· Public charity
Life Action Ministries
To ignite christ-centered movements of revival among gods people that display his glory and advance his kingdom throughout the world
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $480,599 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $562,053 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $81,454 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 · FY2023
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $112k
- $250k+1 grant · $362k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ONE CRY MOVEMENT | $362,254 |
| HOUSTON CHRISTIAN BROADCASTERS INC | $20,000 |
| LIFE PLAN | $17,400 |
| CORNERSTONE TRANSITIONAL HOUSING | $15,900 |
| PURE FREEDOM INC | $15,000 |
| FACT MINISTRIES INC | $12,000 |
| COMMUNITY BAPTIST CHURCH | $12,000 |
| REVIVED FAITH MINISTRIES | $10,045 |
| FAR EAST BROADCASTING COMPANY | $10,000 |
| COMPASSIONATE HOPE FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
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 (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 94% 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 +36% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $374k 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
- HCHouston Christian Broadcasters Inc7× · 2017–2023 · $88k · revenue +49%
- CHCOMPASSIONATE HOPE FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2023 · $80k · revenue +295%
- FEFAR EAST BROADCASTING COMPANY2× · 2022–2023 · $28k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- CTCORNERSTONE TRANSITIONAL HOUSING MINISTRY INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +85%
- CCCAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST INCone grant, 2017 · $13k
- CMCentral Missionary Clearinghouse Incone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +4%
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.
Religion
Religious
Christian music broadcasters, inc. is dedicated to better reach and engage people through christian music broadcasting with the goal to ensure that the organization's excellence and influence is second to none.
Promote the gospel of jesus christ through bible study and conferences
Spread the Gospel
Christian radio ministry through daily radio broadcasts, online streaming, conferences, and distribution of publications.
Religious
Publish bible study material
Christian family media ministries, inc operates as christian family radio and has a mission of showcasting god's glory through your story with life changing media.
Christian Teaching Writing Biblical Counseling and Missions
Our mission is to establish and strengthen cbmc ministries at the national and regional levels across the globe as they engage the marketplace with the gospel of jesus christ and partner with men and women in transformative discipleship…
Teach the Word of the Lord
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Onecry Global Ministries Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lifeplan. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 16 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 ONECRY GLOBAL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Houston Christian Broadcasters Inc ↗
- Who funds COMPASSIONATE HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FACT MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds PURE FREEDOM INC ↗
- Who funds FAR EAST BROADCASTING COMPANY ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE TRANSITIONAL HOUSING MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds LIFEPLAN ↗
- Who funds Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood Inc ↗
- Who funds Central Missionary Clearinghouse Inc ↗
- Who funds RISEN MOTHERHOOD MINISTRIES 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.
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
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 Life Action Ministries 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.
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.