· Private foundation
The Vickers Foundation
Its FY2021 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 2021.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k12 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $17k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION | $16,800 |
| SALAAM INTERNATIONAL | $2,900 |
| JESUS FILM PROJECT | $2,400 |
| GLOBAL MEDIA OUTREACH | $2,400 |
| SAT 7 | $2,400 |
| FRONTIERS USA | $2,000 |
| CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST | $2,000 |
| BOARD OF WORLD MISSION | $2,000 |
| ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM | $2,000 |
| VOICE OF THE MARTYRS | $1,500 |
| GREATER EUROPE MISSIONS | $1,200 |
| HANSI MINISTRIES | $1,200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,200 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 54% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
12 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ICINTERNATIONAL COMMISSION INC2× · 2020–2021 · $28k · revenue +31%
- GMGLOBAL MEDIA OUTREACH2× · 2020–2021 · $6k · revenue +33%
- SNSAT-7 NORTH AMERICA2× · 2020–2021 · $6k · revenue +58%
Funded once
- SISTEER INCone grant, 2020 · $2k
- FFFRONTLINE FELLOWSHIPone grant, 2020 · $1k
- EFE FREE CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $500
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.
Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…
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…
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.
Global Outreach Mission, Inc. is an inter-denominational foreign and domestic ministry organization that is engaged in a wide variety of ministries, including church planting, Christian camps, personal work, literature, community…
Non-denominational missions organization taking the gospel to russia, asia and middle east using television, radio and the internet. also ministering to churches throughout the united states.
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.
To support christian ministries throughout the world
International Messengers is an evangelical, interdenominational missions organization comprised of international staff. We are committed to making disciples of all nations through partnering with local churches to renew, train and mobilize…
Across nations is dedicated to spreading the gospel through establishing, developing and promoting all aspects of church ministry.
International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures
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…
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 16 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Vickers Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Vickers Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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