· Private foundation
The Cross Foundation
Its FY2024 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, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k27 grants · $99k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $191k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $843k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Reach The Rest | $200,000 |
| International Generosity Foundation | $165,000 |
| Sport Catalyst | $100,000 |
| Second Baptist Church | $96,745 |
| Individual grant recipient | $75,000 |
| Revival Sports Inc | $56,000 |
| Mission of Hope | $50,076 |
| New Covenant Missions Inc | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| Full Gospel Korean Chruch of Houston | $40,500 |
| Foundry Partners Inc - DBA Rooted Conferences | $25,000 |
| Arabian World Partnership | $24,420 |
| U Of N Kona | $23,200 |
| Global Operations For All Peoples | $20,000 |
| Revival | $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 (FY20–24, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% 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 +33% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.
51 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $303k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- EIEpic International Corporation3× · 2020–2024 · $559k · revenue +167%
- SCSports Catalyst Inc4× · 2020–2024 · $451k · revenue +90%
- NCNEW COVENANT MISSIONS INC2× · 2021–2024 · $102k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- GGGracelyn Global Education Foundationone grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue +18%
- YSYellowstone Schoolone grant, 2022 · $130k
- KIKIDSAVE INTERNATIONAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $77k · revenue +110%
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.
Religious
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…
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…
Reconciliaton Ministries Intl. is a Christian evangelical organization preaching and teaching the Word of God in over 60 countries. The ministry equips and encourages Christians everywhere to be saved, healed, and delivered according to…
To help spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ by providing resources and financial support to projects throughout Asia
Childrens Home and Ministry in India
Our mission is proclaiming the message of salvation through the saving power of the Holy Spirit to reach the unreached by evangelizing; motivating, mobilizing and organizing the body of Christ.
Ariana Ministries is an Afghan-led ministry carrying out the Great Commission by planting and supporting churches among the Afghan people groups. We focus on evengelism, discipleship, leaders training and providing pastoral care and…
To provide strategic teaching about prayer, prophecy, and intercession in the US and abroad. Books, manuals, and audio teachings are also used to equip Christians in strategic level spiritual prayer and warfare.
Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.
Our vision is to catalyze a Disciple Making Movement that will bless every church and every People, teaching others who will impact others for time and eternity.
How this is measured
45 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. 45 of the 103 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 Epic International Corporation ↗
- Who funds Sports Catalyst Inc ↗
- Who funds AG FULL GOSPEL KOREAN CHURCH OF HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds Gracelyn Global Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds NEW COVENANT MISSIONS INC ↗
- Who funds ANANIAS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds REVIVAL SPORT INC ↗
- Who funds Revival ↗
- Who funds KIDSAVE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds AS OUR OWN NFP ↗
- Who funds ARABIAN WORLD PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR CHRISTIAN SERVICE ↗
- Who funds MISSION OF HOPE INC MISSION OF HOPE HAITI INC ↗
- Who funds HIS VOICE INC HIS VOICE GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds E3 Partners Ministry ↗
- Who funds Axia International ↗
- Who funds East-West Ministries International ↗
- Who funds GATHERING OF MEN INC ↗
- Who funds Elijah Rising ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF ASIAN CULTURE & DEVELOPMENT ↗
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 · Stoller Foundation · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Servant Foundation · C Wayne and Patricia J Miller Foundation · International Generosity Foundation Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · More Than The Move Foundation DBA Hope Legacy Collective · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Oldham Little Church Foundation · Strake Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Cross Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Cross Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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