· Private foundation
The Foundation for the Advancement of Christianity
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $72k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $93k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Baptist Spanish Publishing House FoundationBibliaBible League International | $15,000 |
| Jesus Film Project | $15,000 |
| Wycliffe Bible Translators | $12,000 |
| Faith Comes by Hearing | $11,000 |
| Bible League International | $10,000 |
| Jesus Online Ministries | $10,000 |
| Biblia | $10,000 |
| e3 Partners | $10,000 |
| SAT-7 | $8,000 |
| Gideons International | $6,500 |
| Bible Study Fellowship | $6,000 |
| Mission Aviation Fellowship | $6,000 |
| The Navigators | $5,000 |
| Groundwire | $5,000 |
| Slavic Gospel Associationi | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 78% of your 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 +52% since the first grant, against -14% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- EPE3 Partners Ministry4× · 2020–2024 · $26k · revenue +52%
- JMJESUSONLINE MINISTRIES2× · 2023–2024 · $18k · revenue +6%
BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP4× · 2020–2024 · $16k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- BSBap Spanish Pub House Foundationone grant, 2020 · $30k
- BSBaptist Spanish Publishing Houseone grant, 2021 · $15k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
Jubal band ministries mission is to invite people to become disciples of christian life with jesus.
Religious
The purpose of the organization is to share the passionate love of god the father throughout the world, his salvation through his son, the lord jesus christ, and to lead people to an experience with the holy spirit and his power. our…
To spread the gospel of jesus christ through crusades
Since 1816, american bible society has been fulfilling its mission of making the bible available to every person in a language and format each can understand and afford so all people may experience its life-changing message.
This media outreach tool affords preachers and teachers of the Word in Christs Kingdom the global projection of media gospel. Our vision of Propagate Media Incorporation is to lift Jesus Christ higher for the world to see! But I, when I am…
To propagate the gospel of jesus christ; to examine candidates and appoint missionaries. to endorse missionary programs according to standards set forth in the new testament, to establish churches, church schools & mission societies in…
Our Gospel Radio Program in Arabic was inaugurated in 1993, broadcast from the Middle East on 5 transmitters and on the internet. Approximately 350 million Arabs can receive the programs. Our Farsi Gospel Radio Program was inaugurated in…
Conducts daily devotional services and sponsors religious projects in developing countries.
Spread the Christianity
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Open Doors International Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hope Ignited. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 38 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) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
12 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. 12 of the 46 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
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 E3 Partners Ministry ↗
- Who funds JESUSONLINE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP ↗
- Who funds SAT-7 NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Bibles For The World ↗
- Who funds EQUIP INDIA INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOORS INTERNATIONAL USA INC ↗
- Who funds Scriptures In Use ↗
- Who funds HOPE IGNITED ↗
- Who funds CHAMPION MINISTRIES INC ↗
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: Calvary Foundation · The Bolick Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Servant Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Foundation for the Advancement of Christianity 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.
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.