· Private foundation
The Mustard Seed Foundation Inc
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
- Under $10k26 grants · $117k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $114k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SALISBURY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $53,200 |
| SEASIDE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $42,000 |
| FAITH BAPTIST SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| SON SPOT MINISTRIES INC | $14,400 |
| BIBLE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL | $13,000 |
| OVERFLOW CAFE MINISTRIES | $13,000 |
| CHRISTIAN SHELTER INC | $12,000 |
| PREGNANCY CARE CLINIC OF ES | $8,400 |
| GLOBAL SERVICE NETWORK | $8,400 |
| PARKWAY CHURCH OF GOD | $7,700 |
| EPOCH DREAM CENTER | $7,450 |
| POWER PRODUCTION MINISTRIES | $7,000 |
| WITNESS INTERNATIONAL | $6,000 |
| OPERATION BLESSING INTERNATIONAL | $5,500 |
| ASIA CONNECT | $5,400 |
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 (FY17–25, $181k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 95% 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.
53 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2025, 23 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SCSALISBURY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $374k · revenue +130%
- SCSEASIDE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $291k · revenue +559%
- DTDELMARVA TEEN CHALLENGE INC4× · 2017–2025 · $32k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- GSGood Shepherd Leadership Training Cone grant, 2019 · $13k
- GGSEFone grant, 2021 · $8k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $8k
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.
To teach individuals how to apply the wisdom and depth of the bible's grace-centered message to the problems of daily living; and through various means, work to restore chirst to counseling and christ-centered counseling to the church.
Ambassadors for Christ International - USA is a fellowship of gospel preachers and teachers whose mission is to preach Christ, edify the Church, and to glorify God and serve as a catalyst for revival, evangelism, and training of Christians…
Provide encouragement and spiritual guidance to military personnel worldwide and organize christian training sessions.
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 provide resources, training, and continuing support to leaders in the us and around the world in order that they may help others find freedom in christ.
Charis Bible Colleges, Inc. (CBC) was established to train and equip individuals to carry out the Gospel of Jesus Christ through practical application through mentoring, training, and teaching.
To provide biblical counseling and counseling training for missionaires and local church leaders in the country of their ministry, on site and via electronic mediums.
Christian publishing company
To develop and provide a variety of faith-based multimedia materials and resources to missionaries, ministries, churches, and others.
Mobilization of churches in America by taking pastors and laymen on vision and service trips overseas in fulfillment of Jesus command to go ye into all the world, making disciples...
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 71 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 SALISBURY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SEASIDE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN SHELTER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Operation Blessing International Relief and Development Corporation ↗
- Who funds DELMARVA TEEN CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds ELEVEN 21 INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL SERVICE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
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: Franklin P and Arthur W Perdue Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · Community Foundation of the Eastern Shor · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Verizon Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Mustard Seed Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mustard Seed Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Chesapeake Chamber Music Inc T/a Chesapeake Music: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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