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Reed & Jeanne Larson Foundation at a glance

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Reed & Jeanne Larson 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.

$541k
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$2.6MInternational$600kEducation$253kPhilanthropy$242kHuman Services$176kHousing & Shelter$162kArts & Culture$93kYouth Development$53kOther$0
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $426k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$20,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$776k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PAX DEI FOR NUBA$50,000
PETROS NETWORK$50,000
THE NAVIGATORS$45,000
INTERVARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP$45,000
COMMUNITY BIBLE STUDY$26,000
CS LEWIS INSTITUTE$25,000
BELOVED ATLANTA$25,000
NEW HORIZONS FOUNDATION$25,000
KAIROS PRISON MINISTRY INTERNATIONAL$25,000
CHRISTIAN AID MISSION$25,000
REGENERATION MINISTRIES$25,000
SIM USA$20,000
REVELATIONMEDIA$20,000
ABUNDANT LIFE$20,000
HEARTBOUND$20,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $251k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%VISION HOUSE: $25k → 9%BELOVED ATLANTA: $25k → 13%VISION HOUSE: $25k → 9%BELOVED ATLANTA: $20k → 13%VISION HOUSE: $25k → 9%BELOVED ATLANTA: $15k → 13%VISION HOUSE: $25k → 9%BELOVED ATLANTA: $10k → 13%VISION HOUSE: $20k → 9%VISION HOUSE: $20k → 9%ROUTE 21: $31k → 9%KINGSWAY PRISON & FAMILY OUTREACH: $10k → 11%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
WI
NY
OR
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.5M · 40 repeat orgs$553k to everyone else

40 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
33

Total granted

$3.5M
$463k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+75%

Still filing today

45%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionInternationalEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther
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

  • IC
    InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA
    8× · 2017–2024 · $533k · revenue +9%
  • CL
    CS Lewis Institute
    7× · 2017–2024 · $219k · revenue +54%
  • CB
    Community Bible Study
    8× · 2017–2024 · $148k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CHURCH OF THE RESURRECTION
    one grant, 2019 · $100k
  • R2
    ROUTE 21graduated
    one grant, 2023 · $31k · revenue +526% · 66% of their budget
  • MT
    MISSION TO THE WORLD
    one grant, 2022 · $30k
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
Timothy Two Project International

Reaching and teaching pastors in the majority world.

Religion
2
Crossing Cultures International Inc

Crossing Cultures International, Inc. exists to glorify God by equipping Christ followers globally with comprehensive training for effective ministry.

Religion
3
Child Hope International

We minister to orphans and widows in their distress by transitioning children from orphanages into loving families. We do this through Christ- centered care, training and social work.

Arts & Culture
4
Sozo International Inc

Sozo International partners with at-risk families to create a sustainable future and transformed lives through education, health, and economic initiatives.

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5
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
6
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
7
Christian Harvest International Min

To provide strategic teaching about prayer, prophecy, and intercession in the US and abroad. Books, manuals, and audio teachings are also used to equip Christians in strategic level spiritual prayer and warfare.

Religion
8
Tyndale Bible Translators

Bible Translation and acts of Christian Services

Religion
9
Leadership Resources International

International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures

Religion
10
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…

—
11
Heart Bridge International

Heart Bridge International exists to equip and empower Christians around the world to fulfill the Great Commission. The organization provides free ministry training, discipleship resources, and practical coaching to under-resourced…

Religion
12
Serving Beyond Borders

Serving and pastoring overseas workers on their own turf and equipping nationals by training and empowering them in their work of advancing the gospel.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of Refugees Inc; the most unlike its peers is Horizons Learning Foundation. 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

