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· Public charity

Life Model Works Inc

To equip existing networks to create identity transformation into the likeness of Christ in church culture.

$74k
Granted FY2023
11
Grants FY2023
5
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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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.

Education$65kReligion$26kHealth$10kInternational$5kCommunity Improvement$5k
02FY2023 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $62,173, the rows itemized in this filing. The $74,173 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $12,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

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
RecipientAmount
Alive & Well Inc$10,362
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship$5,182
Wayside Cross Ministries$5,181
Christian Community Development Assoc$5,181
Taylor University Upland$5,181
Chicago West Side Christian School Association$5,181
Red Letter Christians$5,181
MOODY BIBLE INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO$5,181
Chicago Hope Academy$5,181
Lawndale Community Church$5,181
HOPE INTERNATIONAL$5,181
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%HOPE INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 9%Red Letter Christians: $5k → 22%Alive & Well Inc: $10k → 19%Taylor University Upland: $5k → 19%Wayside Cross Ministries: $5k → 8%Lawndale Community Church: $5k → 14%Chicago West Side Christian School Association: $5k → 14%Christian Community Development Assoc: $5k → 14%Chicago Hope Academy: $5k → 14%MOODY BIBLE INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
2
Criswell College

The mission of criswell college is to provide ministerial and professional higher education for men and women preparing to serve as christian leaders throughout society, while maintaining an institutional commitment to biblical inerrancy.

Education
3
Asbury Theological Seminary

Asbury Theological Seminary is a community called to prepare theologically educated, sanctified, Spirit-filled men and women to evangelize and to spread scriptural holiness throughout the world through the love of Jesus Christ, in the…

Education
4
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
5
Olivet University

Providing guality Christian education to the network generation

Education
6
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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7
Mid-America Christian University Inc

Mid-america christian university prepares students through a wesleyan perspective to create, collaborate, and innovate to solve local and global problems for the glory of god through jesus christ and the good of society.

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8
Central Christian College of the Bible

Central christian college of the bible (central) exists to develop servant-leaders for the church. as a traditional undergraduate bible college of the restoration movement, central equips faithful men and women for leadership ministry.

Education
9
Colorado Christian University

Serving god by providing christ-centered higher education.

Education
10
Council for Christian Colleges and Universities

The Council's mission is to advance the cause of Christ-centered higher education and to help our institutions transform lives by faithfully relating scholarship and service to biblical truth.

Education
11
Crown College

The mission of crown college is to provide a biblically based education for christian leadership in the christian and missionary alliance, the church-at-large, and the world.

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12
Indiana Wesleyan University

Indiana wesleyan university is a christ-centered academic community committed to changing the world by developing students in character, scholarship, and leadership.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christian Community Development Association; 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 tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 12 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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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 first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THRIVE TODAY: $49,680 · EducationTHRIVE TODAYThe Moody Bible Institute of Chicago: $5,181 · EducationThe Moody Bible Institute of ChicagoCHICAGO HOPE ACADEMY: $5,181 · EducationCHICAGO HOPE ACADEMYTaylor University: $5,181 · EducationTaylor UniversityCHICAGO WEST SIDE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION: $5,181 · OtherCHICAGO WEST SI…WAYSIDE CROSS MINISTRIES: $5,181 · OtherWAYSIDE CROSS M…LAWNDALE COMMUNITY CHURCH: $5,181 · OtherLAWNDALE COMMUN…InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA: $5,182 · ReligionInterVarsi…RED LETTER CHRISTIANS: $5,181 · ReligionRED LETTER…ALIVE & WELL INC: $10,362 · HealthALIVE & WE…CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION: $5,181 · Community ImprovementHOPE INTERNATIONAL: $5,181 · International
Education$65,223Other$15,543Religion$10,363Health$10,362Community Improvement$5,181International$5,181

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetALIVE & WELL INC: $10,362 over 1y, 10% of budgetThe Moody Bible Institute of Chicago: $5,181 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO WEST SIDE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION: $5,181 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHICAGO HOPE ACADEMY: $5,181 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION: $5,181 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOPE INTERNATIONAL: $5,181 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTaylor University: $5,181 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRED LETTER CHRISTIANS: $5,181 over 1y, 1.6% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA11.2× 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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Life Model Works Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Life Model Works Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%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 · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 12 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.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $15k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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