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Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing
THRIVENT CHARITABLE IMPACT & INVESTING brings hope to the world by empowering people to create the change that matters most to them.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 2,565 grants below total $84,640,658 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $94,784,782 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $10,144,124 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k920 grants · $6.5M
- $10k–50k1368 grants · $26M
- $50k–250k228 grants · $21M
- $250k+49 grants · $32M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STILLWATER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $5,000,000 |
| FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND | $2,355,071 |
| FLATHEAD VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $2,295,000 |
| SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $1,282,288 |
| NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST | $1,148,589 |
| EAGLE CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $1,023,009 |
| WATERSTONE | $1,020,000 |
| COASTAL COMMUNITY CHURCH | $922,629 |
| SHEPHERDS CANYON RETREAT INC | $840,650 |
| LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF | $801,463 |
| LCMS DISASTER RESPONSE | $750,085 |
| LUTHERAN DISASTER RESPONSE | $693,803 |
| SAMARITANS PURSE | $591,307 |
| SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND | $549,818 |
| MOUNT CALVARY LUTHERAN CHURCH | $533,550 |
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 (FY17–24, $6.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 79% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 14% of Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +31% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
1640 repeat relationships — 1210 still active in FY2024, 430 since wound down; 105 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15M 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
- FVFLATHEAD VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC3× · 2019–2024 · $6.0M · revenue +45% · 54% of their budget
- LWLUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC8× · 2017–2024 · $5.1M · revenue +34%
- CCCONCORDIA COLLEGE CORPORATION8× · 2017–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +1%
Funded once
- ALAUGUSTANA LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $3.5M
- POPRINCE OF PEACE LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $1.0M
- MRMANKINS RESEARCH INCone grant, 2021 · $1.0M
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.
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
Equipping Christians to renew their minds, serve the church, and create culture to the glory of God
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…
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Strengthening lutheran leadership and ministries.
Mid-america christian university prepares students through a wesleyan perspective to create, collaborate, and innovate to solve local and global problems for the glory of god through jesus christ and the good of society.
Meeting the needs of the whole person through quality health care and health-related services.
To provide healthcare for the elderly.
Empowering Christian leaders to pray for the harvest
Lifeworks partners with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.
To equip and assist christians and their churches to respond to conflict biblically.
To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communitygiving and the most unlike its peers is Westminster University. 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 39 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% 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.
829 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. 829 of the 2,000 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ↗
- Who funds FLATHEAD VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds Stillwater Christian School ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA COLLEGE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE FOX VALLEY REGION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds THE INDEPENDENT CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds SHIELD OF FAITH MISSIONS ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ORPHAN GRAIN TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds Greater Horizons ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS & LEARNING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FPC ACTION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Medical Fitness Education 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: Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans-Group · Lutheran Legacy Foundation Inc · Siebert Lutheran Foundation Inc · Holzhueter Foundation · Lutheran Educational Conference of North America · Antioch Foundation 1015002041 · Theodore W Batterman Family Foundation Inc · Kahr Foundation-Ima · Carol A Stuhr Family Foundation · Concordia Lutheran Ministriesfoundation · Getsch Charitable Trust
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 Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing 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.
- Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge — 100% of income from government
- Lutheran World Relief Inc — 47% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% 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.