· Public charity
First Baptist Church Foundation of Laurel
To provide grants to schools for scholarships for various ministerial students and other christian causes
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $64k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WILLIAM CAREY UNIVERSITY | $34,800 |
| NEW ORLEANS BAPTIST THEOLOGIC | $17,334 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| MISSISSIPPI COLLEGE | $9,800 |
| SOUTHEASTERN BAPTIST COLLEGE | $7,500 |
| BLUE MOUNTAIN COLLEGE | $6,000 |
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 (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 23%. 0% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WCWilliam Carey University8× · 2018–2025 · $165k · revenue +81%
- SBSOUTHEASTERN BAPTIST COLLEGE INC7× · 2018–2025 · $70k · revenue +149%
- BMBLUE MOUNTAIN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY8× · 2018–2025 · $48k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $8k
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.
4 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. 4 of the 7 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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization First Baptist Church Foundation of Laurel funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from First Baptist Church Foundation of Laurel. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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