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The Jesus Fund Foundation Inc

To support those individuals and organizations who lift up jesus in word and deed; including teaching his principles and furthering the gospel of jesus, caring for the underprivileged and facilitating opportunities for all people to know and follow jesusto support those individuals and organizations who lift up jesus in word and deed…

$225k
Granted FY2018
10
Grants FY2018
10
Organizations funded FY2018
0%
First-time grantees FY2018
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50% of The Jesus Fund Foundation Inc’s FY2021 grant dollars went to Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2021 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year The Jesus Fund Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 10 organizations, $225k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

11
’17
10
’18
1
’21

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2018
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2018
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 11
FY2017 to FY2018
States reached, FY2018
7
Total assets, FY2018
$9k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2018, 0% of the organizations The Jesus Fund Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY201810$225k0%
FY201711$265kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Religion$150kHousing & Shelter$115kCivil Rights$100kInternational$65kHuman Services$50kPhilanthropy$40kCrime & Legal$20kEducation$10kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

PA
VA
MD
AZ
AR
SC
DC
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 11 grantees
All grantees of The Jesus Fund Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Helping Hands Ministries Inc$120,00030%
Our House Inc$115,00022%
Alliance Defending Freedom$100,00020%
Every Arkansan Inc$50,00021%
Hope International$40,00020%
American Bible Society$30,00020%
World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals$25,00010%
Institute for Justice$20,0002n/a
American Federation for Children Growth Fund Inc$10,00020%
The Center for Faithwalk Leadership$10,00020%
Crisis Pregnancy Center of Central Arkansas$10,00023%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Jesus Fund Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHelping Hands Ministries Inc: $120,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetOur House Inc: $115,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetAlliance Defending Freedom: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEvery Arkansan Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetHope International: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Bible Society: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Federation for Children Growth Fund Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Center for Faithwalk Leadership: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCrisis Pregnancy Center of Central Arkansas: $10,000 over 2y, 2.5% 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 10.

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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA9.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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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How do I get to The Jesus Fund Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Jesus Fund Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The Jesus Fund Foundation Inc

How much does The Jesus Fund Foundation Inc give?
The Jesus Fund Foundation Inc reported 10 grants totaling $225,000 in its FY2018 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2018.
What does The Jesus Fund Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Religion (26%), Housing & Shelter (20%), Civil Rights (18%).
Who are The Jesus Fund Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: Helping Hands Ministries Inc ($120k), Our House Inc ($115k), Alliance Defending Freedom ($100k).
Does The Jesus Fund Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2018, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Jesus Fund Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is The Jesus Fund Foundation Inc based?
The Jesus Fund Foundation Inc is based in AR.

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 12 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2018, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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