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Christian Life Foundation at a glance

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Christian Life Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$261k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$150k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$1.6MEducation$240kHuman Services$135kFood & Nutrition$109kArts & Culture$48kInternational$500
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $249k
$99,101
Median grant
1
States reached
$7.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$150,000
OWASSO PREPARATORY ACADEMY$99,101
HARVEST HOUSE$12,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $189k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LILYFIELD: $10k → 15%OKLAHOMA METHODIST MANOR: $100k → 15%TRINITY WOODS INC: $60k → 15%Oklahoma Methodist Manor: $19k → 15%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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 12 repeat orgs$706k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +62% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
8

Total granted

$1.4M
$706k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
+34%

Still filing today

58%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationReligionHuman ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionInternationalOther
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

  • TW
    TRINITY WOODS INC
    3× · 2017–2022 · $179k · revenue +12%
  • HARVEST HOUSE OUTREACH INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $109k · revenue +62%
  • OP
    OWASSO PREPARATORY ACADEMY INCORPORATED
    2× · 2019–2025 · $104k · revenue +492%

Funded once

  • AT
    ASBURY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $657k · revenue +106%
  • RP
    REGENT PREPARATORY SCHOOL OF OKLAHOMA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +34%
  • NI
    North India Evangelistic Association
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -90%
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
The Woodlands Christian Academy

TWCA is an independent, Christ-centered college preparatory school that integrates learning with biblical faith and challenges our students to reach their highest potential - intellectually, creatively, physically, and socially - for the…

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2
Austin Trinity School

Trinity episcopal school (trinity) is a not-for-profit independent school whose mission is to provide an enriched academic curriculum in a christian environment. trinity is not affiliated with or sponsored by any parish. we will nurture…

Education
3
Oconee Christian Academy

Oconee Christian Academy exists to glorify God by nurturing students and equipping them to fulfill God's unique purpose for their lives.

Education
4
Westminster Academy

The school provides classical christian education to students in grades junior kindergarten through twelve.

Education
5
Trinity Christian School Inc

To partner with parents to provide christ-centered, biblically based, classical education that nurtures the whole child.

Education
6
Artesia Classical Academy Inc

In partnership with parents, Artesia Classical Academy equips students to be Christlike disciples and servant-leaders who know and share God's Word.

Education
7
Providence Christian Academy

In dependence upon Almighty God, for His glory alone, and together with family and church, the mission of Providence Christian Academy is to provide exemplary education for the vulnerable in the light of God's Word for time and eternity.

Education
8
Trinity Oaks Christian Academy

Trinity oaks christian academny partners with the christian home and church in the training of children maximizing their potential to lead christian lives according to biblical standards.

Education
9
Turlock Christian Schools Inc

Tcs is an independent christian school that prepares young men and women for college and life by providing challenging opportunities to excel in the vital areas of faith, virtue and knowledge.

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10
Presbyterian School

Family, School, and Church united in the education and support of each child - this is the founding premise upon which Presbyterian School nurtures and challenges its students. The school provides an educational program of the highest…

Education
11
Frontier School of the Bible

We are a Bible Institute which offers one major, Bible. Specialized areas of study include General Bible, Missions, Pastoral Ministries, Christian Education and Youth Ministries. As a technical school, it is designed to give the student a…

Education
12
Kings Academy Nashville

King's academy is a pre-k-8th grade independent christian school in nashville, tennessee, providing a classically inspired education to a racially and socioeconomically balanced student body.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Regent Preparatory School of Oklahoma Inc; the most unlike its peers is Choral Arts Initiative. 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

13 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. 13 of the 20 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ASBURY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $657,024 · EducationASBURY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARYTHE RUNNELS SCHOOLS INC: $116,000 · EducationTHE RUNNELS SCHOOLS INCOWASSO PREPARATORY ACADEMY INCORPORATED: $104,101 · EducationOWASSO PREPARATORY ACADEMY INCORPORATED+1 more: $20,000 · EducationFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $799,142 · OtherFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH+7 more: $68,300 · Other+7 moreTRINITY WOODS INC: $179,358 · Human ServicesTRINITY WO…LILYFIELD INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesHARVEST HOUSE OUTREACH INC: $109,000 · Food & NutritionCornerstone International Inc: $20,000 · ReligionNorth India Evangelistic Association: $10,000 · ReligionCHORAL ARTS INITIATIVE: $15,000 · Arts & CultureWILL GEERS THEATRICUM BOTANICUM: $10,000 · Arts & CultureOMEGA FOUNDATION INC: $500 · International
Education$897,125Other$867,442Human Services$189,358Food & Nutrition$109,000Religion$30,000Arts & Culture$25,000International$500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetASBURY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $657,024 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTRINITY WOODS INC: $179,358 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHARVEST HOUSE OUTREACH INC: $109,000 over 8y, 7.3% of budgetOWASSO PREPARATORY ACADEMY INCORPORATED: $104,101 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetCornerstone International Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetREGENT PREPARATORY SCHOOL OF OKLAHOMA INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHORAL ARTS INITIATIVE: $15,000 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetWILL GEERS THEATRICUM BOTANICUM: $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNorth India Evangelistic Association: $10,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetLILYFIELD INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE JAMES STOREHOUSE INCORPORATED: $500 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Tulsa Community Found…Raymond James Charita…Charities Aid Foundat…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Tulsa Community FoundationOK14.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tulsa Community Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Christian Life Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Christian Life Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%3%6%10%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
    5get no government money at all
    2report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Christian Life Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Christian Life Foundation 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 20 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-PF 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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