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Liberty University Inc

Liberty university, inc.

$379M
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$430k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2017–2025.

Education$4.9MPublic Benefit$2.7MReligion$1.9MInternational$1.5MArts & Culture$500kHealth$348kCommunity Improvement$300kRecreation & Sports$220kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 10 grants below total $700,260 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $379,340,949 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $378,640,689 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $69k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $175k
  • $250k+1 grant · $430k
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$5.1B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Liberty University Foundation$430,000
Lynchburg Beacon of Hope$100,000
City of Lynchburg Police Foundation$75,000
The Ramp Church International Inc$25,000
Boys & Girls Club of Greater Lynchburg$25,000
Stone Ridge Foundation$18,569
Mission of Hope$8,750
Centra Health Foundation Inc$6,516
Isaiah 117 House$5,793
Ratio Christi Inc$5,632
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 (FY20–25, $156k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%Isaiah 117 House: $6k → 18%Angel Armies Inc: $50k → 13%Presbyterian Homes & Family Svcs: $75k → 8%YWCA of Central Virginia: $25k → 20%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

WA
MN
MI
IN
RI
CO
MO
VA
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL

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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$10M · 19 repeat orgs$2.8M to everyone else

19 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
38

Total granted

$10M
$2.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-17%
+27%

Still filing today

89%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $89k 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
ReligionEducationHuman ServicesInternationalHealthPublic BenefitOther

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

  • FA
    FAITH AND FREEDOM COALITION INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $2.3M · revenue +11%
  • HP
    HOPE PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $920k · revenue +37%
  • LYNCHBURG BEACON OF HOPE INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $700k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • AC
    ACADEMY CENTER OF THE ARTS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $500k · revenue +287% · 26% of their budget
  • CU
    Citizens United
    one grant, 2019 · $300k · revenue -56%
  • HA
    HERITAGE ACTION FOR AMERICAgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $300k · revenue +33%

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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Liberty University Inc

Liberty university, inc. is a distinctively christian academic community, with a mission of providing quality collegiate education training champions for christ.

Education
2
Lynchburg Covenant Fellowship Incorporated

Provision of safe and affordable housing.

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3
Carolina College of Biblical Studies

Carolina college of biblical studies exists to disciple christ-followers, through biblical higher education, for a lifetime of effective servant leadership.

Education
4
New College Franklin Inc

Under the lordship of christ, new college franklin disciples students through the liberal arts for wisdom and missional living.

Education
5
Liberty Womens Clinic

Liberty Women's Clinic ministers with the love of Christ by empowering people to make informed, life-affirming decisions about pregnancy, sexual health, and relationships.

Health
6
Washington University of Virginia

Provides seminary, under-graduate, graduate, doctoral, and other continuing education programs

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7
Liberty Educational Ministries Inc

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

Religion
8
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

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…

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9
Liberty Christian Academy of Sarasota Inc

The principle approach, the mission of liberty christian academy, is to partner with families and churches in equipping students with biblical worldview framework, knowledge of jesus christ as lord in all areas of life, mindset of a…

Education
10
Liberty Christian School Inc

To provide quality educational services to students in grades kindergarten through twelve, in a Christ-centered environment.

Education
11
Reformed University Inc

Provide education in theology, divinity, religious education, ministerial training, business and organizational leadership.

Education
12
Christian Leadership Alliance

Christian leadership alliance exists to equip and unite leaders called to transform the world for christ.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jerry Vines Ministries Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyChristian Missionary Organi…Independent K-12 SchoolsChristian Youth CampsHealth Access Advocacy and …Pregnancy Support ServicesCommunity FoundationsDomestic Violence ServicesAnimal Rescue and ShelterPolicy Research and Advocacy
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%10%5–10yr19%28%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr13%13%35–55yr16%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%32%10–20yr16%40%20–35yr13%9%35–55yr16%13%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/78
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,487

