· Private foundation
First Fruit Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k37 grants · $208k
- $10k–50k50 grants · $829k
- $50k–250k18 grants · $1.8M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIFE IN ABUNDANCE INTERNATIONAL | $500,000 |
| RECONCILED WORLD | $330,000 |
| STRATEGIC GLOBAL ASSISTANCE INC | $255,000 |
| ELAM MINISTRIES | $200,000 |
| VILLAGE SCHOOLS INTERNATIONAL | $200,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL GENEROSITY FOUNDATION | $160,776 |
| EVERY GENERATION MINISTRIES | $125,000 |
| THORNSTON EDUCATIONAL FUND | $118,000 |
| NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION | $116,250 |
| DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATES INTERNATIONAL | $100,000 |
| REDEEM INTERNATIONAL | $100,000 |
| FAR EAST BROADCASTING COMPANY | $100,000 |
| INSTITUTE OF CHINESE STUDIES | $90,000 |
| ALPHA USA | $80,000 |
| LIFENET INTERNATIONAL | $77,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $623k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 43% of those 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 12% of First Fruit Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 16% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 12%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.
112 repeat relationships: 45 still active in FY2024, 67 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $841k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NCNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $1.9M · revenue ×103
- NGNEW GENERATIONS4× · 2020–2023 · $737k · revenue +42%
- DADevelopment Assoc International4× · 2020–2024 · $629k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- TBTheological Book Networkone grant, 2022 · $110k · revenue +9%
- IFInstitute for Global Engagementone grant, 2020 · $90k · revenue -32%
- AHAl Hayat Ministriesgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue +35%
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.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…
Religious
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…
Crossing Cultures International, Inc. exists to glorify God by equipping Christ followers globally with comprehensive training for effective ministry.
Reaching and teaching pastors in the majority world.
Heart Bridge International exists to equip and empower Christians around the world to fulfill the Great Commission. The organization provides free ministry training, discipleship resources, and practical coaching to under-resourced…
Serving and pastoring overseas workers on their own turf and equipping nationals by training and empowering them in their work of advancing the gospel.
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
Raise Up Global Ministries is committed to educating Christian leaders in communities around the world. The three programs of Raise Up equip the global church by 1 Developing biblically based interactive materials and 2 Training…
The organizations mission is the support, training, and equipping of Christian missionaries to Asia, the Middle East, and Africa
With a desire to see the Gospel proclaimed in all nations, we exist to make and multiply disciples of the next generation through the vehicles of church-planting missions and missional leadership training.
How this is measured
173 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 173 of the 232 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW GENERATIONS ↗
- Who funds Development Assoc International ↗
- Who funds LAUSANNE COMMITTEE FOR WORLD EVANGELIZATION ↗
- Who funds VSI ↗
- Who funds NEW INDIA EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds RECONCILED WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds CURE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds CHALMERS CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds FAR EAST BROADCASTING COMPANY ↗
- Who funds EVERY GENERATION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds LIFENET INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Luis Palau Association ↗
- Who funds Redeem International ↗
- Who funds Christian Alliance for Orphans ↗
- Who funds STRATEGIC GLOBAL ASSISTANCE INC ↗
- Who funds VIVA NETWORK - NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds PROJECT MERCY INC ↗
- Who funds Alpha USA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SAIACS ↗
- Who funds THORNSTON EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF CHINESE STUDIES ↗
- Who funds Elam Ministries ↗
- Who funds Helping Children Worldwide Inc ↗
- Who funds Horizons International ↗
- Who funds Kids Alive International Inc ↗
- Who funds Heart for Lebanon Foundation ↗
- Who funds Scholar Leaders International ↗
- Who funds THE VERITAS FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds LANGHAM PARTNERSHIP USA INC NFP ↗
- Who funds SINAPIS GROUP 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: International Generosity Foundation Trust · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · Tyndale House Ministries · G II Charities · Henry P & Susan C Crowell Trust · Gordon Christian Trust · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Summit Foundation · Servant Foundation · The Harry J Lloyd Charitable Trust · The Signatry Charitable Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization First Fruit Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from First Fruit Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Medical Teams International: 14% of income from government
How this is measured
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