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Liberty Road Foundation

To use the people & resources of businesses to partner w/service agencies to transform the lives of each partipant.

$231k
Granted FY2022
8
Grants FY2022
2
States reached
$62k
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 FY20172022.

Philanthropy$313kHuman Services$261kAnimals$209kHousing & Shelter$127kRecreation & Sports$116kCommunity Improvement$101kEducation$99kHealth$91kOther$0
02FY2022 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $168k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $62k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$21k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTHWEST CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION$62,386
OLIVE CREST$39,306
RAVEN ROCK RANCH$38,700
GATEWAY MEDICAL ALLIANCE$20,000
NEW HORIZONS MINISTRIES$19,400
URBAN IMPACT$19,400
JUBILEE REACH CENTER$19,400
BOISE RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES$12,279
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 (FY17–22, $158k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%NEW HORIZONS MINISTRIES: $33k → 9%NEW HORIZONS MINISTRIES: $25k → 9%NEW HORIZONS MINISTRIES: $25k → 9%CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICESMATT TALBOT CENTER: $25k → 9%NEW HORIZONS MINISTRIES: $24k → 9%NEW HORIZONS MINISTRIES: $19k → 9%NEW HORIZONS MINISTRIES: $7k → 9%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.

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.3M · 10 repeat orgs$150k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2022, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
4

Total granted

$1.3M
$76k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+101%
+105%

Still filing today

70%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
Human ServicesAnimalsHealthReligionEducationRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • OC
    OLIVE CREST
    5× · 2017–2022 · $199k · revenue +158%
  • UI
    Urban Impact
    5× · 2017–2022 · $154k · revenue +101%
  • NH
    NEW HORIZONS MINISTRIES
    6× · 2017–2022 · $134k · revenue +115%

Funded once

  • CC
    CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF WESTERN WASHINGTONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +105%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $24k
  • TE
    THE EMPOWERMENT CENTEREL SHADDAI CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2017 · $18k

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.

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New Road Missions

We are compelled by god's word to provide security, education and the hope of jesus to children in south africa so they can thrive personally and impact their future families, communities and the kingdom of god.

Religion
2
Angel Reach

Through providing a coordinated family of services aimed at meeting the special needs of this group of young people, aged-out foster youth, Angel Reach is first committed to assuring the safety and security of all children and youth in…

Human Services
3
Nexus Youth and Families

Restoring hope, building futures, and strengthening our communities through programs with youth, young adults and families. we support the behavioral health of at-risk and in-crisis youth across the greater south king county area. we take…

Human Services
4
Lutheran Community Services Northwest

LCSNW partners with individuals, families and communities for health, justice and hope. LCSNW provides a wide variety of social services in Oregon, Washington and Idaho and serves people of all ages, cultures and faiths.

Human Services
5
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Western Washington & Alaska

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Western Washington & Alaska supports families with seriously ill children by providing a caring home-away-from-home at the SEattle Ronald McDonald House and operating a house and a van service in…

Health
6
Urban Family Ministries

Urban Family Ministries exists to strengthen families and change lives by sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ within the urban core of Grand Rapids through relational, spiritual and economic empowerment.

Human Services
7
Seattle Area Youth for Christ

Seattle Area Youth for Christ is a faith based non-profit serving under-resourced and at-risk youth through our city life clubs, our student leader mentorship program, and a variety of other programs.

Youth Development
8
Miracle Hill Ministries Inc

Miracle hill ministries is committed to life transformation for children and adults experiencing homelessness. more information and program outcomes may be found at www.miraclehill.org.

Human Services
9
Columbia River Mental Health Services

Columbia river mental health services is a full service mental health agency offering a wide spectrum of behavioral health services to children and adults of clark county, washington.

Health
10
Youth for Christ - Spokane

Ministry to build relationships, equip for leadership, teach life skills for youth in low-income, innercity neighborhoods, serving approximately 500 children in afterschool and evening programs.

11
Christian Community Placement Center

A christian organization compassionately serving youth and families, providing them counseling, mentoring, skill building and education services in safe environment, to support the development of their hope and future.

Human Services
12
Habitat for Humanity of Northwest Metro Atlanta Inc

Habitat for humanity of northwest metro atlanta, inc. is an affiliate of the americus-based habitat for humanity international. habitat for humanity of northwest metro atlanta, inc. is an ecumenical, christian housing ministry dedicated to…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Olive Crest and the most unlike its peers is Raven Rock Ranch. 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

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 17 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION — $210,775 · OtherNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATIONCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES — $91,241 · OtherCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICESNORTHWEST CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION — $62,386 · OtherNORTHWEST CHRISTIAN FOUNDATIONEL SHADDAI CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES — $31,927 · OtherEL SHADDAI CHRISTIAN MINISTRIESIndividual grant recipient — $24,320 · OtherTHE EMPOWERMENT CENTEREL SHADDAI CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES — $17,500 · Other+2 more — $21,595 · OtherNEW HORIZONS MINISTRIES — $133,891 · Human ServicesNEW HORIZONS MINIS…Gateway Medical Alliance — $80,806 · Human ServicesGateway Medical Al…CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF WESTERN WASHINGTON — $24,500 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC COMMUNITY…RAVEN ROCK RANCH — $208,948 · AnimalsRAVEN ROCK RANC…OLIVE CREST — $199,228 · HealthOLIVE CRESTUrban Impact — $153,591 · ReligionUrban Impac…Jubilee REACH — $117,481 · EducationREALITY SPORTS FOUNDATION — $91,256 · Recreation & SportsNATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC — $30,500 · Philanthropy
Other$459,744Human Services$239,197Animals$208,948Health$199,228Religion$153,591Education$117,481Recreation & Sports$91,256Philanthropy$30,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetRAVEN ROCK RANCH — $208,948 over 6y, 12% of budgetOLIVE CREST — $199,228 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUrban Impact — $153,591 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetNEW HORIZONS MINISTRIES — $133,891 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetJubilee REACH — $117,481 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetREALITY SPORTS FOUNDATION — $91,256 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetGateway Medical Alliance — $80,806 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetNATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC — $30,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF WESTERN WASHINGTON — $24,500 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 RAVEN ROCK RANCH
  • Who funds OLIVE CREST
  • Who funds Urban Impact
  • Who funds NEW HORIZONS MINISTRIES
  • Who funds Jubilee REACH
  • Who funds REALITY SPORTS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Gateway Medical Alliance
  • Who funds NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC
  • Who funds CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF WESTERN WASHINGTON

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.

The Blackbaud Giving FundSC10.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Liberty Road Foundation 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%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%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 · 0–10%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Liberty Road Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Liberty Road 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 17 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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