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Jesus Calling Foundation at a glance

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Jesus Calling Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$583k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Religion$1.6MInternational$540kEducation$450kHousing & Shelter$125kYouth Development$50kHealth$20kCivil Rights$20kPhilanthropy$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $1.0M
  • $250k+1 grant · $583k
$100,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MISSION TO THE WORLD$582,500
THE NEXT DOOR$212,500
MISSION TO NORTH AMERICA$200,000
COVENANT COLLEGE$105,000
INTERNATIONAL XCHANGE ORGANIZATION$100,000
SEND INTERNATIONAL$100,000
CROSSROADS OF THE NATIONS$100,000
Individual grant recipient$100,000
WORLD OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL$70,000
FRANKTOWN OPEN HEARTS$60,000
RCE INTERNATIONAL$30,000
PCA ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE$10,000
SILOAM FAMILY HEALTH CENTER$10,000
REFORMED UNIVERSITY FELLOWSHIP$5,000
CROSSPOINT CHURCH$3,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 75% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SILOAM FAMILY HEALTH CENTER: $10k → 8%CROSSPOINT CHURCH: $31k → 15%CITY CHURCH NETWORK: $20k → 17%EQUIPPING LEADERS INTERNATIONAL: $20k → 6%WORLD OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL: $70k → 12%COVENANT THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $370k → 11%CROSSROADS OF THE NATIONS: $202k → 4%CHRIST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $1k → 14%CANTERBURY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $40k → 21%THE MISSION SOCIETY GLOBAL: $20k → 9%COVENANT COLLEGE: $305k → 15%RCE INTERNATIONAL: $30k → 7%SILOAM FAMILY HEALTH CENTER: $10k → 8%CROSSPOINT CHURCH: $3k → 15%COVENANT THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $120k → 11%CROSSROADS OF THE NATIONS: $200k → 4%THE NEXT DOOR: $213k → 14%CANTERBURY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $40k → 21%MISSION TO THE WORLD: $583k → 9%COVENANT COLLEGE: $125k → 15%SILOAM FAMILY HEALTH CENTER: $10k → 8%CROSSROADS OF THE NATIONS: $100k → 4%THE NEXT DOOR: $50k → 14%SAMARITANS PURSE: $10k → 21%MISSION TO THE WORLD: $280k → 9%COVENANT COLLEGE: $105k → 15%RVF: $2k → 4%THE NEXT DOOR: $50k → 14%APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN LEADERSHIP: $1k → 21%MISSION TO THE WORLD: $177k → 9%WILLIAMSON COLLEGE: $20k → 4%NASHIVILLE RESCUE MISSION: $25k → 14%PCA ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE: $20k → 9%NASHVILLE PRESBYTERIAN: $100k → 4%PCA ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE: $10k → 9%NASHVILLE PRESBYTERIAN: $100k → 4%REFORMED UNIVERSITY FELLOWSHIP: $5k → 9%FRANKTOWN OPEN HEARTS: $60k → 4%REFORMED UNIVERSITY FELLOWSHIP: $5k → 9%FRANKTOWN OPEN HEARTS: $30k → 4%FRANKTOWN OPEN HEARTS: $20k → 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

MI
MO
AR
TN
NC
GA
TX
FL
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.
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.
$4.3M · 15 repeat orgs$320k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
11

Total granted

$4.3M
$220k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
0%

Still filing today

27%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
ReligionEducationHousing & ShelterEmploymentInternationalOther
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

  • MT
    MISSION TO THE WORLD
    3× · 2023–2025 · $1.0M
  • CC
    COVENANT COLLEGE
    3× · 2023–2025 · $535k · revenue +29%
  • CO
    CROSSROADS OF THE NATIONS
    3× · 2023–2025 · $502k

Funded once

  • SI
    SAGE IMPACT MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • NR
    NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +7%
  • CC
    CITY CHURCH NETWORK
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
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

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.

1
North America Bible Institute

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…

Education
2
Asbury Theological Seminary

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…

Education
3
Regent University

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.

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4
Olivet University

Providing guality Christian education to the network generation

Education
5
Christianity Today International

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.

Religion
6
Exchanged Life Ministries

We exist to equip and train the Christian community and those in vocational ministry to effectively handle the pressures, circumstances and relationships of life. This is accomplished through conferences, workshops, training, discipleship,…

Religion
7
Leadership Resources International

International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures

Religion
8
Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary

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…

Education
9
Europe Campus Ministry

The Organization is formed for Christian evangelism and discipleship training as afundamentalist, evangelical, and non-denominational faith-based missionorganization. Its mission is to reach out to students with the whole of gospel ofJesus…

Religion
10
Ambassador Baptist College

Degreed courses offered to men and women in training and preparation to enter the ministry of preaching and teaching the Gospel.

Education
11
Reformed University Inc

Provide education in theology, divinity, religious education, ministerial training, business and organizational leadership.

Education
12
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Rescue Mission; the most unlike its peers is International Xchange Organization. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 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. 10 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MISSION TO THE WORLD: $1,039,500 · OtherMISSION TO THE WORLDCROSSROADS OF THE NATIONS: $502,332 · OtherCROSSROADS OF THE NATIONSCOVENANT THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $490,000 · OtherCOVENANT THEOLOGICAL SEMINARYMISSION TO NORTH AMERICA: $460,000 · OtherMISSION TO NORTH AMERICASEND INTERNATIONAL INC: $320,000 · OtherSEND INTERNATIONAL INCIndividual grant recipient: $200,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+13 more: $399,400 · Other+13 moreCOVENANT COLLEGE: $535,000 · EducationCOVENANT COLL…WILLIAMSON CHRISTIAN COLLEGE: $20,000 · EducationTHE NEXT DOOR INC: $312,500 · Housing & ShelterNASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterInternational Xchange Organization: $130,000 · InternationalFRANK TOWN OPEN HEARTS MINISTRY INC: $110,000 · EmploymentResourcing Christian Education International: $30,000 · ReligionEquipping Leaders International Inc: $20,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $10,000 · Religion
Other$3,411,232Education$555,000Housing & Shelter$337,500International$130,000Employment$110,000Religion$60,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOVENANT COLLEGE: $535,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE NEXT DOOR INC: $312,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetInternational Xchange Organization: $130,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFRANK TOWN OPEN HEARTS MINISTRY INC: $110,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetNASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEquipping Leaders International Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWILLIAMSON CHRISTIAN COLLEGE: $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAPPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN LEADERSHIP: $1,000 over 1y, 1.2% 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 COVENANT COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE NEXT DOOR INC ↗
  • Who funds International Xchange Organization ↗
  • Who funds FRANK TOWN OPEN HEARTS MINISTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds Resourcing Christian Education International ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds Equipping Leaders International Inc ↗
  • Who funds WILLIAMSON CHRISTIAN COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN LEADERSHIP ↗

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.

Servant FoundationThe Signatry Charitab…The Community Foundat…Chattanooga Christian…Christian Community F…Natl Christian Charit…Raymond James Charita…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…
Servant FoundationKS17.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Servant Foundation · The Signatry Charitable Trust · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 Jesus Calling Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jesus Calling Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    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 28 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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