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Luis Palau Association

Proclaiming the Good News, Uniting the Church, and Impacting Cities Worldwide.

$680k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$436kPhilanthropy$135kEducation$50kHuman Services$20k
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $163,049, the rows itemized in this filing. The $680,016 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $516,967 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $154k
$20,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
National Christian Foundation - S Florida$30,000
City Leaders Collective$25,000
DCX Community co Quarry Kingdom Development$21,650
Mission Charleston$20,000
Trypraying$20,000
Within Reach$20,000
Alpha USA$17,000
Klamath Evangelical Association$9,399
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Pulse: $10k → 11%MissionsMe: $10k → 10%NYC Leadership Center: $20k → 13%Movement Day: $20k → 17%2020 Vision for Schools: $40k → 20%DCX Community co Quarry Kingdom Development: $22k → 10%East Texas Communities Foundation: $37k → 12%Mission Charleston: $20k → 12%The Lausanne Movement: $10k → 13%National Christian Foundation - S Florida: $30k → 13%Tabernacle Community Church: $10k → 11%Cedar Mill Bible Church: $6k → 8%New Hope Community Church: $9k → 12%Allen Temple CME Church: $8k → 12%Klamath Evangelical Association: $9k → 16%City Leaders Collective: $25k → 10%National Christian Foundation: $98k → 13%Outreach Media Group: $10k → 9%African Enterprise: $35k → 12%LifeLight Communications: $20k → 9%NYC Leadership Center: $10k → 13%Movementorg: $10k → 17%Grand Awakening: $10k → 11%Imago Dei Community: $9k → 12%NY CityServe: $10k → 17%Multnomah University: $11k → 12%Multnomah University: $10k → 12%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
MN
IL
MI
NY
OR
SD
CA
CO
NE
TN
NC
SC
GA
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region: $437k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 3 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$255k · 58% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: Christian evangelism

Middle East and North Africa$150k · 34% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: Christian evangelism

South America$32k · 7% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: Christian evangelism

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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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 27% of Luis Palau Association’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 18% of the giving stays in OR; by stated purpose, 13%.

Luis Palau Associationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 5.5% 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.

30%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$153k · 3 repeat orgs$352k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
15

Total granted

$153k
$206k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-17%
+70%

Still filing today

100%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 10% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $146k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
ReligionEducationInternationalPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
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

  • AU
    Alpha USA
    2× · 2022–2024 · $72k · revenue +182%
  • TN
    The New York City Leadership Center Inc
    4× · 2017–2021 · $60k · revenue -17%
  • MU
    MULTNOMAH UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2017–2018 · $21k · revenue -21%

Funded once

  • 22
    20 20 Vision For Schools Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $40k · revenue +181%
  • AE
    AFRICAN ENTERPRISE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $35k · revenue +82%
  • LC
    LIFELIGHT COMMUNICATIONS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +96%
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
Global City Missions Initiative Incorporated

Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…

Religion
2
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
3
Raise Up Global Ministries

Raise Up Global Ministries is committed to educating Christian leaders in communities around the world. The three programs of Raise Up equip the global church by 1 Developing biblically based interactive materials and 2 Training…

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4
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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5
Global Outreach International Inc

To get the good news to every nation this generation by showing and sharing god's love by providing opportunities and supporting christian missionaries in over seventy countries around the world.

International
6
Global Mobilization Ministries Inc

To support christian ministries throughout the world

Religion
7
Union Foundation Us

Rigorous biblical and accessible education, training and resources for churches worldwide.

Religion
8
Visionsynergy

Our mission is to accelerate the great commission by equipping leaders, developing networks, and catalyzing collaboration toward spiritual breakthroughs among the least reached peoples and places of the world.

International
9
Leadership Revolution Inc

Leadership Revolution is a ministry founded to develop leaders globally who will spread the gospel and make disciples in their arena of influence.

Religion
10
Explore God Network
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11
Grace Global Ministries Inc

Grace Global Ministries exists to assist local churches in sending global workers to fulfill the Great Commission.

International
12
International Commission Inc

Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New York City Leadership Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Mission Charleston. 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

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 27 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/18
Grantees still filing
10/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Alpha USA: $72,200 · ReligionAlpha USAFor Charlotte Inc: $25,000 · ReligionFor Charlotte IncQUARRY KINGDOM DEVELOPMENT: $21,650 · ReligionQUARRY KINGDOM DEVELOPMENTMISSION CHARLESTON: $20,000 · ReligionMISSION CHARLESTONLIFELIGHT COMMUNICATIONS INC: $19,780 · ReligionLIFELIGHT COMMUNICATIONS INCGLOBAL MEDIA OUTREACH: $10,000 · ReligionTHE RELEVATE GROUP INC: $10,000 · ReligionRESCUE INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 · ReligionLAUSANNE COMMITTEE FOR WORLD EVANGELIZATION: $10,000 · ReligionTHE GRAND AWAKENING: $10,000 · ReligionNATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC: $98,423 · PhilanthropyNATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN…EAST TEXAS COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION: $37,000 · PhilanthropyEAST TEXAS COMMUNITIES FOUNDA…NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION ORLANDO INC: $30,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION…The New York City Leadership Center Inc: $60,000 · EducationThe New York City Lea…20 20 Vision For Schools Inc: $40,000 · Education20 20 Vision For Scho…MULTNOMAH UNIVERSITY: $21,000 · EducationMULTNOMAH UNIVERSITYTrypraying: $20,000 · OtherTryprayingTABERNACLE COMMUNITY CHURCH: $10,000 · OtherTABERNACLE COMMU…NY CITYSERVE INC: $10,000 · OtherNY CITYSERVE INCPULSE INC: $10,000 · OtherPULSE INCKLAMATH EVANGELICAL ASSOCIATION: $9,399 · OtherKLAMATH EVANGELI…IMAGO DEI MINISTRIES: $9,000 · OtherIMAGO DEI MINIST…New Hope Community Church: $8,643 · OtherNew Hope Communi…CHRISTIAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $8,000 · OtherCHRISTIAN METHOD…CEDAR MILL BIBLE CHURCH: $6,000 · OtherCEDAR MILL BIBLE…AFRICAN ENTERPRISE INC: $35,000 · InternationalARMS WITHIN REACH FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Human Services
Religion$208,630Philanthropy$165,423Education$121,000Other$91,042International$35,000Human Services$20,000

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 budgetNATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC: $98,423 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlpha USA: $72,200 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetThe New York City Leadership Center Inc: $60,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetEAST TEXAS COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION: $37,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAFRICAN ENTERPRISE INC: $35,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION ORLANDO INC: $30,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFor Charlotte Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetQUARRY KINGDOM DEVELOPMENT: $21,650 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetMULTNOMAH UNIVERSITY: $21,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMISSION CHARLESTON: $20,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetLIFELIGHT COMMUNICATIONS INC: $19,780 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetNY CITYSERVE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 83% of budgetGLOBAL MEDIA OUTREACH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RELEVATE GROUP INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLAUSANNE COMMITTEE FOR WORLD EVANGELIZATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE GRAND AWAKENING: $10,000 over 1y, 13% 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.

Doll Family FoundationChristian Community F…Natl Christian Charit…Servant FoundationRaymond James Charita…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…
Doll Family FoundationNJ13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 27 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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