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The Little Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k9 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $86k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Calvary Church | $50,000 |
| Campus Crusade for Christ International | $31,000 |
| Southern Evangelical Seminary | $25,000 |
| Fellowship of Christian Athletes | $10,000 |
| The Navigators | $10,000 |
| Brookstone Schools | $10,000 |
| Allegro Foundation | $5,000 |
| Samaritan's Purse | $5,000 |
| Intervarsity Christian Fellowship - USA | $5,000 |
| Youth for Christ | $5,000 |
| Young Life | $5,000 |
| Billy Graham Evangelistic Association | $5,000 |
| Summit Ministries | $5,000 |
| Beta Phi Foundation | $2,500 |
| GGCC | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 93% 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 +54% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2023, 19 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- SESOUTHERN EVANGELICAL SEMINARY7× · 2017–2023 · $450k · revenue +27%
- FOFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES7× · 2017–2023 · $410k · revenue +120%
- MYMETRO-MARYLAND YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC3× · 2017–2019 · $130k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- CRChrist Resurrection Churchone grant, 2020 · $10k
- SFSamaritan's Feet Internationalgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +149%
- RRun-Hope-Workone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -13%
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.
To proclaim to the world the everlasting gospel of revelation 14:6-12 and to encourage revival in the remnant church by leading people to embrace salvation by faith in jesus, to establish them in the church, and to disciple all believers…
To transform the lives of prisoners, their families, and victims through a global network of ministry partners.
Faith's purpose is to mentor students for spirit-filled leadership in ministry, in light of the great commission. while academics are important, the classrooms are not the only learning place. through a combination of formal instruction,…
FFICM helps new believers build a firm foundation for their faith based on a strong relationship with Christ. FFICM programs teach how to follow up with new believers and enable them to have a strong relationship with Christ.
Jubal band ministries mission is to invite people to become disciples of christian life with jesus.
Far Reaching Ministries (FRM) was founded to carry the Gospel Jesus Christ to the world with discipleship as our primary objective. We plant and edify evangelical churches, found Bible schools, gather intimate small groups, and sustain…
Mfi provides meaningful relationships among member ministers, enabling them to be more effective in their calling for the purpose of building and multiflying strong local churches around the world.
To provide resources, training, and continuing support to leaders in the us and around the world in order that they may help others find freedom in christ.
The mission of portersville christian school is to glorify god by preparing students to serve christ and instilling high standards spiritually, academically, socially, and physically. the school provides a high-quality academic program, a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life 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 34 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.
23 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. 23 of the 52 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 SOUTHERN EVANGELICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds METRO-MARYLAND YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC ↗
- Who funds Luis Palau Association ↗
- Who funds Allegro Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Hope for India Inc ↗
- Who funds Brookstone Schools of Mecklenburg County ↗
- Who funds A Better World Charlotte ↗
- Who funds Samaritan's Feet International ↗
- Who funds Run-Hope-Work ↗
- Who funds SAILFISH POINT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PI BETA PHI FOUNDATION ↗
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: Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Servant Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Little Family Foundation Inc 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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