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Life Action Ministries

To ignite christ-centered movements of revival among gods people that display his glory and advance his kingdom throughout the world

$562k
Granted FY2023
10
Itemized grants FY2023
9
Organizations funded FY2023
22%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$481k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$362,254
Organizations funded a year
5 to 9
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
7
Total assets, FY2023
$14M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 22% of the organizations Life Action Ministries funded were first-time grantees, receiving 78% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $374k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
ReligionEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20239$481k22%
FY20229$121k33%
FY20216$51k33%
FY20205$39k0%
FY20195$39k20%
FY20185$36k0%
FY20178$76kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Religion$795kHousing & Shelter$25kHealth$23k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
IA
IN
PA
CA
MO
KY
AZ
AR
TN
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Onecry Global Ministries Inc$362,254131%
Houston Christian Broadcasters Inc$88,00070%
Compassionate Hope Foundation$79,70071%
Crossworld$45,8005n/a
Berrien Center Bible Church$44,7006n/a
Fact Ministries Inc$39,400521%
Pure Freedom Inc$35,48430%
Far East Broadcasting Company$27,50020%
Cornerstone Transitional Housing Ministry Inc$25,000114%
Lifeplan$23,05023%
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All grantees of Life Action Ministries by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Onecry Global Ministries Inc$362,254131%
Houston Christian Broadcasters Inc$88,00070%
Compassionate Hope Foundation$79,70071%
Crossworld$45,8005n/a
Berrien Center Bible Church$44,7006n/a
Fact Ministries Inc$39,400521%
Pure Freedom Inc$35,48430%
Far East Broadcasting Company$27,50020%
Cornerstone Transitional Housing Ministry Inc$25,000114%
Lifeplan$23,05023%
Revived Faith Ministries$19,0232n/a
Campus Crusade for Christ Inc$13,1001n/a
Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood Inc$12,00022%
Community Baptist Church of South Bend$12,0001n/a
Central Missionary Clearinghouse Inc$10,00010%
Risen Motherhood Ministries Inc$6,20012%

Where it is load-bearing

Life Action Ministries supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 11 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOnecry Global Ministries Inc: $362,254 over 1y, 31% of budgetHouston Christian Broadcasters Inc: $88,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetCompassionate Hope Foundation: $79,700 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetFact Ministries Inc: $39,400 over 5y, 21% of budgetPure Freedom Inc: $35,484 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFar East Broadcasting Company: $27,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCornerstone Transitional Housing Ministry Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetLifeplan: $23,050 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetCouncil on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood Inc: $12,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetCentral Missionary Clearinghouse Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRisen Motherhood Ministries Inc: $6,200 over 1y, 1.7% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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.

Christian Community Foundation IncCO14.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Life Action Ministries

How much does Life Action Ministries give?
Life Action Ministries reported 10 itemized grants totaling $480,599, out of $562,053 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 9 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Life Action Ministries fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Religion (94%), Housing & Shelter (3%), Health (3%).
Who are Life Action Ministries's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Onecry Global Ministries Inc ($362k), Houston Christian Broadcasters Inc ($88k), Compassionate Hope Foundation ($80k).
Does Life Action Ministries fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Life Action Ministries?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Christian Community Foundation Inc, Servant Foundation, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc.
Where is Life Action Ministries based?
Life Action Ministries is based in MI.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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