· Private foundation
Simpson Charitable Trust
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 $10k44 grants · $150k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DALLAS THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $30,000 |
| LETOURNEAU UNIVERSITY | $9,000 |
| JONI AND FRIENDS | $7,000 |
| CROWN FINANCIAL MINISTRIES | $7,000 |
| GOSPEL LAKE MINISTRIES | $7,000 |
| PASSION FOR THE POOR INT'L | $7,000 |
| CHILD EVANGILISM FELLOWSHIP | $7,000 |
| BELIEVER'S CHAPEL | $6,000 |
| JEWS FOR JESUS | $6,000 |
| AVANT MINISTRIES | $6,000 |
| EMMANUEL ASSOCIATES | $6,000 |
| FRIENDS OF ISRAEL | $6,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| ONE CHALLENGE | $5,000 |
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, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of Simpson Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 59% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 63%.
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 +25% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.
53 repeat relationships: 45 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DTDallas Theological Seminary6× · 2020–2025 · $221k · revenue +39%
- PFPASSION FOR THE POOR INTERNATIONAL6× · 2020–2025 · $49k · revenue +66%
- GLGOSPEL LAKES MINISTRIES INC6× · 2020–2025 · $43k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $9k
- MAMISSION AVIATION FELLOWSHIPone grant, 2020 · $5k
- PUPAK7 US Incone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +1%
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.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
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…
Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…
Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.
Reaching and teaching pastors in the majority world.
The organization is dedicated to reaching people for christ through an international network of christians who journey with the poor and marginalized, bringing practical and spiritual support with hope of a better future,(continued on…
To provide resources, training, and continuing support to leaders in the us and around the world in order that they may help others find freedom in christ.
The King's University integrates Biblical education and practical ministry to shape Spirit-formed individuals who follow Jesus, serve His Church, and are sent to impact the world.
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
Bible Translation and acts of Christian Services
To assist the church, primarily in closed countries, in the establishment of continuing indigenous church-based training centers in which servant leaders are equipped to develop growing and reproducing churches.
How this is measured
30 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. 30 of the 75 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 Dallas Theological Seminary ↗
- Who funds PASSION FOR THE POOR INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds GOSPEL LAKES MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CROWN FINANCIAL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds LeTourneau University ↗
- Who funds EAST TEXAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The Urban Alternative ↗
- Who funds EMMANUEL AND ASSOCIATES INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR THE HEART ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL INSTITUTE FOR SEXUAL HEALTH ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds Dr James Dobson Family Institute ↗
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 · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Dallas Seminary Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · South Carolina Christian Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vjs Charitable Private Foundation · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Simpson Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Simpson Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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