· Public charity
The Fuller Foundation
THE FULLER FOUNDATION serves fuller theological seminary through advancement activities and endowment management, as well as its partners, including churches and denominations, and the broader christian community by being a trusted advisor in the provision of financial services.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 43 grants below total $3,718,510 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,924,700 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $206,190 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $78k
- $10k–50k29 grants · $614k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
- $250k+1 grant · $2.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $2,916,124 |
| THE VOICE OF THE MARTYRS | $60,000 |
| INTERVARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIPUSA | $50,000 |
| THE OUTREACH FOUNDATION | $48,050 |
| COME AND SEE AFRICA | $40,000 |
| THE WEDGEWOOD CIRCLE | $35,000 |
| WINDRIDER INSTITUTE | $35,000 |
| CHURCH OF THE SERVANT | $32,000 |
| EVANGELICAL FORMOSAN CHURCH SFV | $30,000 |
| SHE IS SAFE | $30,000 |
| WEDGWOOD CIRCLE | $27,000 |
| BOSKO | $26,000 |
| CALVIN COLLEGE | $24,000 |
| NEW DOOR VENTURES | $22,500 |
| CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST INTERNATIONAL | $22,300 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $303k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 37% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
107 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2024, 75 since wound down; 9 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $189k 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
- TGTHE GRACE AND MERCY FOUNDATION INC2× · 2018–2019 · $20M · revenue +9% · 29% of their budget
- SJSAN JOAQUIN VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION3× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +8%
ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM2× · 2020–2021 · $551k · revenue +84%
Funded once
- MSMORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INCone grant, 2017 · $375k
- CBCOMMUNITY BEACON MISSIONSone grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -42% · 34% of their budget
- NPNORTH PARK UNIVERSITYone grant, 2019 · $75k · revenue +12%
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.
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.
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…
International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
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.
The organization is dedicated to reaching people for christ through an international network of christians who journey with the poor and marginalized, bringing practical and spiritual support with hope of a better future,(continued on…
Entrust's mission is to multiply church leaders through accessible, locally owned, reproducible training systems. this is accomplished through facilitated learning, assisting christians in gaining solid understanding of scripture, and…
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…
To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…
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.
Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is International Fellowship of Evangelical Students Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Windrider Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
138 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. 138 of the 205 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds THE GRACE AND MERCY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds SCRIPPS HEALTH ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US ↗
- Who funds Scholar Leaders International ↗
- Who funds WINDRIDER INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Logos Evangelical Seminary ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY BEACON MISSIONS ↗
- Who funds KULUNGU FOR CONGO ↗
- Who funds Care Net ↗
- Who funds NEW DOOR VENTURES FKA GOLDEN GATE COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR STUDIES IN GLOBAL CHRISTIANITY INC ↗
- Who funds CALVIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds OUTREACH FOUNDATION OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH INC ↗
- Who funds InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA ↗
- Who funds COME & SEE AFRICA INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND ARTS ↗
- Who funds New Beginnings Center of Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds LANGHAM PARTNERSHIP USA INC NFP ↗
- Who funds WORLD RADIO MISSIONARY FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds MULTIPLICATION NETWORK MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds FIRST PLACE AZ ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds ESCALADE RECOVERY FOUNDATION ↗
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: Tyndale House Ministries · Christian Community Foundation Inc · First Fruit Inc · International Generosity Foundation Trust · Servant Foundation · Hesed Foundation · Barnabas Foundation · The Grace and Mercy Foundation Inc · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · G II Charities · GiveClear 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 Fuller Foundation 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.
- Int'l Orthodox Christian Charities Inc — 7% of income from government
- Gordon College — 1% of income from government
- Oregon State University Foundation — 0% of income from government
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.