Colorado · Public charity
Friends of the Great Commission
Provide donation, administrative, bookkeeping & compliance services to agents conducting ministry work. FGC achieves its mission by collaborating with agents with similar missions & goals & providing needed services so agents can focus their time & energy on ministry.
- $5.3M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 4
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 80%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $1.3M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $30,918
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,215,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 5
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.3M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 80% of the organizations Friends of the Great Commission funded were first-time grantees, receiving 85% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $136k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 4 | $1.3M | 50% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $159k | 80% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $410k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $198k | 75% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $25k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elijah Fellowship | $1,215,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Royal Corporation | $266,026 | 2 | 17% |
| Carey International Pastoral Training USA | $154,719 | 5 | 25% |
| Decision Point Ministries | $126,914 | 2 | 3% |
| Hope of Africa Inc | $105,561 | 2 | 13% |
| Great Commission Media Ministries-USA | $80,000 | 1 | 12% |
| Young Life | $49,013 | 2 | 0% |
| Pioneers | $36,752 | 1 | n/a |
| Ezra Institute USA Inc | $25,866 | 1 | 1% |
| Shalom Christian Ministries Inc | $17,409 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elijah Fellowship | $1,215,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Royal Corporation | $266,026 | 2 | 17% |
| Carey International Pastoral Training USA | $154,719 | 5 | 25% |
| Decision Point Ministries | $126,914 | 2 | 3% |
| Hope of Africa Inc | $105,561 | 2 | 13% |
| Great Commission Media Ministries-USA | $80,000 | 1 | 12% |
| Young Life | $49,013 | 2 | 0% |
| Pioneers | $36,752 | 1 | n/a |
| Ezra Institute USA Inc | $25,866 | 1 | 1% |
| Shalom Christian Ministries Inc | $17,409 | 1 | n/a |
| Christian News & Information Inst Inc | $7,450 | 1 | 8% |
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Friends of the Great Commission 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 · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Friends of the Great Commission
- How much does Friends of the Great Commission give?
- Friends of the Great Commission reported 4 itemized grants totaling $1,291,784, out of $5,328,785 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 5 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Friends of the Great Commission fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (73%), Youth Development (15%), Philanthropy (6%).
- Who are Friends of the Great Commission's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Elijah Fellowship ($1.2M), Royal Corporation ($266k), Carey International Pastoral Training USA ($155k).
- Does Friends of the Great Commission fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 80% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Friends of the Great Commission?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Friends of the Great Commission based?
- Friends of the Great Commission is based in CO.
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