New York · Public charity
Word of Life Foundation Inc
The foundation is operated for the support and furtherance of the religious, charitable, and educational tax-exempt purposes of word of life fellowship inc. The foundation receives and distributes funds to word of life fellowship inc and other tax exempt organizations who further the purposes of word of life fellowship inc.
- $29M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 52
- Grants FY2025
- 53
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $27,324,004
- Organizations funded a year
- 45 to 60
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 19
- Total assets, FY2025
- $12M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Word of Life Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 47 | $29M | 2% |
| FY2024 | 53 | $14M | 13% |
| FY2023 | 57 | $17M | 11% |
| FY2022 | 60 | $20M | 25% |
| FY2021 | 50 | $19M | 24% |
| FY2020 | 50 | $30M | 16% |
| FY2019 | 45 | $21M | 16% |
| FY2018 | 47 | $10M | 32% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Word of Life Fellowship Inc | $139,365,181 | 9 | 49% |
| Rock City Church | $5,550,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Tree of Life Christian Schools | $3,512,218 | 3 | n/a |
| Finish Line Ministries International | $3,045,000 | 9 | 53% |
| Appalachian Bible College Inc | $1,597,600 | 9 | 4% |
| Providence Bible Church | $1,310,347 | 4 | n/a |
| Serve Syracuse Inc | $1,100,000 | 6 | 89% |
| Fellowship of Christian Athletes | $639,250 | 9 | 0% |
| Hope International | $635,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Barnabas Ministries Inc | $620,000 | 4 | 100% |
Show all 105 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Word of Life Fellowship Inc | $139,365,181 | 9 | 49% |
| Rock City Church | $5,550,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Tree of Life Christian Schools | $3,512,218 | 3 | n/a |
| Finish Line Ministries International | $3,045,000 | 9 | 53% |
| Appalachian Bible College Inc | $1,597,600 | 9 | 4% |
| Providence Bible Church | $1,310,347 | 4 | n/a |
| Serve Syracuse Inc | $1,100,000 | 6 | 89% |
| Fellowship of Christian Athletes | $639,250 | 9 | 0% |
| Hope International | $635,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Barnabas Ministries Inc | $620,000 | 4 | 100% |
| Malone University | $600,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Cedarville University | $580,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Local Church Evangelism Inc | $530,900 | 9 | 36% |
| Abide International | $510,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Association of Baptists for World Evangelism Inc | $495,800 | 8 | n/a |
| Keep Believing Ministries | $451,500 | 9 | 16% |
| Campus Crusade for Christ Inc | $360,850 | 9 | n/a |
| Pioneers | $354,100 | 9 | n/a |
| By The Hand Club For Kids | $315,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Score International Inc | $272,635 | 9 | 1% |
| Christian Training and Missionary Fellowship Inc | $270,000 | 5 | 23% |
| Vision Ohio | $262,600 | 6 | 20% |
| Wycliffe Bible Translators Inc | $250,500 | 9 | n/a |
| Truth Encounter | $225,900 | 9 | 40% |
| Ecuadorian Harvest Ministries | $225,000 | 9 | 24% |
| Discipleship Network of America | $200,000 | 9 | 5% |
| Biblical Ministries Worldwide Inc | $190,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Exodus Church | $172,568 | 4 | n/a |
| Discover the Book Ministries Inc | $170,500 | 9 | 3% |
| Columbus Crusaders Youth Sports Inc | $168,000 | 5 | 25% |
| Calvary Church | $150,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Grace Trust Inc Dba Encompass World Partners | $129,500 | 7 | n/a |
| Liberty University Inc | $128,120 | 3 | 0% |
| Faith Heritage School | $120,300 | 5 | 1% |
| Davis College | $114,900 | 4 | 2% |
| Ethnos360 Inc | $114,000 | 8 | n/a |
| In as Much as Inc | $113,250 | 4 | 42% |
| New Hope Family Services Inc | $110,100 | 9 | 3% |
| Source of Light Ministries International Inc | $109,100 | 4 | n/a |
| Mars Hill Broadcasting Co Inc | $108,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Mesa Global | $107,800 | 9 | n/a |
| Grief Care Fellowship Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Salt and Light Coalition Nfp | $100,000 | 1 | 21% |
| Water Street Ministries | $100,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Sim USA Incorporated | $100,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Dominican Advance | $98,398 | 2 | 8% |
| Rome Christian Fellowship Inc | $96,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Ravi Zacharias International Ministries | $95,871 | 4 | n/a |
| Child Evangelism Fellowship Inc | $92,400 | 4 | 0% |
| Links Players International Inc | $90,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Challenge Ministries International | $90,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Central Missionary Clearinghouse Inc | $81,800 | 8 | 0% |
