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Freedom for Faith Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$160k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Civil Rights$85kInternational$54kEducation$50kReligion$45kHuman Services$34kFood & Nutrition$30kCrime & Legal$21kPublic Benefit$17kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $62k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $98k
$8,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN CORNERSTONE INSTITUTE$20,000
AMERICAN FAMILY ASSOC$18,000
CARE$16,000
ST JUDES CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$12,000
JUDICIAL WATCH$12,000
LIVE ACTION$10,000
ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM$10,000
FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL$9,000
40 DAYS FOR LIFE$8,000
LIFE LEGAL DEFENSE FDN$8,000
CREATED EQUAL$8,000
FEEDING AMERICA$8,000
HOPE RISES INTERNATIONAL$5,000
UNICEF$4,000
D JAMES KENNEDY MINISTRIES$4,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%DEEPWOOD FDN: $1k → 9%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $9k → 14%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $8k → 14%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ND
IL
NY
IN
OH
PA
RI
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC
MS
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$345k · 31 repeat orgs$39k to everyone else

31 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
25

Total granted

$345k
$34k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+35%

Still filing today

48%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’24’25
ReligionCivil RightsFood & NutritionEducationInternationalPublic BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM
    4× · 2020–2025 · $38k · revenue +84%
  • AC
    AMERICAN CORNERSTONE INSTITUTE INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $27k · revenue +42%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $26k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSEgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +83%
  • CN
    Care Netgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +35%
  • PH
    PROJECT HOPE FOR HOMELESS
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Blue Letter Bible

The specific purpose of this corporation is to present a biblical, christian ministry of the gospel, hope, encouragement and strength to as many people as possible. the intent of those who will conduct this corporation's work is to present…

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2
Biglife International Inc

Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.

Recreation & Sports
3
Bibleproject

Bibleproject's mission is to help people experience the bible as a unified story that leads to jesus. this is achieved by creating biblical videos to be regularly released on a newly-created youtube channel. (continued on schedule o.)each…

Religion
4
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
5
Global Media Outreach

Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.

Religion
6
Jewish Voice Ministries Intl

To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…

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7
Global Outreach International Inc

To get the good news to every nation this generation by showing and sharing god's love by providing opportunities and supporting christian missionaries in over fifty seven countries around the world.

International
8
Mission Without Borders International

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…

International
9
Catholic Answers Inc

Catholic answers is an apostolate dedicated to serving christ by bringing the fullness of catholic truth to the world. we help good catholics become better catholics, bring former catholics home, and lead non-catholics into the fullness of…

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10
Walk Thru the Bible Ministries Inc

Walk thru the bible (wtb) ignites passion for god's word. by developing a global network of influential pastors and leaders and then resourcing them with tools and training, wtb fulfills its role in the great commission.

Religion
11
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

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…

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12
Life International

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.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc; the most unlike its peers is Madison Food Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 57 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/31
Grantees still filing
18/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HEARTBEAT INTERNATIONAL: $14,000 · OtherHEARTBEAT INTERNATIONALST JUDES CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $13,000 · OtherST JUDES CHILDREN'S HOSPITALLIVE ACTION: $10,500 · OtherLIVE ACTIONCOMPASSION: $10,000 · OtherCOMPASSIONLIVING ON THE EDGE: $10,000 · OtherLIVING ON THE EDGEFEED THE HUNGRY CORPORATION: $8,000 · OtherFEED THE HUNGRY CORPORATIONBILLY GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSOC: $6,500 · OtherCITY MISSION: $6,000 · OtherHOPE RISES INTERNATIONAL: $5,000 · OtherFeeding America: $13,000 · OtherFeeding AmericaSaving Moses: $5,500 · Other+21 more: $29,694 · Other+21 moreAMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION INC: $26,000 · ReligionAMERICAN FAMILY ASSO…Coral Ridge Ministries Media Inc: $16,500 · ReligionCoral Ridge Ministri…REFORM AMERICA: $13,000 · ReligionREFORM AMERICASAMARITAN'S PURSE: $5,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSEAMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY: $3,500 · ReligionBIBLICA INC: $3,000 · Religion+4 more: $4,085 · Religion+4 moreALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $38,000 · Civil RightsALLIANCE DEFENDING …LIFE LEGAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION: $19,000 · Civil RightsLIFE LEGAL DEFENSE …Care Net: $5,000 · Civil RightsCare Net+2 more: $4,000 · Civil Rights+2 moreAMERICAN CORNERSTONE INSTITUTE INC: $27,000 · EducationAMERICAN CORNE…40 DAYS FOR LIFE: $22,500 · Education40 DAYS FOR LI…+1 more: $500 · EducationCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $17,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $5,000 · InternationalFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $3,000 · InternationalFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $22,000 · Human ServicesDEEPWOOD FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Human ServicesJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $17,000 · Public Benefit+1 more: $500 · Public Benefit
Other$131,194Religion$71,085Civil Rights$66,000Education$50,000International$25,000Human Services$23,000Public Benefit$17,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $38,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CORNERSTONE INSTITUTE INC: $27,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION INC: $26,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budget40 DAYS FOR LIFE: $22,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $22,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLIFE LEGAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION: $19,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $17,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $17,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCoral Ridge Ministries Media Inc: $16,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding America: $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetREFORM AMERICA: $13,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSaving Moses: $5,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCare Net: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIBLICA INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBibles For The World: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStudents for Life of America Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEEPWOOD FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMADISON FOOD CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetLamb & Lion Ministries Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAT-7 NORTH AMERICA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS MORE SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCORRIE TEN BOOM FELLOWSHIP: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSusan B Anthony List Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTCT MINISTRIES INC: $85 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CORNERSTONE INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds 40 DAYS FOR LIFE ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds LIFE LEGAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
  • Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
  • Who funds Coral Ridge Ministries Media Inc ↗
  • Who funds Feeding America ↗
  • Who funds REFORM AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds Saving Moses ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
  • Who funds Care Net ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds BIBLICA INC ↗
  • Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds Bibles For The World ↗
  • Who funds FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Students for Life of America Inc ↗
  • Who funds DEEPWOOD FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Raymond James Charita…Natl Christian Charit…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Raymond James Charitable Endowment FundFL10.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Freedom for Faith Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Freedom for Faith Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Freedom for Faith Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Freedom for Faith Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 57 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home