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The Luke Society Inc

The luke society, inc.

$1.5M
Granted FY2017
1
Grants FY2017
1
States reached
$64k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01FY2017 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $63,750, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,527,240 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,463,490 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$63,750
Median grant
1
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHRISTIAN ECONOMIC CORPORATION$63,750
02The need
02

Where the grant dollars land

Across the US and around the world.

Grants abroad, by region: $1.5M on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 7 regions, $1.3M to organizations and $221k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Sub-Saharan Africa$621k · 40% · 2 grants · 1 person

Stated purpose: GENERAL MINISTRY SUPPORT · CAPITAL · DEVELOP AND MAINTAIN REGIONAL CONTACTS FOR THE LUKE SOCIETY

Central America and the Caribbean$252k · 16% · 2 grants · 1 person

Stated purpose: GENERAL MINISTRY SUPPORT · CAPITAL · DEVELOP AND MAINTAIN REGIONAL CONTACTS FOR THE LUKE SOCIETY

East Asia and the Pacific$220k · 14% · 2 grants · 1 person

Stated purpose: GENERAL MINISTRY SUPPORT · CAPITAL · DEVELOP AND MAINTAIN REGIONAL CONTACTS FOR THE LUKE SOCIETY

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$166k · 11% · 2 grants · 1 person

Stated purpose: GENERAL MINISTRY SUPPORT · CAPITAL · DEVELOP AND MAINTAIN REGIONAL CONTACTS FOR THE LUKE SOCIETY

South Asia$139k · 9% · 3 grants

Stated purpose: GENERAL MINISTRY SUPPORT · CAPITAL

South America$78k · 5% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: GENERAL MINISTRY SUPPORT · CAPITAL

North America (Canada and Mexico)$60k · 4% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: GENERAL MINISTRY SUPPORT · CAPITAL

How this is measured
Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its field
03the grantee network

1 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2020.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2020, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
0/1
Grantees still filing
0/1
Grew since first funded

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHRISTIAN ECONOMIC CORPORATION INC: $63,750 over 1y, 99% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Luke Society Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Luke Society Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2020
’20
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    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, FY20–20
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    Find your warmest path to The Luke Society Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 1 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $1.5M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2017, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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