· Public charity
Christian Life Missions
CHRISTIAN LIFE MISSIONS (clm) is a non-profit organization established in 1956 whose sole purpose is to meet the challenges and existing needs of people throughout the world while sharing the gospel of jesus christ.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MESSIANIC JEWISH ALLIANCE | $15,000 |
| LEE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| VISION FOR ISRAEL | $10,000 |
| JIM MURPHY MINISTRIES | $9,700 |
| BOLD VENTURE MINISTRIES | $8,090 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 27% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Grants abroad, by region: $32k on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 1 region, all to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: MINISTRY SUPPORT
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +91% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.
3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RBRAYMOND B PINSON FAMILY FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2024 · $231k · revenue +91%
- JMJIM MURPHY MINISTRIES6× · 2017–2025 · $59k
- BVBOLD VENTURE MINISTRIES INC3× · 2022–2025 · $28k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- SCSECOND CHANCE COMMUNITY OUTREACHone grant, 2022 · $95k
- CICITYSERVE INTERNATIONALone grant, 2023 · $31k · revenue -9%
- JFJEWS FOR JESUSone grant, 2022 · $20k
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.
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.
Ministry
To preach the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ to the Nations
This work continues today as we share at churches and conferences, using technology to share the Good News with a new generation. Rev. Lester Sumrall continues in the legacy passed to him of ministry, media and missions.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 12 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
Open a dossier: The Signatry Charitable Trust · Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Christian Life Missions funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Christian Life Missions. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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