· Public charity
Marriage & Family Life Consultants Inc
To promote marriage and family enrichment programs, primarily in churches;to produce books & other curriculum to help church leaders.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 12 grants below total $2,652,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,266,188 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $614,188 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 · FY2024
- $10k–50k6 grants · $97k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $255k
- $250k+3 grants · $2.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Salem Christian School | $1,000,000 |
| Carolina University | $1,000,000 |
| Toccoa Falls College | $300,000 |
| New Salem Counseling | $100,000 |
| Calvary Baptist Church | $100,000 |
| Ukraine Partnership Founda | $55,000 |
| Shalam Ministries | $25,000 |
| Coda Mountain Academy | $20,000 |
| Leadership Edge | $15,000 |
| Open Door Foundation | $15,000 |
| Building Lasting Relations | $12,000 |
| Associates In Christian Co | $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 (FY22–24, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
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.
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.
10 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
- CUCAROLINA UNIVERSITY3× · 2020–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +162%
- TFToccoa Falls College Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +24%
Leadership Edge Incorporated2× · 2023–2024 · $30k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- FBFor Better For Worse For Keeps Ministriesone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +13%
LOVE OUT LOUDone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue 0%
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.
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
Asbury Theological Seminary is a community called to prepare theologically educated, sanctified, Spirit-filled men and women to evangelize and to spread scriptural holiness throughout the world through the love of Jesus Christ, in the…
To educate, train, and develop ministers, evangelists, missionaries, and other people who are going to enter the Christian ministry. Educate ministers and missionaries to serve the Lord.
Providing guality Christian education to the network generation
Provide education in theology, divinity, religious education, ministerial training, business and organizational leadership.
Christian counseling for individuals with anxiety depression or other emotional struggles. Christian counseling for marriages and other couples.
Charis Bible Colleges, Inc. (CBC) was established to train and equip individuals to carry out the Gospel of Jesus Christ through practical application through mentoring, training, and teaching.
The training of men and women for ministry in local churches. Specifically, providing a Bachelor's Degree or Certificate of Accomplishment designating the completion of course material required. Also, the rewarding of a Master's Degree…
Biblical counseling
Erskine College exists to glorify God as a Christian academic community where students are equipped to flourish as whole persons for lives of service through the pursuit of undergraduate liberal arts and graduate theological education.
Carolina college of biblical studies exists to disciple christ-followers, through biblical higher education, for a lifetime of effective servant leadership.
North America Bible Institute (NABI) is an evangelical graduate school, made up of students who are diverse in both ethnicity and ministry aims -- but united in great love for Jesus and his gospel. As a graduate school, NABI offers them…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wheaton College and the most unlike its peers is Coda Mountain Academy Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 16 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 Wheaton College ↗
- Who funds The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Toccoa Falls College Inc ↗
- Who funds SALEM BAPTIST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UKRAINE PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHALAM MINISTRIES LTD ↗
- Who funds New Salem Counseling Inc ↗
- Who funds Coda Mountain Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATES IN CHRISTIAN COUNSELING ↗
- Who funds Leadership Edge Incorporated ↗
- Who funds For Better For Worse For Keeps Ministries ↗
- Who funds LOVE OUT LOUD ↗
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: The Winston-Salem Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Marriage & Family Life Consultants 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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