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For His Lambs 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.

$563k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$85k
Largest
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

International$1.2MReligion$965kHealth$175kCivil Rights$121kHuman Services$85kFood & Nutrition$61kHousing & Shelter$12kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $138k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $425k
$30,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$20k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MERCY SHIPS$85,000
SAMARITANS PURSE$85,000
COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL$85,000
JONI AND FRIENDS$85,000
HEART CRY MISSIONARY SOCIETY$85,000
FAMILY COUNCIL$30,000
HEIDI GROUP$30,000
BETHANY BIBLE CHURCH$30,000
MOUNTAIN HOME FOOD BASKET$12,000
GRANDMA'S HOUSE$12,000
INTO THE LIGHT$12,000
Individual grant recipient$12,000
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 (FY24–24, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WHEELER MISSION: $12k → 16%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

MN
IN
CA
CO
VA
AR
NC
TX

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.5M · 14 repeat orgs$103k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
5

Total granted

$2.5M
$103k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+68%

Still filing today

57%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionInternationalCivil RightsEmploymentHealthHuman ServicesOther

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

  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    5× · 2021–2025 · $458k · revenue +83%
  • Compassion International Incorporated
    5× · 2021–2025 · $358k · revenue +16%
  • Mercy Ships International
    5× · 2021–2025 · $355k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • GM
    GRACE MISSIONS
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • FB
    FOOD BANK OF NCA
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $12k

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
Jesus Ministries International

Promote christian religion through conferences and group meetings.

Religion
2
Liberty Womens Clinic

Liberty Women's Clinic ministers with the love of Christ by empowering people to make informed, life-affirming decisions about pregnancy, sexual health, and relationships.

Health
3
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

4
His Vessel Ministries

Chrisitan activities

Religion
5
Healing Hearts Ministries International

Post-abortive and family crisis counseling via small groups, email, and publications; focus is to bring healing and forgiveness in a supportive, Christ-centered environment.

6
Keith Wheeler Ministries Inc

Spread the gospel of jesus christ

Religion
7
Missions International

Provide assistance to persons in foreign countries

International
8
Churches in Missions Inc

Mobilization of churches in America by taking pastors and laymen on vision and service trips overseas in fulfillment of Jesus command to go ye into all the world, making disciples...

Human Services
9
Mission Without Borders International

The organization is dedicated to reaching people for christ through an international network of christians who journey with the poor and marginalized, bringing practical and spiritual support with hope of a better future,(continued on…

International
10
True Womens Center

Christian Ministry focused on providing services to individuals experiencing a crisis pregnancy.

Health
11
Christian Healthcare Ministries Inc

To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.

Religion
12
Light Ministries Inc

Religious Travel in US and abroad to share the gospel of Jesus Christ. Church planting. Humanitarian aid (orphanages and feeding stations).

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wheeler Mission Ministries Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mountain Home Food Basket. 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

11 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. 11 of the 19 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HEARTCRY MISSIONARY SOCIETY INCORPORATED — $405,000 · OtherHEARTCRY MISSIONARY SOCIETY INCORPORATEDJONI AND FRIENDS — $355,000 · OtherJONI AND FRIENDSBETHANY BIBLE CHURCH — $115,000 · OtherBETHANY BIBLE CHURCHGRACE MISSIONS — $50,000 · OtherCARE CENTER MINISTRY OF AR — $49,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $46,000 · Other+5 more — $113,000 · Other+5 moreCompassion International Incorporated — $357,500 · InternationalCompassion International Incor…Mercy Ships International — $355,000 · InternationalMercy Ships InternationalSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $457,500 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSEINTO THE LIGHT INC — $36,000 · ReligionINTO THE LIGHT INCFAMILY COUNCIL — $121,000 · Civil RightsHeidi Group — $115,000 · EmploymentINFORMED CHOICES WOMEN'S CENTER OF THE OZARKS INC — $60,000 · HealthWHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES INC — $12,000 · Human Services
Other$1,133,000International$712,500Religion$493,500Civil Rights$121,000Employment$115,000Health$60,000Human Services$12,000

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 budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $457,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International — $355,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJONI AND FRIENDS — $355,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY COUNCIL — $121,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetHeidi Group — $115,000 over 4y, 31% of budgetINFORMED CHOICES WOMEN'S CENTER OF THE OZARKS INC — $60,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetMOUNTAIN HOME FOOD BASKET — $36,000 over 3y, 8.9% of budgetINTO THE LIGHT INC — $36,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetWHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES INC — $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Missionary Clearinghouse Inc — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 SAMARITAN'S PURSE
  • Who funds Compassion International Incorporated
  • Who funds Mercy Ships International
  • Who funds JONI AND FRIENDS
  • Who funds FAMILY COUNCIL
  • Who funds Heidi Group
  • Who funds INFORMED CHOICES WOMEN'S CENTER OF THE OZARKS INC
  • Who funds MOUNTAIN HOME FOOD BASKET
  • Who funds INTO THE LIGHT INC
  • Who funds WHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES INC
  • Who funds Central Missionary Clearinghouse Inc

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.

American Endowment FoundationOH9.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · 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 For His Lambs 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s 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 · 0–5%
    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 For His Lambs Inc?

    Find your warmest path to For His Lambs Inc 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 19 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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