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Christ Lutheran Foundation Inc

Perform religious, charitable and educational services and activities.

$292k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$162k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Religion$590kEducation$217kFood & Nutrition$188kHealth$59kYouth Development$42kHuman Services$24kCrime & Legal$24k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $260,399, the rows itemized in this filing. The $292,412 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $32,013 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $84k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $162k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$5.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH$162,105
CHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH DAY SCHOOL$32,576
ELCA WORLD HUNGER$21,718
LIVING WATERS RANCH INC$10,000
BREAD PARTNERS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY$10,000
CLC YOUTH MINISTRY$10,000
BRIDGE MINISTRY OF BURTON$8,000
WASHINGTON COUNTY HEALTH LIVING$6,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $90k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%HOSPICE BRAZOS VALLEY INC: $12k → 22%HOSPICE BRAZOS VALLEY INC: $10k → 22%HOSPICE BRAZOS VALLEY INC: $8k → 22%HOSPICE BRAZOS VALLEY INC: $8k → 22%FAITH MISSION & HELP CENTER: $13k → 14%HERE I AM ORPHAN MINISTRIES INC: $2k → 14%BRIDGE MINISTRY OF BURTON TX: $10k → 14%BRIDGE MINISTRY OF BURTON TX: $8k → 14%BRIDGE MINISTRY OF BURTON: $8k → 14%BRIDGE MINISTRY OF BURTON: $8k → 14%BRIDGE MINISTRY OF BURTON TX: $4k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 11 repeat orgs$45k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
7

Total granted

$1.4M
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+57%

Still filing today

82%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesReligionHealthHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • BM
    BRIDGE MINISTRY OF BURTON TEXAS
    5× · 2020–2025 · $38k · revenue +92%
  • CT
    COMMISSION TO EVERY NATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $32k · revenue +4%
  • CF
    CASA for Kids of South Central Texas Inc
    4× · 2020–2023 · $24k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • FM
    FAITH MISSION & HELP CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $13k · revenue +44%
  • TG
    TEXAS-LOUISIANA GULF COAST SYNOD OUTDOOR & RETREAT MINISTRIES INC
    one grant, 2023 · $7k
  • BP
    BRENHAM PREGNANCY CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue +57%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Border Missions

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.

Religion
2
Bridge Ministries of Bryan Texas

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.

Religion
3
Texas Foster Care & Adoption Serv

A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.

Human Services
4
Under the Bridge Ministries Inc

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…

Human Services
5
Come to Him Ministries

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…

Health
6
Cowboy At the Cross Ministries

Cowboy at the cross ministries is an evangelical, outreach ministry. gathering strays, allowing god to change our ways, to walk in truth and holiness.

Youth Development
7
Burkburnett Grace Ministries Inc

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.

Human Services
8
Brazos Church Pantry Inc

Collection of food to provide to needy people in brazos, county, texas

—
9
Lamar Area Christian Ministries Association

Benevolence to community families

—
10
Manna of Life Ministries of Texas Inc

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.

Religion
11
South Texas Christian Ministries Medina County Christian Job Corps

To provide actionable, compassionate, healing services and referrals to people who are experiencing or have experienced sexually related trauma

Philanthropy
12
First Baptist Denton Ministry Center

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Faith Mission & Help Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Living Waters Ranch Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 19 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
11/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH: $944,735 · OtherCHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCHEVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN AMERICA: $129,939 · OtherEVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN AMERICABREAD PARTNERS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC: $58,000 · Other+3 more: $32,000 · OtherBRIDGE MINISTRY OF BURTON TEXAS: $38,000 · Human ServicesHospice Brazos Valley Inc: $37,000 · Human ServicesFAITH MISSION & HELP CENTER INC: $13,000 · Human Services+1 more: $2,400 · Human ServicesCOMMISSION TO EVERY NATION: $32,000 · ReligionCHRIST LUTHERAN FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · ReligionLiving Waters Ranch Inc: $10,000 · Religion+1 more: $1,000 · ReligionWASHINGTON COUNTY HEALTHY LIVING ASSOCIA: $38,182 · Food & NutritionCASA for Kids of South Central Texas Inc: $24,027 · Housing & ShelterADAM'S ANGELS MINISTRY: $18,000 · HealthBRENHAM PREGNANCY CENTER: $4,244 · HealthBRENHAM GAMECHANGERS INC: $3,000 · Youth Development
Other$1,164,674Human Services$90,400Religion$63,000Food & Nutrition$38,182Housing & Shelter$24,027Health$22,244Youth Development$3,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBREAD PARTNERS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC: $58,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetWASHINGTON COUNTY HEALTHY LIVING ASSOCIA: $38,182 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetBRIDGE MINISTRY OF BURTON TEXAS: $38,000 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetHospice Brazos Valley Inc: $37,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMISSION TO EVERY NATION: $32,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCASA for Kids of South Central Texas Inc: $24,027 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetMIRACLE FARM INC: $21,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCHRIST LUTHERAN FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetADAM'S ANGELS MINISTRY: $18,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetFAITH MISSION & HELP CENTER INC: $13,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBRENHAM PREGNANCY CENTER: $4,244 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBRENHAM GAMECHANGERS INC: $3,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetHere I Am Orphan Ministries Inc: $2,400 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetS O S Ministries INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

BetsWest FoundationNatl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
BetsWest FoundationTX13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: BetsWest Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Christ Lutheran Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Christ Lutheran Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    Find your warmest path to Christ Lutheran Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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