· Public charity
Living Waters Publications
To publish, produce, distribute, and sell/donate religious books, tracts, pamphlets, video and audio tapes as well as provide radio, web and t.v.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $148,324 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $275,147 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $126,823 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.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k8 grants · $98k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CALVARY CHAPEL DOWNEY | $50,000 |
| ANSWERS IN GENESIS | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $18,324 |
| PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER | $10,000 |
| LIVINGWELL PREGNANCY CENTERS | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| SALAAM INTERNATIONAL | $10,000 |
| GRACE COMMUNITY CHURCH | $10,000 |
| CALVARY CHAPEL SAVING GRACE | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 53% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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
Grants abroad, by region — $87k on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 4 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: MISSIONS SUPPORT · EVANGELISM PROGRAM REIMBURSEMENTS · HONORARIUM
Stated purpose: FILM DUBBING SERVICES · CONSULTING
Stated purpose: EVANGELISM PROGRAM REIMBURSEMENTS · MISSIONS SUPPORT
Stated purpose: MISSIONS SUPPORT
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. 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.
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.
9 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
- CCCALVARY CHAPEL OF DOWNEY2× · 2023–2024 · $70k
- CCCALVARY CHAPEL SAVING GRACE3× · 2022–2024 · $60k
- SGSAVING GRACE WORLD MISSION3× · 2019–2021 · $48k
Funded once
- JPJC PREGNANCY CENTER INCone grant, 2022 · $25k
- KCKINDRED COMMUNITY CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $25k
- ACAPOLOGIA CHRISTIAN MINISTRIESone grant, 2022 · $20k
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.
The Pregnancy Care Center is a Christian organization to promote the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and to boldly endorse the sacredness of all human life, by providing comprehensive, practical services as enduring alternatives to abortion.
The Pregnancy Center is a Christ-centered ministry providing alternatives to abortion, and support programs committed to saving lives physically, spiritually, and emotionally, one life at a time for the glory of God.
Sharing the gospel message and upholding the sanctity of human life by demonstrating the love of Christ to men and women facing unplanned pregnancies by providing spiritual, physical, and emotional support.
Pregnancy education and counseling
Passionlife ministries is a global missions initiative to spread the gospel of life and expand the pregnancy help movement among nations plagued by abortion, infanticide and gendercide.
The organization is a christ-centered ministry committed to upholding the sanctity of human life. the prc has pregnancy & ultrasound testing along with christian counseling on parenting skills and abstinence.
Hope for life pregnancy center is a christ-centered, pro-life ministry, committed to sharing the good news of jesus christ and upholding the sanctity of life by providing compassionate, life-affirming services to women, men, and families…
To encourage and educate those facing unplanned pregnancies and related challenges by offering life-affirming options through the compassion and love of jesus christ.
Bsideu for life is committed to presenting the gospel of our lord in word and deed by educating women facing crisis pregnancies, responding to their needs and protecting the lives of unborn children.bsideu for life also equips mothers and…
Provide FREE pregnancy care, test and counseling for needy women through delivery of the baby.
To share the truth and love of Jesus Christ in conjunction with a ministry to those facing pregnancy related issues: a pregnant womens' counseling program, a free pregnancy testing program, a maternity support (baby supplies, clothing and…
Christ-centered organization dedicated to empowering women with the truth and hope they need to choose life. develop and distribution of informational and educational materials.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pregnancy Resource Center and the most unlike its peers is OneLife for Life Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 24 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.
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: Servant Foundation · 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 Living Waters Publications 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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