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Strategic Launch Network

See Schedule O.To start and strengthen new strategic churches in spiritually hard-to-reach cities by identifying, developing, coaching, encouraging, and financially supporting high-capacity church planters, through collaborative partnerships with like-minded churches, organizations, and leaders.

$2.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
33
Grants FY2024still arriving
19
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it funds
01FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k13 grants · $350k
  • $50k–250k20 grants · $2.1M
$100,000
Median grant
19
States reached
$5.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Union City Church$200,000
The Garden Church$150,000
Hue Church$100,000
Ru Tampa$100,000
Manna Church$100,000
Devo Church$100,000
Hope City Church$100,000
Portrait Church$100,000
Create Church$100,000
Generation Church$100,000
Flatiron Church$100,000
Purpose Church$100,000
Oasis City Church$100,000
The Father's House$100,000
The Commons Church$100,000
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY24–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Purpose Church: $100k → 11%Doxa Church: $25k → 15%Grace City Church: $25k → 16%Oasis City Church: $100k → 8%Refuge Church: $100k → 10%City Center Church: $33k → 10%Create Church: $100k → 11%Brave Church: $25k → 17%Axiom Church: $25k → 10%Union City Church: $200k → 14%SoFlo: $100k → 11%Artisan City Church: $25k → 12%City Keepers Inc: $25k → 15%Radiant Church: $100k → 17%The Commons Church: $100k → 16%Generation Church: $100k → 15%Nuvo Church: $33k → 15%Odyssey Church: $25k → 9%Eden Church: $25k → 7%Manna Church: $100k → 17%King's City Church: $100k → 13%Grace Church: $25k → 15%Hopeville Church: $100k → 19%Iron Coast Church: $25k → 7%The Garden Church: $150k → 11%The Father's House: $100k → 10%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

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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 field
03the grantee network

0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2024–2024.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2024 to 2024, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 33 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.

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Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNION CITY CHURCH INC: $200,000 · OtherUNION CITY CHURCH INCTHE GARDEN CHURCH: $150,000 · OtherTHE GARDEN CHURCHPURPOSE CHURCH: $100,000 · OtherRU TAMPA INC: $100,000 · OtherCREATE CHURCH: $100,000 · OtherGENERATIONS CHURCH OF EUGENE: $100,000 · OtherHUE CHURCH INC: $100,000 · OtherSO FLO CHURCH INC: $100,000 · OtherCREATE CHURCH INC: $100,000 · OtherHOPE CHURCH BALTIMORE: $100,000 · OtherFATHERS HOUSE OAKLAND INC: $100,000 · OtherRADIANT INC: $100,000 · OtherDEVO CHURCH: $100,000 · OtherKing's City Church: $100,000 · OtherHOPE CITY CHURCH OF NAPLES INC: $100,000 · OtherPORTRAIT CHURCH: $100,000 · OtherVALLEY CHURCH PLANTING INC: $100,000 · OtherMANNA CHURCH NEWPORT NEWS: $100,000 · OtherREFUGE CHURCH OJAI VALLEY: $100,000 · OtherCOMMONS CHURCH INC: $100,000 · Other+13 more: $349,999 · Other+13 more
Other$2,499,999

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their 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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA5.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.
04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Strategic Launch Network?

Find your warmest path to Strategic Launch Network 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 33 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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