· Public charity
The Sword of the Spirit
To promote the spread of the gospel and the strengthening of god's people- catholic, protestant, and orthodox- worldwide, through a program of active evangelism, christian community formation, doctrinal and moral instruction, ecumenism, and programs for the poor and disadvantaged.
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.
How this is measured
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY CHRISTIAN OUTREACH | $15,000 |
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 (FY20–23, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Grants abroad, by region: $46k on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: SUPPORT
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 +3% since the first grant, against -7% for those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.
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; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WOWORK OF CHRIST COMMUNITY6× · 2017–2023 · $288k · revenue +1%
- UCUNIVERSITY CHRISTIAN OUTREACH2× · 2023–2024 · $57k · revenue +20%
- POPEOPLE OF GOD3× · 2019–2021 · $46k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- TOTRIUMPH OF THE CROSS COMMUNITY INCone grant, 2017 · $61k · revenue -7% · 32% of their budget
- GMGrandly Missions Incone grant, 2022 · $59k · revenue -7% · 54% of their budget
- POPEOPLE OF GOD COMMUNITYone grant, 2017 · $15k
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.
Church
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Make disciples of Jesus that make new disciples
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Provide Christian teaching, training, and worship.
To promote Christian ministry through campus outreach, student discipleship, missions support, and gospel conversations
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Teach the word of god
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The Church trains and equips believers as leaders who can carry the Gospel of Jesus Christ in to the world.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 10 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: Word of Life · Renaissance Charitable Foundation 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 Sword of the Spirit funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sword of the Spirit. Bigger dots raise more.
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