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Marriage & Family Life Consultants Inc at a glance

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Marriage & Family Life Consultants Inc

To promote marriage and family enrichment programs, primarily in churches;to produce books & other curriculum to help church leaders.

$3.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$7.0MReligion$1.5MHealth$1.0MHuman Services$70kInternational$55kPublic Safety & Disaster$25kEmployment$12k
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 12 grants below total $2,652,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,266,188 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $614,188 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

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $97k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $255k
  • $250k+3 grants · $2.3M
$55,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Open Door Foundation$15,000
Leadership Edge$15,000
Building Lasting Relations$12,000
Associates In Christian Co$10,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Assoc in Christian Counsel: $10k → 15%Love Out Loud: $10k → 15%Associates In Christian Co: $10k → 15%Associates In Christian Co: $10k → 15%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.9M · 10 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
2

Total granted

$3.9M
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+13%

Still filing today

70%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesReligionOther
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

  • CU
    CAROLINA UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2020–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +162%
  • TF
    Toccoa Falls College Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +24%
  • Leadership Edge Incorporated
    2× · 2023–2024 · $30k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • FB
    For Better For Worse For Keeps Ministries
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +13%
  • LOVE OUT LOUD
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue 0%
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
Regent University

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.

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2
Asbury Theological Seminary

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…

Education
3
Charlotte Christian College & Theological Seminary

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.

Religion
4
Olivet University

Providing guality Christian education to the network generation

Education
5
Reformed University Inc

Provide education in theology, divinity, religious education, ministerial training, business and organizational leadership.

Education
6
Life Training Ministries Inc

Christian counseling for individuals with anxiety depression or other emotional struggles. Christian counseling for marriages and other couples.

Human Services
7
Charis Bible College Inc

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.

Religion
8
The Cornerstone Bible College and Seminary

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…

Education
9
Safe Haven Counseling Associates in

Biblical counseling

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10
Erskine College and Theological Seminary

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.

Education
11
Carolina College of Biblical Studies

Carolina college of biblical studies exists to disciple christ-followers, through biblical higher education, for a lifetime of effective servant leadership.

Education
12
North America Bible Institute

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wheaton College; 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.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 16 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
6/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Wheaton College: $2,500,000 · EducationWheaton CollegeThe Moody Bible Institute of Chicago: $2,210,000 · EducationThe Moody Bible Institute of ChicagoCAROLINA UNIVERSITY: $1,650,000 · EducationCAROLINA UNIVERSITYSALEM BAPTIST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $1,000,000 · EducationSALEM BAPTIST CHRISTIAN SCHOOLToccoa Falls College Inc: $1,000,000 · EducationToccoa Falls College Inc+2 more: $345,000 · EducationCALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH: $610,000 · OtherOpen Door Foundation: $80,000 · OtherBuilding Lasting Relations: $46,000 · OtherSHALAM MINISTRIES LTD: $125,000 · ReligionNew Salem Counseling Inc: $100,000 · ReligionLeadership Edge Incorporated: $30,000 · Human ServicesASSOCIATES IN CHRISTIAN COUNSELING: $30,000 · Human ServicesFor Better For Worse For Keeps Ministries: $15,000 · Human ServicesLOVE OUT LOUD: $10,000 · Human Services
Education$8,705,000Other$736,000Religion$225,000Human Services$85,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWheaton College: $2,500,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetThe Moody Bible Institute of Chicago: $2,210,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCAROLINA UNIVERSITY: $1,650,000 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetSALEM BAPTIST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $1,000,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetToccoa Falls College Inc: $1,000,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetUKRAINE PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION: $280,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetSHALAM MINISTRIES LTD: $125,000 over 3y, 31% of budgetNew Salem Counseling Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetCoda Mountain Academy Inc: $65,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetLeadership Edge Incorporated: $30,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetASSOCIATES IN CHRISTIAN COUNSELING: $30,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetFor Better For Worse For Keeps Ministries: $15,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetLOVE OUT LOUD: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

The Winston-Salem Fou…Natl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Winston-Salem FoundationNC13× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Marriage & Family Life Consultants Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marriage & Family Life Consultants Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Marriage & Family Life Consultants Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Marriage & Family Life Consultants 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 16 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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