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Christian Union Inc

To transform our nation and world by developing and connecting bold christian leaders.

$95k
Granted FY2020
7
Grants FY2020
5
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172020.

Religion$174kEducation$115kCommunity Improvement$50kHuman Services$30kCivil Rights$12k
02FY2020 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 7 grants below total $60,400 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $95,055 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $34,655 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 · FY2020

  • Under $10k3 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE DYNAMIC LIFE$10,000
COLLEGIATE CULTURAL FOUNDATION INC$10,000
LIFE ACTION MINISTRIES$10,000
CHOOSE LIFE AT YALE$10,000
NEIGHBORHOOD CHURCH$7,400
INTEGRARE INC$7,000
ELM CHRISTIAN ASSEMBLY$6,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–18, $10k) 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.

area typical 12%AVAIL NYC: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$301k · 8 repeat orgs$80k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2020, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
5

Total granted

$301k
$73k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+107%

Still filing today

38%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
ReligionEducationCivil RightsHuman ServicesOther

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

  • TN
    The New York City Leadership Center Inc
    3× · 2017–2019 · $125k · revenue -29%
  • CC
    Collegiate Cultural Foundation Inc
    4× · 2017–2020 · $52k · revenue ×22
  • CL
    CHOOSE LIFE AT YALE
    4× · 2017–2020 · $40k

Funded once

  • BG
    BETHESDA GRACE CHURCH
    one grant, 2019 · $40k
  • CO
    CONCERTS OF PRAYER GREATER NEW YORK
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • AN
    AVAIL NYCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +107%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
2
The Collaborative Inc

Our mission is to participate in Gods redemption of culture by educating, training, and leading Christ-centered individuals in the public square.

Religion
3
Center of Theological Inquiry

The Center of Theological Inquiry is an independent research institution with an international visiting scholar program which convenes researchers in an ideal setting for interdisciplinary inquiries where theology casts light on global…

Religion
4
Washington Prayer Coalition

to spread the gospel to the world by planting and serving churches, training local Christian leaders and to transform the world through prayer,

Religion
5
Center for Christianity and Public Life

To contend for the credibility of christian resources in public life, for the public good.

Religion
6
Christians Engaged

To awaken, educate, and empower believers in Jesus Christ to: Pray for our nation and elected officials regularly; Vote in every local, state, and national election to impact our culture; Engage our hearts in civic education or involvement…

7
Concilium Inc

Conciliums mission is to build capacity and resilience into Gospel advance so others may hear and live as we see Christians of all ages engaged in serving the Lord with boldness, legitimacy, and competence.

Religion
8
God Centered Life Ministries

God Centered Life is organized to call our culture church and society back to a realization that true life is genuinely and fully centered upon God as revealed in the Bible the person of Jesus Christ and the Trinity - Father Son and Holy…

Religion
9
For Charlotte Inc

To unite the Church to transform the city through the power of the Gospel.

Religion
10
L I F E Ministries Inc Community Pregnancy Center

Our mission is to affirm life through evangelism, education, counseling and practical assistance.

Health
11
Corpus Inc

Corpus is a non-profit religious organization committed to bringing life and vitality to churches networks associations and like minded organizations. We help leaders assess and rediscover the nature of their mission and ministry so they…

Religion
12
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New York City Leadership Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Integrare 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

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 20172026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 14 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHOOSE LIFE AT YALE — $40,000 · OtherCHOOSE LIFE AT YALEBETHESDA GRACE CHURCH — $40,000 · OtherBETHESDA GRACE CHURCHTHE NEIGHBORHOOD GROUP INC — $22,400 · OtherTHE NEIGHBORHOOD GROUP INCTHE DYNAMIC LIFE INC — $20,000 · OtherTHE DYNAMIC LIFE INCELIM CHRISTIAN ASSEMBLY — $12,000 · OtherELIM CHRISTIAN ASSEMBLYWORLD TRUMPET MISSION — $12,000 · OtherWORLD TRUMPET MISSIONCONCERTS OF PRAYER GREATER NEW YORK — $10,000 · OtherCONCERTS OF PRAYER GREATER NEW YORKThe New York City Leadership Center Inc — $125,000 · EducationThe New York City Leadership Center I…Collegiate Cultural Foundation Inc — $52,000 · Civil RightsCollegiate Cult…LIFE ACTION MINISTRIES — $18,000 · ReligionLIFE ACTION…INTEGRARE INC — $7,000 · ReligionINTEGRARE I…CHESTERTON HOUSE INC — $7,000 · ReligionCHESTERTON …THE VERITAS FORUM INC — $6,000 · ReligionTHE VERITAS…AVAIL NYC — $10,000 · Human Services
Other$156,400Education$125,000Civil Rights$52,000Religion$38,000Human Services$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetThe New York City Leadership Center Inc — $125,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetCollegiate Cultural Foundation Inc — $52,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetLIFE ACTION MINISTRIES — $18,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCONCERTS OF PRAYER GREATER NEW YORK — $10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetAVAIL NYC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetINTEGRARE INC — $7,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetCHESTERTON HOUSE INC — $7,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budget
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 The New York City Leadership Center Inc
  • Who funds Collegiate Cultural Foundation Inc
  • Who funds LIFE ACTION MINISTRIES
  • Who funds CONCERTS OF PRAYER GREATER NEW YORK
  • Who funds AVAIL NYC
  • Who funds INTEGRARE INC
  • Who funds CHESTERTON HOUSE INC
  • Who funds THE VERITAS FORUM 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.

Servant FoundationKS15.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Christian Union 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.

2023
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your 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
    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, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $68k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2020, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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