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Lou Church Educational Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$150k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192025.

Education$470kReligion$404kHuman Services$114kSocial Science$46kPublic Benefit$26kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEIX TEACH EVERY NATION$50,000
PALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY$50,000
WESTMINISTER ACADEMY$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–19, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SHERIDAN HOUSE FAMILY MIMISTRIES INC: $25k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$918k · 11 repeat orgs$89k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
5

Total granted

$918k
$64k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-10%
+62%

Still filing today

27%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
EducationReligionHuman ServicesOther

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

  • PB
    PALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $250k · revenue +46%
  • TT
    TEIX TEACH EVERY NATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $215k
  • WA
    WESTMINISTER ACADEMY
    7× · 2019–2025 · $135k

Funded once

  • TJ
    THE JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +104%
  • SH
    SHERIDAN HOUSE FAMILY MINISTRIES INC
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +10%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $8k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Liberty University Inc

Liberty university, inc. is a distinctively christian academic community, with a mission of providing quality collegiate education training champions for christ.

Education
2
Loyola Marymount University

Organization's mission loyola marymount university maintains a three-fold mission: 1)the encouragement of learning, 2) the education of the whole person, and 3)the service of faith and the promotion of justice.

Education
3
Ave Maria University Inc

University education grounded in the traditions and faith of the roman catholic church

Education
4
The Institute of World Politics

The institute of world politics is a graduate school of national security and international affairs, dedicated to developing leaders with a sound understanding of international realities and the ethical conduct of statecraft, based on…

International
5
Florida Southern College

Florida southern college (florida southern or the college) is committed to educational excellence and is a selective comprehensive, private, united methodist affiliated college with a strong liberal arts core and signature programs. (see…

Education
6
The Bolles School

The bolles school prepares students for college and life by inspiring excellence, courage, integrity and compassion in an academic community dedicated to nurturing mind, body and soul.

Education
7
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
8
Washington and Lee University

Mission statement of washington and lee university: washington and lee university provides a liberal arts education that develops students' capacity to think freely, critically, and humanely and to conduct themselves with honor, integrity,…

Education
9
Eden Theological Seminary

Eden theological seminary is called to strengthen the life of the church by educating women and men for ministry, enlivening critical reflection on faith and supporting bold christian dicipleship.

Education
10
Bethany Lutheran College Inc

Bethany lutheran college provides christian higher education in a challenging academic environment where personal mentoring guides students to pursue knowledge, truth, and discernment for productive and fulfilling lives.

Education
11
Augustana University Association

Inspired by lutheran scholarly tradition and the liberal arts, augustana provides an education of enduring worth that challenges the intellect, fosters integrity and integrates faith with learning and service in a diverse world.

Education
12
Asbury College

Asbury university equips students, through academic excellence and spiritual vitality, for lifelong learning, leadership, and service to the professions, society, the family and the church, preparing them to engage their cultures and…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Laugh Out Loud Ministry Inc and the most unlike its peers is Torch & Trumpet Theatre Inc. 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

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TEIX TEACH EVERY NATION — $215,000 · OtherTEIX TEACH EVERY NATIONWESTMINISTER ACADEMY — $135,000 · OtherWESTMINISTER ACADEMYPERPECTIVE MINISTRIES — $57,000 · OtherPERPECTIVE MINISTRIESFIRST BAPTIST FORT LAUDERDALE — $50,000 · OtherFIRST BAPTIST FORT LAUDERDALEFOUNDATION FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION — $45,000 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATIONCALVARY CHAPEL — $35,000 · OtherCALVARY CHAPELCORAL RIDGE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — $32,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $25,000 · OtherTHE JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES INC — $25,000 · OtherLIVING WATER CHRISTIAN COUNSELING — $22,000 · Other+2 more — $9,000 · OtherPALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY INC — $250,000 · EducationPALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY INCHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $85,000 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGERELATE WELL LIVE WELL INC — $67,000 · EducationRELATE WELL LIVE WELL INCSHERIDAN HOUSE FAMILY MINISTRIES INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesLaugh Out Loud Ministry Inc — $10,000 · ReligionTorch & Trumpet Theatre Inc — $5,000 · ReligionLeadership Institute — $1,000 · Public Benefit
Other$650,000Education$402,000Human Services$25,000Religion$15,000Public Benefit$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY INC — $250,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $85,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRELATE WELL LIVE WELL INC — $67,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetLaugh Out Loud Ministry Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetLeadership Institute — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUDWIG VON MISES INSTITUTE FOR AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 PALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY INC
  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE
  • Who funds RELATE WELL LIVE WELL INC
  • Who funds THE JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES INC
  • Who funds SHERIDAN HOUSE FAMILY MINISTRIES INC
  • Who funds Laugh Out Loud Ministry Inc
  • Who funds Torch & Trumpet Theatre Inc
  • Who funds Leadership Institute
  • Who funds LUDWIG VON MISES INSTITUTE FOR AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS INC

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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA11.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Lou Church Educational Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Palm Beach Atlantic University Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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