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· 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.

$667k
Granted FY2021
33
Grants FY2021
18
States reached
$110k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

International$620kPublic Safety & Disaster$240kReligion$232kHuman Services$158kHealth$139kFood & Nutrition$112kHousing & Shelter$95kEducation$26kOther$0
02FY2021 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 33 grants below total $572,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $666,700 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $94,200 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k9 grants · $64k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $231k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $278k
$10,000
Median grant
18
States reached
$2k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Catholic Charities USA$110,000
Catholic Relief Services$95,000
Doctors Without Borders USA$73,000
Religious Coalition for Emergency Need$20,000
Caring Ministries Inc$15,000
Diamond Willow Ministries$15,000
World Vision Inc$11,000
TeamLift Inc$10,000
Shady Grove Pregnancy Center$10,000
Direct Relief$10,000
The Inn Ministry$10,000
Patty's Place$10,000
Franciscan Missions$10,000
Frederick Rescue Mission$10,000
Cross Catholic Outreach$10,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Rancho Feliz Charitable Foundation Inc: $7k → 11%Mission of Mercy Inc: $10k → 9%Living Water International: $10k → 8%L'Arche Portland: $6k → 12%Diamond Willow Ministries: $18k → 40%It is Well International Inc: $10k → 7%Patty's Place: $10k → 19%Sisterhouse: $8k → 14%Diamond Willow Minitries: $16k → 40%It Is Well International Inc: $10k → 7%Sisterhouse: $8k → 14%Diamond Willow Ministries: $15k → 40%It Is Well International Inc: $10k → 7%Casa Esperanza para Ninos: $8k → 18%Mission of Mercy Inc: $10k → 6%Casa Esperanza para Ninos: $8k → 18%Mission of Mercy Inc: $7k → 6%Casa Esperanza para Ninos: $8k → 18%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
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
OR
SD
PA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
OK
GA
TX
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 11% of Love of Christ Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 18% of the giving stays in MD; by stated purpose, 11%.

Love of Christ Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 8.2% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 26 repeat orgs$285k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +61% since the first grant, against +37% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
18

Total granted

$1.4M
$162k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%
+37%

Still filing today

73%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $123k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
InternationalHuman ServicesReligionHealthHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther
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

  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $168k · revenue +98%
  • CM
    CARING MINISTRIES INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $70k · revenue ×26
  • DW
    DIAMOND WILLOW MINISTRIES
    3× · 2017–2021 · $48k · revenue +323%

Funded once

  • SJ
    ST JOHNS REGIONAL CONFERENCEgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $13k · revenue +55%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF IFOSUDgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +252%
  • HO
    HAVEN OF HOPE
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +13%
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.

1
Door of Hope

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…

International
2
International Crisis Aid Inc

Provide aid to people in need worldwide

Human Services
3
Shattering Darkness Inc

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…

Religion
4
International Health & Development Network Inc

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…

Philanthropy
5
Bridging Initiatives International

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.

Human Services
6
Sower of Seeds International Ministries

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.

Religion
7
Feeding Hungry Children International

Provide food, shelter, and medical assistance for children around the world.

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8
Journey to Destiny Ministries

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…

Religion
9
Gospel Care Collective

Provide resources for global orphan care

Human Services
10
Promised Land Ministries International

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…

Religion
11
Hope Fulfilled International

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…

Religion
12
World Hope International Inc

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…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

