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Lawrence Christian Ministries 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.

$81k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$37k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Religion$425kInternational$75kEducation$67kRecreation & Sports$36kHealth$31kFood & Nutrition$21kHuman Services$17kArts & Culture$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $66k
$6,099
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
POST ROAD CHRISTIAN CHURCH$36,901
INTERNATIONAL DISASTER EMERGENCY SERVICE$17,000
GOOD NEWS PRODUCTION INTERNATIONAL$12,000
JEFFERSON CITY CHRISTIAN CHURCH$6,099
NORTHVIEW CHRISTIAN CHURCH$5,000
ISAIAH 117 HOUSE$2,000
PATHWAY TO RECOVERY$1,000
NEW POINT CHRISTIAN CHURCH$1,000
02The need
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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 (FY17–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Cookson Hills Christian Ministries: $3k → 18%Hilltop Christian Camp: $11k → 13%Cookson Hills Christian Ministries: $2k → 18%Hilltop Christian Camp: $6k → 13%Hilltop Christian Camp: $4k → 13%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.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 10% of Lawrence Christian Ministries Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 55% of the giving stays in IN; read by stated purpose it is 46% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Lawrence Christian Ministries Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 4.0% directed abroad (not shown)

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$637k · 19 repeat orgs$53k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
13

Total granted

$637k
$51k

Still filing today

37%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
Human ServicesReligionHealthInternationalOther

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

  • HC
    Hilltop Christian Camp Inc
    3× · 2022–2024 · $21k · revenue +6%
  • MA
    Missionary Aviation Repair Center
    3× · 2018–2020 · $7k · revenue +69%
  • PW
    PHARE WARRIOR
    3× · 2021–2023 · $7k · revenue +762%

Funded once

  • GN
    Good News Production International
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • PC
    Polish Christian Ministries
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • FC
    FAIRLAND CHRISTIAN CHURCH INC
    one grant, 2024 · $7k

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
Christianity Today International

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.

Religion
2
Crossroads Christian Counseling

Crossroads combines innovative clinical counseling with a redemptive worldview to restore people to emotional health, relational unity, and a hopeful future.

Human Services
3
Christian Healthcare Centers Inc

Christian Healthcare Centers provides affordable, quality and comprehensive healthcare services to the body of Christ and the community.

Health
4
Christian Healthcare Specialists

Christian Healthcare Specialists exists to provide exceptional medical services to the community, guided by Biblical values.

Health
5
Agape Schools

Religious preschool and daycare services

Human Services
6
International Leadership Institute

The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…

Religion
7
Alongside Inc

Restore hope, purpose, passion and relationships among Christian leaders who are making an impact around the world.

Religion
8
El Paso Area Christian Counseling Service

Counseling Services offering hope, healing, and restoration to hurting people, marriages, and families using respected therapy practices and solid biblical principles.

Human Services
9
Phelps County Christian Inc

Legacy Christian School exists to equp the next generation in South Central Nebraska to be godly leaders by partnering with parents to disciple them into a biblical worldview through challenging academics for the glory of God.

Education
10
PastorServe Inc

Since its founding over twenty years ago, the Organization has used a number of expressions to define its ministry. "Every Pastor Needs a Pastor" has described the underlying purpose of the Organization's ministry since day one. "Healthy…

Religion
11
Icthus International

Icthus international inc equips children for lives of christian service and leadership.

12
L I F E Ministries Inc Community Pregnancy Center

Our mission is to affirm life through evangelism, education, counseling and practical assistance.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cookson Hills Christian School Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hilltop Christian Camp Inc. 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

9 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. 9 of the 33 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)
8/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GOOD NEWS PRODUCTIONS INTERNATIONAL — $147,000 · OtherGOOD NEWS PRODUCTIONS INTERNATIONALPOST ROAD CHRISTIAN CHURCH INC — $133,972 · OtherPOST ROAD CHRISTIAN CHURCH INCOZARK CHRISTIAN COLLEGE — $67,000 · OtherOZARK CHRISTIAN COLLEGENORTHVIEW CHRISTIAN CHURCH — $54,500 · OtherNORTHVIEW CHRISTIAN CHURCHST LOUIS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE — $26,500 · OtherJEFFERSON CITY CHRISTIAN CHURCH — $25,951 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $19,500 · Other+18 more — $93,500 · Other+18 moreINTERNATIONAL DISASTER EMERGENCY SERVICE INC — $75,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONA…Hilltop Christian Camp Inc — $20,500 · Human ServicesCOOKSON HILLS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC — $4,500 · Human ServicesISAIAH 117 HOUSE — $2,000 · Human ServicesMissionary Aviation Repair Center — $7,000 · ReligionPHARE WARRIOR — $6,577 · ReligionLIFECHOICES — $4,500 · HealthPathway to Recovery Inc — $2,000 · Health
Other$567,923International$75,000Human Services$27,000Religion$13,577Health$6,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetINTERNATIONAL DISASTER EMERGENCY SERVICE INC — $75,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetST LOUIS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE — $26,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHilltop Christian Camp Inc — $20,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetMissionary Aviation Repair Center — $7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPHARE WARRIOR — $6,577 over 3y, 7.9% of budgetCOOKSON HILLS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC — $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLIFECHOICES — $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPathway to Recovery Inc — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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 INTERNATIONAL DISASTER EMERGENCY SERVICE INC
  • Who funds ST LOUIS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE
  • Who funds Hilltop Christian Camp Inc
  • Who funds Missionary Aviation Repair Center
  • Who funds PHARE WARRIOR
  • Who funds COOKSON HILLS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds LIFECHOICES
  • Who funds ISAIAH 117 HOUSE
  • Who funds Pathway to Recovery 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.

Community Foundation of the Ozarks IncMO13× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Servant Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Lawrence Christian Ministries 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.

    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 33 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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