Oregon · Private foundation
Foreign Mission Foundation
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.
- $806k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $12,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $465,514
- Organizations funded a year
- 23 to 36
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Foreign Mission Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 20 | $806k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $1.2M | 22% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $1.5M | 15% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $1.5M | 29% |
| FY2021 | 36 | $1.8M | 44% |
| FY2020 | 36 | $1.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Student Churches | $74,250 | 6 | 13% |
| Alpha USA | $31,230 | 6 | 0% |
| California Baptist University | $27,995 | 2 | 0% |
| Spread the Fire Ministries | $20,600 | 1 | n/a |
| Christian Research | $12,920 | 2 | n/a |
| Summit International School of Ministry | $6,615 | 3 | n/a |
| Biola University Inc | $6,517 | 1 | 0% |
| India Partners | $6,412 | 3 | 0% |
| Northwest University | $5,728 | 1 | 0% |
| Kingdom Movement | $5,035 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Student Churches | $74,250 | 6 | 13% |
| Alpha USA | $31,230 | 6 | 0% |
| California Baptist University | $27,995 | 2 | 0% |
| Spread the Fire Ministries | $20,600 | 1 | n/a |
| Christian Research | $12,920 | 2 | n/a |
| Summit International School of Ministry | $6,615 | 3 | n/a |
| Biola University Inc | $6,517 | 1 | 0% |
| India Partners | $6,412 | 3 | 0% |
| Northwest University | $5,728 | 1 | 0% |
| Kingdom Movement | $5,035 | 1 | n/a |
| Rhema for the Nations | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| LeTourneau University | $4,552 | 1 | 0% |
| Grand Canyon University | $4,094 | 1 | 0% |
| Mission Connexion Northwest | $3,600 | 1 | n/a |
| Missions International | $3,367 | 1 | n/a |
| God's Word for the Nations Inc | $3,200 | 1 | 1% |
| The Navigators | $2,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Window International Network | $1,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Tijeras Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Living Hope Fellowship Incorporated | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mission India | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Compassion to Action Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Operation Mobilization | $800 | 1 | n/a |
| Sanctuary Inn Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Countryside Community Church | $300 | 1 | n/a |
| A Jesus Church Family Inc | $165 | 1 | n/a |
| Focus on the Family | $100 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 47 recipients with no EIN on record ($7.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Foreign Mission Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Servant Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Foreign Mission Foundation
- How much does Foreign Mission Foundation give?
- Foreign Mission Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $805,563 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 36 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Foreign Mission Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (46%), Philanthropy (26%), Animals (9%).
- Who are Foreign Mission Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Student Churches ($74k), Alpha USA ($31k), California Baptist University ($28k).
- Does Foreign Mission Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Foreign Mission Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Foreign Mission Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, Servant Foundation, The US Charitable Gift Trust.
- Where is Foreign Mission Foundation based?
- Foreign Mission Foundation is based in OR.
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