· Private foundation
Morning Star 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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $28k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH ENTERPRISE | $17,836 |
| HONDURAS BAPTIST DENTAL MISSION | $10,000 |
| FOUR CORNERS MINISTRIES | $8,000 |
| CHRISTIAN MISSION ENTERPRISE | $3,000 |
| COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL | $2,910 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $2,000 |
| CENTRAL AMERICAN MISSIONS | $2,000 |
| WIREGRASS EMERGENCY PREGNANCY SERVICES | $2,000 |
| NATIONAL MS SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $1,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $1,000 |
| PATE MINISTRIES - FOR THE CHILDREN ECUADOR | $1,000 |
| MAP INTERNATIONAL | $1,000 |
| PRECEPT MINISTRIES | $1,000 |
| ST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 34% of Morning Star Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 57% of the giving stays in AL; by stated purpose, 54%.
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 +60% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
28 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HBHonduras Bapt Med & Dental Mission Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $124k · revenue +110%
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE6× · 2020–2025 · $9k · revenue +106%
Compassion International Incorporated6× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- GCGENEVA COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATIONone grant, 2022 · $12k
- ACALABAMA-FLORIDA COUNCIL INC SCOUTING AMERICAgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +55%
- PMPATE MINISTRIESone grant, 2020 · $500
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.
Since 1816, american bible society has been fulfilling its mission of making the bible available to every person in a language and format each can understand and afford so all people may experience its life-changing message.
To advance the gospel in closed and hard-to-reach nations and to impact those nations for christ.
Asm's commitment to the great commission leads us to serve others by:-partnering with national leaders, churches, ministries, and individuals to create and distribute scripture media to share the good news of jesus.-recording bible and…
World reach is a global, evangelical missions organization serving fields in east africa, central and south america, europe and the u.s. our purpose is to fulfill the the great commission of jesus christ by reaching the world with the…
World christian broadcasting exists so that people in places best served by broadcast media become aware of the good news of jesus christ and want to know more. geographic areas that cannot be easily served by missionaries are a priority.
To propagate the gospel of jesus christ; to examine candidates and appoint missionaries. to endorse missionary programs according to standards set forth in the new testament, to establish churches, church schools & mission societies in…
The organizations exempt purpose is to rescue orphans and widows, feed the poor, build the local church through ministry, crusades and outreaches and to win souls around the world.
Spread the gospel of jesus christ
Our mission is to make disciples of jesus christ by engaging indigenous pastors around the world. our vision is to train pastors and their congregants to share the gospel in a friendly, non-denominational approach across all ethnicities,…
The mission of wordsower africa is to equip and encourage christians in west african countries to bring the gospel to the unreached people groups, to disciple, become spiritual leaders and start healthy churches in every village god sends…
Freedom seekers international is a christian organization that exists to rescue the most severely persecuted for their religious faith in hostile and restrictive countries. through collaborative partnerships we deliver those who are…
How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 44 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 Honduras Bapt Med & Dental Mission Inc ↗
- Who funds Precept ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds FOUR CORNERS MINISTRIESINC ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds MAP International Inc ↗
- Who funds WIREGRASS AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds DOTHAN RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds LESEA GLOBAL FEED THE HUNGRY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE FOREVER ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA-FLORIDA COUNCIL INC SCOUTING AMERICA ↗
- Who funds For The Children Ecuador Inc ↗
- Who funds WIREGRASS HOPE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST ALABAMA CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds ENTERPRISE STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE ALABAMA BAPTIST 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: Wiregrass Foundation · Smurfit Westrock US Foundation F/K/A Westrock Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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 Morning Star Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Morning Star Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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