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Christians Giving Back Incorporated

TO PROMOTE CHRISTIAN VALUES THROUGH MONETARY SUPPORT TO ORGANIZATIONS IN THE NORTHERN VIRGINIA AREA AND SURROUNDING REGIONS 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.

$8k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Religion$21kEducation$12kHealth$9kAnimals$9kYouth Development$8kPublic Safety & Disaster$4kHuman Services$4kArts & Culture$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$174k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$1,134
Vienna Volunteer Fire Department$1,100
CJ Foundation$1,001
HIMSS NCA Charity$1,000
Holy Infant of Prague Collective$1,000
Lilly & Blair Foundation$900
Individual grant recipient$885
Friends of Fairfax County Animals Shelter$824
Lake of the Woods Church$500
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 (FY24–24, $820) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Food for others: $820 → 6%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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$68k · 16 repeat orgs$22k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
15

Total granted

$68k
$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+28%

Still filing today

38%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHousing & ShelterArts & CultureAnimalsFood & 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

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE FAIRFAX COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER
    5× · 2018–2022 · $5k · revenue +72%
  • VV
    VIENNA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
    3× · 2023–2025 · $3k · revenue +27%
  • HF
    Holy Family Academy
    2× · 2021–2023 · $2k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • LC
    LIDO CIVIC CLUB CHARITIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +113%
  • HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +49%
  • TH
    The House DC
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +13%
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
Washington Commanders Foundation

The Washington Commanders Foundation is committed to building a more vibrant and enriched DMV community by investing in education, honoring public service, and broadening access to youth football programs. By harnessing the transformative…

Philanthropy
2
Western Fairfax Christian Ministries

To provide food and financial support for persons at risk of hunger and homelessness living in western Fairfax County Virginia.

Human Services
3
Hero Dogs Inc

Hero Dogs improves the quality of life of our nations heroes and enhances the services of community organizations by placing assistance dogs with customized training & lifetime support.

Human Services
4
Logos Classical Academy of Northern Virginia

Logos Classical Academy exists to provide students a classical education with a Biblical worldview that equips students to live wisely with virtue and knowledge.

Education
5
Washington Dc Meals on Wheels Inc

We deliver healthy delicious meals to our home-bound neighbors. With a vision of creating a more interconnected resilient and compassionate community our program supports entire family systems. In 2024 236 volunteers delivered 55,642 meals…

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6
Leashes of Valor

Our organization's mission is to raise awareness for and provide physical aid and support to disabled us military veterans. our program covers a crucial gap in the industry-a veteran operated organization, that can assist veterans with…

Public Benefit
7
Good Shepherd Episcopal School

The mission of Good Shepherd Episcopal School is to inspire each child to achieve academic excellence within a diverse, nurturing community that builds character and fosters respect for one another and our shared environment, locally and…

Education
8
The Lilabean Foundation Inc

The organization was founded to help save the lives of the 5,000 children per year who are diagnosed with pediatric brain cancer. funds raised directly support innovative research to improve outcomes and quality of life for children…

Health
9
Capitol Hill Day School

Capitol Hill Day School is a co-educational independent school serving students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Capitol Hill Day School deeply engages a diverse community of students in connecting the classroom with the larger…

Education
10
Liberty School Inc

To provide individualized, dynamic education for dyslexic, academically gifted, and twice-exceptional (both dyslexic and gifted) students.

Education
11
Virginia Home for Boys and Girls Foundation

Exclusively supports the charitable and educational purposes of the virginia home for boys and girls.

Youth Development
12
Loving Hands Childrens Home

Provide loving home environment, continuity of care, and empowerment of displaced and fragile children.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for Others Inc; the most unlike its peers is Cardinal Newman Academy. 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

17 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. 17 of the 36 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
13/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JILLS HOUSE INC: $19,904 · OtherJILLS HOUSE INCTHE YOUNG HEARTS FOUNDATION: $7,017 · OtherTHE YOUNG HEARTS FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $5,994 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFRIENDS OF THE FAIRFAX COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER: $4,822 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE FAIRFAX COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTERWGTS Makes a Difference: $3,875 · OtherWGTS Makes a DifferenceFriends of Fairfax County Animals Shelter: $3,865 · OtherFriends of Fairfax County Animals ShelterYOUTH APOSTLES INSTITUTE: $3,592 · OtherBoysGirls Club: $2,800 · Other+18 more: $18,608 · Other+18 moreHoly Infant of Prague Collective Inc: $5,500 · EducationCARDINAL NEWMAN ACADEMY: $1,000 · EducationNAVY SEABEE FOUNDATION: $600 · EducationVIENNA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $3,480 · Public Safety & DisasterLIDO CIVIC CLUB CHARITIES INC: $2,820 · PhilanthropyYOUNG HEARTS INC: $960 · HealthThe Lilly and Blair Foundation: $900 · HealthELS FOR AUTISM FOUNDATION: $600 · HealthHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $2,000 · Housing & ShelterINTERNATIONAL CARE MINISTRIES: $1,299 · Food & Nutrition
Other$70,477Education$7,100Public Safety & Disaster$3,480Philanthropy$2,820Health$2,460Housing & Shelter$2,000Food & Nutrition$1,299

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 budgetHoly Infant of Prague Collective Inc: $5,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE FAIRFAX COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER: $4,822 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetVIENNA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $3,480 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLIDO CIVIC CLUB CHARITIES INC: $2,820 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHoly Family Academy: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe House DC: $1,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CARE MINISTRIES: $1,299 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCARDINAL NEWMAN ACADEMY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetATLANTIC GATEWAY COMMUNICATIONS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG HEARTS INC: $960 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFOOD FOR OTHERS INC: $820 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetK-9 Caring Angels Caring Angels Therapy Dogs: $700 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC: $640 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAVY SEABEE FOUNDATION: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetELS FOR AUTISM FOUNDATION: $600 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds Holy Infant of Prague Collective Inc ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE FAIRFAX COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
  • Who funds VIENNA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
  • Who funds LIDO CIVIC CLUB CHARITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds Holy Family Academy ↗
  • Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
  • Who funds The House DC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL CARE MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds CARDINAL NEWMAN ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds ATLANTIC GATEWAY COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG HEARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds The Lilly and Blair Foundation ↗
  • Who funds FOOD FOR OTHERS INC ↗
  • Who funds K-9 Caring Angels Caring Angels Therapy Dogs ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
  • Who funds NAVY SEABEE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ELS FOR AUTISM FOUNDATION ↗

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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA10.3× affinity9 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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 Christians Giving Back Incorporated funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Christians Giving Back Incorporated. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get 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 · 0–50%
    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.

    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 36 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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