North America

The North America granting region includes the United States, Canada, Central America and the Caribbean. We give highest priority to projects in the largest urban centers of North America. Specifically, we focus our granting in the following inner city neighborhoods: Chicago, Guatemala City, Montreal, New York City, Philadelphia, Toronto, and Vancouver. We also prioritize granting within the Federal District of Mexico City, within Beltway 8 of Houston, within Los Angeles County, Miami/Dade County, and the 495 Beltway of Washington, DC.

The most successful applications have significant funding and accountability from the church, are in an urban area, and have a creative and innovative approach to share the love of Jesus Christ in word and action. We give priority to small, dynamic start-up initiatives that plan to become locally managed or sustained. We do not provide ongoing support for projects that began more than three years ago.

The Foundation has awarded the following types of projects in the past year:
Salary for pastors to start new churches
Salary for a new outreach/evangelism staff
Summer camp scholarships for children
College scholarship funds
Direct costs for hands-on ministry
Costs for starting a residential recovery ministry
Cost of discipleship and training materials
Rental space for special evangelistic events
Capital for starting a revolving loan fund for poor believers
Short-term mission trips for first time travelers

The Foundation will only fund up to 50 percent of the total cost of any given project. No applications from US and Canadian parachurch organizations will be accepted. For ministries outside the US and Canada, we will consider applications from parachurch ministries but only those that are directly accountable to the churches of that city. We do not accept requests from US-based offices for projects outside the US.

The Foundation encourages ministering to the people who are in their respective neighborhoods, and does not have a priority for projects that are citywide or national in scale. We are interested in receiving applications from smaller multi-ethnic churches that have indigenous and/or minority people in leadership.

If you are interested in applying for a grant, please read our Granting Priorities, Project Examples, Frequently Asked Questions and How to Apply.

For more information or to request a grant application, please contact us.

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