· Public charity
Friends of the Great Commission
Provide donation, administrative, bookkeeping & compliance services to agents conducting ministry work.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 4 grants below total $1,291,784 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $5,328,785 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $4,037,001 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k3 grants · $77k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Elijah Fellowship | $1,215,000 |
| Hope of Africa | $30,918 |
| Ezra Institute | $25,866 |
| Carey International Pastoral Training | $20,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 13% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
Grants abroad, by region — $3.8M on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 9 regions, $3.7M to organizations and $164k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: To fund designated ministries · Support for designated Ministries
Stated purpose: To fund designated ministries · Support for designated Ministries
Stated purpose: To fund designated ministries · Support for designated Ministries
Stated purpose: To fund designated ministries
Stated purpose: To fund designated ministries · Support for designated Ministries
Stated purpose: To fund designated ministries · Support for designated Ministries
Stated purpose: To fund designated ministries · Support for designated Ministries
Stated purpose: To fund designated ministries
Stated purpose: To fund designated ministries
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
5 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 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, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- CICarey International Pastoral Training USA5× · 2020–2024 · $155k · revenue +152%
- DPDECISION POINT MINISTRIES2× · 2021–2022 · $127k · revenue +34%
- YLYOUNG LIFE2× · 2021–2022 · $49k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- GCGreat Commission Media Ministries-USAgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $80k · revenue +80%
- PPIONEERSone grant, 2023 · $37k
- SCSHALOM CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INCone grant, 2023 · $17k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Crossing Cultures International, Inc. exists to glorify God by equipping Christ followers globally with comprehensive training for effective ministry.
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.
The distribution of Talking Bibles worldwide in as many different languages as possible.
Raise Up Global Ministries is committed to educating Christian leaders in communities around the world. The three programs of Raise Up equip the global church by 1 Developing biblically based interactive materials and 2 Training…
Equip ministries trains overseas pastors and leaders, empowers the church, provides humanitarian aid, and attempts to reach the unreached peoples around the world by working with church leaders to fulfil
To provide biblical counseling and counseling training for missionaires and local church leaders in the country of their ministry, on site and via electronic mediums.
Leadership Revolution is a ministry founded to develop leaders globally who will spread the gospel and make disciples in their arena of influence.
To present the gospel of Jesus Christ to unreached people groups. Equipping pastors and leaders in foreign lands to promote the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Heart Bridge International exists to equip and empower Christians around the world to fulfill the Great Commission. The organization provides free ministry training, discipleship resources, and practical coaching to under-resourced…
Training pastors in third world countries
Supporing missionaries worldwide
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life and the most unlike its peers is Carey International Pastoral Training Usa. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 11 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Royal Corporation ↗
- Who funds Carey International Pastoral Training USA ↗
- Who funds DECISION POINT MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds HOPE OF AFRICA INC ↗
- Who funds Great Commission Media Ministries-USA ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds EZRA INSTITUTE USA INC ↗
- Who funds Christian News & Information Inst Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Friends of the Great Commission funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.