· Private foundation
Lilies of the Field Ministries Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAMARITANS PURSE | $5,000 |
| CHRISTIAN SERVICES | $2,000 |
| BAPTIST CHILDREN'S VILLAGE | $2,000 |
| HOMES OF HOPE FOR CHILDREN | $2,000 |
| FAITH COMES BY HEARING | $2,000 |
| IN TOUCH MINISTRIES | $1,000 |
| GIDEONS INTERNATIONAL | $1,000 |
| TIM LEE MINISTRIES | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| THE BUCKET MINISTRY | $1,000 |
| BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP | $1,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $800 |
| AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY | $590 |
| CAPPS MINISTRIES | $200 |
| SOW A FEW SEEDS | $100 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 13% of Lilies of the Field Ministries Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
25 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE5× · 2020–2024 · $24k · revenue +106%
- ITIN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC7× · 2018–2024 · $15k · revenue +40%
- HOHOMES OF HOPE FOR CHILDREN INC7× · 2018–2024 · $13k · revenue +75%
Funded once
- FBFIRST BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $18k
- SCST CHARLES AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $3k
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.
This church will be that place of emergency where people can come any time of day or night. We will be a place that will lead people back to health both spiritually and naturally.
Spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ
Teach the ministry of christ
To reach out with the message of the gospel of jesus to the last, least, and the lost
Purpose is sending individuals around the world to win souls to jesus christ by preaching the gospel evangelism.
Our mission statement - to fulfill our vision through prayer, proclamation of god's word, acts of love, and personal contacts. the conduit we will use is providing nourishing food at no cost to those in need. we combat hunger, empower…
To deliver the message of Jesus
To encourage and demonstrate grace in the body of christ across racial lines, so that communities throughout mississippi can see practical evidence of the gospel message.
We are a ministry of servants that lead souls to Jesus Christ and leave a lasting impact on the world for Gods glory. Our vision is to save the people of the USA, Amazon and the World with the Gospel of Jesus Christ and disciple them into…
Our mission is to make disciples of jesus christ by engaging indigenous pastors around the world. our vision is to train pastors and their congregants to share the gospel in a friendly, non-denominational approach across all ethnicities,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is In Touch Ministries Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bogalusa Help Center Inc. 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 37 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 SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds IN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HOMES OF HOPE FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds BOGALUSA HELP CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EXTRA TABLE FEEDS INC ↗
- Who funds The Bucket Ministry ↗
- Who funds Tim Lee Ministries ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI FOOD NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SOW A FEW SEEDS 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: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 organization Lilies of the Field Ministries 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.
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.
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