45 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. 45 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/45
Grantees still filing
36/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES: $321,300 · OtherCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICESCATHOLIC CHARITIES USA: $237,500 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES USAMILWAUKEE ARCHDIOCESAN OFFICE FOR WORLD MISSION INC: $40,000 · Other+19 more: $247,700 · Other+19 moreMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $168,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONT…WORLD VISION INC: $21,000 · InternationalWORLD VISION INCTOGO MISSION INC: $16,800 · InternationalTOGO MISSION INCFRIENDS OF IFOSUD: $10,000 · InternationalWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS: $10,000 · InternationalMAP International Inc: $10,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEF: $10,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $10,000 · InternationalFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $10,000 · InternationalINT'L ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHARITIES INC: $10,000 · International+2 more: $13,500 · InternationalDIAMOND WILLOW MINISTRIES: $48,000 · Human ServicesDIAMOND WILL…It is Well International Inc: $29,800 · Human ServicesIt is Well I…MISSION OF MERCY INC: $27,000 · Human ServicesMISSION OF M…Casa Esperanza Para Ninos: $22,500 · Human ServicesCasa Esperan…SISTERHOUSE: $15,000 · Human ServicesSISTERHOUSELiving Water International: $10,000 · Human ServicesLiving Water…Pattys Place Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesPattys Place…And Then There Were None: $8,500 · Human ServicesRANCHO FELIZ CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 · Human Services+1 more: $6,000 · Human ServicesCARING MINISTRIES INC: $70,000 · ReligionCARING MINI…BEYOND SHELTER FREDERICK INC: $38,500 · ReligionBEYOND SHEL…DETROIT COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $30,000 · ReligionDETROIT COM…Christ in the City: $21,500 · ReligionChrist in t…MISSIONERS OF CHRIST: $7,500 · ReligionSHADY GROVE PREGNANCY CENTER INC: $42,000 · HealthNaco Wellness Initiative: $26,500 · HealthTHE LENNON CENTER: $19,500 · HealthL'Arche Frederick Maryland Inc: $12,000 · HealthSun Stand Still Recovery Corp: $7,500 · HealthFREDERICK RESCUE MISSION INC: $45,000 · Housing & ShelterGENESIS HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $7,500 · Housing & ShelterURBAN PEAK DENVER: $6,000 · Housing & ShelterTeamLift Inc: $17,500 · EducationLeaven Kids: $8,000 · Education
Other$846,500International$289,300Human Services$183,800Religion$167,500Health$107,500Housing & Shelter$58,500Education$25,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $168,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCARING MINISTRIES INC: $70,000 over 5y, 8.7% of budgetDIAMOND WILLOW MINISTRIES: $48,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetFREDERICK RESCUE MISSION INC: $45,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSHADY GROVE PREGNANCY CENTER INC: $42,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetBEYOND SHELTER FREDERICK INC: $38,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetIt is Well International Inc: $29,800 over 3y, 20% of budgetSt Gerard Campus: $27,500 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetMISSION OF MERCY INC: $27,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNaco Wellness Initiative: $26,500 over 3y, 23% of budgetCasa Esperanza Para Ninos: $22,500 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetChrist in the City: $21,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $21,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LENNON CENTER: $19,500 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetTeamLift Inc: $17,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetThe Inn Ministry: $17,500 over 2y, 17% of budgetTOGO MISSION INC: $16,800 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSISTERHOUSE: $15,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF IFOSUD: $10,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAVEN OF HOPE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLiving Water International: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAP International Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKINO BORDER INITIATIVE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S CARE CENTER OF MARYLAND INCORPORATED: $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINT'L ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHARITIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInter Tribal Long Term Recovery Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetPattys Place Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetAnd Then There Were None: $8,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLeaven Kids: $8,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSun Stand Still Recovery Corp: $7,500 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetHOPE CLINIC INTERNATIONAL: $7,500 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetMISSIONERS OF CHRIST: $7,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetGLOBAL DEVELOPMENT GROUP USA INC: $7,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetRANCHO FELIZ CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetURBAN PEAK DENVER: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLArche Portland: $6,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetIMPRINT HOPE A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $6,000 over 1y, 2.5% 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.

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.

United Way of Frederi…William E Cross Found…Ausherman Family Foun…The Community Foundat…Raskob Foundation for…Texas Instruments Fou…American Endowment Fo…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Renaissance Charitabl…The Blackbaud Giving …Network for GoodNatl Christian Charit…
United Way of Frederick County IncMD13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Love of Christ Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Love of Christ Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 59%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Love of Christ Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 59 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $243k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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