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Frontlines International Operations Inc

Frontlines exists so that all persecuted christians experience the support of the worldwide body of christ

$2.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$339k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Religion$2.6MEducation$71kEmployment$19k
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $825,464, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,306,091 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,480,627 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

  • Under $10k1 grant · $10k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $223k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $254k
  • $250k+1 grant · $339k
$38,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JUBAL BAND MINISTRIES$339,250
DIGITAL BIBLE SOCIETY$153,969
UNITED BIBLE SOCIETIES ASSOC INC$100,070
LAKEVIEW BAPTIST CHURCH$49,275
PUYALLUP COMMUNITY BAPTIST CHURCH$38,000
BRAINARD BAPTIST CHURCH$38,000
GRACE FELLOWSHIP OF SOUTH FORSYTH I$31,800
BIBLICAL MINISTRIES WORLDWIDE$24,000
MIDDLE EAST BIBLE OUTREACH$23,100
CROSSROADS AT LAKE STEVENS$18,500
NORTHSIDE BAPTIST CHURCH$9,500
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 (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 39% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%JUBAL BAND MINISTRIES: $451k → 5%DIGITAL BIBLE SOCIETY: $234k → 9%NORTHSIDE BAPTIST CHURCH: $10k → 11%UNITED BIBLE SOCIETIES ASSOC INC: $351k → 15%LAKEVIEW BAPTIST CHURCH: $148k → 15%BRAINARD BAPTIST CHURCH: $38k → 12%GRACE FELLOWSHIP OF SOUTH FORSYTH I: $73k → 4%BIBLICAL MINISTRIES WORLDWIDE: $24k → 9%LSESD MINISTRIES: $71k → 14%CROSSROADS AT LAKE STEVENS: $19k → 9%PUYALLUP COMMUNITY BAPTIST CHURCH: $38k → 9%JUBAL BAND MINISTRIES: $339k → 5%DIGITAL BIBLE SOCIETY: $154k → 9%UNITED BIBLE SOCIETIES ASSOC INC: $244k → 15%LAKEVIEW BAPTIST CHURCH: $49k → 15%GRACE FELLOWSHIP OF SOUTH FORSYTH I: $38k → 4%MIDDLE EAST BIBLE OUTREACH: $23k → 14%JUBAL BAND MINISTRIES: $195k → 5%DIGITAL BIBLE SOCIETY: $38k → 9%UNITED BIBLE SOCIETIES ASSOC INC: $100k → 15%GRACE FELLOWSHIP OF SOUTH FORSYTH I: $32k → 4%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

WA
TN
SC
OK
AL
GA
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region: $1.4M on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 4 regions, $996k to organizations and $444k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Middle East and North Africa$741k · 51% · 9 grants · 15 people

Stated purpose: SED & BIBLE DISTRIB · CHRISTIAN TRAINING · ADVOCACY

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$502k · 35% · 6 grants

Stated purpose: CHURCH SUPPORT · SED · BIBLE DISTRIBUTION

South Asia$167k · 12% · 1 grant · 8 people

Stated purpose: MISSIONARY SUPPORT · BIBLE DISTRIBUTION · CHRISTIAN TRAINING

Russia and Neighboring States$30k · 2% · 2 people

Stated purpose: BIBLE DISTRIBUTION · CHURCH SUPPORT

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 6 repeat orgs$188k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +92% since the first grant, against -16% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
1

Total granted

$2.5M
$60k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+92%
-16%

Still filing today

67%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $128k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
ReligionEducationOther
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

  • JB
    JUBAL BAND MINISTRIES
    3× · 2022–2024 · $985k · revenue -4% · 34% of their budget
  • UB
    UNITED BIBLE SOCIETIES ASSOCIATION INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $695k · revenue -5%
  • DB
    Digital Bible Society
    3× · 2022–2024 · $426k · revenue +221%

Funded once

  • TL
    TERRY LAW MINISTRIES INC
    one grant, 2023 · $60k · revenue -16%
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
04the grantee network

5 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

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 2024, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 5 of the 12 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/5
Grantees still filing
2/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JUBAL BAND MINISTRIES: $984,974 · ReligionJUBAL BAND MINISTRIESUNITED BIBLE SOCIETIES ASSOCIATION INC: $694,999 · ReligionUNITED BIBLE SOCIETIES ASSOCIATION INCDigital Bible Society: $425,516 · ReligionDigital Bible SocietyLAKEVIEW BAPTIST CHURCH: $197,475 · OtherLAKEVIEW BAPTIST CHUR…GRACE FELLOWSHIP OF SOUTH FORSYTH: $142,800 · OtherGRACE FELLOWSHIP OF S…TERRY LAW MINISTRIES INC: $60,000 · OtherTERRY LAW MINISTRIES …BRAINERD HILLS BAPTIST CHURCH: $38,000 · OtherBRAINERD HILLS BAPTIS…CHRIST COMMUNITY BAPTIST CHURCH: $38,000 · OtherCHRIST COMMUNITY BAPT…BIBLICAL MINISTRIES WORLDWIDE INC: $24,000 · OtherTHE CROSSROADS AT LAKE STEVENS: $18,500 · Other+1 more: $9,500 · OtherMIDDLE EAST BIBLE OUTREACH: $94,370 · Education
Religion$2,105,489Other$528,275Education$94,370

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJUBAL BAND MINISTRIES: $984,974 over 3y, 34% of budgetUNITED BIBLE SOCIETIES ASSOCIATION INC: $694,999 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetDigital Bible Society: $425,516 over 3y, 12% of budgetMIDDLE EAST BIBLE OUTREACH: $94,370 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetTERRY LAW MINISTRIES INC: $60,000 over 1y, 2.3% 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 JUBAL BAND MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds UNITED BIBLE SOCIETIES ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Digital Bible Society ↗
  • Who funds MIDDLE EAST BIBLE OUTREACH ↗
  • Who funds TERRY LAW MINISTRIES INC ↗

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 IncGA12× affinity9 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Frontlines International Operations Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Frontlines International Operations Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%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
    1get 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 · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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 12 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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