Texas · Private foundation
Lifeway Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $113k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2024
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 42%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $3,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $58,625
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 24
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $3.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 42% of the organizations Lifeway Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 39% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 12 | $112k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $152k | 42% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $135k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $110k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $337k | 44% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $181k | 38% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $160k | 89% |
| FY2017 | 3 | $8k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lifeway Haven Inc | $455,000 | 3 | 97% |
| Discipleship Unlimited Inc | $121,125 | 7 | 8% |
| Uttermost International | $58,550 | 4 | 5% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $42,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Orphanos Foundation | $20,780 | 2 | 0% |
| Students Standing Strong | $18,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Pioneer Bible Translators | $15,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Alliance Defending Freedom | $13,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Judicial Watch Inc | $11,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Living Water International | $10,300 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 34 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($330k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Lifeway Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 27 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
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About Lifeway Foundation Inc
- How much does Lifeway Foundation Inc give?
- Lifeway Foundation Inc reported 13 grants totaling $113,405 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Lifeway Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (42%), Religion (22%), International (12%).
- Who are Lifeway Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Lifeway Haven Inc ($455k), Discipleship Unlimited Inc ($121k), Uttermost International ($59k).
- Does Lifeway Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lifeway Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Lifeway Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, Christian Community Foundation Inc, Servant Foundation.
- Where is Lifeway Foundation Inc based?
- Lifeway Foundation Inc is based in TX.
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