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Grounds for Grace Inc
To provide funding to charities in fulfillment of the exempt purposes of national christian charitable foundation, inc.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $173k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $925k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATERS INC | $250,000 |
| JESUS FILM PROJECT | $235,000 |
| ASBURY SEMINARY | $200,000 |
| WORLD RELIEF | $125,000 |
| A DOOR OF HOPE | $100,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF INDIAN ROCKS | $100,000 |
| EVANGELISM EXPLOSION INTERNATIONAL | $92,000 |
| SHEPHERD'S VILLAGE INC | $73,000 |
| WOVEN ANEW | $45,000 |
| NEW LIFE SOLUTIONS | $35,000 |
| NATIONAL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC | $30,236 |
| YOUNG CHRISTIAN LEADERS | $25,000 |
| MISSIONARY VENTURES THREADS OF HOPE INC | $22,500 |
| CRUCAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST | $15,000 |
| THE NAVIGATORS | $5,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $345k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ATASBURY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY6× · 2020–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +53%
- TCTRINITY COLLEGE OF FLORIDA INC5× · 2020–2024 · $763k · revenue +7%
- WRWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS6× · 2020–2025 · $651k · revenue +191%
Funded once
- RMREYNOLDS MOUNTAIN CHRISTIAN ACADEMYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $130k · revenue +90%
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSEone grant, 2024 · $36k · revenue 0%
- TBTOP BUTTONS ST PETEone grant, 2024 · $25k
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.
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.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Northwind Theological Seminary is an ecumenical online seminary serving many denominations, providing online theological education that is biblically based, with theological roots in Wesleyan tradition. The seminary has a strong emphasis…
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Lakelight Institute equips Christians with timeless wisdom for modern life.
To prepare students to serve christ and his church through biblical, experiential and practical ministry. prts provides theological training and instruction in accordance with the scriptures and the historic reformed creeds for promotion…
To promote and foster christianity throughout the pacific rim, hawaii, and elsewhere.
North America Bible Institute (NABI) is an evangelical graduate school, made up of students who are diverse in both ethnicity and ministry aims -- but united in great love for Jesus and his gospel. As a graduate school, NABI offers them…
Northeastern seminary strives to be a vibrant source for christian theological formation whose students are formed in a biblical vision of gracious christianity and impact wholeness to the world in an expansive array of vocations and…
Our desire is to provide balanced, biblical direction to the child as a support to the home and to train each student to be self-disciplined and biblically directed in their walk with god and their fellow man. it is also our desire to meet…
Entrust's mission is to multiply church leaders through accessible, locally owned, reproducible training systems. this is accomplished through facilitated learning, assisting christians in gaining solid understanding of scripture, and…
The King's University integrates Biblical education and practical ministry to shape Spirit-formed individuals who follow Jesus, serve His Church, and are sent to impact the world.
We are compelled by god's word to provide security, education and the hope of jesus to children in south africa so they can thrive personally and impact their future families, communities and the kingdom of god.
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 28 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 ASBURY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds TRINITY COLLEGE OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD'S VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds A DOOR OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ↗
- Who funds Designed For Joy ↗
- Who funds NEW LIFE SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Hope International Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds REYNOLDS MOUNTAIN CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THREADS OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FIRST PRIORITY OF TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds TOP BUTTONS ST PETE ↗
- Who funds MUSTARD SEED PROJECT ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Duke Energy Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Grounds for Grace Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Grounds for Grace Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals: 67% of income from government
How this is measured
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