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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.

$165k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
25
Grants FY2024
24
Organizations funded FY2023
42%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
23 to 25
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
14
Total assets, FY2024
$3.6M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 42% of the organizations The Foundation for the Advancement of Christianity funded were first-time grantees, receiving 43% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’23
ReligionFood & NutritionHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving25$165k8%
FY202324$147k42%
FY202125$131k44%
FY202023$148kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Religion$552kArts & Culture$17kInternational$10kFood & Nutrition$6kYouth Development$5kHuman Services$1k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
MN
IL
PA
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
AR
TN
NC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Campus Crusade for Christ Inc$34,0003n/a
Mission Aviation Fellowship$32,5004n/a
Wycliffe Bible Translators Inc$32,0003n/a
Bible League$29,5004n/a
Gideons International$26,5004n/a
E3 Partners Ministry$26,00040%
Jesusonline Ministries$17,50021%
The Navigators$16,5004n/a
Bible Study Fellowship$16,00040%
Sat-7 North America$15,00020%
Show all 23 grantees
All grantees of The Foundation for the Advancement of Christianity by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Campus Crusade for Christ Inc$34,0003n/a
Mission Aviation Fellowship$32,5004n/a
Wycliffe Bible Translators Inc$32,0003n/a
Bible League$29,5004n/a
Gideons International$26,5004n/a
E3 Partners Ministry$26,00040%
Jesusonline Ministries$17,50021%
The Navigators$16,5004n/a
Bible Study Fellowship$16,00040%
Sat-7 North America$15,00020%
Bibles For The World$13,00020%
Equip India Inc$12,00043%
Samaritan's Purse$10,00020%
Texas Baptist Men Inc$9,0002n/a
Open Doors International USA Inc$7,50020%
Scriptures In Use$7,00020%
Jews for Jesus$6,0002n/a
Hope Ignited$5,50030%
Slavic Gospel Association$5,0001n/a
Champion Ministries Inc$5,00010%
B H Carroll Theological Institute$5,0001n/a
Mark Brister Ministries$3,00014%
Restoring Hope$1,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($256k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Foundation for the Advancement of Christianity supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetE3 Partners Ministry: $26,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJesusonline Ministries: $17,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBible Study Fellowship: $16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSat-7 North America: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBibles For The World: $13,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEquip India Inc: $12,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOpen Doors International USA Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetScriptures In Use: $7,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHope Ignited: $5,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetChampion Ministries Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMark Brister Ministries: $3,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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.

Calvary FoundationPA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The Foundation for the Advancement of Christianity

How much does The Foundation for the Advancement of Christianity give?
The Foundation for the Advancement of Christianity reported 25 grants totaling $165,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 25 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does The Foundation for the Advancement of Christianity fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (94%), Arts & Culture (3%), International (2%).
Who are The Foundation for the Advancement of Christianity's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Campus Crusade for Christ Inc ($34k), Mission Aviation Fellowship ($33k), Wycliffe Bible Translators Inc ($32k).
Does The Foundation for the Advancement of Christianity fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Foundation for the Advancement of Christianity accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Foundation for the Advancement of Christianity?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Calvary Foundation, The Bolick Foundation, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc.
Where is The Foundation for the Advancement of Christianity based?
The Foundation for the Advancement of Christianity is based in TX.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 46 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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