· Private foundation
Lared Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
71% of Lared Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Columbia International University, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2017, the last year Lared Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $119k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2017
- Under $10k4 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EQUIP FOUNDATION INC AKA EQUIP LEADERSHIP INC | $50,000 |
| NEWPOINTE COMMUNITY CHURCH | $40,000 |
| LEADER'S EDGE INC | $10,000 |
| BERLIN CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP CHURCH | $10,000 |
| FAVOUR AFRICA INC | $5,000 |
| GUIDEPOST FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| GLORY TO GOD INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES INC | $500 |
| CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION - NORTHERN OHIO CHAPTER | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 57% of Lared Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2017, 5 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2017 (too recent to call). Read against FY2017, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ELEQUIP Leadership Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $65k · revenue +44%
- LELEADER'S EDGE INC6× · 2017–2022 · $60k · revenue +11%
- GTGlory To God International Ministries Inc3× · 2017–2023 · $7k · revenue +303%
Funded once
- EFEQUIP FOUNDATION INC AKA EQUIP LEADERSHIP INCone grant, 2017 · $50k
- NPNEW POINTE COMMUNITY CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $40k
- BCBERLIN CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
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.
Christian Training and Education
Pastor training
We are a missions organization sharing the gospel worldwide.
To produce and publish training materials for church leadership and development. To facilitate churches groups and individual participation in world mission.
North America Bible Institute (NABI) is an evangelical graduate school, made up of students who are diverse in both ethnicity and ministry aims -- but united in great love for Jesus and his gospel. As a graduate school, NABI offers them…
Christian discipleship training and global missions leadership development.
To provide an intensive leadership development program for African youth
Train&equip leaders for churchs
Ministry education and instruction
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 23 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 COLUMBIA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds EQUIP Leadership Inc ↗
- Who funds LEADER'S EDGE INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-VIRUS YOUTH EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds Glory To God International Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds J HUGHES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SLIMS Africa Inc ↗
- Who funds THE RECKONING INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Favor International Inc ↗
- Who funds OHIO CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lared Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lared Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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