· Private foundation
The James and Joan Lindsey Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $780k
- $250k+2 grants · $649k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WALLBUILDER PRESENTATIONS INC | $373,545 |
| FAITH WINS | $275,000 |
| FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL | $160,000 |
| AMERICAN VALUES | $115,000 |
| COUNCIL FOR NATIONAL POLICY | $100,000 |
| HOLLYWOOD PRAYER NETWORK | $90,000 |
| PACIFIC JUSTICE INSTITUTE | $85,000 |
| PROVIDENCE SCHOOL | $70,000 |
| MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER | $55,000 |
| NEW YORK MEDIA INITIATIVE | $55,000 |
| PATRIOT ACADEMY | $50,000 |
| IKNOWGODUS | $30,000 |
| PASSAGES AMERICA ISRAEL INC | $25,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +36% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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
- WPWALLBUILDER PRESENTATIONS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +27%
- FWFaith Wins6× · 2020–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +26% · 63% of their budget
- FRFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL6× · 2020–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +47%
Funded once
- PAPROVIDENCE A SANTA BARBARA CHRISTIAN SCHone grant, 2023 · $400k
- BUBIOLA UNIVERSITY INCone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -1%
- NCNATIONAL CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY Rone grant, 2021 · $50k
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.
Faith and Law's mission is to encourage and equip Christian policymakers to more fully understand the Biblical worldview and its implication in their calling to the public square.
To teach and disseminate educational materials to the public.
Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Research Center generates a foundation of facts that enriches the public dialogue and…
We are a nationwide grassroots movement of people who share a love of american democracy and concern for the direction of our existing leadership. we've watched as institutions on the right have been co-opted by bad-faith actors willing to…
The liberal patriot (tlp) is a digital newsletter focused on american politics and public policy. tlp aims to provide readers with honest analysis and original commentary to help advance a vital center perspective in american life.
American values is dedicated to defending the founding principles of our nation as articulated in the declaration of independence and the constitution. american values works to educate the public and policy makers about critical issues,…
Foreign Policy For America is a nonpartisan advocacy organization founded to strengthen support for principled American engagement in the world.
To be a state-focused, biblical organization that could tactfully address issues of life, religious freedom, educational opportunity, Gods design, human dignity, free speech, and principled government.
To contend for the credibility of christian resources in public life, for the public good.
With a commitment to free market principles, APC focuses on educating the public about conservative fiscal policies that foster job growth, a stronger economy, and increased opportunity for all Americans.
Good Faith Network Inc develops theological content to guide Christians in their life in the secular world. The range of topics covered by Good Faith Network content will be vast, but will generally center around the intersection of…
We are a national ministry dedicated to a focused mission of encouraging, inspiring, and practicing prayer on behalf of our President, Nations Leaders, and our Troops. We also seek to be a catalyst in the development of a robust prayer…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Media Research Center and the most unlike its peers is Biola University Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 21 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 WALLBUILDER PRESENTATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Faith Wins ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Pacific Justice Institute ↗
- Who funds ADVANCING AMERICAN FREEDOM INC ↗
- Who funds HOLLYWOOD PRAYER NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL FOR NATIONAL POLICY ↗
- Who funds ENOUGH IS ENOUGH ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR SECURITY POLICY INC ↗
- Who funds MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds BIOLA UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds 1792 Exchange ↗
- Who funds PASSAGES AMERICA ISRAEL 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.
Open a dossier: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · Donors Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · California Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 James and Joan Lindsey Family 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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