· Private foundation
The Armstrong Family 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $100k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $155k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLORADO CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY | $105,000 |
| ASONE MINISTRIES | $50,000 |
| DARE2SHARE | $25,000 |
| MOMENTUM GLOBAL | $20,000 |
| GLOBAL DMM | $15,000 |
| CROSS PURPOSE | $10,000 |
| AMBLESIDE SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| THE WOODSON CENTER | $10,000 |
| ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM | $10,000 |
| AMERICANS UNITED FOR LIFE | $5,000 |
| SUSAN B ANTHONY PRO-LIFE AMERICA | $5,000 |
| LEADERSHIP PROGRAM OF THE ROCKIES | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| ONE CHANCE TO GROW UP | $5,000 |
| MIZEL INSTITUTE | $2,500 |
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 (FY21–21, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
31 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 15 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CCColorado Christian University9× · 2017–2025 · $2.8M · revenue +50%
- MGMOMENTUM GLOBAL INC8× · 2018–2025 · $272k · revenue +165% · 30% of their budget
- D2Dare 2 Share Ministries8× · 2017–2025 · $190k · revenue +71%
Funded once
- TGTHE GLOUCESTER INSTITUTE INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +557% · 31% of their budget
- WLWHITESTONE LEADERSHIP FORUMone grant, 2018 · $20k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $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.
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.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
American press institute acts as a scout on the frontier of technology and audience behavior to identify where change is occurring and helps news organizations learn how to implement and scale that change successfully so they have a…
To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…
The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.
The Center of Theological Inquiry is an independent research institution with an international visiting scholar program which convenes researchers in an ideal setting for interdisciplinary inquiries where theology casts light on global…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
The American-German Institute is a center for policy research and scholarship dedicated to the most important political, economic, and security issues confronting Germany and the United States in the global arena. AGI anticipates…
How this is measured
37 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. 37 of the 48 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.
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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 · Adolph Coors Foundation · Daniels Fund · Donors Trust Inc · El Pomar Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Bruce Benson Foundation · Considine Family Foundation · Tyl Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Armstrong Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Armstrong Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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