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Charles O Pyron Family Foundation at a glance

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Charles O Pyron Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$21k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$51kHuman Services$21kPhilanthropy$15kHousing & Shelter$11kRecreation & Sports$9kEducation$8kCrime & Legal$7kInternational$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$192k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FISHER HOUSE$5,000
ST JUDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$4,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL$3,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$3,000
DAN MILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO$3,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND$1,000
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN$1,000
TASTE OF THE SOUTH COMMITTEE$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COMMUNITY LINK: $2k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
NV
OH
KY
VA
MD
AZ
AR
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$93k · 19 repeat orgs$47k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
30

Total granted

$93k
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+25%

Still filing today

42%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationAnimalsHousing & ShelterHealthPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • FH
    FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $20k · revenue +28%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $8k · revenue +29%
  • NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $5k · revenue +132%

Funded once

  • HF
    HIT FORE HOPE
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • PF
    PENCIL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -13%
  • EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue 0%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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3
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
4
National Committee for Quality Assurance

Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.

Health
5
Nashville Public Radio

Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.

Arts & Culture
6
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
7
National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Inc

Serve as a leader, alongside diverse coalitions, in identifying and reforming flaws and inequities in the criminal legal system, and redressing systemic racism, and ensuring that its members and others in the criminal defense bar are fully…

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8
Just Capital Foundation Inc

Just capital's mission is to build a more just economy that works for all americans by helping companies improve how they serve all their stakeholders - workers, customers, communities, the environment, and shareholders - as defined by the…

Social Science
9
The Rand Corporation

Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Public Benefit
10
American Law Institute

The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…

Crime & Legal
11
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
12
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Rescue Mission; the most unlike its peers is Dan Mills Elementary School Parents Teachers Organization. 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

28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 53 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/28
Grantees still filing
20/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $24,500 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · OtherFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INCMENORAH PARK: $6,500 · OtherMENORAH PARKHIT FORE HOPE: $5,000 · OtherLIFEHOUSE MATERNITY HOME: $4,750 · OtherTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 · Other+30 more: $38,060 · Other+30 moreJEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND: $12,750 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDE…TASTE OF THE SOUTH: $1,500 · PhilanthropyTASTE OF TH…MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $500 · PhilanthropyST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $8,250 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $1,000 · Health+1 more: $100 · Health413 STRONG INC: $4,000 · Housing & ShelterNASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION: $2,000 · Housing & ShelterSister Jose Women's Center: $1,500 · Housing & ShelterPENCIL FOUNDATION: $3,000 · EducationDAN MILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PARENTS TEACHERS ORGANIZATION: $3,000 · EducationLaGrange College: $1,000 · EducationGAWL FOUNDATION INC: $500 · EducationNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $5,000 · Civil RightsEquine Voices Rescue & Sanctuary: $2,500 · AnimalsNASHVILLE ZOO INC: $1,500 · AnimalsNASHVILLE HUMANE ASSOCIATION AKA NASHVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,000 · Animals
Other$102,810Philanthropy$14,750Health$9,350Housing & Shelter$7,500Education$7,500Civil Rights$5,000Animals$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND: $12,750 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $8,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget413 STRONG INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPENCIL FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDAN MILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PARENTS TEACHERS ORGANIZATION: $3,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEquine Voices Rescue & Sanctuary: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY LINK MISSION INC: $1,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNASHVILLE ZOO INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY LINK INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTASTE OF THE SOUTH: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSister Jose Women's Center: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLaGrange College: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNASHVILLE HUMANE ASSOCIATION AKA NASHVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL JUDICIAL COLLEGE: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRESTORING LIVES ALLIANCE INC: $750 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetWANDA JOYCE ROBINSON FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCobb County Chamber of Commerce Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGAWL FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING KENTUCKY INC: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPediatric Brain Tumor Foundation of the United States Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Charities Aid Foundat…National Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Charles O Pyron Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charles O Pyron Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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.

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 53 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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