· Private foundation
Foster Family Charitable Trust
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, FY2022 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $266k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $592k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| John 316 Ministry | $148,000 |
| John 317 Ministry | $127,900 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| Educational Media Foundation | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $63,000 |
| Olyphant Church of Christ | $53,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| Camp Wyldewood | $40,000 |
| New Hope Refuge | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| UAMS | $25,000 |
| Sweetwater Church of Christ | $16,000 |
| MCA (Montessori Christian Academy) | $12,800 |
| First Baptist Church of Batesville | $11,000 |
| Rise Recovery St louis | $11,000 |
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, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
21 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 16 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $148k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CWCAMP WYLDEWOOD INC3× · 2022–2025 · $90k · revenue +7%
- NHNew Hope Refuge2× · 2024–2025 · $60k · revenue +13%
- FUFAULKNER UNIVERSITY2× · 2022–2024 · $5k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- J3JOHN 316one grant, 2022 · $245k
- J3JOHN 317one grant, 2022 · $153k
- NHNEW HOPE MINISTRYone grant, 2022 · $42k
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.
Christian family media ministries, inc operates as christian family radio and has a mission of showcasting god's glory through your story with life changing media.
Teach the Gospel
The ministry emphasizes, encourages, and promotes the gospel of jesus christ through television broadcasting. it telecasts bible teachings programs and inspiriational proggrams.
To serve christian ministries and individuals in their pursuit of a christian education.
Operation of private christian school
Church
Educating students
Christian Radio Broadcast
Minister for the lord jesus christ
Christian Radio Station
Christian institution of higher learning dedicated to the exploration, discernment, sustentation, and dissemination of god's truth. midwest is committed to excellence in education encouraging students to comprehensively consider god's word…
Operation of spiritual camps and retreats; christian mission programs.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 69 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 EDUCATIONAL MEDIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMP WYLDEWOOD INC ↗
- Who funds DAUGHTERS OF THE OTHERSIDE ↗
- Who funds New Hope Refuge ↗
- Who funds MONTESSORI CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ALPHA PREGNANCY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CROWLEY'S RIDGE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WORLD CHANGERS STUDENT MISSIONS INC ↗
- Who funds FAULKNER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds OUR FATHERS TABLE ↗
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 · 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 Foster Family Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Foster Family Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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