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Living Stream (dba Living Stream Ministry)

To promote the enlightenment and revelation regarding the bible as interpreted by the teachings of watchman nee and witness lee, and to prepare, select and distribute information of all kinds which may be useful for the growth of spiritial life among christians.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$246k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$4.0MInternational$1.9MEmployment$63kEducation$33k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $300,993, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,175,862 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $874,869 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $48k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $246k
$33,100
Median grant
2
States reached
$116M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHURCH IN ANAHEIM - LME$245,893
Acaiawood School$33,100
Church in Houston$15,000
Church in Dallas$7,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 7% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHURCH IN BOSTON: $19k → 16%CHURCH in Fullerton SA: $10k → 10%Southern California Blending Center: $250k → 14%Church in Los Angeles CA: $26k → 14%HIRAM BUILDERS INC: $16k → 18%Church in Irving: $23k → 14%Church in Odessa TX: $6k → 16%Church in Houston: $15k → 16%Church in Lubbox Texas: $9k → 17%RHEMA INC: $42k → 9%CHURCH IN BOSTON: $13k → 16%Church in Yorba Linda: $50k → 10%Church in Los Angeles CA: $6k → 14%Church in Dallas: $7k → 14%RHEMA INC: $12k → 9%CHURCH IN BOSTON: $7k → 16%CHURH IN ANAHEIM - LME: $1.5M → 10%Church in Diamond Bar: $13k → 14%Church in Boston: $6k → 16%CHURCH IN ANAHEIM - LME: $297k → 10%CHURCH IN DIAMOND BAR: $7k → 14%CHURCH IN BOSTON: $5k → 16%CHURCH IN ANAHEIM - LME: $246k → 10%CHURCH IN ANAHEIM: $162k → 10%CHURH IN ANAHEIM - LME: $131k → 10%LORD'S MOVE TO EUROPE CHURCH IN ANAHEIM: $120k → 10%CHURCH IN ANAHEIM: $110k → 10%CHURCH IN ANAHEIM: $104k → 10%CHURCH IN ANAHEIM: $90k → 10%CHURCH IN ANAHEIM: $82k → 10%LORD'S MOVE TO EUROPE CHURCH IN ANAHEIM: $54k → 10%CHURCH IN ANAHEIM: $51k → 10%CHURH IN ANAHEIM - LME: $39k → 10%Acaiawood School: $33k → 10%LORD'S MOVE TO EUROPE CHURCH IN ANAHEIM: $27k → 10%Church in Irvine-GTCA: $15k → 10%CHURCH IN SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO: $15k → 10%CHURCH IN SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO: $15k → 10%CHURCH IN SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO: $15k → 10%CHURCH IN SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO: $15k → 10%CHURCH IN SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO: $8k → 10%SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BLENDING CENTER: $2.0M → 10%SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BLENDING CENTER: $234k → 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.

Grants abroad, by region: $859k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 6 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$432k · 50% · 12 grants

Stated purpose: translation, printing · translation, printin · translation and printing

South Asia$211k · 25% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: translation, printing

Middle East and North Africa$111k · 13% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: translation, printing

Russia and Neighboring States$52k · 6% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: translation, printing

East Asia and the Pacific$45k · 5% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: TRANSLATION, & PRINTING

Sub-Saharan Africa$8k · 1% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: Translation, & Printing

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.8M · 8 repeat orgs$154k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
5

Total granted

$5.8M
$99k

Still filing today

25%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • CI
    CHURCH IN ANAHEIM
    8× · 2017–2024 · $3.1M
  • SC
    SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BLENDING CENTER INC
    3× · 2018–2022 · $2.5M · revenue -75% · 62% of their budget
  • CI
    CHURCH IN MISSION VIEJO
    5× · 2018–2022 · $68k

Funded once

  • CI
    CHURCH IN YORBA LINDA
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • CI
    CHURCH IN IRVING
    one grant, 2022 · $23k
  • TC
    THE CHURCH OF FULLERTON CORPORATION
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
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
04the grantee network

3 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. 3 of the 16 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
3/3
Grantees still filing
1/3
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHURCH IN ANAHEIM: $3,059,006 · OtherCHURCH IN ANAHEIM+14 more: $408,417 · Other+14 moreSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BLENDING CENTER INC: $2,484,053 · ReligionSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BLENDING CENTER INC
Other$3,467,423Religion$2,484,053

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BLENDING CENTER INC: $2,484,053 over 3y, 62% of budgetACACIAWOOD SCHOOL: $33,100 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetHIRAM BUILDERS INC: $30,620 over 2y, 8.6% 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 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BLENDING CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ACACIAWOOD SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds HIRAM BUILDERS 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.

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Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO3.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Living Stream (dba Living Stream Ministry) funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Living Stream (dba Living Stream Ministry). Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s 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 · 0–5%
    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

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    How do I get to Living Stream (dba Living Stream Ministry)?

    Find your warmest path to Living Stream (dba Living Stream Ministry) 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 16 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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