· Public charity
Word Among US Inc
The word among us helps over 2 million digitally and over 700,000 readers in print to be changed through a life-changing encounter with jesus christ in daily prayer and scripture.
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 10 grants below total $1,177,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,264,100 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $86,600 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
- $10k–50k5 grants · $64k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $414k
- $250k+2 grants · $700k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PATTY'A PLACE | $450,000 |
| THE LOVE OF CHRIST FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| PARTNERS IN EVANGELISM | $208,000 |
| ARCHDIOCESE OF BALTIMORE | $130,000 |
| THE SWORD OF THE SPIRIT | $76,000 |
| JACKSONVILLE CATHOLIC COMMUNITY | $15,000 |
| TRIUMPH OF THE CROSS COMMUNITY | $15,000 |
| THE VIGIL PROJECT | $13,500 |
| ARCHDIOCESE FOR MILITARY SERVICES | $10,000 |
| ST PAUL OUTREACH | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 22% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
11 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 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, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $474k 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
- PIPARTNERS IN EVANGELISM INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +94%
- LPLIFE PERSPECTIVES6× · 2018–2023 · $71k · revenue +100%
- CICHRISTLIFE INC3× · 2018–2020 · $28k · revenue +168%
Funded once
- AOArchdiocese of Washingtonone grant, 2017 · $10k
- TCTHE COMPANIONS OF THE CROSSone grant, 2021 · $9k · revenue +3%
- CHCHRISTIAN HEALING MINISTRIES INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue +25%
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.
Religious
As Christs followers, we have the Holy Spirit residing within us, which means we have His power to fulfill this command. We cant save anyone, but its our responsibility to tell people about the God who can. How will they believe unless…
McEachron Ministries has been organized for the sole purpose of ministering to the body of Christ and preaching the Gospel message of Jesus Christ . We will minister throughout local communities around the United States and the world. We…
Religious
To spread the gospel of jesus christ through crusades
To the advancement of Religion and Religious teachings and beliefs in the Roman Catholic faith to create a healing environment through retreats evangelism and educational training
Church- house of prayer. to provide facilities for the personal growth of individuals through reflection and prayer in the roman catholic tradition. pesonal prayer, reflection, reading, religious videos, station of the cross, rosary, mass,…
To transform lives through the teaching of the Wor of God, preserving and spreading faith in Jesus Christ
Religious Purposes
To glorify god by equipping the church with proper christian doctrine and to help non-believers come to a saving knowledge of jesus christ.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Love of Christ Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pattys Place Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 19 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 LOVE OF CHRIST FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN EVANGELISM INC ↗
- Who funds THE SWORD OF THE SPIRIT ↗
- Who funds Pattys Place Inc ↗
- Who funds JACKSONVILLE CATHOLIC COMMUNITYINC ↗
- Who funds TRIUMPH OF THE CROSS COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE PERSPECTIVES ↗
- Who funds CHRISTLIFE INC ↗
- Who funds National Service Committee of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal of the US ↗
- Who funds THE VIGIL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMPANIONS OF THE CROSS (US) ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN HEALING MINISTRIES 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.
Open a dossier: Knights of Columbus Charitable Fund Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Word Among US 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.