· Public charity
Illuminations Foundation Inc
To grant to bible translation collaboration across various ministry partners in order to eradicate bible poverty in this generation.
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 $10k1 grant · $5k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $58k
- $250k+11 grants · $47M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SEED COMPANY | $22,942,210 |
| NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC | $10,875,511 |
| BIBLICA | $3,087,057 |
| WYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS | $2,668,415 |
| FAITH COMES BY HEARING | $2,184,925 |
| SPOKEN WORLDWIDE | $2,088,196 |
| THE WORD FOR THE WORLD | $720,210 |
| DEAF BIBLE SOCIETY | $642,826 |
| UNFOLDING WORD | $640,826 |
| AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY | $621,637 |
| PIONEER BIBLE TRANSLATORS | $460,038 |
| SUMMER INSTITUTE OF LIGUISTICS BRANCH | $57,969 |
| LUTHERAN BIBLE TRANSLATORS | $5,300 |
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 (FY22–25, $2.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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
Which US states its grants reach
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 +58% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BIBIBLICA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $14M · revenue +75%
- TGT4 Global Inc4× · 2022–2025 · $2.8M · revenue +64%
- HHOSANNA3× · 2023–2025 · $2.7M · revenue +58%
Funded once
- SISummer Institute of Linguistics Inc dba SIL Globalone grant, 2025 · $58k · revenue 0%
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.
Bible Translation and acts of Christian Services
We do bible translation with the kingdom perspective, therefore we go beyond making "a" new chinese translation for the chinese only; we strive to serve the ethnic minority groups in china and other countries as well. crossing national and…
The distribution of Talking Bibles worldwide in as many different languages as possible.
To join in the completion of the Great Commission through Scripture Engagement in all languages and every people group.
In communion with God and with the worldwide church Wycliffe Global Alliance contributes to the holistic transformation of all peoples through Bible transalation and compassionate services.
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.
Crossway is a not-for-profit Christian publishing ministry of Good News Publishers that exists to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ through publishing and other means, in order, by God's grace: to bring people to Christ as their Lord and…
To equip and train oral people to make disciples who experience God through His Word in their own heart language and culture.
The organization is dedicated to reaching people for christ through an international network of christians who journey with the poor and marginalized, bringing practical and spiritual support with hope of a better future,(continued on…
The objective of the association is to promote the widest possible effective distribution and use of the bible or any parts of the bible throughout the world, including translation into any language or languages, printing and publication…
Proclamation of the christian gospel
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 16 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 NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ↗
- Who funds BIBLICA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds T4 Global Inc ↗
- Who funds HOSANNA ↗
- Who funds DEAF BIBLE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds The Word for the World USA ↗
- Who funds unfoldingWord ↗
- Who funds Pioneer Bible Translators ↗
- Who funds STRATEGIC RESOURCE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN BIBLE TRANSLATORS INC ↗
- Who funds IGFT Corporation ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL GENEROSITY FOUNDATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds Summer Institute of Linguistics Inc dba SIL Global ↗
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: Servant Foundation · Global Generosity Inc · G II Charities · The Signatry Charitable Trust · American Bible Society · Tyndale House Ministries · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Gordon Christian Trust · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Project42
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Illuminations Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Illuminations Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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