· Private foundation
The Lord Sees 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 $10k9 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k65 grants · $1.6M
- $50k–250k21 grants · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OVERLAND MISSIONS INC | $217,000 |
| IRIS GLOBAL | $200,000 |
| KALEO INTERNATIONAL INC | $105,000 |
| HOMECHURCH INC | $100,000 |
| WE IGNITE NATIONS | $100,000 |
| NICK V MINISTRIES | $100,000 |
| ROD BAKER MINISTRIES | $90,000 |
| GLOBAL EQUIP INC | $70,000 |
| EDEN VILLAGE OF TULSA | $70,000 |
| 5 STAR GLOBAL MINISTRY | $60,000 |
| COME AND SEE FOUNDATION INC | $56,235 |
| WATTS OF LOVE | $55,000 |
| COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL INC | $52,712 |
| ASKING FOR THE NATIONS INC | $50,000 |
| SAFENET SERVICES INC | $50,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $835k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +23% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
69 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 50 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, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M 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
- IGIRIS GLOBAL3× · 2021–2025 · $430k · revenue +0%
Compassion International Incorporated5× · 2021–2025 · $254k · revenue +16%- GEGLOBAL EVANGELICAL TEAM INC6× · 2020–2025 · $209k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- EVEDEN VILLAGEone grant, 2023 · $100k
- MMManna Mission Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $73k · revenue +25% · 66% of their budget
- IHIN HIS IMAGE INTERNATIONAL INCone grant, 2021 · $70k · revenue +7%
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.
SOS provides assistance to poor and marginalized people in the USA & other countries. SOS feeds the hungry, drills water wells, contributes to schools and operates an orphanage. SOS also rescues and rehabilitates victims of sex trafficking.
Spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ
Global Effect Ministries teaches principles to build healthy families and strong marriages in developing nations. We care for orphans, widows, and people in need by developing nationals, empower impoverished individuals to find ways to…
Religious
Religious Purposes
Aid to poverty stricken areas in the u.s. and abroad.
The organizations exempt purpose is to rescue orphans and widows, feed the poor, build the local church through ministry, crusades and outreaches and to win souls around the world.
To provide strategic teaching about prayer, prophecy, and intercession in the US and abroad. Books, manuals, and audio teachings are also used to equip Christians in strategic level spiritual prayer and warfare.
To seek to proclaim the name of Jesus Christ, to promote Christian principles and the spiritual and physical well being of the world. Major programs include: Orphan ministries, including building orphanages, feeding and educating children,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heartline Ministries and the most unlike its peers is Pelican Point Foundation. 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 13 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 11% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% 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.
114 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. 114 of the 188 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 GLOBAL MISSIONS GROUP ↗
- Who funds IRIS GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds OVERLAND MISSIONS INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL EVANGELICAL TEAM INC ↗
- Who funds HELPS Inc ↗
- Who funds KALEO INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds WINGS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds ROD BAKER MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds 5 STAR GLOBAL MINISTRY LLC ↗
- Who funds WE IGNITE NATIONS ↗
- Who funds E3 Partners Ministry ↗
- Who funds HOPE WALKS INC ↗
- Who funds EDEN VILLAGE OF TULSA INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL EQUIP INC ↗
- Who funds WATTS OF LOVE ↗
- Who funds SPREAD THE FIRE US INC ↗
- Who funds 3DP4ME ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Christian Health Service Corps Inc ↗
- Who funds TIMES AND SEASONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE DEMAND PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Emerge Global Inc ↗
- Who funds CATCH THE FIRE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL GOSPEL ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds MODERN DAY MISSIONS ↗
- Who funds THE MERCY MATERNITY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Hope Center Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MOUNTAIN OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds Manna Mission Inc ↗
- Who funds AGAPE CLINIC ↗
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 · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Tulsa Community Foundation · Tyndale House Ministries · Christian Community Foundation Inc · The David E & Cassie L Temple Foundation · The Gelvin Foundation · Oneok Foundation Inc · The Dallas Foundation · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · Samaritan's Purse
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 Lord Sees 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- More Too Life Inc — 28% 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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