How much does The Fuller Foundation give?

The Fuller Foundation reported 43 itemized grants totaling $3,718,510, out of $3,924,700 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 43 and 78 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Fuller Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (46%), Philanthropy (36%), Religion (8%).

Who are The Fuller Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Fuller Theological Seminary ($23M), The Grace and Mercy Foundation Inc ($20M), San Joaquin Valley Christian School Association ($1.0M).

Does The Fuller Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Fuller Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tyndale House Ministries, Christian Community Foundation Inc, First Fruit Inc.

Where is The Fuller Foundation based?

The Fuller Foundation is based in CA.

The Fuller Foundation

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· 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.

$3.9M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$2.9M

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$25MPhilanthropy$20MReligion$4.3MInternational$1.6MHealth$883kHuman Services$873kCivil Rights$781kArts & Culture$392kOther$0

02FY2024 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 43 grants below total $3,718,510, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,924,700 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $206,190 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k11 grants · $78k
$10k–50k29 grants · $614k
$50k–250k2 grants · $110k
$250k+1 grant · $2.9M

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$235M

Total assets

Largest grants
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

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$53M · 107 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

107

Total granted

$53M

$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%

+26%

Still filing today

62%

64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $189k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

ReligionInternationalEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

TG
THE GRACE AND MERCY FOUNDATION INC
2× · 2018–2019 · $20M · revenue +9% · 29% of their budget
SJ
SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION
3× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +8%
ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM
2× · 2020–2021 · $551k · revenue +84%

Funded once

MS
MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC
one grant, 2017 · $375k
CB
COMMUNITY BEACON MISSIONS
one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -42% · 34% of their budget
NP
NORTH PARK UNIVERSITY
one grant, 2019 · $75k · revenue +12%

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.

04Its field

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

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…

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Christianity Today International

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.

Religion

Entrust

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…

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Leadership Resources International

International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures

Religion

Youth for Christ International Ministries

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.

Religion

Global City Missions Initiative Incorporated

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…

Religion

Teaching Truth International

Provide christian teaching for pastors, teachers and other church leaders in various parts of the world. the teaching includes the bible, theology, church history, apologetics and practical ministry and related fields.

Religion

Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education

Visionsynergy

Our mission is to accelerate the great commission by equipping leaders, developing networks, and catalyzing collaboration toward spiritual breakthroughs among the least reached peoples and places of the world.

International

Freedom in Christ Ministries

To provide resources, training, and continuing support to leaders in the us and around the world in order that they may help others find freedom in christ.

Religion

Global Outreach International Inc

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.

International

Jewish Voice Ministries Intl

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…

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is International Fellowship of Evangelical Students Usa Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

138 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. 138 of the 205 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

133/138

Grantees still filing

92/138

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$25,405,706Philanthropy$19,836,787Other$6,163,590Religion$1,383,038International$1,054,374Health$798,446Civil Rights$750,600

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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.

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.

Tyndale House MinistriesIL29.4× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Fuller Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Fuller Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

7get no government money at all

13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home