· Private foundation
James E Elliot Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k36 grants · $76k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $67k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $13,420 |
| CAMPUS OUTREACH | $12,000 |
| CHRISTIAN MISSION IN MANY LANDS | $11,700 |
| HERITAGE COLLEGE & SEMIANRY | $10,000 |
| WHEATON ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| YELLOWSTONE ALLIANCE ADVENTURES | $10,000 |
| GLEN ELLYN BIBLE CHURCH | $8,700 |
| CHRIST COMMUNITY CHURCH CHAMPAIGN | $5,000 |
| OPERATION MOBILIZATION | $5,000 |
| AWANA | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| SIM USA | $4,000 |
| FOREST HILLS BIBLE CHAPEL | $4,000 |
| PIONEERS | $3,500 |
| SET FREE ALLIANCE | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $62k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% 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 +14% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.
45 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 8 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WAWHEATON ACADEMY8× · 2018–2025 · $128k · revenue +45%
- CUCedarville University2× · 2022–2024 · $101k · revenue +24%
- FEFAR EAST BROADCASTING COMPANY9× · 2017–2025 · $30k · revenue +142%
Funded once
- OIOUTREACH INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +57%
- HHOPEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $27k · revenue +831%
- BUBelmont Universitygraduatedone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +43%
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.
Providing guality Christian education to the network generation
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.
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
Asbury Theological Seminary is a community called to prepare theologically educated, sanctified, Spirit-filled men and women to evangelize and to spread scriptural holiness throughout the world through the love of Jesus Christ, in the…
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…
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
To preach and propogate the gospel of jesus christ in the united states and throughout the world, to provide christian literature and training materials through various forms of media, and to offer christian leadership and discipleship…
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
The cco (coalition for christian outreach) is an interdenominational campus ministry organization with a mission of "transforming college students to transform the world." the cco is supported primarily through donor contributions and…
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
To equip young leaders throughout Central and Eastern Europe to fulfill Christ's commission through the local church.
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…
How this is measured
39 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. 39 of the 84 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 WHEATON ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Cedarville University ↗
- Who funds OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds DICKSON VALLEY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds WITHOUT RESERVATION ↗
- Who funds AWANA CLUBS INTERNATIONAL AND AFFILIATES ↗
- Who funds FAR EAST BROADCASTING COMPANY ↗
- Who funds HOPE ↗
- Who funds Belmont University ↗
- Who funds BIOLA UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Taylor University ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN EDUCATORS OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds ONE WAY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds VOICE OF CHRIST MEDIA MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds EVANGELICAL CHILD AND FAMILY AGENCY ↗
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: Tyndale House Ministries · Clayton Brown Family Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Dupage Community Foundation · The Cornerstone Center Foundation · Nkc Family Foundation · Believers Stewardship Services Inc · The Bolick Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Servant Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization James E Elliot Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James E Elliot Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
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