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Living Proof Ministries
Living Proof Ministries' primary exempt purpose is to disseminate religious teachings through public speaking engagements, seminars, Bible classes, radio and television programs, and distribution of audio, videotapes, and written material.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 1 grants below total $5,600 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $31,601 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $26,001 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Crete Collective | $5,600 |
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 (FY20–20, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +64% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2021, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- HUHINES UGANDAN MINISTRIES3× · 2017–2019 · $28k · revenue +37%
- BTBE THE BRIDGE2× · 2018–2019 · $27k · revenue ×14
- HMHOPE MEDIA GROUP2× · 2017–2018 · $20k · revenue +204%
Funded once
- BCBAYOU CITY FELLOWSHIPone grant, 2018 · $50k
- TCTHE CHURCH IN HOUSTON NORTHWEST FELLOWSHIP INCone grant, 2018 · $50k
- TPTHE PREEMPTIVE LOVE COALITIONone grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue -71%
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.
Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…
Knowing Jesus Ministries is here to help churches and parents to keep the Next Gen in the fight
Reconciliaton Ministries Intl. is a Christian evangelical organization preaching and teaching the Word of God in over 60 countries. The ministry equips and encourages Christians everywhere to be saved, healed, and delivered according to…
Christian publishing company
Reaching and teaching pastors in the majority world.
Serving and pastoring overseas workers on their own turf and equipping nationals by training and empowering them in their work of advancing the gospel.
Raise Up Global Ministries is committed to educating Christian leaders in communities around the world. The three programs of Raise Up equip the global church by 1 Developing biblically based interactive materials and 2 Training…
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Empower believers to grow into wholeness in christ through faithful proclamation of the life-giving word.
Presenting biblical principles that apply to marriage and family relationships through counseling and seminars.
To equip and assist christians and their churches to respond to conflict biblically.
Leadership Revolution is a ministry founded to develop leaders globally who will spread the gospel and make disciples in their arena of influence.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Witness Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Preemptive Love Coalition. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 19 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 THE PREEMPTIVE LOVE COALITION ↗
- Who funds HINES UGANDAN MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds BE THE BRIDGE ↗
- Who funds Promise Reapers Inc d/b/a Pray the Word Ministries ↗
- Who funds America's Family Coaches Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPE MEDIA GROUP ↗
- Who funds ALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds THE WITNESS INC ↗
- Who funds THIS REDEEMED LIFE ↗
- Who funds BUILD A BETTER US ↗
- Who funds POLISHED NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS' MEALS INC ↗
- Who funds MILLENNIUM RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds STAR OF HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds The Crete Collective ↗
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: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Living Proof Ministries 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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