50 Christian Ministries Receiving the Largest Government Grants
World Vision is Largest Recipient with over $661 million in total government grant money.
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With the new Trump administration making news with its federal funding freeze proposals, the issue of nonprofits, and specifically Christian ministries, receiving government funding has been in the news and a matter of conversation.
Recently, MinistryWatch added government grant funding information to the ministry profiles in the MinistryWatch 1000 database.
This month’s list is a compilation of the 50 Christian ministries who received the largest government grants based on their I.R.S. Form 990 from 2023.
There were 321 ministries in our database that received government grants for a total of $2.35 billion. The smallest grant was just $919 for Bread of Life Mission while the largest grant totaled $661 million for World Vision.
For other lists, we often segregate colleges and universities, but they are included with other Christian ministries in this list.
The top four recipients of government grants were all relief and development organizations.
The recipient of the largest sum of government grants is also the largest ministry in the database: World Vision.
World Vision has annual revenue of over $1.5 billion, $661 million of which came from government grants, about 44% of its total revenue.
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Mercy Corps was second with $400 million in grants — 77% of its annual revenue. In third place was World Relief with $126 million of its $163 million in revenue coming from government grants. Church World Service took $114 million in government grants — 75% of its $152 million annual revenue.
Samaritan’s Purse, a relief group that has over $1.2 billion in annual revenue, took about $53 million in government grants placing it at #9 on our list. However, the grant funds it received only amounted to 4% of its total revenue.
The recipient receiving the lowest total in government grants out of the top 50 was Union University at $4.2 million out of its $102 million annual revenue.
IMA World Health was the largest recipient based on percentage of total annual revenue. Of its $81 million in annual revenue, nearly $79 million — or 96% — was from government grants.
Several universities took government grants that amounted to only about 1% of their annual revenue: Liberty University, Baylor University, and Pepperdine University.
