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Gods Love Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$17k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it funds
0153% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$51kReligion$42kHealth$7kHuman Services$2kInternational$2kArts & Culture$2kYouth Development$500Crime & Legal$100Other$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,200
Median grant
5
States reached
$194k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$3,981
PROCLAIMING THE TRUTH INC$2,400
Individual grant recipient$2,000
CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF BROOMFIELD$1,750
Individual grant recipient$1,400
Individual grant recipient$1,200
BROOMFIELD COMMUNITY CHURCH$1,200
Individual grant recipient$1,180
ONE TREE MINISTRIES$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Individual grant recipient$329
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 64% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $3k → 12%LORETTA BELL: $1k → 10%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $4k → 14%EMILY TEAGUE: $500 → 11%CROWN COLLEGE: $6k → 12%INTERNATIONAL BAPTIST JEWISH MISSIO: $400 → 12%ONE TREE MINISTRIES: $1k → 9%PROCLAIMING THE TRUTH: $3k → 5%LIGHTBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL: $2k → 7%ALTERNATIVES PREGNANCY CENTER: $500 → 8%THE NAVIGATORS: $200 → 9%AFRICAN BIBLE COLLEGE: $2k → 9%MARK HOEPFNER: $2k → 10%MAUA METHODIST HOSPITALS: $1k → 11%MARSHAL FIRE VICTIMS: $500 → 12%WHIZ KIDS: $500 → 12%MISSIONS TO AMISH PEOPLE: $1k → 13%BAPTIST MID MISSIONS: $1k → 17%PROCLAIMING THE TRUTH: $11k → 6%PROCLAIMING THE TRUTH INC: $2k → 7%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $3k → 12%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $3k → 14%CROWN COLLEGE: $5k → 12%INTERNATIONAL BAPTIST JWEISH MISSIO: $200 → 12%BROOMFIELD COMMUNITY CHURCH: $1k → 5%TOM NINNEMAN: $3k → 7%AME SPANN: $4k → 10%MOORHEAD LAW GROUP: $7k → 12%WHIZ KIDS TUTORING: $150 → 12%MISSION TO AMISH PEOPLE: $600 → 13%PROCLAIMING THE TRUTH: $5k → 6%THE NAVIGATORS: $1k → 12%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $3k → 14%CROWN COLLEGE: $2k → 12%SCOTT AND WENDY DEBRUYNE: $500 → 5%TOM NINNEMAN: $329 → 7%ELIZABETH CONABLE: $1k → 10%PROCLAIMING THE TRUTH: $4k → 6%NAVIGATORS: $800 → 12%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $3k → 14%KAIROS OF COLORADO: $100 → 5%PROCLAIMING THE TRUTH: $2k → 6%THE NAVIGATORS: $500 → 12%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $3k → 14%COLEEN MYHRA: $1k → 5%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $3k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
MN
IL
MI
NY
SD
OH
CA
CO
MO
AZ
TN
SC
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 12% of Gods Love Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Gods Love Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$103k · 14 repeat orgs$66k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
41

Total granted

$103k
$57k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+19%

Still filing today

21%
10%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
ReligionHealthYouth DevelopmentEducationOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • PT
    PROCLAIMING THE TRUTH INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $27k · revenue -27%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    4× · 2017–2025 · $14k
  • CC
    CROWN COLLEGE
    3× · 2022–2024 · $13k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $8k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $7k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Lakelight Institute

Lakelight Institute equips Christians with timeless wisdom for modern life.

Religion
2
Portersville Christian School

The mission of portersville christian school is to glorify god by preparing students to serve christ and instilling high standards spiritually, academically, socially, and physically. the school provides a high-quality academic program, a…

Education
3
Faith School of Theology

Faith's purpose is to mentor students for spirit-filled leadership in ministry, in light of the great commission. while academics are important, the classrooms are not the only learning place. through a combination of formal instruction,…

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4
Westminster Theological Seminary

The formation of men for the gospel ministry as pastors, evangelists, & teachers who shall proclaim the whole counsel of god throughout a changing world. the theological training of church officers as stewards of christ, and the…

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5
Kentucky Mountain Bible College Inc

To educate and prepare students for biblical gospel ministry as educators, pastors, and foreign missionaries.

Education
6
God's Bible School College & Missionary Training Home

God's bible school and college seeks to glorify god and to serve his church by providing higher education centered in holy scripture and shaped by wesleyan conviction, thus preparing faithful servants to proclaim jesus christ and spread…

Education
7
Lightbearers Ministries Int'l Inc

Providing college students christian living, counseling, & retreats; foreign missions to enhance christian character & education

Religion
8
Christ Life Academy

Christ life academy is a kingdom education school, partnering with christian parents in their role of educating and discipling their children, by providing academic excellence and training students to think biblically and critically in all…

Education
9
Asbury Theological Seminary

Asbury Theological Seminary is a community called to prepare theologically educated, sanctified, Spirit-filled men and women to evangelize and to spread scriptural holiness throughout the world through the love of Jesus Christ, in the…

Education
10
Welch College

Welch college is a christian higher education institution that educates leaders to serve christ, his church, and his world through biblical thought and life

Education
11
Liberty Educational Ministries Inc

Liberty's mission is to provide a holistic college preparatory eduction in a nurturing, Christ-centered environment.

Religion
12
Christ Mission College

Cmc passionately develops a students god-given potential in a practical process of biblical higher education, discipleship, and practical experience for sacrificial service in the church and community to expand gods kingdom in the world…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life; the most unlike its peers is Hillsdale College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 63 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PROCLAIMING THE TRUTH INC: $26,800 · OtherPROCLAIMING THE TRUTH INCIndividual grant recipient: $13,537 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCROWN COLLEGE: $13,000 · OtherCROWN COLLEGEIndividual grant recipient: $7,944 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $7,511 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $7,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $6,600 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $6,081 · OtherHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $6,000 · Other+48 more: $69,777 · Other+48 moreHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $18,500 · EducationHILLSDALE C…+1 more: $150 · EducationLIGHTBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL LIGHTBRIDGE INTERNAT: $2,000 · ReligionMISSION TO AMISH PEOPLE: $1,800 · ReligionAlternatives Pregnancy Center Inc: $500 · HealthYOUNG LIFE: $500 · Youth Development
Other$164,250Education$18,650Religion$3,800Health$500Youth Development$500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPROCLAIMING THE TRUTH INC: $26,800 over 6y, 4.6% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $18,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCROWN COLLEGE: $13,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLIGHTBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL LIGHTBRIDGE INTERNAT: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMISSION TO AMISH PEOPLE: $1,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAlternatives Pregnancy Center Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHIZ KIDS TUTORING INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds PROCLAIMING THE TRUTH INC ↗
  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds CROWN COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds LIGHTBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL LIGHTBRIDGE INTERNAT ↗
  • Who funds MISSION TO AMISH PEOPLE ↗

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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA9.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Gods Love Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gods Love Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
    3report 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, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Gods Love Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Gods Love 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 63 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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