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Ncf Charitable Trust

The trustee makes grants for charitable purposes to national christian charitable foundation, inc.

$553M
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$473M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

97% of Ncf Charitable Trust’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 12 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

5
’20
8
’21
10
’22
12
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Philanthropy$1.5BReligion$8.1MCommunity Improvement$273k
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 15 grants below total $491,644,893, the rows itemized in this filing. The $553,246,862 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $61,601,969 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
  • $250k+12 grants · $491M
$1,288,426
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.8B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC$472,752,600
WHY THE CROSS MATTERS$4,295,280
SAMARITAN FOUNDATION CHARITABLE TRUST$2,867,183
FAMILY GENERATIONS FOUNDATION$2,609,212
3CR MINISTRIES FOUNDATION$2,165,803
OPERATION LEGACY FOUNDATION$1,744,836
IMPACT INVESTING CHARITABLE TRUST$1,350,387
JBM COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC$1,288,426
CAROL ANN LEE MEMORIAL TRUST$993,702
ONE ACCORD SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION$629,056
SOZO SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION FUND$495,936
KM FOUNDATION$270,000
GLOBAL GENEROSITY INC$150,043
NCF CORPORATION$25,000
ANGIE AND LEO WELLS FOUNDATION INC$7,429
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 (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ERA FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH: $1.6M → 13%GLOBAL GENEROSITY INC: $150k → 16%NCF CORPORATION: $25k → 12%ONE ACCORD SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION: $688k → 13%INNOGROUP FOUNDATION: $273k → 8%IMPACT INVESTING CHARITABLE TRUST: $1.4M → 5%ANGIE AND LEO WELLS FOUNDATION INC: $7k → 9%JBM COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC: $1.7M → 12%NATIONAL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC: $472.8M → 13%PARADOX PRESENTATIONS: $218k → 9%NCF CORPORATION: $25k → 12%ONE ACCORD SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION: $629k → 13%LEO AND ANGIE WELLS FOUNDATION INC: $7k → 9%JBM COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC: $1.3M → 12%NATIONAL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC: $443.1M → 13%NCF CORPORATION: $25k → 12%JBM COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC: $839k → 12%NATIONAL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC: $374.4M → 13%NCF CORPORATION: $10k → 12%NATIONAL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC: $168.7M → 13%THOMAS H SCOTT JR FOUNDATION: $21.4M → 13%WHY THE CROSS MATTERS: $4.3M → 13%3CR MINISTRIES FOUNDATION: $3.0M → 13%SAMARITAN FOUNDATION CHARITABLE TRUST: $2.9M → 13%FAMILY GENERATIONS FOUNDATION: $2.6M → 13%3CR MINISTRIES FOUNDATION: $2.2M → 13%KM FOUNDATION: $2.1M → 13%ONE ACCORD SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION: $2.1M → 13%KM FOUNDATION: $2.0M → 13%OPERATION LEGACY FOUNDATION: $1.7M → 13%TEMPLETON FAMILY SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION: $1.5M → 13%AUSTIN CHARIS FOUNDATION: $1.5M → 13%CAROL ANN LEE MEMORIAL TRUST: $994k → 13%FAMILY GENERATIONS FOUNDATION: $957k → 13%SAMARITAN FOUNDATION CHARITABLE TRUST: $804k → 13%SAMARITAN FOUNDATION CHARITABLE TRUST: $785k → 13%KM FOUNDATION: $592k → 13%SOZO SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION FUND: $538k → 13%SOZO SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION FUND: $496k → 13%NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION REAL PROPERTY INC: $397k → 13%SOZO SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION FUND: $291k → 13%KM FOUNDATION: $270k → 13%SOZO SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION FUND: $95k → 13%CAROL ANN LEE MEMORIAL TRUST: $13k → 13%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.
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.

