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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
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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.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
ReligionPhilanthropyHealthYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving4$1.3M50%
FY20235$159k80%
FY20225$410k20%
FY20214$198k75%
FY20201$25kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Religion$1.5MYouth Development$315kPhilanthropy$127kHealth$106kArts & Culture$7k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
MN
IL
CA
CO
VA
DE
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Elijah Fellowship$1,215,0001n/a
Royal Corporation$266,026217%
Carey International Pastoral Training USA$154,719525%
Decision Point Ministries$126,91423%
Hope of Africa Inc$105,561213%
Great Commission Media Ministries-USA$80,000112%
Young Life$49,01320%
Pioneers$36,7521n/a
Ezra Institute USA Inc$25,86611%
Shalom Christian Ministries Inc$17,4091n/a
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All grantees of Friends of the Great Commission by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Elijah Fellowship$1,215,0001n/a
Royal Corporation$266,026217%
Carey International Pastoral Training USA$154,719525%
Decision Point Ministries$126,91423%
Hope of Africa Inc$105,561213%
Great Commission Media Ministries-USA$80,000112%
Young Life$49,01320%
Pioneers$36,7521n/a
Ezra Institute USA Inc$25,86611%
Shalom Christian Ministries Inc$17,4091n/a
Christian News & Information Inst Inc$7,45018%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Friends of the Great Commission supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRoyal Corporation: $266,026 over 2y, 17% of budgetCarey International Pastoral Training USA: $154,719 over 5y, 25% of budgetDecision Point Ministries: $126,914 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetHope of Africa Inc: $105,561 over 2y, 13% of budgetGreat Commission Media Ministries-USA: $80,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetYoung Life: $49,013 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEzra Institute USA Inc: $25,866 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetChristian News & Information Inst Inc: $7,450 over 1y, 8.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA8.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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.

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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.

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 11 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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