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Lifesong for Orphans Inc

Lifesongs mission is to bring joy and purpose to orphans and vulnerable children.

$12M
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$3.6M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$13MEducation$1.4MInternational$523kPhilanthropy$108kReligion$44kYouth Development$11k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $3,587,850, the rows itemized in this filing. The $11,546,118 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $7,958,268 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.
$3,587,850
Median grant
1
States reached
$86M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LIFESONG INC$3,587,850
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $12.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CCAI: $15k → 8%THE CHOSEN & DEARLY LOVED FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%CHRISTIAN ALLIANCE FOR ORPHANS: $45k → 6%LIFESONG INC: $3.7M → 11%CHRISTIAN ALLIANCE FOR ORPHANS: $40k → 6%LIFESONG INC: $3.6M → 11%CHRISTIAN ALLIANCE FOR ORPHANS: $15k → 6%LIFESONG INC: $3.5M → 11%CHRISTIAN ALLIANCE FOR ORPHANS: $15k → 6%LIFESONG INC: $1.8M → 11%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
IL
WI
CA
CO
VA
KS
TN
OK
AL
GA
TX
FL
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14M · 4 repeat orgs$405k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +105% since the first grant, against +46% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
15

Total granted

$14M
$405k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+105%
+46%

Still filing today

75%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationInternationalHousing & ShelterOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • LI
    LIFESONG INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $13M · revenue +105% · 100% of their budget
  • SS
    SOUTH SIDE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
    4× · 2017–2020 · $1.3M · revenue +336% · 91% of their budget
  • SF
    SCHOOLS FOR HAITI
    3× · 2018–2020 · $298k · 29% of their budget

Funded once

  • WH
    WELCOME HOME HAITI
    one grant, 2017 · $160k · revenue -95% · 73% of their budget
  • HT
    HEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $64k · revenue +40%
  • FC
    FIRST CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE
    one grant, 2017 · $22k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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
Tri-State Christian Academy Inc

Our desire is to provide balanced, biblical direction to the child as a support to the home and to train each student to be self-disciplined and biblically directed in their walk with god and their fellow man. it is also our desire to meet…

Education
2
Walnut Grove Christian School

We are a k-12 christian school founded under the following (4) pillars: academics: we provide an amazing accredited academic program utilizing 100% certified teachers. schedule: we provide our students and their families an opportunity on…

Education
3
Child Hope International

Reuniting children living in Haitian orphanages with their loving families and providing support to empower them to stay together.

Arts & Culture
4
New Road Missions

We are compelled by god's word to provide security, education and the hope of jesus to children in south africa so they can thrive personally and impact their future families, communities and the kingdom of god.

Religion
5
Carolina Christian Academy

Educational instruciton for students in prek-12th grades.

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6
Childrens House International

Children's house international provides ethical adoption services, child focused recruitment, and family support. we support disadvantaged children with humanitarian aid in countries worldwide.

—
7
Colorado Christian Academy

Colorado christian academy provides an innovative christ-centered education that prioritizes academic achievements and individual development of the whole child. in relationship with parents, we will build healthy foundations that result…

Education
8
Children of the Nations

To provide holistic, christ-centered care for orphaned and destitute children, enabling them to create positive and lasting change in their nations.

Human Services
9
Christian Academy Schools Inc

To equip and inspire a new generation of christ-centered leaders.

—
10
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
11
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…

—
12
Sole Ministries

None

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shaohannahs Hope Inc dba Show Hope; the most unlike its peers is Museum of the Bible. 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

14 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. 14 of the 20 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LIFESONG INC: $12,512,850 · Human ServicesLIFESONG INC+4 more: $150,950 · Human ServicesSOUTH SIDE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $1,326,425 · EducationSOUTH SIDE…+2 more: $31,920 · EducationSCHOOLS FOR HAITI: $298,337 · InternationalHEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC: $63,994 · InternationalWELCOME HOME HAITI: $160,413 · Housing & ShelterNATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC: $115,691 · PhilanthropyFIRST CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE: $21,869 · OtherLIFESONG LEGACY FUND: $19,474 · OtherEASTVIEW CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $15,000 · OtherMUSEUM OF THE BIBLE: $15,000 · OtherFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF HENDERSONVILLE: $13,896 · OtherWAYPOINT YOUTH FOUNDATION: $10,877 · OtherJEFFERSON COUNTY DHR: $10,000 · OtherMISSION ALABAMA: $6,675 · Other
Human Services$12,663,800Education$1,358,345International$362,331Housing & Shelter$160,413Philanthropy$115,691Other$112,791

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 budgetLIFESONG INC: $12,512,850 over 4y, 100% of budgetSOUTH SIDE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $1,326,425 over 4y, 91% of budgetSCHOOLS FOR HAITI: $298,337 over 3y, 29% of budgetWELCOME HOME HAITI: $160,413 over 1y, 73% of budgetNATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC: $115,691 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChristian Alliance for Orphans: $115,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetHEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC: $63,994 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMCKINNEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $19,400 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCCAI: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE BIBLE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLYNN UNIVERSITY INC: $12,520 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHAOHANNAHS HOPE INC dba SHOW HOPE: $10,950 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHOSEN & DEARLY LOVED FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% 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.

Servant FoundationNatl Christian Charit…Renaissance Charitabl…Raymond James Charita…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Servant FoundationKS11.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Lifesong for Orphans Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lifesong for Orphans Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Lynn University Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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 · 0–10%
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.
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How do I get to Lifesong for Orphans Inc?

Find your warmest path to Lifesong for Orphans Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 20 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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