· Private foundation
The Lanier Theological Library Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $186k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
- $250k+3 grants · $11M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LANIER THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $9,600,000 |
| Champion Forest Baptist Church | $575,000 |
| Lipscomb University | $425,147 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $100,000 |
| Langham Partnership USA Inc | $46,710 |
| Hope Media Group | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $22,000 |
| Palm Beach Atlantic University | $20,000 |
| George Whitfield College | $15,000 |
| Inspire Women | $15,000 |
| CSAJCO | $12,500 |
| CECEF (Central European Christian Education Fdn) | $10,000 |
| University of Houston | $10,000 |
| Center for Study of New Testament Manuscripts | $10,000 |
| Wycliffe Bible Translators Inc | $8,000 |
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 US giving — 14% of grant dollars ($6.5M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 86% that went abroad ($39M) is mapped below.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 95% of your 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
Beyond the US — 86% of all-years giving ($39M)
2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
23 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 4 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, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9.7M 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
- LULIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +41%
- GEGREATER EUROPE MISSION2× · 2020–2021 · $106k · revenue +12%
- IWINSPIRE WOMEN5× · 2020–2024 · $92k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- LTLANIER THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION - UKone grant, 2022 · $13M
- RFRELIGIOUS FREEDOM INSTITUTE INCone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -41%
- FOFriends of Wycliffe Hallone grant, 2021 · $85k
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.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Central christian college of the bible (central) exists to develop servant-leaders for the church. as a traditional undergraduate bible college of the restoration movement, central equips faithful men and women for leadership ministry.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Bible Translation and acts of Christian Services
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
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…
To assist the church, primarily in closed countries, in the establishment of continuing indigenous church-based training centers in which servant leaders are equipped to develop growing and reproducing churches.
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
To provide the bible in accurate, contemporary translations and formats so that more people around the world will have the opportunity to be transformed by jesus christ.
The mission of criswell college is to provide ministerial and professional higher education for men and women preparing to serve as christian leaders throughout society, while maintaining an institutional commitment to biblical inerrancy.
The Master's University and Seminary (TMUS) exists to advance the Kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ through education. This is accomplished through unreserved commitment to worshipping God, authority of Scripture, personal holiness, serving…
Reformation Bible College exists to provide a place for learning devoted to serving both laymen and pastors, offering both undergraduate and graduate degree programs based on Reformed Christian doctrine.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life and the most unlike its peers is Dead Sea Scrolls Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 51 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 LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DEAD SEA SCROLLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LANGHAM PARTNERSHIP USA INC NFP ↗
- Who funds GREATER EUROPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds RELIGIOUS FREEDOM INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds INSPIRE WOMEN ↗
- Who funds HOPE MEDIA GROUP ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds American Friends of Tyndale House Cambridge Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL EUROPEAN CHRISTIAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Center For The Research of Early Christian Documents ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds E3 Partners Ministry ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds ADMIRATO INC ↗
- Who funds EVERLASTING LOVE MINISTRIES ↗
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: Servant Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Lanier Theological Library 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.
- Palm Beach Atlantic University Inc — 0% 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.
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