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Clara Schlichtemeier Char Fund Inc

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.

$157k
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
16
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Religion$574kHuman Services$87kArts & Culture$73kPublic Benefit$35kEducation$35kInternational$35kCrime & Legal$35kOther$0
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$6,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHRISTIAN RECORD SERVICES INC$6,500
FREEDOMS FOUNDATION$6,079
MORRIS CERULLO WORLD EVANGELISM$6,000
BILLY GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSOC$6,000
AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY$6,000
HAVEN MINISTRIES$6,000
WORLD VISION$6,000
DAVID LIVINGSTONE MISSIONARY FDN$6,000
WORLD LITERATURE CRUSADE$6,000
BILL PEARCE ASSOCIATES INCORPORATED$6,000
Individual grant recipient$6,000
BACK TO THE BIBLE$6,000
TRINITY CHRISTIAN CENTER$6,000
LOWELL LUNDSTROM MINISTRIES INC$6,000
NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY$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 (FY20–25, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHRISTIAN RECORD SERVICES INC: $7k → 13%CHRISTIAN RECORD SERVICES INC: $7k → 13%CHRISTIAN RECORD SERVICES INC: $6k → 13%CHRISTIAN RECORD SERVICES INC: $6k → 13%CHRISTIAN RECORD SERVICES INC: $6k → 13%CHRISTIAN RECORD SERVICES INC: $5k → 13%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$869k · 27 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

27 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
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Total granted

$869k
$5k

Still filing today

44%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
ReligionHuman ServicesEducationCrime & LegalArts & CultureOther

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

  • CR
    Coral Ridge Ministries Media Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $35k · revenue +48%
  • NW
    NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $35k · revenue +11%
  • SR
    SOUTHWEST RADIO CHURCH OF THE AIR
    6× · 2020–2025 · $35k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • FG
    FULL GOSPEL BUSINESS MEN'S
    one grant, 2024 · $5k

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
Plain Truth Ministries Worldwide

Ptm worldwide publishes christianity without the religion magazine and plain truth magazine. ptm further serves with daily radio programs, blogs, bible surveys and many other free inspirational resources on its website, www.ptm.org

Religion
2
Thru the Bible Inc

The organization produces a 26-minute bible study program that takes the listener through the entire bible in 5 years. the bible study programs air in over 250 languages and dialects and are heard in more than 190 countries, to bring the…

Religion
3
Praise Broadcasting Inc

Praise broadcasting's (praisefm) vision is to see every tribe and nation experiencing jesus together. our mission is simple: together we help people discover and worship jesus. more than a radio station, praisefm is a place where…

Religion
4
Rbc Ministries

Rbc ministries mission is to make the life-changing wisdom of the bible understandable and accessible to all

Religion
5
Paul White Ministries

Present the gospel

Religion
6
Verse By Verse Ministry International Inc

Verse by verse ministry international is a non-profit, non-denominational, unafflliated christian ministry dedicated to promoting the preaching and teaching of gods word clearly and boldly. we present the study of gods word in its proper…

Philanthropy
7
Wounded Spirits Ministries

The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…

Recreation & Sports
8
Christian Music Broadcasters Inc

Christian music broadcasters, inc. is dedicated to better reach and engage people through christian music broadcasting with the goal to ensure that the organization's excellence and influence is second to none.

Religion
9
Probe Ministries International

To present the gospel by providing life-long opportunities to integrate faith and learning through balanced, biblically based scholarship, training people to love god by renewing their minds and equipping the church to engage the world for…

Religion
10
Walking in Grace Media Ministries Inc

Walking in Grace seeks, with purpose and passion, to disseminate clear, relevant, orthodox teaching of God's Word using all available means in order to "Advance God's Truth for God's Glory."

Religion
11
Basic Gospel Inc

Christian radio ministry through daily radio broadcasts, online streaming, conferences, and distribution of publications.

