· Private foundation
The Harold C Smith Foundation to Promote Christianity
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 $10k2 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $425k
- $50k–250k23 grants · $2.9M
- $250k+3 grants · $800k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WORLD COMPASSION FELLOWSHIP INC | $300,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL GENEROSITY FOUNDATION TRUST | $250,000 |
| NATIONAL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC | $250,000 |
| YOUTH FOR CHRISTUSA INC | $240,000 |
| CHRISTIAN HERITAGE SCHOOL | $225,000 |
| FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $225,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL GENEROSITY FOUNDATION TRUST | $200,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL GENEROSITY FOUNDATION TRUST | $200,000 |
| OPEN DOORS INTERNATIONAL USA INC | $157,000 |
| STRATEGIC RESOURCE GROUP INC | $150,000 |
| ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM | $150,000 |
| ANANIAS HOUSE | $150,000 |
| ELAM MINISTRIES INC | $150,000 |
| HISPANIC MINISTRY CENTER INC | $120,000 |
| FAMILIES SET FREE INC | $105,400 |
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 (FY20–25, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 63% 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 13% of The Harold C Smith Foundation to Promote Christianity’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +33% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
50 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 18 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, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WCWorld Compassion Fellowship Inc8× · 2018–2025 · $4.8M · revenue +243% · 98% of their budget
- RCRedeemer City To City3× · 2018–2020 · $2.5M · revenue +126%
- CHCHRISTIAN HERITAGE SCHOOL INC5× · 2021–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +21%
Funded once
- ATAID TO THE CHURCH IN NEED INCone grant, 2018 · $1.3M
- MGMESA GLOBALone grant, 2019 · $600k
- VCVision Communications Internationalone grant, 2023 · $600k · revenue -7%
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.
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…
With a desire to see the Gospel proclaimed in all nations, we exist to make and multiply disciples of the next generation through the vehicles of church-planting missions and missional leadership training.
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.
i58 Global is a Christian ministry dedicated to recruiting, sending and organizing relief workers to provide aid and share hope to refugees in various European countries.
Uncharted ministries informs, inspires and challenges the christian church to serve the people of the middle east and in uncharted lands.
Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.
Crossing Cultures International, Inc. exists to glorify God by equipping Christ followers globally with comprehensive training for effective ministry.
Mobilization of churches in America by taking pastors and laymen on vision and service trips overseas in fulfillment of Jesus command to go ye into all the world, making disciples...
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…
Serving and pastoring overseas workers on their own turf and equipping nationals by training and empowering them in their work of advancing the gospel.
How this is measured
85 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. 85 of the 149 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 World Compassion Fellowship Inc ↗
- Who funds Redeemer City To City ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE EAST BIBLE OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN HERITAGE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ANANIAS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL GENEROSITY FOUNDATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds WORLD EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Open Doors With Brother Andrew Inc ↗
- Who funds URSINUS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds Wheaton College ↗
- Who funds Emotionally Healthy Spirituality Inc ↗
- Who funds Vision Communications International ↗
- Who funds ALPHA MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Alpha USA ↗
- Who funds Reaching Unreached Nations Inc ↗
- Who funds BIBLEPROJECT ↗
- Who funds AXIS ↗
- Who funds Scholar Leaders International ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF JERUSALEM INC ↗
- Who funds Elam Ministries ↗
- Who funds 20 20 Vision For Schools Inc ↗
- Who funds INDIA GOSPEL LEAGUE INC N AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE VERITAS FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH FOR CHRISTUSA INC ↗
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: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · International Generosity Foundation Trust · The Signatry Charitable Trust · First Fruit Inc · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · Tyndale House Ministries · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · The Grace and Mercy Foundation Inc · The Bolick Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Henry P & Susan C Crowell Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Harold C Smith Foundation to Promote Christianity funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Harold C Smith Foundation to Promote Christianity. Bigger dots raise more.
- Springfield College: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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