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Missouri Baptist Foundation

The mission of the MISSOURI BAPTIST FOUNDATION is to strengthen mission and ministry efforts of missouri baptists.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
32
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$557k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$393kHuman Services$119kEducation$115kCivil Rights$46kInternational$20kPhilanthropy$14kHousing & Shelter$12kPublic Safety & Disaster$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 32 grants below total $1,077,365, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,343,866 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $266,501 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $83k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $236k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $201k
  • $250k+1 grant · $557k
$10,254
Median grant
8
States reached
$237M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GATEWAY SEMINARY$556,822
HIWAY BAPTIST CHURCH$150,000
SOUTH GATE BAPTIST CHURCH$51,000
ETHNOS360 INC DBA NTM$30,984
BAPTIST HOMES AND HEALTHCARE MINISTRIES$20,543
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF OAK RIDGE$18,600
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$17,652
ENCOUNTER MINISTRY$17,431
MISSOURI BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME$17,200
CRU$14,205
MISSOURI BAPTIST UNIVERSITY$13,206
FUTURE LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION$12,086
MISSOURI BAPTIST CONVENTION$11,259
MO BAPTIST DISASTER RELIEF$11,200
MAIN STREET BAPTIST CHURCH$11,200
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HIWAY BAPTIST CHURCH: $150k → 11%AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY: $10k → 22%GATEWAY SEMINARY: $557k → 14%ETHNOS360 INC DBA NTM: $31k → 11%CRU: $15k → 13%FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF ARNOLD: $30k → 9%MISSOURI BAPTIST CONVENTION: $12k → 10%VARLEBENA FARMS FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%SOUTHWEST BAPTIST CHURCH: $12k → 11%HANNIBAL LAGRANGE UNIVERSITY: $50k → 12%FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH-CAMDENTON: $10k → 13%FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH - OAK RIDGE: $19k → 14%SOUTH GATE BAPTIST CHURCH: $51k → 15%ENCOUNTER MINISTRY: $47k → 15%SOUTHWEST BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $10k → 18%MAIN STREET BAPTIST CHURCH: $11k → 18%SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $18k → 21%IGIFT FUND: $14k → 13%AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY: $10k → 22%ETHNOS360: $25k → 11%CRU: $14k → 13%FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF ARNOLD: $10k → 9%MISSOURI BAPTIST CONVENTION: $11k → 10%MISSOURI BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $13k → 11%HANNIBAL LAGRANGE UNIVERSITY: $12k → 12%FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH-CAMDENTON: $10k → 13%FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF OAK RIDGE: $19k → 14%SOUTH GATE BAPTIST CHURCH: $48k → 15%MAIN STREET BAPTIST CHURCH: $10k → 18%ETHNOS360: $21k → 11%CRU: $14k → 13%MO BAPTIST DISASTER RELIEF: $11k → 10%MISSOURI BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $13k → 11%HANNIBAL LAGRANGE UNIVERSITY: $9k → 12%FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH-CAMDENTON: $10k → 13%FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH - OAK RIDGE: $19k → 14%SOUTH GATE BAPTIST CHURCH: $36k → 15%MAIN STREET BAPTIST CHURCH: $10k → 18%AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY: $10k → 13%MISSOURI BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $13k → 11%ENCOUNTER MINISTRY: $17k → 13%CENTRAL BAPTIST CHURCH OF EUREKA: $10k → 11%CENTRAL BAPTIST CHURCH OF EUREKA: $9k → 11%ENCOUNTER MINISTRY: $17k → 13%CENTRAL BAPTIST CHURCH OF EUREKA: $8k → 11%MISSOURI BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME: $39k → 11%MISSOURI BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME: $20k → 11%MISSOURI BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME: $17k → 11%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

MN
OH
PA
CA
MO
AR
NC
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.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$941k · 19 repeat orgs$883k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
7

Total granted

$941k
$64k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+5%

Still filing today

47%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $818k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’23’24’25
ReligionEducationAnimalsHuman ServicesOther
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

  • EM
    Encounter Ministry Inc
    3× · 2023–2025 · $82k · revenue +33%
  • TB
    THE BAPTIST HOME INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $80k · revenue +56%
  • FL
    FUTURE LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2025 · $56k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • EB
    EXECUTIVE BOARD OF THE MISSOURI BAPTIST CONVENTION
    one grant, 2024 · $12k
  • SB
    SOUTHWEST BAPTIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2018 · $12k
  • FB
    FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH-CAMDENTON
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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
Amazing Facts International

To proclaim to the world the everlasting gospel of revelation 14:6-12 and to encourage revival in the remnant church by leading people to embrace salvation by faith in jesus, to establish them in the church, and to disciple all believers…

Religion
3
International Impact Ministries in
Religion
4
Jubal Band Ministries

Jubal band ministries mission is to invite people to become disciples of christian life with jesus.

