Arizona · Private foundation
The Lords Fund
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.
- $217k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $98,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 16
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $626k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations The Lords Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 64% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 9 | $217k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $117k | 38% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $120k | 63% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $50k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $44k | 71% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $114k | 60% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $670k | 44% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $414k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pro Athletes Outreach | $500,000 | 2 | 6% |
| First Baptist Church of Houston | $123,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Christ Community Church | $100,800 | 2 | n/a |
| Truly Fed Ministries | $78,300 | 3 | 5% |
| Water Missions International | $78,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Second Baptist School Foundation Inc | $45,400 | 7 | 0% |
| Seed Company Inc | $43,270 | 1 | n/a |
| Faith in Practice | $26,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Southwestern University | $25,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Grace School of Theology | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 29 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($591k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Lords Fund supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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 · Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Christian Community Foundation Inc · GiveClear Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
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About The Lords Fund
- How much does The Lords Fund give?
- The Lords Fund reported 9 grants totaling $216,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Lords Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (78%), Education (7%), International (6%).
- Who are The Lords Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Pro Athletes Outreach ($500k), First Baptist Church of Houston ($123k), Christ Community Church ($101k).
- Does The Lords Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Lords Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Lords Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Servant Foundation, Shell USA Company Foundation, Greater Houston Community Foundation.
- Where is The Lords Fund based?
- The Lords Fund is based in AZ.
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