· Private foundation
Rilan Foundation Inc
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, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $23k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAITH WINS | $23,000 |
| TEACH RIGHT USA | $4,000 |
| DUTCH SHEETS MINISTRIES | $2,000 |
| TEMPLE BAPTIST CHURCH | $1,800 |
| LIBERTY SPRINGS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $500 |
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 (FY19–19, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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
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.
6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DTDAMON THOMPSON MINISTRIES INC4× · 2018–2021 · $52k · revenue +69%
- FWFaith Wins2× · 2024–2025 · $33k · revenue -30%
- HCHOPE CHAPEL OF CAROLINA5× · 2018–2022 · $25k
Funded once
- WOWORD OF GOD CHURCH & MINISTRIESone grant, 2022 · $5k
- PFPALMETTO FRONT LINE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $4k · revenue -69%
- LELOU ENGLE MINISTRIESone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue 0%
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.
To reach lost people with the transforming Gospel of Jesus Christ
Tim Lee Ministries purpose is to preach the life changing truth of the Word of God, declaring salvation through Jesus Christ and a strong message of revival.
Proclaim the gospel of jesus christ
Connecting biblical soul care to missions through the local church.
Torch of Christ Ministries provides evangelism, education, and missional support through the dissemination of information with the primary intent of preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ to all.
Ambassadors for Christ International - USA is a fellowship of gospel preachers and teachers whose mission is to preach Christ, edify the Church, and to glorify God and serve as a catalyst for revival, evangelism, and training of Christians…
To Identify, Affirm, Train, and Mobilize Ephesians 4 evangelists to equip the church for evangelism.
Publishing, writing, sales & distribution of Christian Books; speaking throughout the US and foreign countries on Christian subjects. Attending orphanages, Christian schools and Bible colleges in the US and foreign countries assisting in…
To spread the Gospel of Jesus the Christ
Proclaim the gospel worldwide, prepare followers of jesus christ, and propel those into their god given destiny.
Present the gospel
Leadership Revolution is a ministry founded to develop leaders globally who will spread the gospel and make disciples in their arena of influence.
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 26 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 DAMON THOMPSON MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Faith Wins ↗
- Who funds DUTCH SHEETS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds TEACH RIGHT USA ↗
- Who funds PALMETTO FRONT LINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOU ENGLE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE OPEN DOOR CHRISTIAN CENTER ↗
- Who funds Hope for Brazil Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds ONE COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds Canoeing for Kids ↗
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: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Rilan Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rilan Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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