· Public charity
Love of Christ Foundation Inc
Making contributions to advance religious education and personal sanctity and religious commitment of the community at large;to promote,sponsor and support religious, educational, cultural, and other charitable organizations of similar purpose; and to provide relief to poor, distressed, and under privileged.
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 33 grants below total $572,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $666,700 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $94,200 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 · FY2021
- Under $10k9 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $231k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $278k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Catholic Charities USA | $110,000 |
| Catholic Relief Services | $95,000 |
| Doctors Without Borders USA | $73,000 |
| Religious Coalition for Emergency Need | $20,000 |
| Diamond Willow Ministries | $15,000 |
| Caring Ministries Inc | $15,000 |
| World Vision Inc | $11,000 |
| The Inn Ministry | $10,000 |
| World Relief | $10,000 |
| Living Water International | $10,000 |
| Patty's Place | $10,000 |
| TeamLift Inc | $10,000 |
| MAP International | $10,000 |
| It is Well International Inc | $10,000 |
| Frederick Rescue Mission | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–21, $175k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 62% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 11% of Love of Christ Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 18% of the giving stays in MD; read by stated purpose it is 11% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +62% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2021, 8 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $123k 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
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC5× · 2017–2021 · $168k · revenue +98%- CMCARING MINISTRIES INC5× · 2017–2021 · $70k · revenue ×23
- DWDIAMOND WILLOW MINISTRIES3× · 2017–2021 · $48k · revenue +323%
Funded once
- SJST JOHNS REGIONAL CONFERENCEgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $13k · revenue +55%
- ITInter Tribal Long Term Recovery Foundationone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -28%
- VOVOICE OF THE MARTYRS INCone grant, 2018 · $10k
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.
Door of Hope is a mercy ministry dedicated to helping hurting people be lifted out of crisis both locally and around the world. Door of Hope catalyzes local and sustainable solutions to provide those in need with safe water wells, social…
Provide aid to people in need worldwide
To reach the unreached people groups of west africa primarily in burking faso and ghana-sharing the gospel message of jesus christ. the organization also provides basic medical care such as vitamins for children and treatment for malaria…
To develope a ministry using the earthly work of Jesus Christ as a model and thereby seek the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual well-being of individuals in communities, esecially in developing countries by providing humanitarian…
Provide holistic and integrated service that address the diverse needs of vulnerable individuals and families experiencing instability as the result of domestic violence and /or homelessness.
SOS provides assistance to poor and marginalized people in the USA & other countries. SOS feeds the hungry, drills water wells, contributes to schools and operates an orphanage. SOS also rescues and rehabilitates victims of sex trafficking.
Provide food, shelter, and medical assistance for children around the world.
Journey To Destiny Ministries (JTDM) is a global, faith-based nonprofit organization committed to transforming and restoring dignity, hope, and opportunity to vulnerable individualsespecially children, women, and families affected by…
Provide resources for global orphan care
Promised Land Ministries supports the efforts of Christian missionaries in Central America, primarily Guatemala, in bringing relief to the poor, the distressed, and the underprivileged living in underserved areas. We assist missionaries in…
Our Mission is to minister the love of Jesus Christ to the Least, the Last and the Lost of the world through the provision of assistance in the areas of disaster relief, grief counseling, Christian guidance, Christian education, emergency…
The purpose of world hope international, inc. (whi) includes providing assistance to economically disadvantaged people through long-term social transformation projects, including anti-trafficking protection, clean water, economic…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is It is Well International Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
45 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. 45 of the 59 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.
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds CARING MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds DIAMOND WILLOW MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds FREDERICK RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds SHADY GROVE PREGNANCY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BEYOND SHELTER FREDERICK INC ↗
- Who funds DETROIT COMMUNITY OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds It is Well International Inc ↗
- Who funds St Gerard Campus ↗
- Who funds MISSION OF MERCY INC ↗
- Who funds Naco Wellness Initiative ↗
- Who funds Casa Esperanza Para Ninos ↗
- Who funds Christ in the City ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds THE LENNON CENTER ↗
- Who funds TeamLift Inc ↗
- Who funds The Inn Ministry ↗
- Who funds TOGO MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds SISTERHOUSE ↗
- Who funds ST JOHNS REGIONAL CONFERENCE ↗
- Who funds L'Arche Frederick Maryland Inc ↗
- Who funds Inter Tribal Long Term Recovery Foundation ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds Pattys Place Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF IFOSUD ↗
- Who funds KINO BORDER INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds INT'L ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds MAP International Inc ↗
- Who funds Living Water International ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN 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.
Open a dossier: United Way of Frederick County Inc · William E Cross Foundation Inc · Ausherman Family Foundation · The Community Foundation of Frederick County Maryland Inc · Raskob Foundation for Catholic Activities Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Network for Good · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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 Love of Christ 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.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% of income from government
- LArche Portland — 59% of income from government
- Int'l Orthodox Christian Charities Inc — 7% of income from government
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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