· Public charity
The Bless Foundation
To financially support existing US based 501(c)(3) organiztions who do work in unreached parts of the world, advancing Christian Gospel by providing services, care, and education.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $50k–250k2 grants · $237k
- $250k+1 grant · $394k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Global Serve International | $393,701 |
| Pioneers | $156,188 |
| Ethnos360 | $81,189 |
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 (FY19–19, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 3 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
- GSGLOBAL SERVE INTERNATIONAL INC4× · 2022–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +125%
- JVJUSTICE VENTURES INTERNATIONAL2× · 2021–2022 · $303k · revenue +7%
- GCGLOBAL CHILD ADVOCATES2× · 2019–2020 · $210k · revenue +171% · 26% of their budget
Funded once
- SUSIM USA INCORPORATEDone grant, 2022 · $254k
- CECUSH EMPOWERMENT GROUPone grant, 2022 · $138k · revenue -1%
- OIOMF INTERNATIONAL INCone grant, 2022 · $105k
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.
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…
Religious
Empowering Lives International (ELI) ignites world changers. We equip families and orphans to crush poverty, embrace Christ, and share their transformation with others through their God-honoring income, their deepening relationship with…
Raise Up Global Ministries is committed to educating Christian leaders in communities around the world. The three programs of Raise Up equip the global church by 1 Developing biblically based interactive materials and 2 Training…
Global Servants empowers educates and evangelizes - primarily in West Africa and Southeast Asia - through girls homes education village investment preaching teaching and sharing Gods love globally.
Supportive ministry in countries such as china, india, & uganda. preaching and teaching the gospel, aiding farming and water initiatives, and serving the needs of women and girls.
Serving and pastoring overseas workers on their own turf and equipping nationals by training and empowering them in their work of advancing the gospel.
Heart Bridge International exists to equip and empower Christians around the world to fulfill the Great Commission. The organization provides free ministry training, discipleship resources, and practical coaching to under-resourced…
Facilitate a church and missions movement among pastors, church & mission leaders, theologians, business professionals, and young people in Asia to assist the church in witness of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Network Beyond is a Christian organization serving vulnerable and under-resourced people. We focus on three areas: 1. Leadership development - equipping global leaders with biblically based training. 2. Compassion and justice - support for…
How this is measured
12 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. 12 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 GLOBAL SERVE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE VENTURES INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL CHILD ADVOCATES ↗
- Who funds Zoe Empowers ↗
- Who funds CUSH EMPOWERMENT GROUP ↗
- Who funds STORYLINE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds ENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTITUTE IN CHINA ↗
- Who funds ANANIAS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds RED OAK HOPE ↗
- Who funds The Archibald Project Inc ↗
- Who funds LAUNCH GLOBAL ↗
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 · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Bless Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bless Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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