· Private foundation
Rfs Foundation
Its FY2022 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, FY2017 to 2022.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k8 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $57k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CROWE'S NEST FARM | $28,000 |
| THE NAVIGATORS | $16,905 |
| THE JUSTICE FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| REFORMED UNIVERSITY FELLOWSHIP | $9,000 |
| INTERACT INTERNATIONAL | $4,000 |
| WOMENS DEVELOPMENT TRACK | $3,600 |
| WYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS INC | $2,800 |
| ENTRUST | $2,400 |
| GREATER CALVARY RITES OF PASSAGE | $1,600 |
| SERGE | $900 |
| INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE | $400 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 70% of its 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 13% of Rfs Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 41% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 32%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2022, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TNTHE NAVIGATORS6× · 2017–2022 · $77k
- TJTHE JUSTICE FOUNDATION5× · 2018–2022 · $60k · revenue +33%
- SGSERGE GLOBAL INC5× · 2017–2022 · $43k · revenue +94%
Funded once
- SFSERGE FORMERLY WORLD HARVESTone grant, 2018 · $11k
- TJTEXAS JUSTICE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $9k
- IMINTERLINK MINISTRIES INCone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +22%
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.
Expansion of the Gospel of Christ through training literature and digital teaching materials.
To produce and publish training materials for church leadership and development. To facilitate churches groups and individual participation in world mission.
International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures
The purpose of this corporation is international biblical education and the activities that make that goal possible. we seek to come alongside church bodies who desire to study god's work and assist them to teach their leaders a solid,…
To spread the gospel of jesus christ through crusades
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…
Ministry education and instruction
A training ministry that equips the saints more focusing on preparing leaders and ministers of the word for the work of ministry to the building up of the body of Christ.
Training pastors in third world countries
None
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 19 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.
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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Rfs Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rfs Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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