· Private foundation
The Loftis 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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $19k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $490k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RENEWORG | $200,000 |
| RATIO CHRISTI INC | $120,000 |
| REASONS TO BELIEVE | $100,000 |
| CROSSEXAMINEDORG | $70,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $18,597 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 55% 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 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, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $370k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GCGATEWAY CHRISTIAN CHURCH7× · 2017–2024 · $849k
- FCFIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF FORT MYERS4× · 2017–2020 · $704k
- LSLEE STROBEL MINISTRIES2× · 2022–2023 · $317k
Funded once
- LSLEE STROBEL MINISTRIESone grant, 2021 · $340k
- SESOUTHERN EVANGELICAL SEMINARYone grant, 2024 · $60k · revenue -45%
- TVTEAYS VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $40k
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.
To glorify god by equipping the church with proper christian doctrine and to help non-believers come to a saving knowledge of jesus christ.
Conference
To spread the gospel of jesus christ through crusades
To preach the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ to the Nations
To strengthen marriages and families, to encourage Christian fellowship as we evangelize the lost around us and minister to the needy with the resources God has blessed us.
Religious studies
The mission statement of the Christian Research Institute is to provide Christians worldwide with carefully researched information and well-reasoned answers that encourage them in their faith and equip them to intelligently represent it to…
North America Bible Institute (NABI) is an evangelical graduate school, made up of students who are diverse in both ethnicity and ministry aims -- but united in great love for Jesus and his gospel. As a graduate school, NABI offers them…
None
Expansion of the Gospel of Christ through training literature and digital teaching materials.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 17 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.
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 · 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 Loftis Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Loftis Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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