· Private foundation
Love Like Lija Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Redeemer Life Church | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| St Paul the Apostle Church | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–22, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 14% of Love Like Lija Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 63% of the giving stays in IL; by stated purpose, 54%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- D4DIGNITY 4 GIRLS3× · 2020–2023 · $6k
- LCLIMESTONE COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL4× · 2020–2023 · $6k
- IGIndividual grant recipient3× · 2022–2024 · $4k
Funded once
- WFWhite Field Partners-Sierra Leoneone grant, 2022 · $2k
- FOFOTCOH-Friends of the Children of Haitione grant, 2021 · $1k
- SPSt Paul the Apostle Catholic Schoolone grant, 2023 · $1k
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.
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.
Foreign missions and services
Helping people in need with their everyday essentials
Christian social services is a specialized ministry of local churches offering food, clothing, support and chirtian hospitality in the name of jesus christ to people in central pasco and northern hillsborough counties in florida.
The mission of inner city mission is to provide what is needed to help homeless children, their parents, and single women find their way home.
Providing food and building sustainable communities.
Through shelter and housing, advocacy and supportive services, our mission is to prevent and end homelessness in our community.
The union gospel mission duluth is a welcoming christian nonprofit organization that serves as a refuge and is committed to nourishing peoples physical, spiritual, and social needs. through our on-site meal program, community housing…
Homes 4 Homes brings safe housing to people in developing countries. We empower local leaders and construction teams to build homes for at risk members of their own communities. Safe and secure housing positively impacts multiple…
A shared ministry with over fifty churches from various denominations who help to house and feed the homeless. Our guests receive a safe place to stay over night plus a hot meal meals. We also have a day program open year round where…
Nourishing the Nations exists to provide nourishing meals to the children of Kisumu County in western Kenya. These meals are provided through partherships with local Kenyan pastors.
Catholic Community Response Team provides direct support and referral services to those in crisis needing emergency assistance to meet their basic needs. We do it in a manner inspired by the Gospel of Jesus. Our focus is to keep families…
Leighs Mission is a family of ministries which includes Leighs Blankies, Huruma Childrens Sewing Program, Hands to Home, Mama Leigh Anns Home. We show God's love to children one Leigh's Blankie at a time.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 59 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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.
Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Love Like Lija Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Love Like Lija Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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