· Private foundation
The Restoration 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
- Under $10k16 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $154k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| GRUNDY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| UNIT-E | $13,500 |
| PRISON FELLOWSHIP | $10,000 |
| OPTIMA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FRONTIERS | $10,000 |
| FRONTIERS | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL CENTER ON | $10,000 |
| WIRED HUMAN | $10,000 |
| NEW GENERATIONS | $10,000 |
| 917 SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| SAT 7 | $10,000 |
| HIS BATTLE AX MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| SERVANT GROUP INTERNATIONAL | $5,000 |
| FREEDOM'S PROMISE | $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 (FY23–25, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 90% 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.
40 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 8 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MFMIO Frontiers9× · 2017–2025 · $120k · revenue +11%
- SNSAT-7 NORTH AMERICA7× · 2017–2025 · $110k · revenue +63%
- NGNEW GENERATIONS5× · 2019–2025 · $85k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- OONWARDone grant, 2024 · $30k
- BTBACK TO JERUSALEM INCone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue -28%
- HIHorizons Internationalone grant, 2021 · $11k · revenue -13%
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.
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…
Jesus for asia exists for one purpose: to see as many people as possible accept eternal life before it's too late. we do this by going to the least reached section of the planet and by calling the church to re-engage its mission. in other…
Freedom seekers international is a christian organization that exists to rescue the most severely persecuted for their religious faith in hostile and restrictive countries. through collaborative partnerships we deliver those who are…
Serving and pastoring overseas workers on their own turf and equipping nationals by training and empowering them in their work of advancing the gospel.
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.
Heaven's family's mission is to advance the kingdom of the lord jesus christ. we do that by strategically linking kingdom needs and opportunities with resources that the lord has entrusted to those who love him. through god-given…
The Signatry advances the Christian faith by carrying out its mission, "to inspire and facilitate revolutionary biblical generosity across generations to solve the world's greatest problems," through financial and other support of I.R.C.…
Unknown nations is christian nonprofit organization that delivers the word of god to people who live in areas of the world that are less than 2% christian. this is accomplished through our network of indigenous leaders using solar powered…
To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…
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.
Entrust's mission is to multiply church leaders through accessible, locally owned, reproducible training systems. this is accomplished through facilitated learning, assisting christians in gaining solid understanding of scripture, and…
The organizations exempt purpose is to rescue orphans and widows, feed the poor, build the local church through ministry, crusades and outreaches and to win souls around the world.
How this is measured
38 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. 38 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 MIO Frontiers ↗
- Who funds SAT-7 NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds NEW GENERATIONS ↗
- Who funds SERVANT GROUP INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds GRUNDY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BLUE MONARCH ↗
- Who funds WIRED HUMAN ↗
- Who funds CITYTEAM MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds NEW HARVEST GLOBAL MINISTRIES NFP ↗
- Who funds LIVING WATER PROJECT ↗
- Who funds LATCOM ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP OF NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds 917 SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BACK TO JERUSALEM INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds HOPE AND LIFE MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIT-E ↗
- Who funds Horizons International ↗
- Who funds MY FATHERS HOUSE MISSIONS INTL INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT VERITAS ↗
- Who funds THE OPTIMA FOUNDATION DBA EDUCATION FREEDOM FOUNDATION ↗
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 · The Signatry Charitable Trust · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Ebs Foundation · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · Memorial Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Restoration Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Restoration Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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