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The Problem
The Most Strategic Opportunities are Hard to Find
The Solution
Rooted in Experience and Collaboration from Maclellan and Barnhart
Read on to find out how.
MATTHEW 28:19-20
“Go therefore and make disciples of all nations…teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.” — Jesus
The Problem: The Most Strategic Opportunities are Hard to Find
3 Minute Strategy Video—Coming Soon
CO-FOUNDERS OF THE FUND: MACLELLAN FOUNDATION AND THE GROVE GROUP FROM BARNHART
Two thousand years after Jesus gave the Great Commission, the work remains unfinished—not because there is a lack of need, but because the hardest places to reach are often the hardest to find and the hardest to fund.
In many of these regions, access to the gospel is limited not by willingness, but by visibility. Proven leaders, local ministries, and effective models already exist, but they are often hidden, under-resourced, and disconnected from global capital. As a result, funding tends to flow toward what is most visible—not what is most needed.
That’s the gap.
Addressing it requires more than generosity. It requires trusted networks, deep regional expertise, and the ability to surface and support opportunities that would otherwise go unseen. It requires going upstream—investing not just in outputs, but in the systems, leaders, and infrastructure that make long-term gospel access and church formation possible.
The fund, built in partnership with the Maclellan Foundation and Barnhart, prioritizes catalytic investments that strengthen these ecosystems, including:
- Expanding gospel access in unreached regions
- Supporting indigenous church planting movements
- Developing local leaders through theological training and discipleship
- Strengthening high-impact, locally led ministries
- Building infrastructure that enables multiplication and long-term sustainability
The focus is not short-term activity alone, but the formation of self-sustaining ecosystems of faith and leadership.
The challenge is not a lack of opportunity—it’s a lack of alignment.
Proven leaders, effective models, and meaningful opportunities already exist across frontier and hard-to-reach regions. But too often, they remain disconnected from the capital needed to sustain and scale their work.
This fund exists to bridge that gap.
Through partnership with the Maclellan Foundation and The GROVE Group at Barnhart, locating the hard to find and hard to fund to unlock strategic opportunities among the least reached.
Rooted in decades of global, on-the-ground experience and built through trusted partnerships, the fund connects capital with opportunities that are otherwise difficult to find and difficult to fund. It brings together relational networks, disciplined strategy, and coordinated generosity to unlock access to the most strategic Kingdom opportunities.
Rather than isolated giving, this model aligns capital, relationships, and expertise—enabling resources to flow to places where traditional funding rarely reaches. It is not starting from zero, but building on active pipelines, existing capital, and long-standing ministry networks already at work in the field.
This is strategic generosity at scale—designed to move with clarity, confidence, and collective impact.
Billions of people alive today have never encountered the gospel. The need is generational. More believers are needed who are:
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Equipped to share the gospel with clarity.
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Empowered to plant and sustain new churches.
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Positioned to disciple others deeply.
The Great Commission Fund bridges that gap—fueling the work Jesus entrusted to His followers and placing capital at the missional frontiers where leaders are stepping into the greatest need.
Where Capital Flows Most Heavily:
- South Asia – South Asia holds just 10% of the world’s land but 50% of its people—and hundreds of millions have never encountered a consistent Gospel witness.
- Sub-Saharan Africa – A youth explosion is underway, with median ages under 20 in many nations. This creates both urgency and opportunity—to equip leaders, reach the next generation, and strengthen biblical foundations amid competing worldviews and rising conflict.
- MENA (Middle East / North Africa) – Through direct teams and long-standing partnerships like Strategic Resources Group (SRG), capital is deployed into some of the most restricted and complex environments—where persecution, legal barriers, and instability make Gospel witness both difficult and critical.
What We’re Building Toward
The focus is on Hard to Find. Hard to Fund.
The vision is a world filled with local churches—sustained by local leadership, local giving, and local prayer.
As primarily Western funders, we deploy capital in ways that build toward local sustainability, not long-term dependency.
That means investing upstream in the Kingdom:
- Pastor & Leader Training — Equipping leaders who often lack access to formal theological and ministry training.
- Capacity Building — Strengthening governance, operations, and long-term effectiveness of local ministries.
- Localized Biblical Generosity — Cultivating cultures of giving as a core expression of faith and discipleship.
Our focus is not short-term outputs alone, but long-term, self-sustaining ecosystems of faith and leadership.
Our impact measurement is guided by external, PhD-level expertise and focuses on net Kingdom impact—not simplistic output metrics.
We track:
- Churches planted
- Disciples engaged
- Professions of faith
- Pastors trained
- Organizational capacity built
This ensures capital is deployed with both discipline and depth, aligned to long-term transformation.
Better Together
100 Years of Experience. One Coordinated Mission.
The Story of Maclellan and The Grove Group doing more, together.
The Power of Building, Investing and Giving Together
The Great Commission Gap Fund
Solving the World’s Greatest Problems Giving Funds unite world-class fund management with the Faith Driven community you trust—transforming generosity into lasting impact.
God calls us to radical generosity, not obligation, not guilt, but an invitation to the joy-filled adventure. When you’ve been rescued, you want to rescue others. This is your moment.
We want to give. We want to find a cause to rally around. But we don’t have the time or the tribe to be intentional about it.
Busy lives don’t leave room to analyze every investment or vet every giving opportunity. We’re overwhelmed, pulled in a hundred directions—wallets clenched, hearts tugged, minds skeptical. Deep down, we know there has to be a better way. That’s why we’re building collaborative giving funds and uniting content, community, and tools that make it possible to do more, together.
Co-Founders of the Fund: Maclellan Foundation and The GROVE Group of Barnhart
The Maclellan Foundation and The GROVE Group—the giving arm of Barnhartand the Kingdom Companies Group.
These are the co-founders, fund managers, and proven leaders who shape, launch, and steward this fund.
Between them: 100+ years of grantmaking experience, dozens of staff on the ground globally, and $120M in current annual giving.
Co-Founders don’t simply give to cover operational expenses. They lend conviction and collaboration to the work by aligning people, resources, and strategy around a shared problem to be solved. Already, these groups steward hundreds of grants annually and are now opening their networks to outside capital alongside their own. As partners in the fund’s formation, Co-Founders are members of the Investment Committee. They champion the vision and invite others into a collective effort designed for lasting impact.
Allocation Approach and History
The Co-Founder of this fund comes from a long history of allocating capital and grant making with a combined 100+ years of grantmaking experience, dozens of staff on-the-ground globally, and a current annual giving rate of $120m, as of 2026.
The fund seeks to place grants based on local knowledge and experience. The due diligence team speaks more than 30 languages, combined. The Investment Committee has close relationships with multiple professionally-managed giving vehicles, including the Maclellan Foundation team, The GROVE Group team, Strategic Resource Group, and others. They will maintain an active perspective on which of these giving operations can take incremental funding and make quarterly disbursements from the Great Commission Gap Fund accordingly.
Investment Committee
We feel humbled by the opportunity to support this movement behind the scenes.
This Leadership Team has a unique combination of proven scale in Content, Community and Funds.
Transfer From Your DAF
The SWGP Giving Funds will be hosted through a Donor Advised Fund (DAF). Contributions can be made directly or from an existing Donor Advised Fund at trusted partners like:
Each Community has many tools…
Content
Stories, Podcasts, and Problem Pages to multiply reach.
Community
SWGP Foundation Groups and Masterclass series to grow deeper and engage with others as the movement expands.
SWGP Giving Funds
Donor Advised Funds in collaboration with a Board of Directors of seasoned investors and givers.