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Family Research Council

The FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL's primary exempt purpose is to reaffirm and promote nationally, and particularly in washington, dc, the traditional family unit and the judeo-christian value system upon which it is built.

$349k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$175k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182025.

Philanthropy$1.3MCivil Rights$331kReligion$133kInternational$71kEducation$25kPublic Benefit$5k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 6 grants below total $224,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $348,707 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $124,207 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $10k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $175k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FAMILY FAITH AND FREEDOM FOUNDATION$175,000
THE JOSHUA FUND$10,000
DOUGLASS LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE$10,000
PARLIAMENT AND FAITH USA INTERNATIONAL INC$10,000
CIVF - USA$10,000
SEMILLA INC$9,500
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 81% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Well Versed: $8k → 11%David's Tent USA Inc: $10k → 14%WOMEN IMPACTING THE NATION: $15k → 11%NO GREATER LOVE FOUNDATION INC: $6k → 15%SAMARITANS PURSE: $16k → 21%PARLIAMENT AND FAITH USA INTERNATIONAL INC: $10k → 8%GENERATION JOSHUA: $291k → 4%CHAPLAIN ALLIANCE FOR RELIGIOUS LIBERTY: $5k → 6%COALITION FOR AMERICA: $5k → 9%SEMILLA INC: $10k → 19%IRF SECRETARIAT: $50k → 6%National Hispanic Pastors Alliance: $15k → 8%DAVID'S TENT USA: $10k → 14%Samaritan's Purse: $10k → 21%DOUGLASS LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $10k → 8%FAMILY FAITH AND FREEDOM FOUNDATION: $175k → 14%SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $10k → 21%Family Faith and Freedom Foundation: $165k → 14%FAMILY FAITH AND FREEDOM FOUNDATION: $165k → 14%FAMILY FAITH AND FREEDOM FOUNDATION: $165k → 14%FAMILY FAITH AND FREEDOM FOUNDATION: $165k → 14%FAMILY FAITH AND FREEDOM FOUNDATION: $160k → 14%Family Faith and Freedom Foundation: $160k → 14%FAMILY FAITH AND FREEDOM FOUNDATION: $160k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

NJ
CA
CO
VA
MD
NC
DC
TX
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.4M · 4 repeat orgs$474k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
10

Total granted

$1.4M
$435k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+13%

Still filing today

100%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionPhilanthropyEducationHuman ServicesOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • FF
    FAMILY FAITH AND FREEDOM FOUNDATION
    8× · 2018–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +5%
  • CI
    CONGRESO IBEROAMERICANO POR LA VIDA Y LA FAMILIA INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $40k · revenue -41% · 38% of their budget
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    3× · 2019–2024 · $36k · revenue +151%

Funded once

  • HS
    HOME SCHOOL LEGAL DEFENSE ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2021 · $291k · revenue +1%
  • IS
    IRF SECRETARIAT
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -47%
  • FS
    FSI-FREEDOM SEEKERS INTERNATIONALgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue +31%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
More International Ministries

To spread the gospel of jesus christ through crusades

Religion
2
Global Faith Network
Human Services
3
Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry Inc

To glorify god by equipping the church with proper christian doctrine and to help non-believers come to a saving knowledge of jesus christ.

4
Congressional Prayer Caucus Foundation

Protecting the public expression of prayer and faith in God; communicating the constitutional truths that establish America's freedom; sustaining and equipping leaders who believe in prayer and uphold Judeo-Christian principles.

Religion
5
National Council for Religious Freedom

The organizaton is an ecumenical coalition of america's faith leaders committed to defending all americans' constitutionally protected right to religious freedom.

Religion
6
Breaker of Dawn Ministries

Ministry: to bring supernatural unity of the presence of the Lord to the Body of Christ.

Religion
7
Freedom Church

Religion

Religion
8
Jesus Ministries International

Promote christian religion through conferences and group meetings.

Religion
9
Gods Promise Ministries International

Religious Purposes

Housing & Shelter
10
The Presidential Prayer Team

We are a national ministry dedicated to a focused mission of encouraging, inspiring, and practicing prayer on behalf of our President, Nations Leaders, and our Troops. We also seek to be a catalyst in the development of a robust prayer…

Religion
11
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

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…

12
Family Research Council

The family research council's primary exempt purpose is to reaffirm and promote nationally, and particularly in washington, dc, the traditional family unit and the judeo-christian value system upon which it is built. frc's activities in…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Day of Prayer Task Force and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
7/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FAMILY FAITH AND FREEDOM FOUNDATION — $1,315,000 · PhilanthropyFAMILY FAITH AND FREEDOM FOUNDATION+1 more — $6,000 · PhilanthropyHOME SCHOOL LEGAL DEFENSE ASSOCIATION — $290,528 · OtherHOME SCHOOL LEGAL D…WOMEN IMPACTING THE NATION INC — $15,000 · Other+3 more — $18,000 · Other+3 moreIRF SECRETARIAT — $50,000 · ReligionIRF SECRE…SAMARITAN'S PURSE — $35,837 · ReligionSAMARITAN…DAVID'S TENT USA INC — $20,000 · ReligionDAVID'S T…National Hispanic Pastors Alliance — $15,000 · ReligionNational …THE JOSHUA FUND — $10,000 · ReligionTHE JOSHU…PARLIAMENT & FAITH USA INTERNATIONAL INC — $10,000 · ReligionPARLIAMEN…SEMILLA INC — $9,500 · ReligionSEMILLA I…+1 more — $5,000 · ReligionCONGRESO IBEROAMERICANO POR LA VIDA Y LA FAMILIA INC — $40,000 · EducationDouglass Leadership Institute Inc — $10,000 · EducationFSI-FREEDOM SEEKERS INTERNATIONAL — $35,000 · Human Services
Philanthropy$1,321,000Other$323,528Religion$155,337Education$50,000Human Services$35,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFAMILY FAITH AND FREEDOM FOUNDATION — $1,315,000 over 8y, 19% of budgetHOME SCHOOL LEGAL DEFENSE ASSOCIATION — $290,528 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetIRF SECRETARIAT — $50,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCONGRESO IBEROAMERICANO POR LA VIDA Y LA FAMILIA INC — $40,000 over 4y, 38% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $35,837 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFSI-FREEDOM SEEKERS INTERNATIONAL — $35,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetDAVID'S TENT USA INC — $20,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetNational Hispanic Pastors Alliance — $15,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetDouglass Leadership Institute Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE JOSHUA FUND — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty — $5,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetNATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER TASK FORCE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOALITIONS FOR AMERICA — $5,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Christian Community Foundation IncCO12.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Family Research Council funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 30%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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