· Private foundation
The Lampstand 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k33 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $108k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $39,821 |
| BIOLA UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
| TEEN CHALLENGE SAN DIEGO | $15,000 |
| CRU | $13,024 |
| SAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION | $10,000 |
| FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL | $6,000 |
| WELLSPRING LIFE RESOURCES | $4,500 |
| HEARTBEAT INTERNATIONAL | $4,060 |
| DR PECK LEGACY | $3,200 |
| SAMARATINS PURSE | $3,000 |
| COMMUNITY BIBLE STUDY | $3,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $2,900 |
| HIGH DESERT MUSEUM | $2,500 |
| IN TOUCH MINISTRIES | $2,400 |
| NATIONAL NETWORK OF YOUTH MINISTRY | $2,400 |
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, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.
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.
41 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 7 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; $6k 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
- TCTHE CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL2× · 2020–2022 · $515k · revenue +17%
- EEdify4× · 2020–2023 · $96k · revenue +95%
- LPLuis Palau Association4× · 2020–2025 · $92k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- LPLUIS PALAU FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $85k
- EEDIFYone grant, 2024 · $40k
- BUBIOLA UNIVERSITYone grant, 2024 · $20k
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.
Arizona christian university provides a biblically-integrated, liberal arts education equipping graduates to serve the lord jesus christ in all aspects of life, as leaders of influence and excellence.
Asbury Theological Seminary is a community called to prepare theologically educated, sanctified, Spirit-filled men and women to evangelize and to spread scriptural holiness throughout the world through the love of Jesus Christ, in the…
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
See schedule o. founded in 1902, university of northwestern - st. paul is a nondenominational christian university that integrates the educational philosophy of "faith, learning and living" through two focuses: higher education and media.…
Pacific school of religion prepares a diverse cadre of spiritually rooted leaders with the vision, resilience, and skill to create a world where all can thrive. grounded in the rigorous study and faithful practice of progressive christian…
The seminary is a multi-denominational post-baccalaureate school of religious learning that prepares students for christian vocations through its two schools: school of mission & theology and school of psychology & marriage & family…
The King's University integrates Biblical education and practical ministry to shape Spirit-formed individuals who follow Jesus, serve His Church, and are sent to impact the world.
John brown university (jbu) provides christ-centered education that prepares students to honor god and serve others by developing their intellectual, spiritual, and professional lives. (continued on schedule o)jbu serves traditional…
Southern wesleyan university is a christ-centered, student-focused learning community devoted to transforming lives by challenging students to be dedicated scholars and servant-leaders who impact the world for christ.
A private institution of higher education, offering both undergraduate and graduate courses to students.
The formation of men for the gospel ministry as pastors, evangelists, & teachers who shall proclaim the whole counsel of god throughout a changing world. the theological training of church officers as stewards of christ, and the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Edify and the most unlike its peers is Luis Palau Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
41 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. 41 of the 86 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 THE CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Edify ↗
- Who funds Luis Palau Association ↗
- Who funds BIOLA UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds PLIES ↗
- Who funds THORNSTON EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds HEARTBEAT INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING LIFE RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds SUNRIVER MUSIC FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds THE LIFE OF A SINGLE MOM ↗
- Who funds National Network of Youth Ministries ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD'S HOUSE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA ↗
- Who funds HIGH DESERT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Harding University Inc ↗
- Who funds ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Fristers ↗
- Who funds CORBAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Grand Canyon University ↗
- Who funds GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY ↗
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 · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Oregon Community Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Lampstand 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.
- High Desert Museum — 11% of income from government
- Corban University — 3% of income from government
- George Fox University — 2% of income from government
- Sunriver Music Festival — 1% of income from government
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.