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Live Love Serve Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Live Love Serve Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$430k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0185% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Religion$894kEducation$694kInternational$694kHealth$465kHuman Services$357kYouth Development$128kFood & Nutrition$124kRecreation & Sports$121kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $203k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
$20,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$262k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VAPOR MINISTRIES$100,000
CHARLOTTE HORNETS FOUNDATION$50,000
CAROLINA YOUTH COALITION$50,000
SEED TO TABLE OREGON$30,000
SAFE ALLIANCE$25,000
THE FOUNDATION OF THE UNCC INC$25,000
ST MATTHEWS CATHOLIC CHURCH$25,000
FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS$25,000
MECKLENBURG AREA CATHOLIC SCHOOLS$20,000
SEED TO TABLE OREGON$20,000
COOKIES FOR KIDS CANCER$18,000
WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF CHARLOTTE$15,000
APPLIED LEADERSHIP COACHING LLC$5,800
SETON HALL UNIVERSITY$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA$5,000
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 (FY18–25, $816k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%VAPOR MINISTRIES: $102k → 18%COMMUNITY SHELTER OF UNION COUNTY: $5k → 7%CABWAYLINGO APPALACHIAN MISSION: $40k → 18%VAPOR MINISTRIES: $102k → 18%CABWAYLINGO APPALACHIAN MISSION: $40k → 18%VAPOR MINISTRIES: $100k → 18%CHARLOTTE FAMILY HOUSING: $5k → 10%CABWAYLINGO APPALACHIAN MINISTRY INC: $25k → 18%VAPOR MINISTRIES: $100k → 18%CHARLOTTE FAMILY HOUSING: $5k → 10%CABWAYLINGO APPALACHIAN MISSION: $16k → 18%VAPOR MINISTRIES: $100k → 18%CABWAYLINGO APPALACHIAN MISSION: $15k → 18%VAPOR MINISTRIES: $50k → 18%CABWAYLINGO APPALACHIAN MINISTRY INC: $12k → 18%SAFE ALLIANCE: $25k → 10%SAFE ALLIANCE: $20k → 10%HIINGA: $5k → 10%BRIGHT BLESSINGS: $3k → 10%BRIGHT BLESSINGS: $3k → 10%BEDS FOR KIDS INC: $5k → 10%BRAVEWORKS: $5k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF CHARLOTTE: $5k → 10%BEDS FOR KIDS INC: $5k → 10%FASHION & COMPASSION: $3k → 10%HEAL CHARLOTTE: $5k → 10%HEALED AND RESTORED INC: $10k → 10%HEALED AND RESTORED INC: $5k → 10%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

WA
NY
MA
OR
OH
NJ
CA
CO
WV
VA
DE
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.3M · 72 repeat orgs$721k to everyone else

72 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 58 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

72
87

Total granted

$3.3M
$628k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+43%

Still filing today

57%
28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $93k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthFood & NutritionReligionInternationalOther
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

  • VM
    Vapor Ministries Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $555k · revenue +86%
  • TC
    The Colson Center for Christian Worldview
    6× · 2018–2024 · $310k · revenue +142%
  • HF
    HopeWay Foundation
    2× · 2019–2020 · $251k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $75k
  • AS
    APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $63k · revenue +122%
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
For Charlotte Inc

To unite the Church to transform the city through the power of the Gospel.

Religion
2
Feeding Charlotte Inc

Feeding Charlotte rescues surplus, freshly prepared meals to reduce food waste and feed the hungry. We believe no food should be wasted while people go hungry in our community. To make this possible, we pickup unused, excess freshly…

Food & Nutrition
3
Feeding the Carolinas

The mission of the Organization is to coordinate, support, and advocate for member Food Banks across the Carolinas to create lasting solutions to address hunger.

Food & Nutrition
4
UrbanPromise Charlotte

Provide Charlotte's low-income children and youth with the academic, spiritual, and social development necessary to become Christian leaders determined to restore their communities.

Youth Development
5
Wnc Lighthouse Inc

The mission of WNC Lighthouse Inc is Changing lives, by being a light for Christ our Lord. Our vision is To be fully devoted to Jesus Christ, by opening our arms and providing Christian services to the underseved children, adults and…

Human Services
6
Cabarrus Cooperative Christian Ministry

To respond to the growing need in our community by providing immediate assistance to residents of Concord, Kannapolis, and Cabarrus County, NC who are experiencing crisis in the areas of food, shelter or finances while providing them…

—
7
Safe Harbor of Nc Inc

Safe Harbor provides a faith-based community for rebuilding, renewing, and recovery. We work together with volunteers and other nonprofit organizations to provide a wide range of services to those experiencing homelessness, single mothers,…

Health
8
Javesca Feeds Inc

Javesca Feeds purpose is to raise awareness and provide relief to help end hunger and malnutrition in poverty-stricken areas of the U.S. and around the world by connecting individual and corporate funding with front-line human relief…

Food & Nutrition
9
Carolina Community Care Inc

The mission of hospice & community care is to give hope, comfort, and compassion to those that need it most. hospice & community care is a nonprofit healthcare organization providing hospice and palliative care to residents of york,…

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10
Benevolence Farm

Benevolence farm seeks to cultivate leadership, promote sustainable livelihoods, and reap structural change with individuals impacted by the criminal legal system in north carolina.

