· Public charity
Christ Lutheran Foundation Inc
Perform religious, charitable and educational services and activities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $192,153 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $216,389 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $24,236 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $74k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $87k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH | $86,556 |
| CHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH DAY SCHOOL | $32,458 |
| ELCA WORLD HUNGER | $21,639 |
| CLC YOUTH MINISTRY | $10,000 |
| COMMISSION TO EVERY NATION (LIVING WATERS RANCH) | $10,000 |
| BRIDGE MINISTRY OF BURTON | $8,000 |
| WASHINGTON COUNTY HEALTH LIVING | $8,000 |
| BREAD PARTNERS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY | $8,000 |
| HOSPICE BRAZOS VALLEY INC | $7,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $82k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
10 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- WCWASHINGTON COUNTY HEALTHY LIVING ASSOCIA3× · 2021–2024 · $32k · revenue +15%
- CTCOMMISSION TO EVERY NATION3× · 2022–2024 · $32k · revenue +4%
- BMBRIDGE MINISTRY OF BURTON TEXAS4× · 2020–2024 · $30k · revenue +92%
Funded once
- FMFAITH MISSION & HELP CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $13k · revenue +44%
- TGTEXAS-LOUISIANA GULF COAST SYNOD OUTDOOR & RETREAT MINISTRIES INCone grant, 2023 · $7k
- BPBRENHAM PREGNANCY CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue +57%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To share Christ with others through serving those in need in the brazos valley and surrounding areas or wherever God leads and to bridge the gap by joining churches and other groups in serving together.
We distribute food, clothing, and toiletry items to the poor and needy along the TX-Mexico Border as well as ministering to their spiritual needs through services, health programs, and other humanitarian efforts.
Provide monetary assistance to qualified individuals and households to assist with payment of rent, utilities, and medicine as well as provide food from a community supported food pantry. we serve ten towns in texas and oklahoma.
To help those struggling in a personal crisis find relief and disciple them into a christ-centered lifestyle through a ministry of reconciliation, applying the truth of scripture, working with others and sharing in fellowship with those…
We are a faith based non-profit organization that serves and cares for members in our community experiencing homelessness in the East Lancaster corridor of Fort Worth, TX. Every Sunday evening, we provide warm meals, drinks, clothes, hair…
To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.
The mission of First Refuge Ministries is to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ by offering essential services to those in need within our community. Our belief is that every person has worth and value since they are created by God. Our goal…
Collection of food to provide to needy people in brazos, county, texas
Charitable, religious and/or educational purposes. preach and teach the gospel, as well as, supply missionaries with bibles, blankets and food. manna also gives to the poor that their needs might be met.
Provide safe & loving home for children
Sunny Glen Childrens Home, Inc. cares for children in need. Our care will be competent, compassionate and professional. We will help every child achieve their greatest potential-physically, emotionally, spiritually and academically.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Faith Mission & Help Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is S O S Ministries Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BREAD PARTNERS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Hospice Brazos Valley Inc ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COUNTY HEALTHY LIVING ASSOCIA ↗
- Who funds COMMISSION TO EVERY NATION ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE MINISTRY OF BURTON TEXAS ↗
- Who funds CASA for Kids of South Central Texas Inc ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE FARM INC ↗
- Who funds ADAM'S ANGELS MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds FAITH MISSION & HELP CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHRIST LUTHERAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BRENHAM PREGNANCY CENTER ↗
- Who funds BRENHAM GAMECHANGERS INC ↗
- Who funds Here I Am Orphan Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds S O S Ministries INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Christ Lutheran Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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