· Public charity
First Fruits Ministry Inc
To sponsor religious missionary work in the united states and abroad and to donate to charities described in code section 170 (b) (1) (a) (vi).
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.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $83k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MISC GRANTS LESS THAN 5000 | $39,900 |
| CAMPUS CRUSADE | $17,500 |
| SOUTH TULSA BAPTIST CHURCH | $14,100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,500 |
| E3 PARTNERS | $8,100 |
| BCM TULSA UNIVERSITY | $7,000 |
| STUDENT MOBILIZATION | $6,400 |
| IN HIS IMAGE | $5,600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,300 |
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 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Grants abroad, by region: $74k on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 4 regions, $2k to organizations and $71k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: SPONSOR RELIGIOUS MISSIONARY WORK
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How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MGMISC GRANTS LESS THAN 50008× · 2018–2025 · $497k
- CCCAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST INC8× · 2018–2025 · $174k
- SMSTUDENT MOBILIZATION INC8× · 2017–2025 · $116k
Funded once
- YYSACone grant, 2017 · $23k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $23k
- CCCAMPUS CRUSADEone grant, 2017 · $14k
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.
5 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. 5 of the 25 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 Fruits Ministry Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from First Fruits Ministry Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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