· Private foundation
McCommons Family Foundation
Its FY2023 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 McCommons Family Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Servant Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year McCommons Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $268k. It is dated, not current.
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, FY2018 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k2 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $68k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $189k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CALVARY CHAPEL VAIL VALLEY | $99,000 |
| ORDINARY MEN INC | $90,000 |
| CALVARY CHAPEL VAIL VALLEY | $22,000 |
| MARYS SHELTER INC | $15,495 |
| MARYS SHELTER INC | $15,495 |
| BAPTIST GENERAL ASSOCIATION OF VIRGINIA | $15,000 |
| HOPE OF LIFE INTERNATIONAL | $6,400 |
| AWAKEN THE DAWN | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–22, $233k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 61% 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +104% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2020, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2022, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MSMary's Shelter Inc5× · 2018–2022 · $142k · revenue +104%
- HOHOPE OF LIFE INTERNATIONAL4× · 2018–2021 · $21k · revenue +178%
- FOFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES2× · 2021–2022 · $5k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- LCLIFEPOINT CHURCHone grant, 2018 · $40k
- RCROYAL CORPORATIONone grant, 2018 · $20k
- CVCROSSROADS VINEYARD CHURCH OF FREDERICKSBURG INCone grant, 2018 · $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.
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.
Proclaim the gospel worldwide, prepare followers of jesus christ, and propel those into their god given destiny.
ACCI serves pioneering Christians, empowering them to proclaim the gospel, fulfill their God-given visions, and advance the kingdom of God. ACCI longs for a world where lives are transformed through the Holy Spirit, where new disciples are…
To provide resources, training, and continuing support to leaders in the us and around the world in order that they may help others find freedom in christ.
For his glory's mission is to launch disciple-making movements that transform nations for christ.
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…
Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.
This organization exists to restore men and women to live from their heart - as God's intimate allies - by recovering the treasure of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, entrusting that message to the people who have been transformed by it, and to…
Restore hope, purpose, passion and relationships among Christian leaders who are making an impact around the world.
Transforming men through jesus christ in authentic, weekly fellowship in discipleship. (service projects, education, mentoring, volunteerism, etc.)
Kingdom advisors is a discipleship ministry serving christian financial professionals. the organization encourages, educates, and empowers christian financial professionals with biblical wisdom to be effective disciples of jesus christ in…
Cross to Light is a nondenominational Christian organization providing spiritual education and physical aid to people in need around the world. Since 2005, Cross to Light has helped people cross from darkness to light by hearing the Gospel…
How this is measured
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 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 Servant Foundation ↗
- Who funds Mary's Shelter Inc ↗
- Who funds Ordinary Men Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPE OF LIFE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds AWAKEN THE DAWN INC ↗
- Who funds VAIL CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds HIS LITTLE FEET ↗
- Who funds RESTORE INNOCENCE ↗
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 · The Signatry Charitable Trust · The Doherty Family Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization McCommons Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from McCommons Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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