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Farms for Life 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.

$848k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$544kHealth$534kEducation$502kCivil Rights$394kHuman Services$121kPublic Safety & Disaster$85kReligion$79kFood & Nutrition$60kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $219k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $120k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$15,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EDWARD JONES CHARITABLE GIFT FUND$500,000
PRO LIFE ACROSS AMERICA$60,000
COMMUNITY PREGNANCY CLINIC$60,000
SAFE FAMILIES$30,000
WOMENS CARE CENTER$30,000
ST JUDES CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSP$20,000
LIVE ACTION$20,000
HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CHURCH$15,000
EWTN$15,000
FEED THE CHILDREN$15,000
waterleaf womens center$13,750
Individual grant recipient$10,000
HESED HOUSE$10,000
MARMION ABBEY$10,000
SPIRIT JUICE ENT GROUP$10,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $143k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 31% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BEAUTIFUL U MINISTRIES: $8k → 8%WATERLEAF WOMENS CTR: $30k → 7%BEAUTIFUL U MINISTRIES: $3k → 8%WATERLEAF WOMEN'S CENTER: $30k → 7%waterleaf womens center: $14k → 7%WATERLEAF WOMENS CTR: $10k → 7%WATERLEAF WOMEN'S CENTER: $5k → 8%SAFE FAMILIES: $30k → 14%SAFE FAMILIES: $14k → 14%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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.4M · 20 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +0% for the ones you funded once.

20 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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Total granted

$1.4M
$543k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+0%

Still filing today

50%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $547k 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
Human ServicesCivil RightsPhilanthropyInternationalReligionEducationOther

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

  • PA
    PROLIFE ACROSS AMERICA
    6× · 2020–2025 · $265k · revenue +141%
  • WW
    Waterleaf Women's Center Inc
    5× · 2021–2025 · $89k · revenue +118%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $85k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • MA
    MARMION ACADEMY
    one grant, 2024 · $500k
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES USA
    one grant, 2021 · $24k
  • SJ
    SPIRIT JUICE ENTERTAINMENT GROUP
    one grant, 2024 · $10k

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
Passionlife Ministries Inc

Passionlife ministries is a global missions initiative to spread the gospel of life and expand the pregnancy help movement among nations plagued by abortion, infanticide and gendercide.

Religion
2
A Choice for Life Inc

Bsideu for life is committed to presenting the gospel of our lord in word and deed by educating women facing crisis pregnancies, responding to their needs and protecting the lives of unborn children.bsideu for life also equips mothers and…

3
Life-Way Family and Pregnancy Suppo

The organization provides women in crisis pregnancies alternatives to abortion, regardless of their religion, race or position in life and to help them come to a decision they and their babies can live the rest of their lives.

Health
4
Save a Life International Inc

Save a life international helps women in crisis; including crisis pregnancies, domestic violence, post-abortion depression and other types of hardships. they provide education and bring awareness to young people about the importance of…

Human Services
5
Palouse Care Network Inc

We are a Christian Organization that provides confidential and compassionate care in the form of specialized medical, practical and spiritual support to those facing pregnancy, parenting, sexuality and abortion related issues.

Health
6
Life Choice Center

To provide christian based outreach to clients by providing services and information free of charge to anyone in a crisis pregnancy situation, with the goal of assisting the client to carry the pregnancy to term and with continued care…

Health
7
Pro-Life Action League Inc

Dissemination of pro-life information

Civil Rights
8
The Human Choice of Iowa

Mission is to provide women facing an unplanned pregnancy with truthful medical information and education. we are faith-based with a mission to encourage, through education and outreach, the recognition of human life from the moment of…

Human Services
9
Lifesource Ministries Inc

Christ-centered organization dedicated to empowering women with the truth and hope they need to choose life. develop and distribution of informational and educational materials.

Health
10
Life Matters Worldwide

Life Matters Worldwide encourages, equips and strengthens pregnancy care workers so they can continue to provide life-affirming services.

Civil Rights
11
Pro-Life Wisconsin Inc

Defend the right to life of all citizens of our state, whether born or preborn, young, old, disabled, or terminally ill. we affirm that the right to life exists at the moment of fertilization and extends until natural death.

12
Priests for Life
Youth Development

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc and the most unlike its peers is Archangels 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

14 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. 14 of the 31 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

EDWARD JONES CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $500,000 · OtherEDWARD JONES CHARITABLE GIFT FUNDMARMION ACADEMY — $500,000 · OtherMARMION ACADEMYCOMMUNITY PREGNANCY CLINIC — $265,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY PREGNANCY CLINICCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES — $85,000 · OtherWOMEN'S CARE CENTER - PEORIA — $75,000 · Other+12 more — $293,500 · Other+12 morePROLIFE ACROSS AMERICA — $265,000 · Civil RightsPROLIFE ACROSS …LIVE ACTION — $75,000 · Civil RightsLIVE ACTIONWaterleaf Women's Center Inc — $88,750 · Human ServicesWaterleaf …PROLOVE MINISTRIES — $50,000 · Human ServicesPROLOVE MI…SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE — $44,000 · Human ServicesSAFE FAMIL…PUBLIC ACTION TO DELIVER SHELTER INC D/B/A HESED HOUSE — $37,250 · Human ServicesPUBLIC ACT…BEAUTIFUL U MINISTRIES INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $85,000 · HealthFEED THE CHILDREN INC — $55,000 · InternationalFOOD FOR THE POOR INC — $5,000 · InternationalTHE LABOURE SOCIETY INC — $40,000 · PhilanthropyJON BON JOVI SOUL FOUNDATION — $3,500 · PhilanthropyETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC — $15,000 · ReligionARCHANGELS ACADEMY — $2,000 · Education
Other$1,718,500Civil Rights$340,000Human Services$230,000Health$85,000International$60,000Philanthropy$43,500Religion$15,000Education$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPROLIFE ACROSS AMERICA — $265,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetWaterleaf Women's Center Inc — $88,750 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $85,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLIVE ACTION — $75,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFEED THE CHILDREN INC — $55,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPROLOVE MINISTRIES — $50,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetSAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE — $44,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LABOURE SOCIETY INC — $40,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPUBLIC ACTION TO DELIVER SHELTER INC D/B/A HESED HOUSE — $37,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEAUTIFUL U MINISTRIES INC — $10,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJON BON JOVI SOUL FOUNDATION — $3,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetARCHANGELS ACADEMY — $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 PROLIFE ACROSS AMERICA
  • Who funds Waterleaf Women's Center Inc
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
  • Who funds LIVE ACTION
  • Who funds FEED THE CHILDREN INC
  • Who funds PROLOVE MINISTRIES
  • Who funds SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE
  • Who funds THE LABOURE SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds PUBLIC ACTION TO DELIVER SHELTER INC D/B/A HESED HOUSE
  • Who funds ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC
  • Who funds BEAUTIFUL U MINISTRIES INC
  • Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC
  • Who funds JON BON JOVI SOUL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds ARCHANGELS ACADEMY

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.

Raymond James Charitable Endowment FundFL10.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Farms for Life 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • Feed the Children Inc1% of income from government
  • Food for the Poor Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Farms for Life Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Farms for Life Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 31 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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