· Private foundation
Make Disciples Charitable 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $4k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $37k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ILLUMINATIONS FOUNDATION INC | $100,000 |
| NATIONAL CENTER ON SEXUAL EXPLOITATION | $50,000 |
| USA TRANSFORM DBA UNITED IN PURPOSE | $25,000 |
| THRIVE AMERICA | $12,052 |
| LIBERTY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY OF SARASOTA INC | $1,543 |
| ELEVATEHIM MINISTRIES | $1,200 |
| OVERLAND MISSIONS INC | $1,000 |
| SARASOTA HOPE HOUSE INC | $256 |
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, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 86% of Make Disciples Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 29% of the giving stays in FL; by stated purpose, 14%.
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 +80% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 1 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IFILLUMINATIONS FOUNDATION INC4× · 2022–2025 · $401k · revenue -14%
- BCBAYSIDE COMMUNITY CHURCH OF SARASOTA INC2× · 2022–2023 · $200k
- LCLIBERTY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY OF SARASOTA INC2× · 2024–2025 · $102k · revenue +80%
Funded once
- PAPro Athletes Outreachone grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +68%
THE TWIG CARES INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +17%- NNAone grant, 2023 · $2k
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.
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How this is measured
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 17 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 ILLUMINATIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Pro Athletes Outreach ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY OF SARASOTA INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER ON SEXUAL EXPLOITATION ↗
- Who funds THE TWIG CARES INC ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds SARASOTA HOPE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds AVENUE941 INC ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE HIM INC ↗
- Who funds OVERLAND MISSIONS INC ↗
- Who funds GALATIANS 62 INC ↗
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: The Bill & Ann Templeton Foundation Inc · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Make Disciples Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Make Disciples Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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