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Lindsey Davis Charities

This Organization's mission is to to help those in need by providing resources and services so they can enjoy productive and fulfilling lives.

$54k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What you fund
0180% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20222024.

Religion$22kEducation$20kHuman Services$17kInternational$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $36k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$16,000
Oral Roberts University$10,000
Voice of Martyrs$10,000
The Shepherd's Crook$7,000
Individual grant recipient$5,500
Heartbeats for Life$5,000
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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Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%The Shepherd's Crook: $10k → 12%The Shepherd's Crook: $7k → 12%SHEPHERD'S CROOK: $6k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$54k · 3 repeat orgs$32k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
3

Total granted

$54k
$32k

Still filing today

100%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationCivil RightsOther

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

  • TS
    THE SHEPHERD'S CROOK MINISTRIES INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $23k · revenue +5%
  • OR
    ORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +7%
  • HF
    HEARTBEATS FOR LIFE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $12k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $16k
  • VO
    VOICE OF THE MARTYRS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $6k

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

04Your 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
Hr Ministry Solutions Inc

Simplifying ministry HR through education, expertise and specialized services so that churches can grow a healthy and thriving staff.

Religion
2
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…

3
Kingdom Global Ministries

Christian services including missions efforts, humanitarian aide, mentoring/discipleship, establishment and covering of churches, licensing/ordaining ministers, pastoral support, all domestically and internationally.

Religion
4
Redemption Road Ministries

Redemption road provides housing, re-entry and transition services for men and women coming out of the criminal justice system. the mission is to provide to provide christ centered, bible based recovery from drug and alcohol abuse, damaged…

Religion
5
David's House Ministries

To provide quality care, facilities and supportive services for adults with a developmental disability, traumatic brain injury or mental illness. being enabled by god, we strive to provide an intentionally christian environment and program…

Housing & Shelter
6
Harvest House Ministries

To teach the true meaning of repentance and remission of sin as stated in luke 24:47 in an easy to understand duplicable way that produces real lifelong profitable results.

Community Improvement
7
Ariana Ministries Incorporated

Ariana Ministries is an Afghan-led ministry carrying out the Great Commission by planting and supporting churches among the Afghan people groups. We focus on evengelism, discipleship, leaders training and providing pastoral care and…

Religion
8
Rejoice Ministries International

RMI provides pastoral care ministry and support globally, with conferences, seminars, retreats, meetings and individual counseling.

Civil Rights
9
David's House

To provide quality care, facilities, and supportive services for adults with a developmental disability, traumatic brain injury or mental illness. being enabled by god, we strive to provide an intentionally christian environment and…

10
Great Commission Media Ministries-Usa

Non-denominational missions organization taking the gospel to russia, asia and middle east using television, radio and the internet. also ministering to churches throughout the united states.

Religion
11
Andre Roebert Ministries Inc

We will spread the word of god through our workshops, conferences, publications, and broadcasts. we are currently invited to travel and preach to many different churches and non churches as a guest speaker.

Religion
12
Genesis Global Ministries Inc

Evangelism - proclaiming the gospel of jesus christ nationally and internationally by preaching, teaching, training, publishing, church planting, compassion and disaster relief.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope International and the most unlike its peers is 3SIXTY. 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

3 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 3 of the 6 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
3/3
Grantees still filing
3/3
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $16,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientVOICE OF THE MARTYRS INC — $10,000 · OtherVOICE OF THE MARTYRS INCIndividual grant recipient — $5,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE SHEPHERD'S CROOK MINISTRIES INC — $22,987 · Human ServicesTHE SHEPHERD'S CROOK MINISTRIE…ORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY — $20,000 · EducationORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITYHEARTBEATS FOR LIFE — $11,500 · Civil RightsHEARTBEATS FOR …
Other$31,500Human Services$22,987Education$20,000Civil Rights$11,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE SHEPHERD'S CROOK MINISTRIES INC — $22,987 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEARTBEATS FOR LIFE — $11,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budget
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 THE SHEPHERD'S CROOK MINISTRIES INC
  • Who funds ORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds HEARTBEATS FOR LIFE

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Lindsey Davis Charities 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Oral Roberts University0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 6 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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