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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 FY2025(still arriving)
26
Grants FY2025
26
Organizations funded FY2024
4%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$6,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$6,500
Organizations funded a year
25 to 26
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
16
Total assets, FY2025
$2.8M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 4% of the organizations Clara Schlichtemeier Char Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving25$151k0%
FY202426$143k4%
FY202325$150k8%
FY202225$169k0%
FY202125$140k0%
FY202025$120kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$574kHuman Services$87kArts & Culture$73kPublic Benefit$35kEducation$35kInternational$35kCrime & Legal$35kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
PA
CA
CO
NE
MO
WV
NC
OK
LA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
World Literature Crusade$38,2766n/a
Christian Record Services Inc$35,27760%
Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge$34,85560%
Nebraska Wesleyan University$34,77760%
Haven Ministries$34,77760%
Morris Cerullo World Evangelism$34,7776n/a
Crystal Cathedral Ministries$34,7776n/a
Southwest Radio Church of the Air$34,77760%
Back to the Bible$34,77760%
Focus on the Family$34,7776n/a
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All grantees of Clara Schlichtemeier Char Fund Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
World Literature Crusade$38,2766n/a
Christian Record Services Inc$35,27760%
Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge$34,85560%
Nebraska Wesleyan University$34,77760%
Haven Ministries$34,77760%
Morris Cerullo World Evangelism$34,7776n/a
Crystal Cathedral Ministries$34,7776n/a
Southwest Radio Church of the Air$34,77760%
Back to the Bible$34,77760%
Focus on the Family$34,7776n/a
Coral Ridge Ministries Media Inc$34,77760%
Family Worship Center Church Inc$34,7776n/a
Trinity Christian Center$34,7776n/a
Lowell Lundstrom Ministries Inc$34,7776n/a
Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association$34,77760%
Bill Pearce Associates Inc$34,77667%
Jack Van Impe Ministries$34,77660%
International Prison Ministry Inc$34,77663%
American Bible Society$34,77660%
Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Ch$17,5943n/a
Fellowship International$13,0153n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($178k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Clara Schlichtemeier Char Fund Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetNebraska Wesleyan University: $34,777 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHaven Ministries: $34,777 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSouthwest Radio Church of the Air: $34,777 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetBack to the Bible: $34,777 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCoral Ridge Ministries Media Inc: $34,777 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetOral Roberts Evangelistic Association: $34,777 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBill Pearce Associates Inc: $34,776 over 6y, 6.7% of budgetJack Van Impe Ministries: $34,776 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetInternational Prison Ministry Inc: $34,776 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetAmerican Bible Society: $34,776 over 6y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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.

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

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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.

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About Clara Schlichtemeier Char Fund Inc

How much does Clara Schlichtemeier Char Fund Inc give?
Clara Schlichtemeier Char Fund Inc reported 26 grants totaling $156,579 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 26 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Clara Schlichtemeier Char Fund Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (63%), Human Services (10%), Arts & Culture (8%).
Who are Clara Schlichtemeier Char Fund Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: World Literature Crusade ($38k), Christian Record Services Inc ($35k), Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge ($35k).
Does Clara Schlichtemeier Char Fund Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Clara Schlichtemeier Char Fund Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Clara Schlichtemeier Char Fund Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Clara Schlichtemeier Char Fund Inc, Servant Foundation, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc.
Where is Clara Schlichtemeier Char Fund Inc based?
Clara Schlichtemeier Char Fund Inc is based in MO.

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 29 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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