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

55 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. 55 of the 63 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/55
Grantees still filing
33/55
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LIBERTY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $3,720,372 · EducationLIBERTY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONLYNCHBURG BEACON OF HOPE INC — $700,000 · EducationLYNCHBURG BEACON OF HOPE INCUNIVERSITY OF LYNCHBURG — $250,000 · Education+3 more — $93,686 · EducationHOPE PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL INC — $919,960 · OtherHOPE PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL INCVINEYARD OUTREACH AMERICA — $399,000 · OtherVINEYARD OUTREACH AMERICACitizens United — $300,000 · OtherCitizens UnitedTim Lee Ministries — $260,000 · OtherTim Lee MinistriesLYNCHBURG REGIONAL BUSINESS ALLIANCE — $200,000 · OtherLYNCHBURG REGIONAL BUSINESS ALL…Central Missionary Clearinghouse Inc — $160,000 · OtherOLD TIME GOSPEL HOUR INC — $145,580 · OtherHillside Baptist Church — $128,200 · Other+31 more — $1,044,014 · Other+31 moreFAITH AND FREEDOM COALITION INC — $2,325,000 · Civil RightsFAITH AND FREEDOM CO…SAMARITAN'S PURSE — $505,610 · ReligionSAMARITAN'…JERRY VINES MINISTRIES INC — $220,000 · ReligionJERRY VINE…GLOBAL SURGE INC — $200,000 · ReligionGLOBAL SUR…JAY LOWDER HARVEST MINISTRIES INC — $90,000 · ReligionJAY LOWDER…CAMP BAHAMAS MISSIONS CBM INC — $45,000 · Religion+6 more — $88,909 · Religion+6 moreACADEMY CENTER OF THE ARTS INC — $500,000 · Arts & CultureHERITAGE ACTION FOR AMERICA — $300,000 · HealthCENTRA HEALTH FOUNDATION — $31,801 · HealthBlue Ridge Pregnancy Center Inc — $15,960 · HealthTHE GAINEY FOUNDATION — $220,000 · Recreation & SportsJUBILEE FAMILY DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $25,000 · Recreation & Sports
Education$4,764,058Other$3,556,754Civil Rights$2,325,000Religion$1,149,519Arts & Culture$500,000Health$347,761Recreation & Sports$245,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLIBERTY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $3,720,372 over 6y, 100% of budgetFAITH AND FREEDOM COALITION INC — $2,325,000 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetHOPE PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL INC — $919,960 over 4y, 8.1% of budgetLYNCHBURG BEACON OF HOPE INC — $700,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $505,610 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetACADEMY CENTER OF THE ARTS INC — $500,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetCitizens United — $300,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetHERITAGE ACTION FOR AMERICA — $300,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTim Lee Ministries — $260,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF LYNCHBURG — $250,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJERRY VINES MINISTRIES INC — $220,000 over 3y, 50% of budgetTHE GAINEY FOUNDATION — $220,000 over 5y, 22% of budgetLYNCHBURG REGIONAL BUSINESS ALLIANCE — $200,000 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetGLOBAL SURGE INC — $200,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetCentral Missionary Clearinghouse Inc — $160,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOLD TIME GOSPEL HOUR INC — $145,580 over 4y, 72% of budgetLEGACY COLLEGE INC — $100,000 over 2y, 42% of budgetCITY OF LYNCHBURG POLICE FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetJAY LOWDER HARVEST MINISTRIES INC — $90,000 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetWylie Preparatory Academy — $76,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN HOMES & FAMILY SVCS — $75,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHOPE OF LIFE INTERNATIONAL — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOR OTHERS COLLECTIVE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCONCERNED WOMEN FOR AMERICA — $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC — $48,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRA HEALTH FOUNDATION — $31,801 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHOPE OUT LOUD — $26,229 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetJUBILEE FAMILY DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LYNCHBURG — $25,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetYWCA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA — $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetLYNCHBURG HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $23,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTEENPACT LEADERSHIP SCHOOLS INC — $22,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE LYNCHBURG PUBLIC LIBRARY — $20,000 over 1y, 54% of budgetSTONE RIDGE FOUNDATION NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTHY VETERANS — $18,569 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWorld Help — $16,298 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlue Ridge Pregnancy Center Inc — $15,960 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetM4K LYNCHBURG INC — $14,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetGLEANING FOR THE WORLD INC — $12,785 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChristian Employers Alliance — $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLYNCHBURG CITY SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetMILLER HOME OF LYNCHBURG VIRGINIA — $10,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetMISSION OF HOPE INC MISSION OF HOPE HAITI INC — $8,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKiwanis Club of Lynchburg Foundatio — $7,686 over 1y, 11% of budgetFreedom 4 24 — $6,495 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetRatio Christi Inc — $5,632 over 1y, 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.

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.

Greater Lynchburg Com…Foster FoundationThe Al Stroobants Fou…Centra Health IncSchewel Charitable Fo…The Imperial Charitab…M4k Lynchburg IncEasley Char Irr Tua 5…Old Dominion Box Co F…The Harry D Forsyth F…Carrington Family Fou…Servant Foundation
Greater Lynchburg Community FoundationVA42.3× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation · Foster Foundation · The Al Stroobants Foundation · Centra Health Inc · Schewel Charitable Foundation · The Imperial Charitable Trust · M4k Lynchburg Inc · Easley Char Irr Tua 5019004715 · Old Dominion Box Co Foundation Inc · The Harry D Forsyth Foundation · Carrington Family Foundation · Servant 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 University 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 63 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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