· Private foundation
Fortress Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Young Life | $20,000 |
| 111 Project | $7,500 |
| Alternative Pregnancy Center | $7,500 |
| CRU - Campus Crusade for Christ | $5,000 |
| Open Door Ministries | $5,000 |
| Our Neighborhood Empowered | $5,000 |
| Food & Shelter for Friends | $5,000 |
| Spero Project | $5,000 |
| Calvary Family Churches | $5,000 |
| City Care Homeless Service Project | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 1 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, 93% 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
- YLYOUNG LIFE3× · 2017–2024 · $60k · revenue +59%
- 1I111Project Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $55k · revenue ×21
- APAlternatives Pregnancy Center Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $43k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- SSSHILOH SUMMER CAMP INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +67%
- YLYOUNG LIFE - CLEARWATER COVEone grant, 2018 · $4k
- YLYOUNG LIFE - CIM REGIONone grant, 2018 · $3k
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.
To partner with leaders globally to boldly proclaim the biblical truth of the father's heart for life, champion the gospel of jesus christ, and establish life-giving ministries.
To glorify the Lord Jesus Christ by ministering to orphans around the world by meeting spiritual, physical, emotional, and educational needs.
Redeem's mission is to protect widows and orphans from violent abuse and exploitation.
Life Network provides support and mentoring to women and men facing unexpected pregnancies; offers parenting support, material resources, and referrals; and promotes sexual risk avoidance through education to foster a culture that values…
to spread the gospel to the world by planting and serving churches, training local Christian leaders and to transform the world through prayer,
Our mission is to affirm life through evangelism, education, counseling and practical assistance.
Empowering life-affirming decisions
Empowering Lives International (ELI) ignites world changers. We equip families and orphans to crush poverty, embrace Christ, and share their transformation with others through their God-honoring income, their deepening relationship with…
Provides adoption services to meet the needs of both birth parents and adoptive families placement of domestic and international children with families.
The Womens Pregnancy Center is a Christ-centered ministry designed to engage and inform women in unplanned pregnancies, empowering them to make life-affirming decisions.
Sozo International partners with at-risk families to create a sustainable future and transformed lives through education, health, and economic initiatives.
Love Life is uniting and mobilizing the church to create a culture of love and life that will bring an end to abortion and the orphan crisis.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 27 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 YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds 111Project Inc ↗
- Who funds Alternatives Pregnancy Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THE EDEN CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds Sunhive collective Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SPERO PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds WILLOW SPRINGS BOYS RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds International Christian Concern Inc ↗
- Who funds OUR NEIGHBORHOOD EMPOWERED INC FORMERLY COLE COMMUNITY IMPACT ORG ↗
- Who funds WATER4 INC ↗
- Who funds SHILOH SUMMER CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds Elam Ministries ↗
- Who funds Global Sports Partners 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: Servant Foundation · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Fortress Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fortress Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Global Sports Partners Inc: 78% of income from government
How this is measured
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