Housing & Shelter
11
Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence Found ation
Health
12
Carolina Human Reinvestment

Carolina Human Reinvestment mission is to "Identify and serve the need of the youth and their families in our community "

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Charlotte Rescue Mission; the most unlike its peers is World Vets. 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

70 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. 70 of the 164 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
68/70
Grantees still filing
53/70
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST MATTHEW CATHOLIC CHURCH: $271,250 · OtherST MATTHEW CATHOLIC CHURCHVAPOR MINISTRIES: $200,000 · OtherVAPOR MINISTRIESCOOKIES FOR KIDS CANCER: $132,000 · OtherCOOKIES FOR KIDS CANCERIndividual grant recipient: $75,000 · OtherAPPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $63,000 · OtherSEED TO TABLE OREGON: $80,000 · Other+118 more: $1,002,036 · Other+118 moreVapor Ministries Inc: $554,630 · Human ServicesVapor Ministries IncCABWAYLINGO APPALACHIAN MISSION INC: $147,537 · Human ServicesCABWAYLINGO APPALACHIAN…Safe Alliance Inc: $45,000 · Human ServicesSafe Alliance Inc+10 more: $78,136 · Human Services+10 moreThe Colson Center for Christian Worldview: $310,000 · ReligionThe Colson Cen…SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $100,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PU…BLACK MOUNTAIN WEEKEND INC: $59,500 · ReligionBLACK MOUNTAIN…KINGDOM DESIGN MINISTRIES INC: $31,761 · ReligionKINGDOM DESIGN…+1 more: $5,000 · ReligionCAROLINA YOUTH COALITION: $150,000 · EducationFOLDS OF HONOR AMERICAN INTERIORS CHAPTER: $40,000 · EducationPUT ON THE BRAKES INC: $30,000 · EducationEMERALD SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE INC: $20,000 · EducationTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · EducationANDERSON UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · EducationSavannah College of Art and DesignInc: $10,000 · Education+2 more: $8,000 · EducationHopeWay Foundation: $250,608 · Health24 Foundation Inc: $16,000 · Health+5 more: $19,700 · HealthYoung Black Leadership Alliance: $123,000 · Youth DevelopmentFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHARLOTTE HORNETS FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS: $50,000 · PhilanthropyLaw Enforcement United Inc: $5,000 · PhilanthropyALL-IN TO FIGHT CANCER: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,823,286Human Services$825,303Religion$506,261Education$298,000Health$286,308Youth Development$198,000Philanthropy$110,000

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 budgetVapor Ministries Inc: $554,630 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetThe Colson Center for Christian Worldview: $310,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetHopeWay Foundation: $250,608 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetCAROLINA YOUTH COALITION: $150,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCABWAYLINGO APPALACHIAN MISSION INC: $147,537 over 6y, 12% of budgetYoung Black Leadership Alliance: $123,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEED TO TABLE OREGON: $80,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAPPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $63,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBLACK MOUNTAIN WEEKEND INC: $59,500 over 5y, 15% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSafe Alliance Inc: $45,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSETON HALL UNIVERSITY: $40,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR AMERICAN INTERIORS CHAPTER: $40,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetCommunity Building Initiative: $37,185 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetKINGDOM DESIGN MINISTRIES INC: $31,761 over 2y, 18% of budgetPUT ON THE BRAKES INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetA Better World Charlotte: $25,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetPromising Pages Inc: $23,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetEMERALD SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE INC: $20,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetROOF ABOVE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetANDERSON UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget24 Foundation Inc: $16,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetLIFT UP CAROLINAS: $16,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetHealed and Restored Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 63% of budgetElectoral Education Foundation: $15,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetBEDS FOR KIDS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSavannah College of Art and DesignInc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCharlotte Family Housing: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJamie Kimble Foundation for Courage: $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetBecause Baseball Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $9,636 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRAVEWORKS: $7,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFEEDING THE ORPHANS INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHebron Colony Ministries Inc: $7,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetVOLUNTEER MINISTRY CENTER: $6,065 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRIGHT BLESSINGS: $6,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetJAZZARTS CHARLOTTE: $5,600 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSecond Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc: $5,057 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHIINGA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWAKE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLaw Enforcement United Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWORLD VETS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJunior Achievement of Central Carolinas Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWest Blvd Ministry Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCatholic Charities Diocese of Charlotte: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds Vapor Ministries Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Colson Center for Christian Worldview ↗
  • Who funds HopeWay Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CAROLINA YOUTH COALITION ↗
  • Who funds CABWAYLINGO APPALACHIAN MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds Young Black Leadership Alliance ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds SEED TO TABLE OREGON ↗
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
  • Who funds APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BLACK MOUNTAIN WEEKEND INC ↗
  • Who funds CHARLOTTE HORNETS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ↗
  • Who funds Safe Alliance Inc ↗
  • Who funds SETON HALL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR AMERICAN INTERIORS CHAPTER ↗
  • Who funds Community Building Initiative ↗
  • Who funds KINGDOM DESIGN MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds PUT ON THE BRAKES INC ↗
  • Who funds A Better World Charlotte ↗
  • Who funds Promising Pages Inc ↗
  • Who funds EMERALD SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds ROOF ABOVE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ANDERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds 24 Foundation Inc ↗

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.

Foundation for the Ca…United Way of Greater…Duke Energy FoundationAlbemarle FoundationThe Presbyterian Hosp…True Homes Foundation…The Cannon Foundation…Equitable Foundation …Charlotte Woman's Clu…C D Spangler Foundati…Merancas Foundation I…Servant Foundation
Foundation for the CarolinasNC49.1× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation for the Carolinas · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Albemarle Foundation · The Presbyterian Hospital · True Homes Foundation Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Equitable Foundation Inc · Charlotte Woman's Club First Citizens Bank · C D Spangler Foundation Inc · Merancas Foundation Inc · Servant 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 Live Love Serve Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Live Love Serve Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Feeding South Florida Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Seton Hall University: 1% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Live Love Serve Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Live Love Serve Foundation 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 164 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-PF 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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