· Private foundation
Matthew 63 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Matthew 63 Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
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 $10k2 grants · $2k
- $250k+1 grant · $280k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC | $280,304 |
| COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED | $1,452 |
| MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC | $135 |
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 (FY18–23, $28k) 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 35% of Matthew 63 Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
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; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WBWESTLAKE BIBLE CHURCH - AUSTIN RIDGE BIBLE CHURCH3× · 2017–2021 · $175k
- CCCAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST INC2× · 2023–2024 · $81k
- FCFrontier Camp Inc2× · 2017–2019 · $25k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- CYCHRISTIAN YOUTH THEATER AUSTINone grant, 2024 · $103k · revenue 0% · 33% of their budget
- WBWESTLAKE BIBLE CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $100k
BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIPgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $75k · revenue +57%
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.
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.
Childcare Worldwide (CW) transforms children's lives by exposing them to the gospel of Jesus Christ, providing for their physical needs, and sponsoring their education. We connect sponsors with children through Christ-based life centers.…
With a desire to see the Gospel proclaimed in all nations, we exist to make and multiply disciples of the next generation through the vehicles of church-planting missions and missional leadership training.
Christian leadership alliance exists to equip and unite leaders called to transform the world for christ.
Christian Alliance for Orphans (CAFO) exists to unite an alliance in shared initiatives that inspire and equip God's people to care effectively for vulnerable children and families, rooted always in Christian discipleship and the life of…
To evangelize boys and girls with the gospel of the lord jesus christ and to establish (disciple) them in the word of god and in a local church for christian living.
Missions - sponsors foreign and domestic missions and orphanages with a special emphasis on missions in India
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
Christar international serves as a catalyst to the network of christar ministries by facilitating and encouraging partnerships with churches who sen dout men and women who proclaim the gospel for life-giving transformation in communitiesw…
Bible Translation and acts of Christian Services
(1) To glorify God by making disciples everywhere by proclaiming and practicing the Gospel of Jesus Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit. (2) To engage in international world mission activities in order to take the Gospel of Jesus Christ…
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 11 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 MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN YOUTH THEATER AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP ↗
- Who funds Frontier Camp Inc ↗
- Who funds SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds INDIA GOSPEL LEAGUE INC N AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - CAPITOL AREA COUNCIL - TOM WOOTEN TRUST ↗
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: Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Matthew 63 Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Matthew 63 Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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