· Private foundation
The Anonymous Foundation
Its FY2024 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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $5k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $339k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Josiah Venture | $90,000 |
| Hope International | $46,000 |
| Samaritan's Purse | $35,000 |
| Emit USA Inc | $35,000 |
| Wounded Warrior Project | $35,000 |
| The Well House | $35,000 |
| The Foundry Ministries | $35,000 |
| Restoration Academy | $35,000 |
| Aspire Movement | $35,000 |
| STEPS Ministries | $35,000 |
| Emit USA Inc | $13,200 |
| Josiah Venture | $3,600 |
| Compassion International | $989 |
| World Vision | $420 |
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 (FY20–24, $220k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.
15 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 4 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 FY2024, 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
- JVJosiah Venture8× · 2017–2024 · $629k · revenue +46%
HOPE INTERNATIONAL8× · 2017–2024 · $260k · revenue +140%- EUEmit USA Inc6× · 2017–2024 · $200k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- ACAlabama Coalition for Healthy Mothers and Children - Aspire Movementone grant, 2022 · $25k
- SBSTUDIO BY THE TRACKS INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +39%
- FRFREEDOM RAIN INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +129%
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.
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…
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.
The mission of hope international university is to empower students through christian higher education to serve the church and impact the world for christ. the university specializes in fields offering significant influence on society…
To get the good news to every nation this generation by showing and sharing god's love by providing opportunities and supporting christian missionaries in over seventy countries around the world.
To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…
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…
Training pastors, growing churches, and transforming communities for christ.
Redeem's mission is to protect widows and orphans from violent abuse and exploitation.
Entrust's mission is to multiply church leaders through accessible, locally owned, reproducible training systems. this is accomplished through facilitated learning, assisting christians in gaining solid understanding of scripture, and…
Asbury Theological Seminary is a community called to prepare theologically educated, sanctified, Spirit-filled men and women to evangelize and to spread scriptural holiness throughout the world through the love of Jesus Christ, in the…
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.
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.
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 20 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 Josiah Venture ↗
- Who funds HOPE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Emit USA Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDRY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE WELLHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Millsaps College ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds STEPS MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds ASPIRE MOVEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds THE RESTORATION ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HOPE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds STUDIO BY THE TRACKS INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM RAIN INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds HERSHORIN SCHIFF DAY SCHOOLS OF TOMORROW 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.
Open a dossier: Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Nall-Whatley Foundation · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Altecstyslinger Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · W W Walker Jr and Family Charitable Foundation · The Robert and Lois Luckie Charitable Foundation · Pete M Hanna Charitable Foundation · Campbell Estelle S Char Foundation · Dunn-French Foundation · Debardeleben Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Anonymous Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Anonymous Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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