· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| TEAM EXPANSION | $18,000 |
| THE EXPONENT GROUP | $18,000 |
| AMG INTERNATIONAL | $15,000 |
| UNDER THE SON MINISTRIES | $14,400 |
| CRESTVIEW CHURCH OF CHRIST | $12,600 |
| ATAWALE INTERNATIONAL MISSION | $12,000 |
| WEST ARK CHURCH OF CHRIST | $12,000 |
| PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY | $12,000 |
| LET'S START TALKING | $10,000 |
| CROATIA FOR CHRIST | $6,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 41% of The Flow a Living Water Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 8% of the giving stays in VA; by stated purpose, 5%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +13% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 34 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Flow a Living Water Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Flow a Living Water Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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