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Jane and Larry Comer Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$129kReligion$68kPublic Benefit$11kHousing & Shelter$6kYouth Development$4kEnvironment$2kArts & Culture$1kHealth$100
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$446k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST GEORGE'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL$2,500
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 (FY17–22, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%MAGNOLIA MANOR: $1k → 22%MAGNOLIA MANOR: $1k → 22%MAGNOLIA MANOR: $1k → 22%MAGNOLIA MANOR: $1k → 22%MAGNOLIA MANOR: $1k → 22%MAGNOLIA MANOR: $1k → 22%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.
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$205k · 15 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
9

Total granted

$205k
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+35%

Still filing today

53%
22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
EducationPublic BenefitReligionHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther
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

  • SA
    SOUTHLAND ACADEMY INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $9k · revenue +10%
  • SG
    ST GEORGES EPISCOPAL SCHOOL INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $8k · revenue +33%
  • JUDICIAL WATCH INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $7k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • SS
    ST SIMONS ISLAND LAND TRUST
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
  • FU
    FIRST UNITED METHODIST OF AMERICUS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
  • SH
    SUMTER HISTORIC TRUST INC
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue -30%
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
Greenville College

Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.

Education
2
North Greenville University

North greenville university exists to glorify god by cultivating graduates who are equipped to serve as transformational leaders for church and society.

Education
3
University of the South

The College of Arts and Sciences is committed to the development of the whole person through a liberal arts education of the highest quality. The School of Theology educates women and men to serve the broad whole of the Episcopal Church in…

Education
4
Southwestern Christian University

Scu is a christ-centered liberal arts institution equipping students for a life of learning, leadership, and service; integrating faith, learning, and living; and empowering graduates to excel and to positively impact their world for jesus…

Education
5
St George's School

To give students in the grades of 9 through 12 the opportunity of developing to the fullest extent possible the particular gifts that are theirs and to encourage in them the desire to do so.

Education
6
Shorter University

Advancing god's kingdom through a commitment to academic excellence, spiritual growth, christian leadership, and global service within the context of a biblical worldview.

Education
7
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
8
Gardner-Webb University

The university statement of values consists of christian heritage, baptist heritage, academic excellence, liberal arts, teamwork, a student-centered focus, community engagement and diversity.

Education
9
LaGrange College

Education - lagrange college challenges the minds and inspires the souls of its students. founded in 1831 and committed to its relationship with the united methodist church and its wesleyan and liberal arts traditions, the college supports…

Education
10
Southern Wesleyan University

Southern wesleyan university is a christ-centered, student-focused learning community devoted to transforming lives by challenging students to be dedicated scholars and servant-leaders who impact the world for christ.

Education
11
Houghton University

Houghton university provides an academically challenging, christ-centered education in the liberal arts and sciences to students from diverse traditions and economic backgrounds and equips them to lead and labor as scholar-servants in a…

Education
12
Georgetown College

Georgetown college is a fully accredited liberal arts institution of higher learning located in georgetown, kentucky. the college is committed to providing opportunities for excellence in higher learning under christian influences so as to…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgia Tech Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Hillsdale College. 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

11 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. 11 of the 25 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GEORGIA SOUTHWESTERN FOUNDATIONINC: $84,000 · OtherGEORGIA SOUTHWESTERN FOUNDATIONINCTHE CHRISTIAN VOICE FOUNDATION: $38,300 · OtherTHE CHRISTIAN VOICE FOUNDATIONSOUTH GEORGIA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $13,000 · OtherSOUTH GEORGIA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATIONFIRST UNITED METHODIST: $12,000 · OtherFIRST UNITED METHODISTIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+10 more: $8,900 · Other+10 moreSOUTHLAND ACADEMY INC: $9,000 · EducationSOUTHLAND ACADE…ST GEORGES EPISCOPAL SCHOOL INC: $7,700 · EducationST GEORGES EPIS…HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $7,500 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLE…GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · EducationGEORGIA TECH FO…+1 more: $1,000 · EducationJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $6,500 · Public BenefitTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $4,000 · Public BenefitTHE GATHERING PLACE INC: $6,000 · ReligionMagnolia Manor Inc: $6,000 · Human ServicesSUMTER HISTORIC TRUST INC: $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$166,200Education$30,200Public Benefit$10,500Religion$6,000Human Services$6,000Arts & Culture$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGEORGIA SOUTHWESTERN FOUNDATIONINC: $84,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetSOUTHLAND ACADEMY INC: $9,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetST GEORGES EPISCOPAL SCHOOL INC: $7,700 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $7,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GATHERING PLACE INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMagnolia Manor Inc: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSUMTER HISTORIC TRUST INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 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.

  • Who funds GEORGIA SOUTHWESTERN FOUNDATIONINC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHLAND ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds ST GEORGES EPISCOPAL SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
  • Who funds THE GATHERING PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds Magnolia Manor Inc ↗
  • Who funds GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SUMTER HISTORIC TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA8.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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 Jane and Larry Comer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jane and Larry Comer 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%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s 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 · 0–5%
    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 25 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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