· Private foundation
The Lanier Theological Library Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $186k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
- $250k+3 grants · $11M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LANIER THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $9,600,000 |
| Champion Forest Baptist Church | $575,000 |
| Lipscomb University | $425,147 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $100,000 |
| Langham Partnership USA Inc | $46,710 |
| Hope Media Group | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $22,000 |
| Palm Beach Atlantic University | $20,000 |
| George Whitfield College | $15,000 |
| Inspire Women | $15,000 |
| CSAJCO | $12,500 |
| University of Houston | $10,000 |
| Center for Study of New Testament Manuscripts | $10,000 |
| CECEF (Central European Christian Education Fdn) | $10,000 |
| Wycliffe Bible Translators Inc | $8,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 14% of grant dollars ($6.5M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 86% that went abroad ($39M) is mapped below.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 95% of its 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
Beyond the US: 86% of all-years giving ($39M)
2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
23 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9.7M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LULIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +41%
- GEGREATER EUROPE MISSION2× · 2020–2021 · $106k · revenue +12%
- IWINSPIRE WOMEN5× · 2020–2024 · $92k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- LTLANIER THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION - UKone grant, 2022 · $13M
- RFRELIGIOUS FREEDOM INSTITUTE INCone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -41%
- FOFriends of Wycliffe Hallone grant, 2021 · $85k
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.
Central christian college of the bible (central) exists to develop servant-leaders for the church. as a traditional undergraduate bible college of the restoration movement, central equips faithful men and women for leadership ministry.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Bible Translation and acts of Christian Services
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
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 assist the church, primarily in closed countries, in the establishment of continuing indigenous church-based training centers in which servant leaders are equipped to develop growing and reproducing churches.
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.
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.
The mission of criswell college is to provide ministerial and professional higher education for men and women preparing to serve as christian leaders throughout society, while maintaining an institutional commitment to biblical inerrancy.
The Master's University and Seminary (TMUS) exists to advance the Kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ through education. This is accomplished through unreserved commitment to worshipping God, authority of Scripture, personal holiness, serving…
Reformation Bible College exists to provide a place for learning devoted to serving both laymen and pastors, offering both undergraduate and graduate degree programs based on Reformed Christian doctrine.
How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 51 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 LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DEAD SEA SCROLLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LANGHAM PARTNERSHIP USA INC NFP ↗
- Who funds GREATER EUROPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds RELIGIOUS FREEDOM INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds INSPIRE WOMEN ↗
- Who funds HOPE MEDIA GROUP ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds American Friends of Tyndale House Cambridge Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL EUROPEAN CHRISTIAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Center For The Research of Early Christian Documents ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds E3 Partners Ministry ↗
- Who funds EVERLASTING LOVE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds ADMIRATO 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: Servant Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Lanier Theological Library Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lanier Theological Library Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Palm Beach Atlantic University Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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