19,000Community Improvement$10,000Youth Development$7,000Human Services$5,000Health$5,000Philanthropy$125

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCAPSTONE CLASSICAL ACADEMY: $39,100 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetINSTITUTE OF LUTHERAN THEOLOGY: $19,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP OF SOUTH DAKOTA INC: $7,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE PERRY CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFAITH AND FREEDOM CHARITY: $2,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetPray for Gray: $125 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Faith and Freedom Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Faith and Freedom Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 15 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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