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Wood Hay Stubble Foundation

What we fund

We give, and we go.

Two commitments, held at the same time — the local church and Christian education close to home, and a share of the work of the gospel abroad.

Upstate South Carolina

The local church & Christian education

We make grants to congregations and Christian schools that preach the gospel plainly and disciple the next generation. Our bias is toward institutions with a long record of ordinary faithfulness rather than new initiatives with ambitious projections.

In practice that means we prefer to fund the unglamorous line items — a teacher’s salary, a building repair, tuition assistance for a family that would otherwise leave, a pastor kept in place through a hard year. These are the needs that are hardest to raise money for and the ones most likely to determine whether the work continues.

Italy

Global missions

Italy has one of the smallest evangelical populations in Western Europe. Congregations are few, often small, and frequently led by workers carrying the load of a whole region on their own. It is slow work in hard soil, which is exactly why it needs patient money rather than campaign money.

We support gospel workers in Italy financially, and we go. Directly conducted short-term mission service is part of the Foundation’s purpose, not an add-on: we travel to serve alongside the people we fund, and we return to the same places rather than moving on to new ones.

Criteria

What we look for.

We are drawn to

  • Work with a track record measured in years, not quarters.
  • Clear, unembarrassed preaching of the Christian gospel.
  • Needs that are ongoing and operational rather than one-time and visible.
  • Places where a modest, steady commitment changes the outcome.
  • Relationships we can sustain and revisit, not transactions.

We do not fund

  • Political campaigns, candidates, or lobbying.
  • Individuals applying on their own behalf.
  • Debt retirement or deficit funding.
  • Organizations whose purposes are inconsistent with the Foundation’s.
  • Anything requiring the Foundation to be publicly credited.

Process

How a grant is initiated.

The Foundation does not run an open application process and does not accept unsolicited proposals. Grants are initiated by the board, out of relationships the Foundation already has with the churches, schools, and workers it supports.

This is a deliberate limitation rather than an oversight. A private foundation of our size cannot evaluate a stream of applications fairly, and pretending otherwise would waste the time of people who have better things to do than write proposals that will not be funded.

If you believe your work genuinely falls within our stated priorities, you are welcome to write and introduce it. We read everything that arrives, and we will tell you plainly if it is not something we can support.

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