· Private foundation
For His Lambs Inc
Its FY2025 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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k7 grants · $138k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $425k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL | $85,000 |
| JONI AND FRIENDS | $85,000 |
| HEART CRY MISSIONARY SOCIETY | $85,000 |
| SAMARITANS PURSE | $85,000 |
| MERCY SHIPS | $85,000 |
| FAMILY COUNCIL | $30,000 |
| HEIDI GROUP | $30,000 |
| BETHANY BIBLE CHURCH | $30,000 |
| GRANDMA'S HOUSE | $12,000 |
| MOUNTAIN HOME FOOD BASKET | $12,000 |
| INTO THE LIGHT | $12,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE5× · 2021–2025 · $458k · revenue +83%
Compassion International Incorporated5× · 2021–2025 · $358k · revenue +16%
Mercy Ships International5× · 2021–2025 · $355k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- GMGRACE MISSIONSone grant, 2022 · $50k
- FBFOOD BANK OF NCAone grant, 2022 · $25k
- SGSOVEREIGN GRACE FELLOWSHIPone grant, 2023 · $12k
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.
Promote christian religion through conferences and group meetings.
Liberty Women's Clinic ministers with the love of Christ by empowering people to make informed, life-affirming decisions about pregnancy, sexual health, and relationships.
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…
Chrisitan activities
Post-abortive and family crisis counseling via small groups, email, and publications; focus is to bring healing and forgiveness in a supportive, Christ-centered environment.
Spread the gospel of jesus christ
Provide assistance to persons in foreign countries
Mobilization of churches in America by taking pastors and laymen on vision and service trips overseas in fulfillment of Jesus command to go ye into all the world, making disciples...
The organization is dedicated to reaching people for christ through an international network of christians who journey with the poor and marginalized, bringing practical and spiritual support with hope of a better future,(continued on…
Christian Ministry focused on providing services to individuals experiencing a crisis pregnancy.
To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.
Religious Travel in US and abroad to share the gospel of Jesus Christ. Church planting. Humanitarian aid (orphanages and feeding stations).
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 19 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.
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds JONI AND FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds FAMILY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Heidi Group ↗
- Who funds INFORMED CHOICES WOMEN'S CENTER OF THE OZARKS INC ↗
- Who funds INTO THE LIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN HOME FOOD BASKET ↗
- Who funds WHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Central Missionary Clearinghouse 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: American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization For His Lambs Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from For His Lambs Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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