· Private foundation
Faithful Servants Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
80% of Faithful Servants Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 4 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Faithful Servants Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $1M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k5 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $21k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EFA Foundation | $913,664 |
| Dreams Will Come True Foundation | $270,000 |
| Bridges Community Church | $70,000 |
| First Baptist Church of Los Altos | $21,000 |
| SAGOS | $7,000 |
| Allegro Organizational Solutions | $6,600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,600 |
| World Vision | $429 |
| ChildFund International | $363 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 43% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 36% of Faithful Servants Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 48% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 19%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2020, 5 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2025, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $305k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LALos Altos Christian School4× · 2017–2021 · $100k
- FBFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF LOS ALTOS INC5× · 2017–2021 · $81k
- LALos Altos Christian School PTF3× · 2017–2019 · $60k
Funded once
- CCChinese Church in Christ CCICone grant, 2017 · $12k
- MRMillennium Relief and Development Sone grant, 2017 · $3k
- CCCHINESE CANCER MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue -91%
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 join in the completion of the Great Commission through Scripture Engagement in all languages and every people group.
Childfund alliance is a global network of 11 child-focused development and humanitarian organizations working in more than 70 countries. we help nearly 30 million children and their families to overcome poverty and the underlying…
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…
Devworks international is dedicated to a society where all people enjoy the freedom to pursue their own sustainable development. we contribute to this by strengthening the capacity of local organizations.
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.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 24 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 DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds EFA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Dreams Will Come True Foundation ↗
- Who funds CONVOY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds ALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds GO LIVE SERVE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA ↗
- Who funds REVELATION MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds CHINESE CANCER MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds KHAN ACADEMY INC ↗
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: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Faithful Servants Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Faithful Servants Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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