· Private foundation
The Foundation for Church Growth
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $23k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE BRANCH CHURCH | $22,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| LIFELINE CHAPLAINCY | $5,000 |
| NAMIKANGO MISSION | $5,000 |
| BILLY GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| CORNERSTONE CROSSROADS ACADEMY | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–21, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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
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 +72% since the first grant, against +51% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MMMarketplace Ministries Inc7× · 2018–2024 · $21k · revenue +72%
- LCLifeline Chaplaincy Inc7× · 2018–2025 · $19k · revenue +36%
- TCTHE CHRISTIAN RELIEF FUND6× · 2019–2024 · $15k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- OBOLIVE BRANCH MINISTRIES INTERNATIONALgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +51%
- OBOLIVE BRANCH MINISTRIES INCone grant, 2021 · $1k
- CCCOLLEGESIDE CHURCH OF CHRISTone grant, 2020 · $1k
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…
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 a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
Christian leadership alliance exists to equip and unite leaders called to transform the world for christ.
Christian leaders from africa promotes christian theological training & education of local leaders in kenya and throughout africa. it invests in undergraduate, masters, and phd scholarships, faculty support for african professors and…
Crossroads combines innovative clinical counseling with a redemptive worldview to restore people to emotional health, relational unity, and a hopeful future.
To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.
Central christian college of the bible (central) exists to develop servant-leaders for the church. as a traditional undergraduate bible college of the restoration movement, central equips faithful men and women for leadership ministry.
Charis Bible Colleges, Inc. (CBC) was established to train and equip individuals to carry out the Gospel of Jesus Christ through practical application through mentoring, training, and teaching.
The mission of criswell college is to provide ministerial and professional higher education for men and women preparing to serve as christian leaders throughout society, while maintaining an institutional commitment to biblical inerrancy.
Provide education in theology, divinity, religious education, ministerial training, business and organizational leadership.
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 21 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 ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Marketplace Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds Lifeline Chaplaincy Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CHRISTIAN RELIEF FUND ↗
- Who funds NAMIKANGO MISSION (US) INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CITYSQUARE ↗
- Who funds MISSIONS RESOURCE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds CHANGE A LIFE MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds OLIVE BRANCH MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE CROSSROADS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds LUBBOCK CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
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: Servant Foundation · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Foundation for Church Growth funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Foundation for Church Growth. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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