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Nutramax Family Foundation

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.

$2.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
64
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$446k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Religion$2.4MEducation$1.6MArts & Culture$1.2MHuman Services$726kHealth$399kAnimals$359kYouth Development$350kFood & Nutrition$249kOther$0
02FY2024 · 64 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k34 grants · $100k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $409k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+1 grant · $446k
$7,500
Median grant
13
States reached
$7.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAROLINA CHRISTIAN ACADEMY$445,600
SERMON ON THE MOUNT$220,000
ANSWERS IN GENESIS$210,000
WITNESS AS MINISTRY$176,000
JAARS$150,000
LIBERTY UNIVERSITY$101,000
SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH$85,000
THE CALLED-EFM INC$60,000
ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM$50,000
LAW ENFORCEMENT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$50,000
LANCASTER SPCA SOUTH CAROLINA RESCUE GROUP$42,000
THE INDEPENDENT BOARD FOR PRESBYTERIAN FOREIGN MISSIONS$41,000
HOPE IN LANCASTER$40,000
SIMPLE FAITH RANCH$35,000
CEDARVILLE UNIVERSITY$30,000
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 (FY19–24, $580k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%LET THERE BE MOM: $500 → 10%AQUA ES VIDA: $14k → 12%AGUA ES VIDA: $8k → 12%ACCESS CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC: $5k → 10%AQUA ES VIDA: $6k → 12%STRIDES OF STRENGTH THERAPEUTIC RIDING: $500 → 18%AQUA ES VIDA: $3k → 12%MISTY MEADOWS MITEY RIDERS: $500 → 7%RISING HOPE FARMS: $18k → 12%KERSHAW AREA COMMUNITY RESOURCE: $10k → 11%KERSHAW AREA COMMUNITY RESOURCE: $8k → 11%KERSHAW AREA COMMUNITY RESOURCE EXCHANGE: $5k → 11%KERSHAW AREA COMMUNITY RESOURCE EXCHANGE: $5k → 11%KARE: $3k → 11%PILGRIMS INN: $5k → 8%PALMETTO FAMILY COUNCIL: $5k → 16%YORK COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $5k → 8%PILGRIMS INN: $5k → 8%KERSHAW AREA COMMUNITY RESOURCE: $3k → 11%MT CALVARY OUTREACH CENTER: $2k → 11%YORK COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $3k → 8%PILGRIMS INN: $1k → 8%UPPER PALMETTO YMCA: $1k → 8%YORK COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $1k → 8%FORT MILL CARE CENTER INC: $5k → 8%A FATHER'S WAY: $61k → 11%HOPE IN LANCASTER: $58k → 11%FORT MILL CARE CENTER INC: $4k → 8%HOPE IN LANCASTER: $50k → 11%HOPE IN LANCASTER: $40k → 11%HOPE IN LANCASTER: $40k → 11%HOPE IN LANCASTER: $35k → 11%A FATHER'S WAY: $25k → 11%HOPE IN LANCASTER: $25k → 11%A FATHER'S WAY: $25k → 11%A FATHER'S WAY: $23k → 11%A FATHER'S WAY: $20k → 11%HORSE N AROUND TRC: $15k → 11%CHRISTIAN SERVICES INC: $7k → 11%CHRISTIAN SERVICES INC: $5k → 11%CHRISTIAN SERVICES INC: $5k → 11%LANCASTER FATHERHOOD PROJECT: $5k → 11%CHRISTIAN SERVICES INC: $5k → 11%HORSE N AROUND TRC: $4k → 11%HORSE N AROUND TRC: $4k → 11%CHRISTIAN SERVICES INC: $3k → 11%SHELTERED OF LANCASTER: $2k → 11%SHELTERED OF LANCASTER: $1k → 11%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

WA
WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.0M · 73 repeat orgs$989k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.

