· Public charity
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…
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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
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $110k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM | $50,000 |
| OUR HOUSE | $50,000 |
| HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES | $40,000 |
| ARKANSAS DREAM CENTER | $25,000 |
| HOPE INTERNATIONAL | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE | $10,000 |
| CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER | $5,000 |
| ALLIANCE FOR SCHOOL CHOICE | $5,000 |
| LEAD LIKE JESUS | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–21, $170k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 9% of The Jesus Fund Foundation Inc’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.
10 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down. Read against FY2018, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HHHELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INC3× · 2017–2021 · $120k · revenue +103%
- OHOUR HOUSE INC2× · 2017–2018 · $115k · revenue +128%
ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM2× · 2017–2018 · $100k · revenue +134%
Funded once
- WRWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALSgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +163%
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.
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.
Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.
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…
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.
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
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…
The specific purpose of this corporation is to present a biblical, christian ministry of the gospel, hope, encouragement and strength to as many people as possible. the intent of those who will conduct this corporation's work is to present…
Equipping followers of christ to give wisely to advance his kingdom by inspiring biblical stewardship and generosity.
To provide the bible in accurate, contemporary translations and formats so that more people around the world will have the opportunity to be transformed by jesus christ.
Across nations is dedicated to spreading the gospel through establishing, developing and promoting all aspects of church ministry.
TO MANAGE AN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, HEALTH, AND RELIEF FOCUSED FAMILY OF ORGANIZATIONS HELPING PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES LIFT THEMSELVES OUT OF POVERTY, SUPPORT WELL-BEING OF INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES, AND PROVIDE…
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
How this is measured
12 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.
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 HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds OUR HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds EVERY ARKANSAN INC ↗
- Who funds NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN GROWTH FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR FAITHWALK LEADERSHIP ↗
- Who funds CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS ↗
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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Jesus Fund Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jesus Fund Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals: 67% of income from government
How this is measured
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