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Servant Foundation
The Signatry advances the Christian faith by carrying out its mission, "to inspire and facilitate revolutionary biblical generosity across generations to solve the world's greatest problems," through financial and other support of I.R.C.
Read this first · the figures below need context
76% of Servant Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Signatry Charitable Trust, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 1320 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Servant Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 2037 organizations, $575M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k399 grants · $2.8M
- $10k–50k1098 grants · $22M
- $50k–250k406 grants · $40M
- $250k+190 grants · $510M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COME AND SEE FOUNDATION INC | $100,005,050 |
| NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION | $50,408,975 |
| EVERY HOME FOR CHRIST (WORLD LITERATURE CRUSADE) | $49,523,971 |
| TRUSTBRIDGE GLOBAL (INTERNATIONAL GENEROSITY FOUNDATION) | $26,741,900 |
| ONE HOPE INC | $26,051,000 |
| THE SIGNATRY CHARITABLE TRUST | $25,183,122 |
| ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM | $18,058,900 |
| LIFE COVENANT CHURCH INC | $10,113,700 |
| ANSWERS IN GENESIS | $8,888,400 |
| NEW HORIZONS FOUNDATION INC | $8,874,999 |
| THE EAGLE SKY FOUNDATION INC | $7,545,000 |
| WINGS SPECIAL NEEDS ADULT COMMUNITY | $6,568,588 |
| CONVOY OF HOPE | $6,564,700 |
| CONSERVATIVE PARTNERSHIP INSTITUTE | $5,447,960 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $4,116,313 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $60.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
1574 repeat relationships — 1222 still active in FY2023, 352 since wound down; 220 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.4M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM7× · 2019–2025 · $101M · revenue +97% · 29% of their budget- AIANSWERS IN GENESIS INC8× · 2017–2025 · $38M · revenue +100%
- MMMISSION MUTUAL6× · 2019–2024 · $27M · revenue +5% · 81% of their budget
Funded once
- ACARIZONA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $3.5M · revenue +38%
- AOACRES OF LOVEone grant, 2022 · $3.0M · revenue -44% · 63% of their budget
- CCCHRIST CHURCH CHICAGOone grant, 2021 · $1.0M
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evangelism, disciple-making, and church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities around the world, starting in North America.
To inspire, equip and facilitate the spreading of the gospel of jesus christ globally with education, cross-cultural training, and church planting.
To equip and assist christians and their churches to respond to conflict biblically.
Grace Global Ministries exists to assist local churches in sending global workers to fulfill the Great Commission.
Reaching and teaching Pastors in the majority world
CrossTalk Global is a Christian educational organization that empowers and trains global church leaders to effectively communicate the Scriptures and share the hope of Christ in their communities. These projects are carried out in the USA…
Empowering Christian leaders to pray for the harvest
Christian Harvest International serves to train and teach the church to change their communities, cities, and nations through effective, strategic prayer and to see souls converted to the Christian life.
Crossing Cultures International, Inc. exists to glorify God by equipping Christ followers globally with comprehensive training for effective ministry.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Coaches Outreach and the most unlike its peers is United States Squash Racquets. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
1336 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1336 of the 2,000 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE SIGNATRY CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL GENEROSITY FOUNDATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds Givers Legacy Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds ANSWERS IN GENESIS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MISSION MUTUAL ↗
- Who funds BIBLICA INC ↗
- Who funds The Eagle Sky Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds DEAF BIBLE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CONVOY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds CBMC INC ↗
- Who funds CHRIST FOR ALL NATIONS ↗
- Who funds TOY GUN FILMS INC ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds The Children's Center Inc ↗
- Who funds WATER4 INC ↗
- Who funds BIGLIFE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds PULSE OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds HUMAN COALITION ↗
- Who funds Conservative Partnership Institute ↗
- Who funds SK FOUNDATION USA INC ↗
- Who funds The New Horizons Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Edify ↗
- Who funds HOPE IS ALIVE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds SATTLER COLLEGE ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Signatry Charitable Trust · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · International Generosity Foundation Trust · G II Charities · First Fruit Inc · Dallas Seminary Foundation · The Bolick Foundation · Prairie Creek Partners Charitable Foundation · Hugh and Charlotte Maclellan Charitable Charitable Trust · Gordon Christian Trust · Stitt Charitable Foundation · Project42
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Servant Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Oral Roberts University — 0% of income from government
- Matthew's Hope Ministries Inc — 0% of income from government
- Love a Child Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.