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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 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, FY2018 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $224,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $348,707 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $124,207 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
PARLIAMENT AND FAITH USA INTERNATIONAL INC$10,000
CIVF - USA$10,000
THE JOSHUA FUND$10,000
DOUGLASS LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE$10,000
SEMILLA INC$9,500
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.

show:

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

area typical 7%Well Versed: $8k → 11%DAVID'S TENT USA: $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 Inc: $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
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.

Which US states its grants reach

NJ
CA
CO
VA
MD
NC
DC
TX
FL
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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • 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 +120%

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%
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
More International Ministries

To spread the gospel of jesus christ through crusades

Religion
2
Global Faith Network
Human Services
3
Breaker of Dawn Ministries

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

Religion
4
Gods Promise Ministries International

Religious Purposes

Housing & Shelter
5
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
6
Jesus Ministries International

Promote christian religion through conferences and group meetings.

Religion
7
Filipino Cursillos in Christianity La
Religion
8
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.

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9
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
10
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
11
Instituto De Estudios Teologicos

Conference

Education
12
Evangelism Partners International
Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Day of Prayer Task Force; the most unlike its peers is National Hispanic Pastors Alliance. 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 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. 16 of the 18 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetTHE JOSHUA FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDouglass Leadership Institute Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCOALITIONS FOR AMERICA: $5,000 over 1y, 6.5% 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 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Christian Community F…Natl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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 Family Research Council funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Family Research Council. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%10%23%40%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
    3get no government money at all
    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 18 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 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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