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Well of Life

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.

$29k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Religion$146kYouth Development$15kInternational$9kHealth$5kFood & Nutrition$3kHuman Services$933Civil Rights$300Membership Benefit$50
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,500
Median grant
10
States reached
$25k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHRIST FOR THE CRESCENT WORLD$5,000
ARAVALI TRIBAL MISSION (REDEMPTION PROJECT)$5,000
VOICE OF PREACHING OF THE GOSPEL$5,000
ARABIC BAPTIST CHURCH$2,000
JESUS ONLINE MINISTRIES$2,000
LIFEGATE$2,000
CONTINUOUS FLAME$1,500
MERCY SHIPS$1,500
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$1,000
ARAMAIC BROADCASTING NETWORK INC$1,000
LIFE FOR RELIEF & DEVELOPMENT$1,000
FOOD FOR THE POOR$501
SHRINERS CHILDREN'S$500
THE SALVATION ARMY$400
JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE$300
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 71% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JESUS ONLINE MINISTRIES: $2k → 11%ARABIC EVANGELICAL CHURCH: $4k → 8%CRU INNER CITY: $5k → 11%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $1k → 17%MERCY SHIPS: $2k → 12%FOOD FOR THE POOR: $501 → 13%ARABIC BROADCASTING: $4k → 8%ST JUDE HOSPITAL: $3k → 17%SAMARITANS PURSE: $2k → 21%BEE WORLD: $1k → 9%LIFEGATE: $4k → 16%ELMHURST CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH: $3k → 7%ARAVALI TRIBAL MISSION (REDEMPTION PROJECT): $5k → 8%MOODY CHURCH: $7k → 14%THE SALVATION ARMY: $600 → 9%CRU - CAMPUS MINISTRY: $4k → 11%ARAMAIC BROADCASTING INC: $2k → 8%ST JUDE HOSPITAL: $1k → 17%SAMARITANS PURSE: $1k → 21%LIFEGATE: $3k → 16%ELMHURST CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH: $2k → 7%MOODY CHURCH: $6k → 14%CRU - CAMPUS MINISTRY: $4k → 11%ARAMAIC BROADCASTING: $1k → 8%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $1k → 17%SAMARITANS PURSE: $1k → 21%LIFEGATE: $2k → 16%ELMHURST CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $1k → 7%MOODY CHURCH: $4k → 14%CRU - CAMPUS MINISTRY: $3k → 11%ARAMAIC BROADCASTING NETWORK INC: $1k → 8%LIFEGATE: $2k → 16%MOODY CHURCH: $4k → 14%ARAMAIC BROADCASTING INC: $1k → 8%LIFEGATE: $2k → 16%MOODY CHURCH: $2k → 14%ARAMAIC BROADCASTING: $1k → 8%LIFEGATE: $2k → 16%LIFE FOR RELIEF & DEVELOPMENT: $1k → 8%LIFEGATE: $1k → 16%ARABIC EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE CHURCH: $11k → 8%LIFEGATE: $1k → 16%ARABIC BAPTIST CHURCH: $8k → 14%ARABIC BAPTIST CHURCH: $6k → 14%ARABIC BAPTIST CHURCH: $6k → 14%ARABIC BAPTIST CHURCH: $3k → 14%ARABIC BAPTIST CHURCH: $2k → 14%CONTINUOUS FLAME: $2k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$142k · 15 repeat orgs$37k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
13

Total granted

$142k
$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+29%

Still filing today

40%
8%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionInternationalArts & CultureHealthOther

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

  • LI
    LIFEGATE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $17k · revenue +8%
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    6× · 2018–2024 · $5k · revenue +163%
  • LF
    LIFE FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $2k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • CI
    CRU INNER CITY
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $4k
  • AE
    ARABIC EVANGELICAL CHURCH
    one grant, 2019 · $4k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Angel Christian Television Trust Inc

Our mission is to go into all the world and preach the Gospel through all forms of media and broadcast. We are a Christian organization spreading the word of God to the ends of the earth.

Religion
2
Global Radio Outreach

Our Gospel Radio Program in Arabic was inaugurated in 1993, broadcast from the Middle East on 5 transmitters and on the internet. Approximately 350 million Arabs can receive the programs. Our Farsi Gospel Radio Program was inaugurated in…

Religion
3
More International Ministries

To spread the gospel of jesus christ through crusades

Religion
4
Jubal Band Ministries

Jubal band ministries mission is to invite people to become disciples of christian life with jesus.

Religion
5
Mission Without Borders International

The organization 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,(continued on…

International
6
United Saints Worldwide

United Saints is committed to taking the Gospel to both major cities and the most remote regionsreaching places like the Amazon Jungle and beyondwith the power and love of Jesus.

Religion
7
Transform Iran Inc

Transform iran is dedicated to religious, charitable, and educational activities designed to advance the christian faith, specifically to iran, surrounding countries, and throughout the middle east. to help fulfill the mission, (continued…

Religion
8
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

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…

9
Hayate Abadi Ministries

Preach the gospel and glorify jesus christ

Religion
10
South Asian Ministries Ltd

To share the gospel to unreached people in nations, particularly in india and asia.

11
What Matters Ministries and Missions

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.

Religion
12
Keith Wheeler Ministries Inc

Spread the gospel of jesus christ

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

13 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 38 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
5/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ARABIC BAPTIST CHURCH — $24,400 · OtherARABIC BAPTIST CHURCHTHE MOODY CHURCH — $22,500 · OtherTHE MOODY CHURCHARABIC EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE CHURCH — $11,450 · OtherARABIC EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE CHURCHIndividual grant recipient — $10,200 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCRU INNER CITY — $5,201 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · OtherVOICE OF PREACHING OF THE GOSPEL — $5,000 · OtherARAVALI TRIBAL MISSION (REDEMPTION PROJECT) — $5,000 · OtherELMHURST CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH — $4,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $4,000 · OtherARABIC EVANGELICAL CHURCH — $4,000 · Other+14 more — $11,433 · Other+14 moreLIFEGATE INC — $16,500 · ReligionLIFEGATE INCShining Hope International — $16,000 · ReligionShining Hope InternationalSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $5,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSEJESUSONLINE MINISTRIES — $2,000 · ReligionTHE CONTINUOUS FLAME — $1,500 · Religion+2 more — $2,000 · ReligionVOICE OF THE TRUTH — $15,900 · Arts & CultureVOICE OF T…FOOD FOR THE POOR INC — $2,501 · InternationalMercy Ships International — $1,500 · InternationalLIFE FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC — $1,500 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $1,000 · InternationalST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $1,000 · Health
Other$112,684Religion$43,000Arts & Culture$15,900International$6,501Health$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLIFEGATE INC — $16,500 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetShining Hope International — $16,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetVOICE OF THE TRUTH — $15,900 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $5,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC — $2,501 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJESUSONLINE MINISTRIES — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMercy Ships International — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CONTINUOUS FLAME — $1,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetLIFE FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARAMAIC BROADCASTING NETWORK INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBiblical Education By Extension Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 LIFEGATE INC
  • Who funds Shining Hope International
  • Who funds VOICE OF THE TRUTH
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE
  • Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC
  • Who funds JESUSONLINE MINISTRIES
  • Who funds Mercy Ships International
  • Who funds THE CONTINUOUS FLAME
  • Who funds LIFE FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
  • Who funds ARAMAIC BROADCASTING NETWORK INC
  • Who funds Biblical Education By Extension Inc
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC

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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA10.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Well of Life 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Food for the Poor Inc0% of 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 · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 38 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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