| This Is My Story Productions Inc | $73,900 | 2 | 62% |
| O C International Inc | $69,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Kim's Open Door Inc | $68,500 | 3 | 10% |
| Worldteam USA Inc | $67,500 | 6 | n/a |
| Axia International | $65,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Southern Baptist Theological Seminary | $61,627 | 5 | n/a |
| Crisis Pregnancy Center of Tidewater Inc | $50,000 | 4 | 1% |
| North Syracuse Baptist Church | $46,500 | 5 | n/a |
| International Friendship Evangelism Inc | $45,800 | 4 | n/a |
| InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA | $43,400 | 6 | 0% |
| Salvation Army & Its Components | $39,425 | 2 | n/a |
| PhilanthroCorp | $36,000 | 1 | n/a |
| First Baptist Church | $33,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Engineering Ministries International USA | $32,000 | 2 | 0% |
| 20 Schemes Inc | $31,800 | 4 | n/a |
| Trans World Radio | $31,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Belhaven University | $28,947 | 2 | 0% |
| North Slope Baptist Mission Inc | $27,200 | 2 | 9% |
| Clay County Economic Development Corporation | $26,000 | 2 | 4% |
| High Braes Refuge Inc | $25,400 | 4 | 3% |
| God's Economy | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bible Broadcasting Network Incorporated | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| National Center for Life & Liberty Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Christian Chefs International | $24,479 | 2 | 9% |
| Baptist Mid Missions Foundation Inc | $24,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Realife Inc | $24,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Frontline Missions International | $24,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Mission Scranton Inc | $21,600 | 3 | 6% |
| Manzano Baptist Missions | $18,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Community Impact Ministries Inc | $15,800 | 1 | 8% |
| Freedom 4 24 | $15,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Slavic Gospel Association | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Silent Word Ministries Inc | $12,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Servant Leaders International Inc | $12,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Avant Ministries | $12,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Missio Church | $12,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Village to Village Ministries Intern | $11,800 | 2 | 4% |
| First Coast Womens Services Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Providence Schools of Jacksonville Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mission 3-16 | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Linworth Baptist Church | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Gods Pit Crew Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Navigators | $9,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Selahs Heart | $8,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Light in Action Inc | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| World Baptist Fellowship | $7,400 | 1 | n/a |
| World Indigenous Missions Inc | $7,200 | 1 | 0% |
| Serving Our Neighbors Ministries Inc | $7,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Helps International Ministries Incorporated | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Safe Place Ministries Inc | $7,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Gospel Furthering Fellowship | $6,200 | 1 | 1% |
| Christians in Alliance Inc | $5,500 | 1 | 1% |
| First Baptist Church of Wildwood | $5,100 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Word of Life Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 8 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 59 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About Word of Life Foundation Inc
- How much does Word of Life Foundation Inc give?
- Word of Life Foundation Inc reported 52 grants totaling $29,036,946 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 45 and 60 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Word of Life Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (95%), Education (3%), International (1%).
- Who are Word of Life Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Word of Life Fellowship Inc ($139M), Rock City Church ($5.5M), Tree of Life Christian Schools ($3.5M).
- Does Word of Life Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Word of Life Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Barnabas Ministries Inc, Christian Community Foundation Inc, Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation.
- Where is Word of Life Foundation Inc based?
- Word of Life Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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