12
Bible Broadcasting Network Incorporated

Our mission is to teach the bible by means of radio and internet broadcast in eight languages. we fulfill our purpose using the unique tools of technology along with a unique blend of ministry-focused programming. our format is fifty…

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christian Record Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is International Prison Ministry 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

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

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 29 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
5/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WORLD LITERATURE CRUSADE — $38,276 · OtherWORLD LITERATURE CRUSADEFREEDOMS FOUNDATION AT VALLEY FORGE — $34,855 · OtherFREEDOMS FOUNDATION AT VALLEY FORGELOWELL LUNDSTROM MINISTRIES INC — $34,777 · OtherLOWELL LUNDSTROM MINISTRIES INCFOCUS ON THE FAMILY — $34,777 · OtherFOCUS ON THE FAMILYDAVID LIVINGSTONE MISSIONARY FDN — $34,777 · OtherDAVID LIVINGSTONE MISSIONARY FDNMORRIS CERULLO WORLD EVANGELISM — $34,777 · OtherMORRIS CERULLO WORLD EVANGELISMIndividual grant recipient — $34,777 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTRINITY CHRISTIAN CENTER — $34,777 · OtherTRINITY CHRISTIAN CENTERFAMILY WORSHIP CENTER CHURCH INC — $34,777 · OtherFAMILY WORSHIP CENTER CHURCH INCCRYSTAL CATHEDRAL MINISTRIES — $34,777 · OtherCRYSTAL CATHEDRAL MINISTRIESBILLY GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSOC — $34,776 · OtherBILLY GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSOCINTERNATIONAL LUTHERAN LAYMANS LEAG — $34,776 · OtherINTERNATIONAL LUTHERAN LAYMANS LEAGSHEPHERD OF THE HILLS LUTHERAN CH — $17,594 · OtherFULL GOSPEL BUSN MENS FLWSHP INTL — $17,183 · OtherSHEPHERD OF THE HILLS LUTHERAN CH — $17,183 · Other+2 more — $17,594 · OtherBACK TO THE BIBLE — $34,777 · ReligionBACK TO THE BIBLECoral Ridge Ministries Media Inc — $34,777 · ReligionCoral Ridge Ministries Media I…ORAL ROBERTS EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION — $34,777 · ReligionORAL ROBERTS EVANGELISTIC ASSO…SOUTHWEST RADIO CHURCH OF THE AIR — $34,777 · ReligionSOUTHWEST RADIO CHURCH OF THE …Haven Ministries — $34,777 · ReligionHaven MinistriesBILL PEARCE ASSOCIATES INC — $34,776 · ReligionBILL PEARCE ASSOCIATES INCAMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY — $34,776 · ReligionAMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETYCHRISTIAN RECORD SERVICES INC — $35,277 · Human ServicesWORLD VISION INC — $34,777 · InternationalNEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $34,777 · EducationInternational Prison Ministry Inc — $34,776 · Crime & LegalJACK VAN IMPE MINISTRIES — $34,776 · Arts & Culture
Other$490,453Religion$243,437Human Services$35,277International$34,777Education$34,777Crime & Legal$34,776Arts & Culture$34,776

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHRISTIAN RECORD SERVICES INC — $35,277 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetFREEDOMS FOUNDATION AT VALLEY FORGE — $34,855 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetBACK TO THE BIBLE — $34,777 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD VISION INC — $34,777 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCoral Ridge Ministries Media Inc — $34,777 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $34,777 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetORAL ROBERTS EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION — $34,777 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHWEST RADIO CHURCH OF THE AIR — $34,777 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHaven Ministries — $34,777 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBILL PEARCE ASSOCIATES INC — $34,776 over 6y, 6.7% of budgetInternational Prison Ministry Inc — $34,776 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetAMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY — $34,776 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJACK VAN IMPE MINISTRIES — $34,776 over 6y, 0.2% 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 CHRISTIAN RECORD SERVICES INC
  • Who funds FREEDOMS FOUNDATION AT VALLEY FORGE
  • Who funds BACK TO THE BIBLE
  • Who funds WORLD VISION INC
  • Who funds Coral Ridge Ministries Media Inc
  • Who funds NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds ORAL ROBERTS EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds SOUTHWEST RADIO CHURCH OF THE AIR
  • Who funds Haven Ministries
  • Who funds BILL PEARCE ASSOCIATES INC
  • Who funds International Prison Ministry Inc
  • Who funds AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY
  • Who funds JACK VAN IMPE MINISTRIES

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.

Clara Schlichtemeier Char Fund IncNV39.1× affinity16 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Clara Schlichtemeier Char Fund Inc · Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Clara Schlichtemeier Char Fund 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.

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no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 29 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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