California · Private foundation
Good Friend Ministry
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $47k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $4,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $29,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 7
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $707k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Good Friend Ministry funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 7 | $47k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $37k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $28k | 43% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $23k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $17k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $25k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $18k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $20k | 20% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Silk Wave Mission | $45,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Last Runners Inc | $31,000 | 8 | 10% |
| Jesusonline Ministries | $23,000 | 6 | 0% |
| SEED International Inc | $13,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Mtc Ministry | $13,000 | 4 | 7% |
| Pacific Justice Institute | $5,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Navigators | $100 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($102k), not named here.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
How this is measured
About Good Friend Ministry
- How much does Good Friend Ministry give?
- Good Friend Ministry reported 7 grants totaling $47,100 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 7 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Good Friend Ministry fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (96%), Civil Rights (2%), Crime & Legal (0%).
- Who are Good Friend Ministry's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Silk Wave Mission ($45k), Last Runners Inc ($31k), Jesusonline Ministries ($23k).
- Does Good Friend Ministry fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Good Friend Ministry accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Good Friend Ministry?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc.
- Where is Good Friend Ministry based?
- Good Friend Ministry is based in CA.
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