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Lothlorien Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$318k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$116k
Largest
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Religion$841kCommunity Improvement$547kHealth$231kHuman Services$194kArts & Culture$146kInternational$31kSocial Science$30kCivil Rights$28kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $99k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $176k
$3,600
Median grant
11
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE MISSION (TEAM)$115,920
HARARE THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE$60,000
CITY LIGHT$34,100
PROJECT MEDSEND$25,000
FOCUS ON THE FAMILY$20,000
CHRISTIAN MEDICAL & DENTAL ASSOC$10,000
LONGLEY FOUNDATION$10,000
WASHED IN THE WORD$6,200
THE MISSION CHURCH$6,000
NEBRASKA FAMILY ALLIANCE$6,000
PIONEERS$3,600
NAVIGATORS$3,300
Individual grant recipient$3,200
FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL$3,000
GREATER EUROPE MISSION$2,408
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $52k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $13k → 14%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $13k → 14%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $8k → 14%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $4k → 14%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $3k → 14%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $5k → 12%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $3k → 14%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $3k → 14%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
ID
IL
WI
MI
WY
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NE
KY
VA
AZ
TN
NC
DC
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 28 repeat orgs$38k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +69% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

28 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
10

Total granted

$2.1M
$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+69%
+9%

Still filing today

32%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionHuman ServicesEducationInternationalCivil RightsHealthOther
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

  • PM
    PROJECT MEDSEND
    6× · 2019–2025 · $215k · revenue +25%
  • FR
    FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL
    7× · 2019–2025 · $47k · revenue +51%
  • NF
    NEBRASKA FAMILY ALLIANCE INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $42k · revenue +196%

Funded once

  • PF
    PRISON FELLOWSHIP
    one grant, 2024 · $8k
  • OD
    OPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -13%
  • TS
    THE SHACK
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue -18%
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.

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Redeemed Christian Church of God

To strengthen marriages and families, to encourage Christian fellowship as we evangelize the lost around us and minister to the needy with the resources God has blessed us.

Religion
2
Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry Inc

To glorify god by equipping the church with proper christian doctrine and to help non-believers come to a saving knowledge of jesus christ.

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3
Probe Ministries International

To present the gospel by providing life-long opportunities to integrate faith and learning through balanced, biblically based scholarship, training people to love god by renewing their minds and equipping the church to engage the world for…

Religion
4
Explore God Network
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5
Reformation Bible College Inc

Reformation Bible College exists to provide a place for learning devoted to serving both laymen and pastors, offering both undergraduate and graduate degree programs based on Reformed Christian doctrine.

Education
6
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…

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7
Good News Publishers

Crossway is a not-for-profit Christian publishing ministry of Good News Publishers that exists to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ through publishing and other means, in order, by God's grace: to bring people to Christ as their Lord and…

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8
Faith School of Theology

Faith's purpose is to mentor students for spirit-filled leadership in ministry, in light of the great commission. while academics are important, the classrooms are not the only learning place. through a combination of formal instruction,…

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9
American Bible Society

Since 1816, american bible society has been fulfilling its mission of making the bible available to every person in a language and format each can understand and afford so all people may experience its life-changing message.

Religion
10
Intentional Life Media

Dedicated to igniting personal transformation by affirming faith, inspiring hope, and equipping individuals, to live an intentional life in christ.

Religion
11
Amazing Facts International

To proclaim to the world the everlasting gospel of revelation 14:6-12 and to encourage revival in the remnant church by leading people to embrace salvation by faith in jesus, to establish them in the church, and to disciple all believers…

Religion
12
Forum of Christian Leaders

The Forum of Christian Leaders (FOCL) exists to unite, equip, and resource global evangelical leaders toward the end of world evangelism and the renewal of the Biblical church.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alliance Defending Freedom; the most unlike its peers is Hillsdale College. 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

18 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. 18 of the 41 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
15/18
Grantees still filing
14/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY LIGHT: $677,325 · OtherCITY LIGHTEVANGELICAL ALLIANCE MISSION: $527,665 · OtherEVANGELICAL ALLIANCE MISSIONFOCUS ON THE FAMILY: $105,454 · OtherFOCUS ON THE FAMILYHARARE THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE: $105,000 · OtherHARARE THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE+24 more: $345,932 · Other+24 morePROJECT MEDSEND: $215,000 · EducationPROJECT MED…+1 more: $3,000 · EducationLigonier Ministries Inc: $41,480 · ReligionunfoldingWord: $21,275 · ReligionGREATER EUROPE MISSION: $12,438 · Religion+3 more: $4,000 · ReligionFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $47,000 · Human ServicesOPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE: $5,000 · Human ServicesCURE INTERNATIONAL INC: $30,000 · InternationalALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $27,000 · Civil RightsAssure Womens Center: $16,000 · Health
Other$1,761,376Education$218,000Religion$79,193Human Services$52,000International$30,000Civil Rights$27,000Health$16,000

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 budgetPROJECT MEDSEND: $215,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $47,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNEBRASKA FAMILY ALLIANCE INC: $42,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetLigonier Ministries Inc: $41,480 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCURE INTERNATIONAL INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDISCOVERY INSTITUTE: $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $27,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetunfoldingWord: $21,275 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAssure Womens Center: $16,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER EUROPE MISSION: $12,438 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHACK: $2,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetNEBRASKA RIGHT TO LIFE EDUCATIONAL TRUST: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGod's World Publications Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 PROJECT MEDSEND ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds NEBRASKA FAMILY ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds Ligonier Ministries Inc ↗
  • Who funds CURE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds DISCOVERY INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
  • Who funds unfoldingWord ↗
  • Who funds Assure Womens Center ↗
  • Who funds GREATER EUROPE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN MEDICAL & DENTAL ASSOCIAT ↗
  • Who funds OPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE SHACK ↗
  • Who funds InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA ↗
  • Who funds NEBRASKA RIGHT TO LIFE EDUCATIONAL TRUST ↗
  • Who funds Warren County Christian Academy ↗
  • Who funds God's World Publications 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.

Servant FoundationKS15.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Servant Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Dallas Seminary Found Vision Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Lothlorien Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lothlorien Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.

    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 41 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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