Ministry Areas of Funding

• Transforming and strengthening pastoral couples (husband and wife).
  • Organizations that provide measurable results toward sustainable development of a pastor’s and/or pastoral couple’s personal walk with God, leading to increased commitment to ministry and strength as effective leaders to transform Christ’s church. (This work is beyond the scope of theological education or salaried positions at churches.)
• Evangelical ministries for youth and teens.
  • Today’s youth and teens are the future of the church tomorrow and will be the next Christian generation. We seek to strengthen organizations that serve by helping youth understand, desire, commit to, and develop an evangelical application to Christianity as a way of life.
• Strengthening and saving marriages.
  • A family is strengthened by a solid marriage; this principle is ordained by God. The Foundation’s goal is to not only reduce the divorce rate, but to do so in a manner that will assist married people to increase their spiritual awareness of who they are in Christ so as to be empowered toward loving each other more completely. Organizations to be considered are those that use God’s Word in working toward strengthening good marriages, redirecting difficult marriages, or saving marriages in crisis. Pre-marriage programs will be considered in conjunction with programs serving already married couples.

Geographic Scope

The Foundation prefers to fund U.S. organizations that work on a local, regional or national level, with a special interest in Southeastern Wisconsin and Southwestern Florida. Organizations that are headquartered outside these regions will also be considered. (Funds are not awarded for international work.)

Eligibility of Organizations

• Christian organizations that overtly express their faith through programming
• Individual churches, denominations or schools will rarely be considered unless a large constituency outside their church membership is served. Para-church ministries will be given a higher priority.
• Characteristics of ideal Foundation grantees include: clear vision, entrepreneurism, capacity building, scalability, innovation, accountability, effectiveness, sustainability, and key insight into why their programs work
• Growth oriented. If you are saying to yourself, “we are now ready to take our ministry to scale” we applaud you but urge caution. Our past experience teaches us what our friend Dr. Jeff Fray captures so well: “Sometimes in ministry when you try to make your small idea THE big idea you close yourself off to important collaboration and the Holy Spirit.”
• Recognized by the I.R.S. as tax exempt, publicly supported charitable organizations
• Internationally oriented organizations will rarely be considered
• Capital grants related to facilities will rarely be considered
• No grants or loans will be awarded to individuals

Types of Grants Awarded

• Primarily annual support, or specific projects or programs (grants are rarely larger than 15% of the organization's total operating budget)
• Capital projects if related to increasing an organization’s scale
• Capacity building projects
• Matching grants are encouraged; multi-year grants are infrequent