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Family Benevolent Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| New Life Lutheran Church | $25,000 |
| The Reehl Mission Vision | $10,000 |
| Concordia Univ Harvest Fund | $3,500 |
| Our Place | $3,000 |
| The Walker Borum Foundation | $2,500 |
| Concordia Univ Ch Worker Scholarship Endow | $2,500 |
| Concordia Univ Paul Scholars | $2,000 |
| Homestead Refuge | $2,000 |
| Phils Friends | $1,000 |
| Heartland Lutheran High School | $1,000 |
| Our Community Salutes | $1,000 |
| Dollywood Foundation Finance | $500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 32% of Family Benevolent Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
21 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- OGORPHAN GRAIN TRAIN INC6× · 2017–2022 · $54k · revenue +25%
- PFPHIL'S FRIENDS NFP8× · 2017–2024 · $19k · revenue +134%
- CUCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY2× · 2018–2023 · $9k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- THTopical Health Allianceone grant, 2022 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $2k
- CTCONCORDIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARYone grant, 2019 · $2k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Support the needs of non-domestic Christian missions
Our mission is simple: make it easy to give back in ways that are effective, transparent and instant. our aim is to deliver "instant aid" with nutrient dense meals to communities facing crisis and protecting vulnerable children. we want to…
Feeding the spiritual and physical hunger, especially in at-risk children.
We provide aid to refugees, both at home and abroad. Simply humanitarian.
Glorify and serve god by providing meals for hungry men, women, and children, emergency shelter and transition to independence for homeless men, and spiritual hope through jesus christ.
The corporation is organized to provide nutritious fortified meals throughout the world to children and families that are most vunerable to hunger and malnutriion.
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, community, and hope.
The Organization provides worldwide relief and aid to reduce human suffering as a result of hunger, poverty, war and natural disasters.
To mobilize churches, individuals and community groups to provide food and basic necessities to the poor and needy around the world.
Aid to poverty stricken areas in the u.s. and abroad.
Our mission is to promote the cause of christian religion; to engage people and resources to help the extreme poor in developing nations with a focus on orphans, health care, vocational training and spiritual growth.
World orphans vision is to empower the church to care for orphans and vulnerable families. we equip, inspire, and mobilize the church to care for orphans and vulnerable children. churches engaged. children restored. communities transformed…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Giving the Basics Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Reehl Mission Vision. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 39 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 ORPHAN GRAIN TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds The Reehl Mission Vision ↗
- Who funds PHIL'S FRIENDS NFP ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HELP FOR HAITI INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds TABLE GRACE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds HOMESTEAD REFUGE ↗
- Who funds CASA OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds ANGELS AMONG US ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BBQ RELIEF ↗
- Who funds GIVING THE BASICS INC ↗
- Who funds OUR COMMUNITY SALUTES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HOLIDAY HEROES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HASTINGS COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: LeRoy Thom Jean Thom and T-L Foundation · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Edward Jones Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 Family Benevolent Foundation 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.
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.
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