· Private foundation
Tom Raper Foundation Inc
Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k2 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $343k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| West Coast Baptist College | $38,000 |
| Medical Missions Outreach Inc | $38,000 |
| Crown College | $38,000 |
| Hope Children's Home | $38,000 |
| Five Star Christian Ministries | $38,000 |
| The Gospel Film Project | $26,900 |
| Colonial Hills Baptist Church | $26,000 |
| Fellowship Baptist Church | $23,200 |
| First Baptist Church Scripture | $19,500 |
| Southern CA Liberty Baptist Church | $19,500 |
| Thabisa Baby House | $15,208 |
| Pacific Baptist Church | $12,100 |
| Harbor Evangelism International | $11,000 |
| Cranberry Baptist Church | $8,400 |
| Byron Foxx Evangelistic Association | $8,400 |
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 (FY21–22, $88k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2022, 3 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $219k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CCCROWN COLLEGE3× · 2017–2022 · $820k · revenue +41%
- HCHYLES-ANDERSON COLLEGE INC3× · 2019–2021 · $105k · revenue +35%
- HIHope International Ministries Inc2× · 2021–2022 · $88k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- LDLifeSigns Deaf Baptist Churchone grant, 2021 · $100k
- BPBearing Precious Seedone grant, 2020 · $100k
- BIBaptist Int'l Leadership Ministryone grant, 2021 · $50k
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.
North America Bible Institute (NABI) is an evangelical graduate school, made up of students who are diverse in both ethnicity and ministry aims -- but united in great love for Jesus and his gospel. As a graduate school, NABI offers them…
The organization exists to seek and to save those who are lost.
Spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ
To spread the gospel of jesus christ through crusades
Pastor training
Training pastors in third world countries
Religious
Heart Bridge International exists to equip and empower Christians around the world to fulfill the Great Commission. The organization provides free ministry training, discipleship resources, and practical coaching to under-resourced…
To see renewal of the evangelical church in north america
Timbrel Ministries International is a charitable corporation organized exclusively to provide educational programs, projects and services. Our vision seeks to provide a voice and empowerment to under-represented and economically…
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 27 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.
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- Who funds Hope International Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds FINAL FRONTIERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE GOSPEL FILM PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL MISSIONS OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds Five Star Christian Ministries ↗
- Who funds Ambassador Baptist College ↗
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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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Tom Raper Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tom Raper Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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