· Private foundation
The Flow a Living Water Foundation
Support missionaries by granting funds to missionary-sending organizations and by creating a network for individual missionaries for communication and support.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $234k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MISSION RESOURCE NETWORK | $60,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| NORTH KOREAN REFUGEE MISSION | $25,000 |
| NEXT GENERATION FOR CHRIST | $25,000 |
| THE EXPONENT GROUP | $18,000 |
| TEAM EXPANSION | $18,000 |
| AMG INTERNATIONAL | $15,000 |
| UNDER THE SON MINISTRIES | $14,400 |
| CRESTVIEW CHURCH OF CHRIST | $12,600 |
| WEST ARK CHURCH OF CHRIST | $12,000 |
| PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY | $12,000 |
| ATAWALE INTERNATIONAL MISSION | $12,000 |
| LET'S START TALKING | $10,000 |
| CROATIA FOR CHRIST | $6,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $174k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 27% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 41% of The Flow a Living Water 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, 8% of the giving stays in VA; read by stated purpose it is 5% — 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $94k 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
- NGNext Generation For Christ INC5× · 2020–2024 · $127k · revenue +83%
- MRMISSIONS RESOURCE NETWORK2× · 2023–2024 · $120k · revenue +43%
- PUPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2024 · $95k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- NKNORTH KOREAN REGUGEE SERVICES MISSIONone grant, 2022 · $30k
- MRMISSION RESOURCE NETWORKone grant, 2022 · $30k
- EPELMER PALACIO WECAREone grant, 2023 · $26k
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.
Grace Global Ministries exists to assist local churches in sending global workers to fulfill the Great Commission.
To reach out to the chinese worldwide in local evangelism and foreign missions. this purpose is facilitated through the use of missionaries, evangelism training and literature.
Raise Up Global Ministries is committed to educating Christian leaders in communities around the world. The three programs of Raise Up equip the global church by 1 Developing biblically based interactive materials and 2 Training…
Train Gods people to live out a missionary lifestyle in their daily lives to obey the Great Commission. Build many mission teams and send the teams to UUPG Unreached Unengaged Peoples Group and make 10% of the world population disciples of…
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…
The organizations mission is enhancing the legal distribution of free bibles and equipping and discipling pastors and trainers to use the word of god effectively.
To facilitate (coordinate, organize and accompany) medical and other church mission trips to third world countries, specializing in partnering various churches in the us with foreign areas in need of assistance.
Non-denominational missions organization taking the gospel to russia, asia and middle east using television, radio and the internet. also ministering to churches throughout the united states.
Training pastors in third world countries
Our mission is to accomplish the Great Commission through the use of resources of Chinese churches worldwide in mission education, recruitment, training, missionary sending, and all other effective means in collaboration with the Global…
Religious
International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Amg International Inc and the most unlike its peers is North Korean Refugee Svc Mission. 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 34 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 Next Generation For Christ INC ↗
- Who funds MISSIONS RESOURCE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE EXPONENT GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH KOREAN REFUGEE SVC MISSION ↗
- Who funds CHINESE AGAPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMG INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Global City Missions Initiative Incorporated ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 The Flow a Living Water 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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