· Private foundation
The Servant Leadership Foundation
Its FY2024 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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $3k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $240k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JOHN AND LINDA SHEPARD | $36,000 |
| MIKE AND DIANE ANDREWS | $36,000 |
| CHRISTIAN AND TONYA BLESSING | $36,000 |
| KENNETH AND SHARON TANKERSLEY | $33,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $18,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $18,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $18,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $2,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $744 |
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 (FY18–21, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% 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 +59% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.
32 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 1 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $744 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- YLYOUNG LIFE6× · 2017–2024 · $60k · revenue +59%
- HIHOPE IN OUR CITY4× · 2018–2021 · $9k · revenue +164%
- PNPROVIDENCE NETWORK fka THE EXECUTIVE NETWORK2× · 2020–2021 · $2k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $30k
- RAROBERT AND MARCIA FLAAone grant, 2019 · $30k
- MAMARLIN AND CHARLOTTE BENDERone grant, 2021 · $30k
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.
Redeemer City to City (RCTC) exists to multiply churches and Christian leaders committed to a shared vision for gospel movements in the great cities of the world.
Breaking the cycle of poverty and despair, one life at a time. this is accomplished by working with local churches to provide for the physical and spiritual needs of men, women and children who have lost hope and are least able to meet…
Spiritual awakening and training youth leaders.
To get the good news to every nation this generation by showing and sharing god's love by providing opportunities and supporting christian missionaries in over seventy countries around the world.
The denver rescue mission is changing lives in the name of christ by meeting people at their physical and spiritual points of need with the goal of returning them to society as productive, self-sufficient citizens.
Believing every individual has sacred value, we equip people to impact the world for good through the love of jesus christ.
Fueling the global mission of christ by growing trusted relationships and helping the church live out its missional calling.
The cco (coalition for christian outreach) is an interdenominational campus ministry organization with a mission of "transforming college students to transform the world." the cco is supported primarily through donor contributions and…
GO equips impoverished children to conquer the cycle of poverty through holistic Christ-centered care, enabling them to become followers of Christ who bring hope and healing to their worlds.
The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…
The los angeles mission breaks the cycle of homelessness and poverty, by stabilizing people in a safe and spiritual environment, connecting them to solutions and walking with them on their journey.
Sharing Christ's passion for the world by serving the most vulnerable through national churches and leaders.
How this is measured
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 54 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: Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · The Denver Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Servant Leadership Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Servant Leadership Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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