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THE LIGHTHOUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
We provide assistance to disadvantaged men through efforts of our two christian-based homes in capistrano beach, ca.
$580k
Granted FY2017
11
Grants
4
Communities
$248k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2017 · 11 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2017
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $137k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $348k
$19,208
Median grant
4
States reached
$30M
Total assets
Largest grants
- MERCY PROJECTS$247,683
- NEAR EAST ORGANIZATION$100,000
- KINGDOM BUILDERS MINISTRIES$42,000
- HEARTS 4 AFRICA$31,000
- MISSIONS AFRICA$25,000
- MASTER PLAN MINISTRIES$19,208
- YOUNG LIFE$10,000
- GLOBAL EVANGELICAL MINISTRIES$10,000
- FORGOTTEN CHILDREN$5,000
- AMBASSADORS FOOTBALL$5,000
- GENERATE HOPE$5,000
02The need
02
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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your field
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.
1
New Hope International Ministries
To promote and foster christianity throughout the pacific rim, hawaii, and elsewhere.
Religion
2
New Life Ministries
Religious broadcasting
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3
Barnabas Leadership Ministries
Ministry
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4
New Life Fellowship Global Ministries
The mission of New Life Fellowship is to build a multicultural, multiethnic community of believers whose primary objective is to worship God, to enjoy fellowship, to disciple believers and to equip them to win souls. We desire our church…
Religion
5
Gospel at New Generation Inc
Mentoring 200 or more at risk neighborhood childeren through personal contacts and intervention.
Youth Development
6
Pacific Island Ministries
To help fulfill the great commission as found in Matthew 28:19-20, the equipping of God's people for works of service, particularly in Papua New Guinea.
International
7
Nuguna Mission International
Religion
8
Habibi International
Habibi International seeks to transform the lives of refugees and internal displaced persons in the Middle East with the love of Jesus by providing humanitarian relief and sustainable development in partnership with local churches and NGOs
International
9
I58 Global
i58 Global is a Christian ministry dedicated to recruiting, sending and organizing relief workers to provide aid and share hope to refugees in various European countries.
Human Services
10
Missions Development International
Mdi mentors, consults and equips christian ministry leaders through leadership development, strategic planning, human resource management, family counseling and much more.
International
11
Mission Mobilization International
We reach the authorities for Christ in the USA and in different countries around the world. We use many different strategies including volunteer teams to help us do training and seminars. We have conferences, luncheons etc. for…
Religion
12
Passionlife Ministries Inc
Passionlife ministries is a global missions initiative to spread the gospel of life and expand the pregnancy help movement among nations plagued by abortion, infanticide and gendercide.
Religion
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ambassadors Football and the most unlike its peers is Young Life. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$307,891Religion$142,000International$25,000Youth Development$10,000Human Services$10,000Recreation & Sports$5,000
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.
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.
Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA9.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 organisation THE LIGHTHOUSE CHARITABLE 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: MISSIONS AFRICA.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
medium risk
~4 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 4.8× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 760843150 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on MISSIONS AFRICA, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 4 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 11% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to The Lighthouse Charitable Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The Lighthouse Charitable Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines