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Few Acres Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $74k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $378k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $120,000 |
| MAPS GLOBAL FELLOWSHIP | $108,000 |
| ELIJAH HOUSE ACADEMY | $24,000 |
| CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| MUSCOGEE EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION INC | $20,000 |
| IMPACT CAMPUS MINISTRIES INC | $10,000 |
| ATLAS FREE | $6,000 |
| ST CHRISTOPHER SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| JABBOK MINISTRIES INC | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| HAMPDEN SYDNEY COLLEGE | $2,500 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| BATH COUNTY ARTS ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
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 (FY22–22, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
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 +28% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $212k 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
- TRTHE RELEVATE GROUP INC2× · 2022–2023 · $19k · revenue +53%
- HCHAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE4× · 2022–2025 · $15k · revenue +59%
DUKE UNIVERSITY3× · 2023–2025 · $8k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- SASHELTERING ARMS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +1%
- BOBIG OAK RANCH INCone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +1%
- HFHEART FOR GODone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -54%
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.
Welch college is a christian higher education institution that educates leaders to serve christ, his church, and his world through biblical thought and life
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
Erskine College exists to glorify God as a Christian academic community where students are equipped to flourish as whole persons for lives of service through the pursuit of undergraduate liberal arts and graduate theological education.
Mid-atlantic christian university is an undergraduate institution of christian higher learning whose mission is to impact the world by transforming ordinary people into extraordinary christian leaders. students are taught to think…
Belhaven university prepares students academically and spiritually to serve jesus christ in their careers, in human relationships, and in the world of ideas.
The Master's University and Seminary (TMUS) exists to advance the Kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ through education. This is accomplished through unreserved commitment to worshipping God, authority of Scripture, personal holiness, serving…
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Global scholars exists so that christian academics are adequately equipped to have a redemptive influence among their students, colleagues, universities and disciplines, at a reasonable cost.
The King's University integrates Biblical education and practical ministry to shape Spirit-formed individuals who follow Jesus, serve His Church, and are sent to impact the world.
The mission of criswell college is to provide ministerial and professional higher education for men and women preparing to serve as christian leaders throughout society, while maintaining an institutional commitment to biblical inerrancy.
Central christian college of the bible (central) exists to develop servant-leaders for the church. as a traditional undergraduate bible college of the restoration movement, central equips faithful men and women for leadership ministry.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fellowship of Christian Athletes and the most unlike its peers is Plus Nothing. 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 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 14% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 33 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 Children's Hospital and Healthcare Services Foundation ↗
- Who funds SHELTERING ARMS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ELIJAH HOUSE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds BIG OAK RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSCOGEE EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE FND ↗
- Who funds THE RELEVATE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HEART FOR GOD ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds PLUS NOTHING ↗
- Who funds MICAH'S PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds IMPACT CAMPUS MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Kore Venture Inc ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds THE ST CHRISTOPHER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Jabbock Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds BATH COUNTY ARTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SACRED HEART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RESTORE NYC INC ↗
- Who funds Marked Men for Christ 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: The Community Foundation Inc · Harris Foundation co Hiter Harris III · Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Few Acres Foundation 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.