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Taylor Christian Foundation

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.

$361k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$120k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$2.1MYouth Development$103kEducation$74kHealth$21kRecreation & Sports$5k
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $57k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $259k
$5,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$5.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOREST SPRINGS - CEDAR BAY$120,000
Individual grant recipient$80,000
Individual grant recipient$59,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
LIFE BRIDGE$12,000
SCRIPTURE UNION$10,000
CONCORD CHRISTIAN ACADEMY$10,000
STILL WATER CAMP$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
TEEN CHALLENGE$5,000
MENDENHALL MINISTRIES$5,000
TEEN CHALLENGE$5,000
CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP$4,000
PIVOT MINISTRIES INC$4,000
PIONEER CLUBS$3,000
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%TEEN CHALLENGE: $5k → 8%CHRIST FOR THE CITY: $10k → 12%STILL WATER CAMP: $5k → 7%MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE: $10k → 14%FOREST SPRINGS - CEDAR BAY: $120k → 14%NORTHWOODS CHRISTIAN CAM: $25k → 16%PIVOT MINISTRIES INC: $5k → 9%YOUNG LIFE RI: $5k → 14%WORLD GOSPEL MISSION: $10k → 19%PIONEER CLUBS: $10k → 7%MENDENHALL MINISTRIES: $10k → 16%CONCORD CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $10k → 7%TOAH NIPI CAMP: $110k → 9%LIFE BRIDGE NH: $17k → 9%TEEN CHALLENGE: $5k → 8%CEDAR CAMPUS: $80k → 14%NORTHWOODS CHRISTIAN CAM: $25k → 16%YOUNG LIFE RI: $5k → 14%PIONEER CLUBS: $5k → 7%MENDENHALL MINISTRIES MS: $10k → 16%CONCORD CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $10k → 7%TOAH NIPI CAMP: $95k → 9%LIFE BRIDGE: $15k → 9%TEEN CHALLENGE: $5k → 8%CEDAR CAMPUS: $80k → 14%NORTHWOODS CHRISTIAN CAMP: $22k → 16%MENDENHALL MINISTRIES: $10k → 16%CONCORD CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $10k → 7%TOAH NIPI CAMP: $80k → 9%LIFE BRIDGE: $15k → 9%CEDAR CAMPUS: $75k → 14%NORTHWOODS CHRISTIAN CAM: $20k → 16%CONCORD CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $10k → 7%CAMP TOAH NIPI: $80k → 9%LIFE BRIDGE NH: $15k → 9%CEDAR CAMPUS: $75k → 14%NORTHWOODS CHRISTIAN CAMP: $20k → 16%CONCORD CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $10k → 7%TOAH NIPI CAMP: $80k → 9%LIFE BRIDGE NH: $15k → 9%NORTHWOODS CHRISTIAN CAM: $20k → 16%CONCORD CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $10k → 7%LIFE BRIDGE: $14k → 9%NORTHWOODS CHRISTIAN MI: $15k → 16%CONCORD CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $10k → 7%LIFE BRIDGE: $12k → 9%YOUNG LIFE: $9k → 7%CORNERSTONE CHRISTIAN ACA: $10k → 9%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
IL
WI
MI
MA
IN
PA
CT
RI
CA
NE
MO
VA
DC
MS
TX
FL
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 23 repeat orgs$266k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against -54% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
7

Total granted

$2.0M
$61k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
-54%

Still filing today

35%
14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $205k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationReligionRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • CC
    Concord Christian Academy
    7× · 2017–2025 · $70k · revenue +139%
  • SU
    Scripture Union
    7× · 2017–2025 · $70k · revenue +36%
  • PM
    PIVOT MINISTRIES INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $21k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
  • MM
    MENDENHALL MINISTRIES MS
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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
Covenant Christian School

Covenant Christian School (CCS) is committed to the academic, spiritual, physical, and social growth of our children in a Christ-centered environment. Continued on Schedule O Covenant Christian School cultivates a distinctive generation…

Education
2
Providence Christian Academy

In dependence upon Almighty God, for His glory alone, and together with family and church, the mission of Providence Christian Academy is to provide exemplary education for the vulnerable in the light of God's Word for time and eternity.

Education
3
Summit Classical Christian School

Summit Classical Christian School is a PreK-12 school that exists to cultivate generations of joyful disciples of Christ by partnering with faithful Christian families to educate their children from a Biblical worldview using classical…

Education
4
New Covenant Academy

New Covenant Academy NCA is a Christian college preparatory school. NCAs mission is to educate, enable, and equip the Christian Leaders of Tomorrow. NCA is committed to offering theologically sound, balanced, and practical Christian…

Education
5
Carolina Christian Academy

Educational instruciton for students in prek-12th grades.

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6
Arborbrook Christian Academy

Arborbrook Christian Academy partners with parents to equip, empower, and encourage students to cultivate godly character, pursue life-long learning, and love the Lord Jesus Christ.

Education
7
Colleyville Covenant Christian

The mission is to provide a biblically based classical college preparatory education that inspires a passion for excellence a heart of grace and the character of Christ.

Education
8
Boston Center for Biblical Counseling
Philanthropy
9
Seacoast Christian School

Seacoast Christian School is a private not-for-profit non-boarding Christian school. In addition to striving for academic excellence, it seeks to teach students to be life-long servants of God and to live out their faith in all area of…

Education
10
Christianity Today International

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.

Religion
11
Crossroads Christian Academy Attn Lee Guetterman

Crossroads Christian Academy partners with parents to provide a Christ-Centered, college preparatory education where students are allowed to further develop their God-given talents and virtues and become college-worthy character witnesses…

Education
12
Camp Verde United Christian School

We want our students to know Jesus and be loved. UCS nutures each one to grow their faith and excel academically through Christ-centerd, Bible-based instruction.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pioneer Clubs; the most unlike its peers is Museum of the Bible. 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

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 33 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INTERVARSITY CHRISTIAN: $455,791 · OtherINTERVARSITY CHRISTIANIndividual grant recipient: $365,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $310,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $254,200 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFOREST SPRINGS - CEDAR BAY: $120,000 · OtherFOREST SPRINGS - CEDAR BAYIndividual grant recipient: $90,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $80,000 · OtherScripture Union: $70,000 · Other+18 more: $281,500 · Other+18 moreLife Bridge Inc: $103,000 · EducationConcord Christian Academy: $70,000 · Education+1 more: $4,000 · EducationPioneer Clubs: $38,000 · ReligionTHE MENDENHALL MINISTRIES: $35,000 · ReligionCHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP INC: $6,000 · Youth DevelopmentSTILL WATER CAMPS INC: $5,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$2,026,491Education$177,000Religion$73,000Youth Development$6,000Recreation & Sports$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLife Bridge Inc: $103,000 over 7y, 13% of budgetConcord Christian Academy: $70,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetScripture Union: $70,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetPioneer Clubs: $38,000 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetTHE MENDENHALL MINISTRIES: $35,000 over 5y, 7.6% of budgetPIVOT MINISTRIES INC: $21,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE BIBLE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVERITAS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds Life Bridge Inc ↗
  • Who funds Concord Christian Academy ↗
  • Who funds Scripture Union ↗
  • Who funds Pioneer Clubs ↗
  • Who funds THE MENDENHALL MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds PIVOT MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE ↗
  • Who funds CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds STILL WATER CAMPS INC ↗
  • Who funds VERITAS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC ↗

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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA11.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Taylor Christian Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Taylor Christian Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%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
    2get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Taylor Christian Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Taylor Christian Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 33 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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