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Rod & Joyce Lucas Charitable Founda

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.

$48k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 48% of ROD & JOYCE LUCAS CHARITABLE FOUNDA’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k15 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
$1,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$834k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Answers in Genesis$15,000
Community Foundation Jackson Hole$10,300
Alliance Defending Freedom$4,500
American Center for Law and Justice$4,500
WallBuilders$3,500
Novo$2,000
Gospel Fellowship Assoc$1,500
Adventures in Missions$1,500
Tunnel to Towers$1,000
Olive Tree Ministries$1,000
First Liberty Institute$500
First Baptist Church$500
Thru the Bible$500
Moody Global Ministries$420
Love Worth Finding$400
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.

area typical 9%Family Research Council: $2k → 14%Family Research Council: $2k → 14%Family Research Council: $2k → 14%Family Research Council: $1k → 14%Family Research Council: $500 → 14%Family Research Council: $500 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$324k · 22 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

22 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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Total granted

$324k
$5k

Still filing today

55%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
ReligionCivil RightsHuman ServicesEducationOther

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

  • AI
    ANSWERS IN GENESIS INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $60k · revenue +56%
  • ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM
    8× · 2017–2024 · $38k · revenue +134%
  • WP
    WALLBUILDER PRESENTATIONS INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $30k · revenue +198%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $4k
  • FL
    Family Life Today
    one grant, 2019 · $400
  • TT
    Thru the Bible
    one grant, 2019 · $200

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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
2
Walk Thru the Bible Ministries Inc

Walk thru the bible (wtb) ignites passion for god's word. by developing a global network of influential pastors and leaders and then resourcing them with tools and training, wtb fulfills its role in the great commission.

Religion
3
Blue Letter Bible

The specific purpose of this corporation is to present a biblical, christian ministry of the gospel, hope, encouragement and strength to as many people as possible. the intent of those who will conduct this corporation's work is to present…

4
Bible Thinker Inc

Bible Thinker, Inc is a ministry dedicated to equipping people to think and live biblically. There are three main areas of teaching that we focus on:1. Teaching accurate theology based on exegeting the text of the Bible and confronting…

Religion
5
International Leadership Institute

The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…

Religion
6
Biglife International Inc

Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.

Recreation & Sports
7
International Biblical Training Inc

International Biblical Training is a teaching, training and equipping religious ministry. IBT staff provide theological teaching and training for the purpose of making Christian disciples who in turn train and disciple others in…

Religion
8
Jewish Voice Ministries Intl

To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…

9
Believer's International Inc

Christian publishing company

10
Time of Grace Ministry

Time of grace is for people who want more growth and less struggle in their spiritual walk. we share the truth of god's word simply and clearly through television, print, and digital media that people view millions of times each month. we…

Religion
11
Global Media Outreach

Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.

Religion
12
Lou Engle Ministries

Advancing the kingdom of god through prayer,preaching and teaching.

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Infaith and the most unlike its peers is Turning Point Counseling 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

17 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 28 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
15/17
Grantees still filing
13/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Answers in Genesis — $44,000 · OtherAnswers in GenesisNOVO MISSION INC — $21,500 · OtherNOVO MISSION INCCommunity Fnd Jackson Hole — $20,900 · OtherCommunity Fnd Jackson HoleAmerican Center for Law and Justice — $19,500 · OtherAmerican Center for Law and JusticeAmer Ctr Law Justice — $19,000 · OtherAmer Ctr Law JusticeFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH — $15,650 · OtherFIRST BAPTIST CHURCHADVENTURES IN MISSIONS INC — $12,000 · OtherADVENTURES IN MISSIONS INCGOSPEL FELLOWSHIP ASSOCIATION — $12,000 · OtherGOSPEL FELLOWSHIP ASSOCIATIONALPHA OMEGA INSTITUTE INC — $6,200 · Other+4 more — $6,100 · OtherANSWERS IN GENESIS INC — $60,000 · ReligionANSWERS IN GENESIS INCWALLBUILDER PRESENTATIONS INC — $30,000 · ReligionWALLBUILDER PRESENTATIONS INCINFAITH — $5,625 · Religion+6 more — $11,175 · Religion+6 moreALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM — $37,500 · Civil RightsALLIANCE DE…+1 more — $1,000 · Civil RightsCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE — $36,200 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY F…FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL — $6,600 · Human ServicesThe Moody Bible Institute of Chicago — $3,360 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $1,000 · Education
Other$176,850Religion$106,800Civil Rights$38,500Philanthropy$36,200Human Services$6,600Education$4,360

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetANSWERS IN GENESIS INC — $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM — $37,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE — $36,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWALLBUILDER PRESENTATIONS INC — $30,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL — $6,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetALPHA OMEGA INSTITUTE INC — $6,200 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetINFAITH — $5,625 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Moody Bible Institute of Chicago — $3,360 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetINSIGHT FOR LIVING — $2,800 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINT COUNSELING INC — $2,675 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThru The Bible Inc — $1,900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLOVE WORTH FINDING MINISTRIES INC — $1,700 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetOLIVE TREE MINISTRIES — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC — $1,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLiving on the Edge Ministries Inc — $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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 ANSWERS IN GENESIS INC
  • Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE
  • Who funds WALLBUILDER PRESENTATIONS INC
  • Who funds FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL
  • Who funds ALPHA OMEGA INSTITUTE INC
  • Who funds INFAITH
  • Who funds The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago
  • Who funds INSIGHT FOR LIVING
  • Who funds TURNING POINT COUNSELING INC
  • Who funds Thru The Bible Inc
  • Who funds LOVE WORTH FINDING MINISTRIES INC
  • Who funds OLIVE TREE MINISTRIES
  • Who funds IN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE
  • Who funds Living on the Edge Ministries Inc

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.

Christian Community Foundation IncCO16.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Vjs Charitable Private Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Servant Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Rod & Joyce Lucas Charitable Founda 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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