Religion
5
Wounded Spirits Ministries

The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…

Recreation & Sports
6
The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago

Moody Bible Institute is a higher education and media ministry that exists to equip people with the truth of God's word to be maturing followers of Christ who are making disciples around the world. Moody is best known for its education…

Education
7
Great Commission University Inc

Gcu serves the global church by educating mission leaders to fulfill the great commission of jesus christ. gcu accomplishes this mission through a comprehensive program of biblical and general education, christ-centered service and…

Education
8
Heart Bridge International

Heart Bridge International exists to equip and empower Christians around the world to fulfill the Great Commission. The organization provides free ministry training, discipleship resources, and practical coaching to under-resourced…

Religion
9
Christians for Biblical Equality

See schedule o.christians for biblical equality (cbe), www.cbeinternational.org, is a 501c3 nonprofit organization comprised of individuals, churches, colleges, seminaries, and organizations, representing more than 100 different…

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10
Seminario Reformado Latinoamericano

Srl trains ministry leaders to proclaim the gospel, equip believers, and build up the body of christ across the spanish-speaking world through reformed theological education.

Religion
11
Encounter Church

Church

Religion
12
Explore God Network
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Missouri Baptist University; the most unlike its peers is Varlebena Farms Foundation. 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

16 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. 16 of the 43 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
11/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GATEWAY SEMINARY OF THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION: $556,822 · OtherGATEWAY SEMINARY OF THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTIONHI-WAY BAPTIST CHURCH: $150,000 · OtherHI-WAY BAPTIST CHURCHSOUTH GATE BAPTIST CHURCH: $135,000 · OtherSOUTH GATE BAPTIST CHURCHETHNOS360 INC: $77,139 · OtherETHNOS360 INC+23 more: $358,290 · Other+23 moreEncounter Ministry Inc: $81,563 · ReligionEncounter Ministry I…MISSOURI BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME: $76,439 · ReligionMISSOURI BAPTIST CHI…FUTURE LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $55,943 · ReligionFUTURE LEADERSHIP FO…SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $32,698 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSEAMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY: $30,332 · ReligionAMERICAN BIBLE SOCIE…YOUR MISSION MATTERS: $26,250 · ReligionYOUR MISSION MATTERSIssachar Initiative: $14,205 · Religion+2 more: $11,060 · ReligionHannibal LaGrange University: $70,525 · EducationMissouri Baptist University: $39,433 · EducationSOUTHWEST BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL: $7,975 · EducationTHE BAPTIST HOME INC: $80,067 · Human ServicesTHE INDEPENDENT CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $14,381 · PhilanthropyVARLEBENA FARMS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Animals
Other$1,277,251Religion$328,490Education$127,933Human Services$80,067Philanthropy$14,381Animals$10,000

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 budgetEncounter Ministry Inc: $81,563 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE BAPTIST HOME INC: $80,067 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMISSOURI BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME: $76,439 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetHannibal LaGrange University: $70,525 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFUTURE LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $55,943 over 5y, 7.7% of budgetMissouri Baptist University: $39,433 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $32,698 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY: $30,332 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYOUR MISSION MATTERS: $26,250 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTHE INDEPENDENT CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $14,381 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHWEST BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL: $7,975 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMPOWERING LIVES INTERNATIONAL: $5,360 over 1y, 0.2% 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 Encounter Ministry Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE BAPTIST HOME INC ↗
  • Who funds MISSOURI BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
  • Who funds Hannibal LaGrange University ↗
  • Who funds FUTURE LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Missouri Baptist University ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds YOUR MISSION MATTERS ↗
  • Who funds THE INDEPENDENT CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
  • Who funds Issachar Initiative ↗
  • Who funds VARLEBENA FARMS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHWEST BAPTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL ↗
  • Who funds CDM INTERNATIONAL DBA LIT MINISTRIES ↗

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.

Community Foundation …Natl Christian Charit…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation of the Ozarks IncMO13× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 43 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 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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