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· Public charity
LIFE MODEL WORKS INC
The Life Model Works vision is that everyone who encounters the church is transformed into the image of Christ.
$74k
Granted FY2023
11
Grants
5
Communities
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0186% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2023.
Education$65kReligion$10kHealth$10kInternational$5kCommunity Improvement$5kOther$16k
02FY2023 · 11 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k10 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$5,181
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
- Alive & Well Inc$10,362
- InterVarsity Christian Fellowship$5,182
- Chicago West Side Christian School Association$5,181
- Chicago Hope Academy$5,181
- MOODY BIBLE INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO$5,181
- Red Letter Christians$5,181
- Taylor University Upland$5,181
- Wayside Cross Ministries$5,181
- Christian Community Development Assoc$5,181
- HOPE INTERNATIONAL$5,181
- Lawndale Community Church$5,181
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.
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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 12%. 82% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your 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
Wheaton College
Wheaton College serves Jesus Christ and advances his Kingdom through excellence in liberal arts and graduate programs that educate the whole person to build the church and benefit society worldwide.
Education
2
Trinity International University
Trinity international university offers undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degrees through four schools at locations in illinois, florida, and california.
Education
3
Oklahoma Christian University
Oklahoma Christian University Exists to educate, mentor, and inspire students to fulfill their potential and transform their lives through Christian faith, scholarship, and service.
Education
4
Evangel University
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god.
Education
5
Central Christian College of Kansas
Educating students within a four-year, non-profit liberal arts college program
Education
6
Fuller Theological Seminary
Provides graduate degrees in Theology,Psychology,Intercultural Studies & operates Psych Center.
Education
7
North Park University
North Park University is an accredited institution of higher education. Our mission is to prepare students for lives of significance and service through liberal arts and theological studies.
Education
8
Cedarville University
Cedarville university transforms lives through excellent education and intentional discipleship in submission to biblical authority.
Education
9
Kentucky Christian University
Higher education for christian leadership and service in the church and in professions.
Education
10
Christian Brothers University
Christian brothers university is a private, catholic comprehensive university committed to preparing students of all faiths and backgrounds to excel in their professional and public lives by providing challenging educational opportunities…
Education
11
Texas Christian University
Texas christian university is an institution of higher education which includes nine major academic units. instruction is for 12,785 students.
Education
12
Christian Institute of Human Relations
To provide for a Christian ministry utilizing various community youth programs.
Human Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christian Community Development Association and the most unlike its peers is Red Letter Christians. 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
10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Education$65,223Other$15,543Religion$10,363Health$10,362International$5,181Community Improvement$5,181
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 THRIVE TODAY ↗
- Who funds Alive & Well Inc ↗
- Who funds InterVarsity Christian Fellowship ↗
- Who funds Chicago West Side Christian School Association ↗
- Who funds Chicago Hope Academy ↗
- Who funds HOPE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Red Letter Christians ↗
- Who funds Christian Community Development Assoc ↗
- Who funds Taylor University Upland ↗
- Who funds MOODY BIBLE INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
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.
Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA10.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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 organisation LIFE MODEL WORKS 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Alive & Well Inc.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.3× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 264466532 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on Alive & Well Inc, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 10% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to Life Model Works Inc?
Find your warmest path to Life Model Works Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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