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The Bolick Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
51% of The Bolick Foundation’s FY2026 grant dollars went to National Philanthropic Trust, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2026 names 82 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2025, the last year The Bolick Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 218 organizations, $23M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
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 (FY21–26, $512k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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 +12% since the first grant, against -10% for those funded once.
288 repeat relationships: 220 still active in FY2025, 68 since wound down; 52 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call). Read against FY2025, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2026, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $824k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LGLAUNCH GLOBAL4× · 2023–2026 · $608k · revenue +117%
- TRThe Rosser Foundation dba International Cooperating Ministries4× · 2023–2026 · $536k · revenue +12%
- BIBIGLIFE INTERNATIONAL INC4× · 2023–2026 · $515k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- LWLCMS WORLD RELIEF AND HUMAN CAREone grant, 2021 · $75k
- LMLCMS MISSION FIELD USAone grant, 2021 · $50k
- OEOPEN EYES FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $30k
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…
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…
International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures
Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.
Serving and pastoring overseas workers on their own turf and equipping nationals by training and empowering them in their work of advancing the gospel.
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.
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…
Provide christian teaching for pastors, teachers and other church leaders in various parts of the world. the teaching includes the bible, theology, church history, apologetics and practical ministry and related fields.
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.
Reaching and teaching pastors in the majority world.
How this is measured
227 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 227 of the 375 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS INC ↗
- Who funds LAUNCH GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds The Rosser Foundation dba International Cooperating Ministries ↗
- Who funds BIGLIFE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Elam Ministries ↗
- Who funds RBC MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds RADIUS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds E3 Partners Ministry ↗
- Who funds HARVESTERS MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE MAILBOX CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds SERVANT PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW MISSION SYSTEMS INC ↗
- Who funds East-West Ministries International ↗
- Who funds Biblical Education By Extension Inc ↗
- Who funds VISION BEYOND BORDERS INC ↗
- Who funds JAARS 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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Bolick Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bolick Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Lutheran World Relief Inc: 47% of income from government
- Childrens Impact Network Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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