· Private foundation
The Ben E Factor 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 $10k18 grants · $93k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $561k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $760k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH - LAFAYETTE | $500,000 |
| HIGHLAND BAPTIST SCHOOL | $240,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $120,000 |
| ACADIAN BAPTIST CENTER | $100,000 |
| INDIA PARTNERS | $100,000 |
| LA BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOM | $100,000 |
| LOUISIANA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| MISSION PREBORN | $40,000 |
| THE VOICE OF THE MARTYRS | $40,000 |
| GOSPEL LAKES MINISTRY | $40,000 |
| LEADING THE WAY | $40,000 |
| AMERICAN FAMILY ASSOC | $40,000 |
| SUSAN B ANTHONY PRO-LIFE | $30,000 |
| ST MARTINVILLE CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHI | $25,000 |
| EIGHT DAYS OF HOPE | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $503k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 5% of The Ben E Factor Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +29% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.
62 repeat relationships: 46 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 5 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LCLOUISIANA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +1%
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +134%
- IPIndia Partners6× · 2020–2025 · $598k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAYone grant, 2019 · $15k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $12k
Compassion International Incorporatedone grant, 2023 · $12k · revenue +16%
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…
Catholic answers is an apostolate dedicated to serving christ by bringing the fullness of catholic truth to the world. we help good catholics become better catholics, bring former catholics home, and lead non-catholics into the fullness of…
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 fifty seven countries around the world.
The organizations exempt purpose is to rescue orphans and widows, feed the poor, build the local church through ministry, crusades and outreaches and to win souls around the world.
Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.
Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.
To present the gospel by providing life-long opportunities to integrate faith and learning through balanced, biblically based scholarship, training people to love god by renewing their minds and equipping the church to engage the world for…
Since 1816, american bible society has been fulfilling its mission of making the bible available to every person in a language and format each can understand and afford so all people may experience its life-changing message.
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.
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…
Our mission is to go into all the world and preach the Gospel through all forms of media and broadcast. We are a Christian organization spreading the word of God to the ends of the earth.
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 83 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 LOUISIANA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds India Partners ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Mission Pre-Born Inc ↗
- Who funds ACADIAN BAPTIST CENTER ↗
- Who funds Zion's Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL SERVICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ST FRANCIS DINER INC ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EIGHT DAYS OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds IBERIA HOMELESS SHELTER ↗
- Who funds MARANATHA EVANGELISTIC MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF ACADIANA INC ↗
- Who funds MOTHER TERESA FOUNDATION INC DBA UNEXPECTED PREGNANCY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Dr James Dobson Family Institute ↗
- Who funds THE MAILBOX CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD HUNGER RELIEF INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Proclaiming the Gospel ↗
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: Community Foundation of Acadiana · Servant Foundation · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Ben E Factor Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ben E Factor Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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