48%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$28M · 10 repeat orgs$31M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +78% since the first grant, against -55% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
4

Total granted

$28M
$25M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+78%
-55%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • SF
    SAMARITAN FOUNDATION CHARITABLE TRUST
    3× · 2021–2024 · $4.5M · revenue +78% · 54% of their budget
  • JC
    JBM COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $3.8M · revenue ×36 · 100% of their budget
  • FG
    FAMILY GENERATIONS FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $3.6M · revenue +76% · 100% of their budget

Funded once

  • TH
    THOMAS H SCOTT JR FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $21M · revenue -95% · 65% of their budget
  • EF
    ERA FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $1.6M
  • TF
    TEMPLETON FAMILY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $1.5M · revenue -55%
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
National Christian Foundation Inc

The corporation accepts gifts primarily of property, other than cash and marketable securities, liquidates the property, and grants the proceeds to national christian charitable foundation, inc., and other charities that organization…

Philanthropy
2
1 COR10-31 Foundation

To provide funding to charities in fulfillment of the exempt purposes of national christian charitable foundation, inc. ("nccf")

Philanthropy
3
Check 1002 Charitable Trust

To provide funding to charities in fulfillment of the exempt purposes of national christian charitable foundation, inc. ("nccf")

Philanthropy
4
Creation Investments Foundation Inc

The organization provided funding to charities in fulfillment of the exempt purposes of national christian charitable foundation, inc. ("nccf").

Philanthropy
5
Vivo Charitable Foundation Trust Agree Ment No 1

To provide funding to charities in fulfillment of the exempt purposes of national christian charitable foundation, inc. ("nccf")

Philanthropy
6
Covenant Charities Foundation

To provide funding to charities in fulfillment of the exempt purposes of national christian charitable foundation, inc. ("nccf")

Philanthropy
7
Nccf Trust

The trust grants the proceeds of gifts of interests in s corporations and partnerships to national christian charitable foundation, inc. and other charities that organization supports.

Religion
8
National Christian Foundation -- Wisconsin Inc

Equipping followers of christ to give wisely to advance his kingdom by inspiring biblical stewardship and generosity.

Religion
9
The Global Charitable Foundation

To provide funding to charities in fulfillment of the exempt purposes of nccf.

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10
Boyd Family Foundation Inc

To provide funding to charities in fulfillment of the exempt purposes of national christian charitable foundation, inc. ("nccf")

Philanthropy
11
Building On a Firm Foundation Inc

To provide funding to charities in fulfillment of the exempt purposes of national christian charitable foundation, inc. ("nccf")

—
12
God Is Great Foundation

The organization provided funding to charities in fulfillment of the exempt purposes of national christian charitable foundation, inc. ("nccf").

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Thomas H Scott Jr Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Innogroup Foundation Inc. 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

22 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

12
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
10/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC: $1,460,382,638 · PhilanthropyNATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC+11 more: $43,098,100 · Philanthropy3CR MINISTRIES FOUNDATION: $5,170,803 · OtherKM FOUNDATION: $5,021,213 · OtherFAMILY GENERATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $3,566,020 · OtherERA FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH: $1,585,505 · OtherTEMPLETON FAMILY FOUNDATION: $1,476,686 · Other+2 more: $231,713 · OtherNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION REAL PROPERTY INC: $397,071 · ReligionINNOGROUP FOUNDATION INC: $272,685 · Community Improvement
Philanthropy$1,503,480,738Other$17,051,940Religion$397,071Community Improvement$272,685

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC: $1,460,382,638 over 5y, 18% of budgetTHOMAS H SCOTT JR FOUNDATION: $21,381,252 over 1y, 65% of budget3CR MINISTRIES FOUNDATION: $5,170,803 over 3y, 85% of budgetKM FOUNDATION: $5,021,213 over 5y, 100% of budgetSAMARITAN FOUNDATION CHARITABLE TRUST: $4,455,447 over 3y, 54% of budgetWHY THE CROSS MATTERS: $4,295,280 over 1y, 40% of budgetJBM COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC: $3,831,764 over 4y, 100% of budgetFAMILY GENERATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $3,566,020 over 3y, 100% of budgetONE ACCORD SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION INC: $3,377,861 over 4y, 84% of budgetOPERATION LEGACY FOUNDATION INC: $1,744,836 over 2y, 13% of budgetTEMPLETON FAMILY FOUNDATION: $1,476,686 over 1y, 11% of budgetSOZO SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION FUND: $1,419,569 over 5y, 79% of budgetIMPACT INVESTING CHARITABLE TRUST: $1,350,387 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCAROL ANN LEE MEMORIAL TRUST: $1,006,661 over 3y, 88% of budgetNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION REAL PROPERTY INC: $397,071 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetINNOGROUP FOUNDATION INC: $272,685 over 1y, 33% of budgetGlobal Generosity Inc: $150,043 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetNCF CORPORATION: $85,000 over 5y, 100% of budgetANGIE AND LEO WELLS FOUNDATION INC: $14,213 over 2y, 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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Ncf Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ncf Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 21 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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