73 repeat relationships: 49 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

73
68

Total granted

$7.0M
$542k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+30%

Still filing today

60%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $448k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthReligionEducationYouth DevelopmentAnimalsOther
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

  • AO
    AMERICAN OPINION FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +131%
  • CC
    CAROLINA CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
    3× · 2019–2021 · $470k · revenue +415% · 52% of their budget
  • AI
    ANSWERS IN GENESIS INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $345k · revenue +72%

Funded once

  • HI
    HOPE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $55k · revenue +43%
  • LC
    LANCASTER CO SOCIETY HISTORICAL PRESERVATION
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
  • CV
    CHRISTIAN VETERINARY MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
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
Pardoned by Christ

To restore lives affected by incarceration. To reach out to people affected by incarceration, who will receive the love and provision that is found in Jesus Christ. To restore individuals and their families to our communities through…

Crime & Legal
2
Life Training Ministries Inc

Christian counseling for individuals with anxiety depression or other emotional struggles. Christian counseling for marriages and other couples.

Human Services
3
Safe Haven Counseling Associates in

Biblical counseling

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4
Carolina Chaplaincy Program

To promote the gospel message by placing christian personnel in prisons for the purpose of relating to the spiritual needs of the inmates on an ongoing basis.

Religion
5
Hopewell Ministries

To provide Christian counseling.

Human Services
6
Southeastern Carolina Crossroads Inc

Southeastern carolina crossroads is an organization designed to provide a positive atmosphere and faith based help and hope for men to overcome addiction.

Health
7
Christian Life Ministries

Counsel beleivers who are in need of spiritual and mental healing. bring non believers the good news of the gospel of grace. educate others on how to counsel through the word of god. provide seminars and conferences to enhance christian…

Human Services
8
Life Choice Pregnancy Center of Western North Carolina

Choosing Life over Abortion

Human Services
9
Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry Inc

To glorify god by equipping the church with proper christian doctrine and to help non-believers come to a saving knowledge of jesus christ.

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10
Hope Counseling Services of Chapel Hill

We provide accessible biblical counseling and training, walking alongside hurting people, which leads to Christ-centered hope, help, and healing, for the Triangle and beyond.

Health
11
Faith and Freedom Coalition of South Carolina Inc
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12
Shalom House Ministries Inc

Shalom House Ministries Inc operates a treatment center for women struggling with drug and alcohol addition. It also offers transitional dwelling for women who need a safe place after treatment.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Partners in Christ; the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Buford Massacre Battfield Inc. 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

89 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. 89 of the 158 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
31
Early backer (in before they grew)
88/89
Grantees still filing
61/89
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CAROLINA CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $837,455 · OtherCAROLINA CHRISTIAN ACADEMYCAROLINA CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $469,500 · OtherCAROLINA CHRISTIAN ACADEMYWITNESS AS MINISTRY: $394,500 · OtherWITNESS AS MINISTRYTeen Challenge North Carolina Adolescent Program: $321,000 · OtherTeen Challenge North Carolina Adolescent ProgramFAITH HOPE & VICTORY CHURCH: $276,700 · OtherFAITH HOPE & VICTORY CHURCHJAARS INC: $150,000 · Other+99 more: $2,009,861 · Other+99 moreSERMON ON THE MOUNT INC: $470,000 · ReligionSERMON ON THE MO…ANSWERS IN GENESIS INC: $345,000 · ReligionANSWERS IN GENES…SIMPLE FAITH RANCH: $204,675 · ReligionSIMPLE FAITH RAN…JIM RYUN MINISTRIES INC: $50,000 · ReligionPsalm 119 Association Inc: $40,000 · Religion+3 more: $40,400 · ReligionAMERICAN OPINION FOUNDATION INC: $1,150,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN OPINION…HOPE in Lancaster Inc: $247,500 · Human ServicesA FATHERS WAY: $158,500 · Human ServicesKERSHAW AREA RESOURCE EXCHANGE: $32,500 · Human ServicesAGUA ES VIDA: $30,500 · Human ServicesChristian Services Inc: $24,000 · Human ServicesHORSE N AROUND TRC: $23,000 · Human Services+14 more: $78,400 · Human ServicesLIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC: $101,000 · EducationCedarville University: $90,000 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $17,000 · EducationSETHS GIVING TREE: $13,900 · Education+5 more: $20,500 · EducationFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $118,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP OF SC INC: $86,000 · Youth DevelopmentSERVE MANAGEMENT GROUP INC DBA MISSION SERVE: $24,073 · Youth Development+2 more: $2,520 · Youth DevelopmentWOMENS ENRICHMENT CENTER: $178,000 · HealthGRACE DENTAL AND MEDICAL MISSIONS INC: $10,000 · HealthPALMETTO WOMEN'S CENTER: $8,000 · Health+7 more: $17,250 · Health
Other$4,459,016Religion$1,150,075Arts & Culture$1,150,000Human Services$594,400Education$242,400Youth Development$230,593Health$213,250

