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Luke 1248 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.

$68k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2025
15
Organizations funded FY2024
40%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$6,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,100
Organizations funded a year
5 to 15
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
7
Total assets, FY2025
$726k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Luke 1248 Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 35% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesReligionHousing & ShelterArts & CultureCivil RightsEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving12$68k50%
FY202415$75k40%
FY202312$65k42%
FY202211$57k64%
FY20219$57k56%
FY202011$36k55%
FY20198$35k63%
FY20185$5k60%
91% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$68kReligion$65kCivil Rights$58kHuman Services$41kHousing & Shelter$37kEducation$30kInternational$29kYouth Development$15kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
OR
IN
CA
CO
KY
AZ
NC
SC
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Alliance Defending Freedom$58,00070%
Choices Women's Clinic Inc$43,00050%
Veritas School$30,00031%
D O O R International$27,0003n/a
Willow Creek Church$24,0004n/a
Christian Help Foundation Inc$15,00050%
Mercy House Living Centers$14,00040%
Miracle Hill Ministries Inc$13,38510%
The Abba Fund Inc$10,50021%
A New Generation of Hernando Inc$10,00012%
Show all 30 grantees
All grantees of Luke 1248 Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Alliance Defending Freedom$58,00070%
Choices Women's Clinic Inc$43,00050%
Veritas School$30,00031%
D O O R International$27,0003n/a
Willow Creek Church$24,0004n/a
Christian Help Foundation Inc$15,00050%
Mercy House Living Centers$14,00040%
Miracle Hill Ministries Inc$13,38510%
The Abba Fund Inc$10,50021%
A New Generation of Hernando Inc$10,00012%
Adoption Assistance Inc$10,00011%
Front Porch Housing$10,00020%
The Colson Center for Christian Worldview$9,09710%
Bibleproject$8,00030%
The Logos Theatre$6,0002n/a
Medical Debt Resolution Inc$5,00010%
Commission 127 Inc$5,00011%
Pioneers$5,0001n/a
Brooksville Kiwanis Club Foundation Inc$3,92023%
The Christian Sharing Center Inc$3,00010%
Child Evangelism Fellowship of Sc Inc$3,0001n/a
Live Oak Theatre Company Inc$3,00011%
A Chosen Child Inc$3,00010%
Faith Church Inc$2,5001n/a
Powdersville Volunteer Fire Department Inc$2,50012%
Family First Inc$2,00010%
Compassion International Incorporated$1,3933n/a
Simply Amazing Inc$1,00011%
In Touch Ministries Inc$1,0001n/a
Samaritan's Purse$9901n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($73k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Luke 1248 Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAlliance Defending Freedom: $58,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetChoices Women's Clinic Inc: $43,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetVeritas School: $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetChristian Help Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMercy House Living Centers: $14,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMiracle Hill Ministries Inc: $13,385 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Abba Fund Inc: $10,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetA New Generation of Hernando Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetAdoption Assistance Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFront Porch Housing: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Colson Center for Christian Worldview: $9,097 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBibleproject: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMedical Debt Resolution Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommission 127 Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBrooksville Kiwanis Club Foundation Inc: $3,920 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetThe Christian Sharing Center Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLive Oak Theatre Company Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetA Chosen Child Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPowdersville Volunteer Fire Department Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetFamily First Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSimply Amazing Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 21.

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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.

Servant FoundationKS16.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Servant Foundation · The Father's Table Foundation · The Chatlos Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

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How do I get to Luke 1248 Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Luke 1248 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.

About Luke 1248 Foundation Inc

How much does Luke 1248 Foundation Inc give?
Luke 1248 Foundation Inc reported 12 grants totaling $68,390 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Luke 1248 Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (17%), Religion (16%), Civil Rights (14%).
Who are Luke 1248 Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Alliance Defending Freedom ($58k), Choices Women's Clinic Inc ($43k), Veritas School ($30k).
Does Luke 1248 Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Luke 1248 Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Luke 1248 Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Servant Foundation, The Father's Table Foundation, The Chatlos Foundation Inc.
Where is Luke 1248 Foundation Inc based?
Luke 1248 Foundation Inc is based in SC.

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 48 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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