· Private foundation
The Code Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
94% of The Code Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year The Code Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 40 organizations, $2M. 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, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k29 grants · $118k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $338k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $414k
- $250k+2 grants · $920k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHRISTIAN LIFE MINISTRIES | $650,000 |
| EL SHADDAI MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL | $270,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $113,750 |
| GAP COMMUNITY CENTER | $112,500 |
| ABUNDANT LIFE REVIVAL MINISTRIES | $75,000 |
| BY THE HAND CLUB FOR KIDS | $62,500 |
| CATALYST SCHOOLS | $50,000 |
| CURE INTERNATIONAL | $47,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION | $25,135 |
| BREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| KANAKUK MINISTRIES | $20,000 |
| OVERCOMERS CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES UGANDA | $16,000 |
| ALL GOD'S CHILDREN FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES | $15,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION | $12,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $544k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 90% 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.
59 repeat relationships: 52 still active in FY2019, 7 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call). Read against FY2019, 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 FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CSCATALYST SCHOOLS3× · 2017–2019 · $450k · revenue +59%
- YLYOUNG LIFE3× · 2017–2019 · $449k · revenue +59%
- BTBy The Hand Club For Kids3× · 2017–2019 · $413k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- OCOVERCOMERS CHRISTIAN MINISTRYone grant, 2017 · $50k
- MOMUSEUM OF THE BIBLEone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -54%
- ITINTERNATIONAL TEAMSone grant, 2018 · $45k
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 part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
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…
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
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…
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
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.
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.
Kingdom advisors is a discipleship ministry serving christian financial professionals. the organization encourages, educates, and empowers christian financial professionals with biblical wisdom to be effective disciples of jesus christ in…
Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.
Crossroads combines innovative clinical counseling with a redemptive worldview to restore people to emotional health, relational unity, and a hopeful future.
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.
How this is measured
53 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. 53 of the 91 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 NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ↗
- Who funds ABUNDANT LIFE REVIVAL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CATALYST SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds By The Hand Club For Kids ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN LIFE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US ↗
- Who funds GAP COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CURE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds AGC LTD ↗
- Who funds The Progressive Manor House ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE URBAN MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE GOSPEL MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds LYDIA HOME ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Kanakuk Ministries ↗
- Who funds GRIP OUTREACH FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds SERVANTWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS ACROSS AMERICA ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE ↗
- Who funds InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL MEDIA OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds Dare 2 Share Ministries ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO FELLOWSHIP ↗
- Who funds Inner City Impact ↗
- Who funds SERGE GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds Entrenuity 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: The MacKenzie Family Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Collier Community Foundation Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Hallene Family Foundation Inc · Kehe Cares Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Chicago Community Trust · Barnabas Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Code Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Code Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
- Citizen Schools Inc: 8% of income from government
How this is measured
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