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN OPINION FOUNDATION INC: $1,150,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetSERMON ON THE MOUNT INC: $470,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetCAROLINA CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $469,500 over 3y, 52% of budgetANSWERS IN GENESIS INC: $345,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTeen Challenge North Carolina Adolescent Program: $321,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetHOPE in Lancaster Inc: $247,500 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetSIMPLE FAITH RANCH: $204,675 over 5y, 70% of budgetWOMENS ENRICHMENT CENTER: $178,000 over 6y, 25% of budgetA FATHERS WAY: $158,500 over 6y, 9.7% of budgetJAARS INC: $150,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetLAW ENFORCEMENT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $135,000 over 4y, 50% of budgetTim Lee Ministries: $131,000 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $118,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC: $101,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCedarville University: $90,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP OF SC INC: $86,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetPARTNERS IN CHRIST: $82,500 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetLANCASTER CHILDRENS HOME: $80,750 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetLANCASTER SPCA: $65,500 over 6y, 7.8% of budgetJIM RYUN MINISTRIES INC: $50,000 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetPsalm 119 Association Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetFORT LAWN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $34,500 over 5y, 7.6% of budgetKERSHAW AREA RESOURCE EXCHANGE: $32,500 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetAGUA ES VIDA: $30,500 over 4y, 19% of budgetGROUND 40 MINISTRIES: $28,400 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetChristian Services Inc: $24,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetHORSE N AROUND TRC: $23,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetPILGRIMS INN INC: $18,900 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetRising Hope Farms Inc: $18,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $17,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPalmetto Citizens Against Sexual Assault: $16,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetSETHS GIVING TREE: $13,900 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetHumane Society of York County: $12,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetKERSHAW COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $12,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetYORK COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $11,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBAPTIST INTERNATIONAL EVANGELISTIC MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetG R A S P: $10,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTHE HAVEN MEN'S SHELTER: $9,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetFort Mill Care Center Inc: $9,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCOLUMBUS PARKER TRACK CLUB: $8,500 over 4y, 30% of budgetPALMETTO WOMEN'S CENTER: $8,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF MCCORMICK SC INC: $7,500 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetKERSHAW COMMUNITY PARK COUNCIL INC: $7,000 over 4y, 8.6% of budgetNAMI National: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBATTERED BUT NOT BROKEN: $5,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetPalmetto Promise Institute: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetDocumenting Hope Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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 AMERICAN OPINION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SERMON ON THE MOUNT INC ↗
  • Who funds CAROLINA CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds ANSWERS IN GENESIS INC ↗
  • Who funds Teen Challenge North Carolina Adolescent Program ↗
  • Who funds HOPE in Lancaster Inc ↗
  • Who funds SIMPLE FAITH RANCH ↗
  • Who funds WOMENS ENRICHMENT CENTER ↗
  • Who funds A FATHERS WAY ↗
  • Who funds JAARS INC ↗
  • Who funds LAW ENFORCEMENT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Tim Lee Ministries ↗
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
  • Who funds LIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
  • Who funds Cedarville University ↗
  • Who funds CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP OF SC INC ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN CHRIST ↗
  • Who funds LANCASTER CHILDRENS HOME ↗
  • Who funds LANCASTER SPCA ↗
  • Who funds HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds JIM RYUN MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds Psalm 119 Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds FORT LAWN COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds KERSHAW AREA RESOURCE EXCHANGE ↗

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 Springs Close Fou…Comporium Foundation …John Calvin Bible Fou…Arras FoundationDuke Energy FoundationJohn T Stevens Founda…Central Carolina Comm…Foundation for the Ca…True Homes Foundation…United Way of Chester…Clarence H & Anna E L…The Junior Welfare Le…
The Springs Close Foundation IncSC51× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Springs Close Foundation Inc · Comporium Foundation Inc · John Calvin Bible Foundation Inc · Arras Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · John T Stevens Foundation · Central Carolina Community Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · True Homes Foundation Inc · United Way of Chester County In · Clarence H & Anna E Lutz Foundation · The Junior Welfare League Inc

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 Nutramax Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nutramax Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    7get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Nutramax Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Nutramax Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 158 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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