Grants for Faith-Based Organizations
If you run a faith-based nonprofit, this page is your starting point. Bespoke Grants tracks 8,367 foundations that fund faith-based organizations — together $97.75B in recent grants. Below are the most active funders. Every one links to a full giving profile, and Bespoke Grants will rank all 8,367 against your organization's specific mission and location, free.
Foundations that fund faith-based organizations
Ranked by total recent giving. Click any funder for its full profile — giving history, grant recipients, focus areas, and how to apply.
| # | Foundation | Based in | Annual giving |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund | Boston, MA | $7.32B |
| 2 | Schwab Charitable Fund | San Francisco, CA | $3.30B |
| 3 | Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program | Southeastern, PA | $3.06B |
| 4 | Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund | New York, NY | $1.57B |
| 5 | Pfizer Patient Assistance Foundation Inc | New York, NY | $1.39B |
| 6 | Mayo Clinic Group Return | Rochester, MN | $1.31B |
| 7 | Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc | Alpharetta, GA | $1.30B |
| 8 | Conference on Jewish Material Claims | New York, NY | $1.07B |
| 9 | Americares Foundation Inc | Stamford, CT | $1.02B |
| 10 | World Vision Inc | Federal Way, WA | $984.7M |
| 11 | American Online Giving Foundation Inc | Newark, DE | $979.0M |
| 12 | Baptist Health South Florida Inc | Coral Gables, FL | $885.6M |
| 13 | Lilly Endowment Inc | Indianapolis, IN | $789.6M |
| 14 | The Ford Foundation | New York, NY | $760.8M |
| 15 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA | $681.0M |
| 16 | Network for Good | Washington, DC | $667.3M |
| 17 | University of Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | $642.7M |
| 18 | Navigate Affordable Housing | Birmingham, AL | $639.4M |
| 19 | Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding | Indianapolis, IN | $635.6M |
| 20 | Northwestern University | Evanston, IL | $608.0M |
| 21 | Catholic Medical Mission Board Inc | New York, NY | $602.3M |
| 22 | Foundation to Promote Open Society | New York, NY | $593.3M |
| 23 | The Chicago Community Trust | Chicago, IL | $576.9M |
| 24 | University of Miami | Coral Gables, FL | $551.4M |
| 25 | Jewish Communal Fund | New York, NY | $536.1M |
| 26 | The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation | Princeton, NJ | $532.0M |
| 27 | American Endowment Foundation | Hudson, OH | $512.5M |
| 28 | Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | $503.8M |
| 29 | Dechomai Foundation Inc | Jacksonville, FL | $498.1M |
| 30 | Walton Family Foundation Inc | Bentonville, AR | $496.2M |
This list is ranked by size. Yours should be ranked by fit.
The funders above are the biggest — not necessarily the right ones for your faith-based organizations. Bespoke Grants ranks all 8,367 against your actual mission, service area, and budget, and shows you why each matches. Free, no credit card.
Match my organization to funders →How faith-based organizations should approach these funders
A long list of funders is only useful if you approach them well. Three things matter more than the size of your faith-based organizations: fit, evidence, and the first contact. Fit means the funder's stated priorities, the population they serve, and the geography they fund genuinely overlap with your work — funders reject far more proposals for poor fit than for weak programs. Evidence means a specific, concrete description of the need you address and what your funding will change. And the first contact is rarely a full proposal: most private foundations prefer a brief letter of inquiry, and many fund only organizations they already know — so a warm introduction or a short, well-targeted note is the realistic way in.
Frequently asked questions
- How do I find grants for faith-based organizations?
- Start with foundations that already fund faith-based organizations — our index lists 8,367. Match them to your specific mission, location, and budget, then approach the best fits with a brief letter of inquiry rather than a cold full proposal.
- How many foundations fund faith-based organizations?
- Bespoke Grants tracks 8,367 foundations that fund faith-based organizations, representing $97.75B in recent grants.
- Do these foundations accept unsolicited applications?
- Some do; many do not. Each foundation's profile shows what is known about its application process. Where a funder does not accept unsolicited proposals, relationship-building is still the path in — it is rarely a dead end.