· Public charity
The Lighthouse Charitable Foundation
Our mission is to provide assistance to disadvantaged men in our local community through the efforts of our two christian-based rehab homes and to support other like-minded charities, the needy, disadvantaged, and children at risk.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $499,891 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $579,846 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $79,955 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2017
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $137k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $348k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| GLOBAL EVANGELICAL MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $10,000 |
| FORGOTTEN CHILDREN | $5,000 |
| GENERATE HOPE | $5,000 |
| AMBASSADORS FOOTBALL | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–17, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.
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.
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.
With a desire to see the Gospel proclaimed in all nations, we exist to make and multiply disciples of the next generation through the vehicles of church-planting missions and missional leadership training.
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…
Mastermedia is a non-profit organization committed to serving media leaders with professional consulting regarding America's Christian market and personal counsel concerning issues of faith.
Uncharted ministries informs, inspires and challenges the christian church to serve the people of the middle east and in uncharted lands.
Reaching and teaching pastors in the majority world.
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.
Sharing Christ's Passion for the world by serving the most vulnerable through national churches and leaders.
Mission Without Borders (MWB) is dedicated to reaching people for Christ through an international network of Christians who journey with the poor and marginalized, bringing practical and spiritual support with hope of a better future,…
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.
Helping others live in freedom of Christ by knowing and living by the truths set for in God's word, the Holy Bible.
To share the Gospel of Jesus Christ and support missionaries and ministries.
Missions - sponsors foreign and domestic missions and orphanages with a special emphasis on missions in India
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ambassadors Football and the most unlike its peers is Kingdom Builders Ministry. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 11 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.
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: 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 organization 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.
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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