· Private foundation
The James and Joan Lindsey Family Foundation
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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $780k
- $250k+2 grants · $649k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WALLBUILDER PRESENTATIONS INC | $373,545 |
| FAITH WINS | $275,000 |
| FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL | $160,000 |
| AMERICAN VALUES | $115,000 |
| COUNCIL FOR NATIONAL POLICY | $100,000 |
| HOLLYWOOD PRAYER NETWORK | $90,000 |
| PACIFIC JUSTICE INSTITUTE | $85,000 |
| PROVIDENCE SCHOOL | $70,000 |
| MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER | $55,000 |
| NEW YORK MEDIA INITIATIVE | $55,000 |
| PATRIOT ACADEMY | $50,000 |
| IKNOWGODUS | $30,000 |
| PASSAGES AMERICA ISRAEL INC | $25,000 |
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, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WPWALLBUILDER PRESENTATIONS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +27%
- FWFaith Wins6× · 2020–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +26% · 63% of their budget
- FRFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL6× · 2020–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +47%
Funded once
- PAPROVIDENCE A SANTA BARBARA CHRISTIAN SCHone grant, 2023 · $400k
- BUBIOLA UNIVERSITY INCone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -1%
- NCNATIONAL CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY Rone grant, 2021 · $50k
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.
Faith and Law's mission is to encourage and equip Christian policymakers to more fully understand the Biblical worldview and its implication in their calling to the public square.
To teach and disseminate educational materials to the public.
Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Research Center generates a foundation of facts that enriches the public dialogue and…
We are a nationwide grassroots movement of people who share a love of american democracy and concern for the direction of our existing leadership. we've watched as institutions on the right have been co-opted by bad-faith actors willing to…
The liberal patriot (tlp) is a digital newsletter focused on american politics and public policy. tlp aims to provide readers with honest analysis and original commentary to help advance a vital center perspective in american life.
American values is dedicated to defending the founding principles of our nation as articulated in the declaration of independence and the constitution. american values works to educate the public and policy makers about critical issues,…
Foreign Policy For America is a nonpartisan advocacy organization founded to strengthen support for principled American engagement in the world.
To be a state-focused, biblical organization that could tactfully address issues of life, religious freedom, educational opportunity, Gods design, human dignity, free speech, and principled government.
To contend for the credibility of christian resources in public life, for the public good.
With a commitment to free market principles, APC focuses on educating the public about conservative fiscal policies that foster job growth, a stronger economy, and increased opportunity for all Americans.
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We are a national ministry dedicated to a focused mission of encouraging, inspiring, and practicing prayer on behalf of our President, Nations Leaders, and our Troops. We also seek to be a catalyst in the development of a robust prayer…
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 21 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 WALLBUILDER PRESENTATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Faith Wins ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Pacific Justice Institute ↗
- Who funds ADVANCING AMERICAN FREEDOM INC ↗
- Who funds HOLLYWOOD PRAYER NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL FOR NATIONAL POLICY ↗
- Who funds ENOUGH IS ENOUGH ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR SECURITY POLICY INC ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds BIOLA UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds 1792 Exchange ↗
- Who funds PASSAGES AMERICA ISRAEL 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 · Donors Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · California Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The James and Joan Lindsey Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The James and Joan Lindsey Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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