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The Bolick 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k28 grants · $180k
- $10k–50k144 grants · $4.2M
- $50k–250k90 grants · $9.2M
- $250k+4 grants · $8.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE LUTHERAN CHURCH MISSOURI SYNOD | $6,674,089 |
| LUTHERAN HOUR MINISTRIES | $990,667 |
| NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST | $957,155 |
| CONCORDIA SEMINARY ST LOUIS | $293,240 |
| EASTERN EUROPEAN MISSION | $248,547 |
| GATEWAY INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS | $200,000 |
| RADIUS INTERNATIONAL | $198,231 |
| OPERATION MOBILIZATION USA | $195,592 |
| MESA GLOBAL | $176,121 |
| LAUNCH GLOBAL | $172,311 |
| CONCORDIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY FT WAYNE | $171,106 |
| EVERY HOME FOR CHRIST | $159,149 |
| BIBLICAL EDUCATION BY EXTENSION INC | $149,480 |
| CHRISTIAN MISSIONARY FELLOWSHIP INT | $149,480 |
| BIG LIFE INTERNATIONAL | $149,480 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $477k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +11% since the first grant, against -10% for the ones you funded once.
267 repeat relationships — 199 still active in FY2025, 68 since wound down; 58 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- EMElam Ministries3× · 2023–2025 · $500k · revenue +2%
- RMRBC MINISTRIES5× · 2021–2025 · $479k · revenue +18%
- RIRADIUS INTERNATIONAL3× · 2023–2025 · $474k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- LWLCMS WORLD RELIEF AND HUMAN CAREone grant, 2021 · $75k
- LMLCMS MISSION FIELD USAone grant, 2021 · $50k
- TCTHE CENTER FOR MISSION MOBILIZATIONone grant, 2023 · $30k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — 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…
Bible Translation and acts of Christian Services
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…
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…
With a desire to see the Gospel proclaimed in all nations, we exist to make and multiply disciples of the next generation through the vehicles of church-planting missions and missional leadership training.
Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.
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…
International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures
Serving and pastoring overseas workers on their own turf and equipping nationals by training and empowering them in their work of advancing the gospel.
Reaching and teaching pastors in the majority world.
To support christian ministries throughout the world
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Global Outreach International Inc and the most unlike its peers is Iredell Statesville Bible Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
220 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 220 of the 360 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds GATEWAY INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds Elam Ministries ↗
- Who funds RBC MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds RADIUS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds LAUNCH GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds HARVESTERS MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE MAILBOX CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds The Rosser Foundation dba International Cooperating Ministries ↗
- Who funds SERVANT PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds E3 Partners Ministry ↗
- Who funds NEW MISSION SYSTEMS INC ↗
- Who funds BIGLIFE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Biblical Education By Extension Inc ↗
- Who funds ActBeyond ↗
- Who funds Luis Palau Association ↗
- Who funds East-West Ministries International ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Tyndale House Ministries · Christian Community Foundation Inc · International Generosity Foundation Trust · George Foundation Inc · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · G II Charities · Servant Foundation · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · From His Hand Foundation · Beaver Family Foundation Inc · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Underdown Family Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Bolick Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Lutheran World Relief Inc — 47% of income from government
- Childrens Impact Network Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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