· Private foundation
The Sparrow Charitable 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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $217k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $156k
- $250k+3 grants · $2.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ILLUMINATIONS | $1,500,000 |
| LIFENET | $500,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION | $500,000 |
| ELEVATE USA | $156,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $25,000 |
| NORTHWAY CHURCH | $25,000 |
| SPOKEN WORLDWIDE | $25,000 |
| ENRIGHT FOUNDATIONAL MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| ELEVATE DALLAS | $25,000 |
| EAST WEST INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES | $12,000 |
| OUR CALLING | $10,000 |
| NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| POINT OF VIEW | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $390k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +31% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.
39 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 5 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IFILLUMINATIONS FOUNDATION INC5× · 2021–2025 · $2.9M · revenue +18%
- IJINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION3× · 2021–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +24%
- EUELEVATE USA6× · 2020–2025 · $717k · revenue +227%
Funded once
- SRSTRATEGIC RESOURCE GROUP INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +87%
- CFCROWN FINANCIAL MINISTRIES INCone grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +7%
- TRTEXAS RIGHT TO LIFEone grant, 2020 · $25k
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.
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
Bible Translation and acts of Christian Services
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 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 fifty seven countries around the world.
The King's University integrates Biblical education and practical ministry to shape Spirit-formed individuals who follow Jesus, serve His Church, and are sent to impact the world.
Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.
The organization is dedicated to reaching people for christ through an international network of christians who journey with the poor and marginalized, bringing practical and spiritual support with hope of a better future,(continued on…
To join in the completion of the Great Commission through Scripture Engagement in all languages and every people group.
How this is measured
39 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. 39 of the 77 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 ILLUMINATIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE USA ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Starfish Project Incorporated ↗
- Who funds Redeemer City To City ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE DALLAS ↗
- Who funds ENRIGHT FOUNDATIONAL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds OURCALLING INC ↗
- Who funds Dallas Theological Seminary ↗
- Who funds DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds T4 Global Inc ↗
- Who funds STRATEGIC RESOURCE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds 100 FOLD STUDIO ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CROWN FINANCIAL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds COUNSELING FOR BRAZIL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Asha Partners ↗
- Who funds MISSION QUEST ↗
- Who funds Outrageous Love Inc ↗
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: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · International Generosity Foundation Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · Dallas Seminary Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Love Thy Neighbor Too
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Sparrow Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sparrow Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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