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Friends of the Great Commission

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$5.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$1.2M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $1,291,784, the rows itemized in this filing. The $5,328,785 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $4,037,001 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $77k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.2M
$30,918
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Elijah Fellowship$1,215,000
Hope of Africa$30,918
Ezra Institute$25,866
Carey International Pastoral Training$20,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 13% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Elijah Fellowship: $1.2M → 10%Great Commission Media Ministries: $80k → 14%National School Project: $99k → 14%Shalom Christian Ministries: $17k → 18%Ezra Institute: $26k → 10%Pioneers: $37k → 13%Lincoln City Young Life: $25k → 9%Camp Royal: $141k → 10%Carey International Pastoral Training: $65k → 6%Global News Alliance: $7k → 10%National School Project: $28k → 14%Lincoln City Young Life: $24k → 9%Camp Royal: $125k → 10%Carey International Pastoral Training: $25k → 6%Carey International Pastoral Training: $23k → 6%Carey International Pastoral Training: $22k → 6%Carey International Pastoral Training: $20k → 6%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

MT
MN
IL
CA
CO
VA
DE
TX
FL

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.

North America (Canada and Mexico)$1.6M · 43% · 47 grants · 21 people

Stated purpose: To fund designated ministries · Support for designated Ministries

South Asia$1.3M · 33% · 45 grants · 2 people

Stated purpose: To fund designated ministries · Support for designated Ministries

Sub-Saharan Africa$510k · 13% · 14 grants · 3 people

Stated purpose: To fund designated ministries · Support for designated Ministries

Central America and the Caribbean$98k · 3% · 5 grants

Stated purpose: To fund designated ministries

East Asia and the Pacific$98k · 3% · 2 grants · 1 person

Stated purpose: To fund designated ministries · Support for designated Ministries

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$88k · 2% · 3 grants · 3 people

Stated purpose: To fund designated ministries · Support for designated Ministries

Middle East and North Africa$68k · 2% · 2 grants · 3 people

Stated purpose: To fund designated ministries · Support for designated Ministries

Russia and Neighboring States$51k · 1% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: To fund designated ministries

South America$11k · 0% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: To fund designated ministries

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. 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

34%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$702k · 5 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
4

Total granted

$702k
$142k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+80%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentHealthArts & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CI
    Carey International Pastoral Training USA
    5× · 2020–2024 · $155k · revenue +152%
  • DP
    DECISION POINT MINISTRIES
    2× · 2021–2022 · $127k · revenue +34%
  • YL
    YOUNG LIFE
    2× · 2021–2022 · $49k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • GC
    Great Commission Media Ministries-USAgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $80k · revenue +80%
  • P
    PIONEERS
    one grant, 2023 · $37k
  • SC
    SHALOM CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC
    one grant, 2023 · $17k
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
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
2
Crossing Cultures International Inc

Crossing Cultures International, Inc. exists to glorify God by equipping Christ followers globally with comprehensive training for effective ministry.

Religion
3
Raise Up Global Ministries

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…

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4
Global Gospel Initiative Inc
Religion
5
Training Pastors International

Training pastors in third world countries

Religion
6
Discover Your Mission Inc

Supporing missionaries worldwide

Religion
7
Global City Missions Initiative Incorporated

Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…

Religion
8
Heart Bridge International

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…

Religion
9
Competent to Counsel International

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.

Religion
10
Greater Reach Inc

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.

Religion
11
Talking Bibles International

The distribution of Talking Bibles worldwide in as many different languages as possible.

Religion
12
Leadership Revolution Inc

Leadership Revolution is a ministry founded to develop leaders globally who will spread the gospel and make disciples in their arena of influence.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life; 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.
04the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 11 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ELIJAH FELLOWSHIP: $1,215,000 · OtherELIJAH FELLOWSHIP+2 more: $54,161 · OtherRoyal Corporation: $266,026 · ReligionRoyal CorporationCarey International Pastoral Training USA: $154,719 · ReligionCarey International Pastoral…Great Commission Media Ministries-USA: $80,000 · ReligionGreat Commission Media Minis…EZRA INSTITUTE USA INC: $25,866 · ReligionDECISION POINT MINISTRIES: $126,914 · PhilanthropyHOPE OF AFRICA INC: $105,561 · HealthYOUNG LIFE: $49,013 · Youth DevelopmentChristian News & Information Inst Inc: $7,450 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,269,161Religion$526,611Philanthropy$126,914Health$105,561Youth Development$49,013Arts & Culture$7,450

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

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
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.

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 Charit…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Friends of the Great Commission funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Friends of the Great Commission. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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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