· Private foundation
Oscar and Keturah Haab Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MOST MINISTRIES | $15,000 |
| LUTHERAN HERITAGE FDN | $15,000 |
| LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| ST PAUL LUTHERAN SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| MICHIGAN DISTRICT LCMS | $10,000 |
| SERGE GLOBAL INC - SHIRK MINISTRY | $6,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE MASTER | $5,000 |
| CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| WEST MICHIGAN LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| INTERVARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP | $2,500 |
| BIBLE FAITH LUTHERAN MINISTRIES TO | $2,500 |
| FAMILY LIFE SERVICES | $2,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 80% of your 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 17% of Oscar and Keturah Haab Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 90% of the giving stays in MI; read by stated purpose it is 83% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
14 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- LHLUTHERAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $96k · revenue +108%
- FLFAMILY LIFE SERVICES INC7× · 2017–2024 · $16k · revenue +113%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE MASTER INC4× · 2021–2024 · $12k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- OSOUR SAVIOR EVANGELICAL LUTH CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $10k
- FSFAMILY SHIELD MINISTRIESone grant, 2023 · $6k
- TLTRINITY LUTHERAN PRESCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $3k
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.
Christian support for third world countr
Christian missions
Missionary work in the nation of India
Spread the gospel through Evangelism. Give 5052 copies of the bible and gospel DVDs CDs and other books during Evangelistic meetings in various countries and around the world and support the Bible Center in Pakistan
Religious missions
Christian based ministries to help people in India.
To teach, preach, proclaim, publish, distribute and disseminate the gospel and doctrine of the christian faith. the ministry reaches approximately 1.5 million persons through its outreach ministries.
Religious corp, charitable, educational and cultural, conduct all activities relate to publishingchristian literature
Providing educational and religious support to orphanage children
Mission work
Christian mission work in india
Religious
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bible Faith Lutheran Ministries to India Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Master Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 21 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 THE BODY OF CHRIST AND THE PUBLIC SQUARE ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREAT COMMISSION AIR INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY LIFE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE MASTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE BETHANIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BIBLE FAITH LUTHERAN MINISTRIES TO INDIA INC ↗
- Who funds InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 Oscar and Keturah Haab Foundation 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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