· Private foundation
Larsen Foundation 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $97k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $125k
- $250k+1 grant · $900k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $900,000 |
| MESSIAH UNIVERSITY | $125,000 |
| SANIBEL COMMUNITY CHURCH | $20,000 |
| DEERFRONT LODGE CHRISTIAN CAMP | $20,000 |
| NAVIGATORS | $15,000 |
| GOSPEL VOLUNTEERS | $12,000 |
| HARVEY CEDARS BIBLE CONFERENCE | $10,000 |
| HOUGHTON COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| NEW HORIZON OF SWFL | $10,000 |
| GRACE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $5,000 |
| THE VILLAGE CHURCH | $2,000 |
| SPECULATOR VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE | $1,500 |
| SHELL POINT HEALTH CENTER | $1,000 |
| CHRISTIAN HERITAGE SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| INTERVARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 60% of your 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +13% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- GVGOSPEL VOLUNTEERS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +131%
- MUMESSIAH UNIVERSITY4× · 2020–2025 · $625k · revenue +9%
- HUHOUGHTON UNIVERSITY6× · 2020–2025 · $40k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- TFTHE FORGE FOR FAMILIESone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +0%
- PCPOLK COUNTY MISSION CENTERone grant, 2020 · $10k
- IFINTERNATIONAL FIBRODYYSPLASIA OFFIFICANS PROGRESSIVA ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2024 · $1k
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.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Providing guality Christian education to the network generation
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
Provide education in theology, divinity, religious education, ministerial training, business and organizational leadership.
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…
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…
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
The mission of hope international university is to empower students through christian higher education to serve the church and impact the world for christ. the university specializes in fields offering significant influence on society…
The mission of houston christian university is to provide a learning experience that instills in students a passion for academic, spiritual, and professional excellence as a result of our central confession, "jesus christ is lord."
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Northeastern seminary strives to be a vibrant source for christian theological formation whose students are formed in a biblical vision of gracious christianity and impact wholeness to the world in an expansive array of vocations and…
Mid-atlantic christian university is an undergraduate institution of christian higher learning whose mission is to impact the world by transforming ordinary people into extraordinary christian leaders. students are taught to think…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA and the most unlike its peers is Speculator Volunteer Ambulance Corp. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 28 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 GOSPEL VOLUNTEERS INC ↗
- Who funds MESSIAH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HOUGHTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HARVEY CEDARS BIBLE CONFERENCE ↗
- Who funds SPECULATOR VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORP ↗
- Who funds THE FORGE FOR FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds The Legacy Foundation At Shell Point Inc ↗
- Who funds InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN HERITAGE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds ECHO Inc ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Larsen Foundation 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, a single department, or state — 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.