35 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. 35 of the 80 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)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/35
Grantees still filing
30/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHURCH OF THE INCARNATION: $379,000 · OtherCHURCH OF THE INCARNATIONCHRISTIAN AID MISSION: $260,000 · OtherCHRISTIAN AID MISSIONCHURCH OF THE LAMB: $220,000 · OtherCHURCH OF THE LAMBIndividual grant recipient: $135,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE NAVIGATORS: $131,000 · OtherTHE NAVIGATORSIndividual grant recipient: $105,000 · OtherTHE CHURCH OF THE RESURRECTION: $100,000 · OtherWORLD MISSION PRAYER LEAGUE INC: $87,000 · OtherORTHODOX CHRISTIAN MISSION CENTER INC: $83,000 · Other+45 more: $932,000 · Other+45 moreInterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA: $533,000 · ReligionInterVarsity Christian Fe…Community Bible Study: $148,000 · ReligionCommunity Bible StudyPetros Network: $90,000 · ReligionPetros NetworkMISSION DISPATCH: $70,000 · ReligionMISSION DISPATCHINTERFACE MINISTRIES INC: $60,000 · ReligionINTERFACE MINISTRIES INC+5 more: $91,000 · Religion+5 moreVISION HOUSE: $140,000 · Human ServicesBELOVED ATLANTA INC: $70,000 · Human ServicesROUTE 21: $31,000 · Human ServicesKINGSWAY PRISON AND FAMILY OUTREACH: $10,000 · Human ServicesCS Lewis Institute: $219,000 · EducationBLUE RIDGE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: $11,000 · EducationOUR COMMUNITY PLACE: $10,000 · Education+1 more: $8,000 · EducationThe New Horizons Foundation Inc: $241,500 · PhilanthropyPEOPLE INTERNATIONAL: $42,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $40,000 · InternationalWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS: $20,000 · InternationalSALAAM INTERNATIONAL: $18,000 · InternationalCoLink: $18,000 · InternationalCHOSHEN FARM INC: $10,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF REFUGEES INC: $28,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$2,432,000Religion$992,000Human Services$251,000Education$248,000Philanthropy$241,500International$148,000Food & Nutrition$28,000

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 budgetInterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA: $533,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThe New Horizons Foundation Inc: $241,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCS Lewis Institute: $219,000 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetCommunity Bible Study: $148,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetVISION HOUSE: $140,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetPetros Network: $90,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetPAX DEI FOR NUBA: $75,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetBELOVED ATLANTA INC: $70,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetMISSION DISPATCH: $70,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetINTERFACE MINISTRIES INC: $60,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetPEOPLE INTERNATIONAL: $42,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROUTE 21: $31,000 over 1y, 66% of budgetFRIENDS OF REFUGEES INC: $28,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetENTREPRENEURIAL LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT: $27,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetBIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAncient Faith Ministries Formerly Conciliar Media Ministries: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREVELATION MEDIA INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSALAAM INTERNATIONAL: $18,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetCoLink: $18,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetARTISTS IN CHRISTIAN TESTIMONY INC: $16,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBLUE RIDGE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: $11,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHEARTBOUND MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetKINGSWAY PRISON AND FAMILY OUTREACH: $10,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetHOPE OVERFLOWING: $10,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetFrom The Heart Productions: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE FELLOWS INITIATIVE: $10,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetOUR COMMUNITY PLACE: $10,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetCHOSHEN FARM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSYCAMORE TREE THEATRE: $5,000 over 1y, 47% of budgetADVENTURE SOCCER: $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCENTRAL VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA ↗
  • Who funds The New Horizons Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds CS Lewis Institute ↗
  • Who funds Community Bible Study ↗
  • Who funds VISION HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds Petros Network ↗
  • Who funds PAX DEI FOR NUBA ↗
  • Who funds BELOVED ATLANTA INC ↗
  • Who funds MISSION DISPATCH ↗
  • Who funds INTERFACE MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLE INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds ROUTE 21 ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF REFUGEES INC ↗
  • Who funds ENTREPRENEURIAL LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT ↗
  • Who funds BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP ↗
  • Who funds Ancient Faith Ministries Formerly Conciliar Media Ministries ↗

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 Community Foundat…Servant FoundationNatl Christian Charit…Christian Community F…Renaissance Charitabl…Tyndale House Ministr…Eden Bridge FoundationSmurfit Westrock US F…Raymond James Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…Thrivent Charitable I…Morgan Stanley Global…
The Community Foundation of Harrisonburg & Rockingham CountyVA19.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Harrisonburg & Rockingham County · Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Tyndale House Ministries · Eden Bridge Foundation · Smurfit Westrock US Foundation F/K/A Westrock Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Reed & Jeanne Larson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Reed & Jeanne Larson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 67%
  • World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals: 67% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 80 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home