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Ncf Charitable Trust

Clearwater, FL · EIN 20-4326440. Reported 57 grants totalling $1.9B to 24 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

24organizations funded
$993,702median reported grant
$1.9Bgranted, 2020-2024
68%of grantees funded again the next year
93%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Ncf Charitable Trust, by its IRS classification it exists to support one specific institution in religion -- typically its own parent hospital, university or school (NTEE X11).
  2. How spread out its giving is. 24 distinct organizations, with 93% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is extreme concentration. A grantmaker sending three quarters of its money to one organization is in practice a support fund for that organization, whatever its classification says, and an unsolicited request is very unlikely to go anywhere.
  3. How much its list changes. 68% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $993,702. Half of what it reported fell between $291,277 and $2,165,803; the smallest was $6,784 and the largest $472.8M. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
2 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
2 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
4 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
1 grant
$100,000 - $250,000
3 grants
$250,000 Or More
45 grants

13 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $390.0M in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
National Christian Charitable FoundationAlpharetta, GA$1.8B652024
Charitable Assets TrAustin, TX$59.2M112024
National Chirstian Charitable Foundation IncAlpharetta, GA$21.4M112022
National Christian Charitable Foundation IncAlpharetta, GA$9,908,162332024
National Christian Charitable Foundation IncAlpharetta, GA$7,690,604332024
Knights of Columbus Charitable Fund IncNew Haven, CT$6,564,697112021
Km FoundationAlpharetta, GA$6,524,038552024
National Christian Charitable Foundation IncGainesville, GA$4,950,600442024
National Christian Charitable Foundation IncAlpharetta, GA$4,455,447332024
National Christian Charitable Found Foundation IncAlpharetta, GA$4,295,280112024
National Christian Charitable Foundation IncAlpharetta, GA$3,952,465442024
Operation Legacy Foundation IncAlpharetta, GA$2,794,311222024
National Christian Charitable Foundation IncProspect Hts, IL$1,763,337552024
Era First Baptist ChurchEra, TX$1,585,505112021
National Christian Charitable Foundation IncAlpharetta, GA$1,476,686112021
Impact Investing Charitable TrustLenexa, KS$1,350,387112024
National Christian Charitable Foundation IncAlpharetta, GA$1,250,021332024
National Christian Charitable Foundation IncAlpharetta, GA$537,614112023
National Christian Foundation Real Property IncAlpharetta, GA$397,071112022
Innogroup Foundation IncZeeland, MI$272,685112022
Paradox PresentationsSeattle, WA$217,500112021
Global Generosity IncWaco, TX$150,043112024
Ncf CorporationClearwater, FL$110,000552024
National Christian Charitable Foundation IncPeachtree Cor, GA$14,213222024

12 of 24 (50%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 18 of 24 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Philanthropy & Grantmaking
15 orgs
Religion
2 orgs
Community Improvement
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
20206$171.5M$391,134
202110$388.6M$1,157,903
202214$476.0M$870,725
202311$324.2M$1,049,475
202416$550.9M$1,319,406

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

96% of its giving went to organizations in Georgia. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

Georgia
$1.8B
Texas
$61.0M
Connecticut
$6.6M
Illinois
$1.8M
Kansas
$1.4M
Michigan
$273K
Washington
$218K
Florida
$110K

Down to the city

Alpharetta, GA
$1.8B
Austin, TX
$59.2M
New Haven, CT
$6.6M
Gainesville, GA
$5.0M
Prospect Hts, IL
$1.8M
Era, TX
$1.6M

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc17 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund4 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc3 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program3 shared recipientsMorgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc3 shared recipientsKm Foundation3 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $993,702 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Georgia.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Ncf Charitable Trust's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 4 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 12 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: P O Box 17820, Clearwater, FL, 33762.

EIN 20-4326440 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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