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Paul Millsap Foundation Corporation

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.

$195k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$170k
Largest
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$5.0MReligion$491kRecreation & Sports$300kHealth$18kPhilanthropy$16kYouth Development$11kCivil Rights$4kHuman Services$4kOther$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k16 grants · $25k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $170k
$1,250
Median grant
10
States reached
$2k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CORE4 LLC$169,800
PARADISE ACADEMY OF FINANCIAL LITERACY$4,000
LONGWOOD UNIVERSITY$2,250
TKO GIRLS CORPORATION$2,000
LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY$2,000
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH$2,000
SPELMAN COLLEGE$1,250
HOUSTON CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY$1,250
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY$1,250
NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL AND TECHNICAL STATE UNIVERSITY$1,250
HAMPTON UNIVERSITY$1,250
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA$1,250
WESTERN SEMINARY$1,000
UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT$1,000
OXY OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE$1,000
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 (FY22–22, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, 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%IMPACTING LIVES FOUNDATION INC: $500 → 7%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

MN
IL
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IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
UT
CO
KY
WV
VA
MD
AZ
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AR
TN
NC
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AL
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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.
$5.3M · 45 repeat orgs$733k to everyone else

45 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
78

Total granted

$5.3M
$722k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+25%

Still filing today

20%
8%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesOther
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

  • SOUTHERN UNIVERTY SYSTEM
    2× · 2019–2020 · $150k · revenue +83%
  • TW
    TEXAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2019–2021 · $34k · revenue +51%
  • SC
    Savannah College of Art and DesignInc
    2× · 2021–2022 · $12k · revenue +71%

Funded once

  • HF
    HOLY FIRE TABERNACLE INC
    one grant, 2018 · $75k
  • SR
    ST REST BAPTIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
  • KS
    KROENKE SPORTS CHARITIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $45k · revenue +25%
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
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
2
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
3
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
4
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
5
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
6
Evangel University

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.

Education
7
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
8
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
9
John Brown University

John brown university (jbu) provides christ-centered education that prepares students to honor god and serve others by developing their intellectual, spiritual, and professional lives. (continued on schedule o)jbu serves traditional…

Education
10
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
11
Los Angeles Pacific University

Los angeles pacific university exists to deliver high quality, accessible christ-centered education to learners everywhere.

Education
12
Ashland University

Ashland university, guided by our christian heritage, is a comprehensive, private university that provides a transformative learning experience, shaping graduates who work, serve and lead with integrity in their local, national, and global…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Abilene Christian University; the most unlike its peers is National University Virtual High School. 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

19 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. 19 of the 130 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)
17/19
Grantees still filing
13/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CORE4 LLC: $3,929,800 · OtherCORE4 LLCIndividual grant recipient: $255,540 · Other+114 more: $1,491,398 · Other+114 moreSOUTHERN UNIVERTY SYSTEM: $150,468 · EducationKROENKE SPORTS CHARITIES INC: $45,000 · EducationTEXAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $34,190 · EducationNATIONAL UNIVERSITY VIRTUAL HIGH SCHOOL: $25,380 · EducationAscendium Education Group Inc: $20,000 · EducationSavannah College of Art and DesignInc: $11,711 · Education+6 more: $32,501 · EducationI WILL SURVIVE INC: $2,000 · HealthImpacting Lives Foundation: $500 · Human Services
Other$5,676,738Education$319,250Health$2,000Human Services$500

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 budgetSOUTHERN UNIVERTY SYSTEM: $150,468 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKROENKE SPORTS CHARITIES INC: $45,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTEXAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $34,190 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPGA FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL UNIVERSITY VIRTUAL HIGH SCHOOL: $25,380 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetAscendium Education Group Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSavannah College of Art and DesignInc: $11,711 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGrand Canyon University: $9,673 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEAST TEXAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $8,314 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY: $5,514 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $4,043 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKENT DENVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWESTMINSTER COLLEGE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpelman College: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetI WILL SURVIVE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHOUSTON CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $1,250 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 SOUTHERN UNIVERTY SYSTEM ↗
  • Who funds KROENKE SPORTS CHARITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds PGA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL UNIVERSITY VIRTUAL HIGH SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Ascendium Education Group Inc ↗
  • Who funds Lutheran Education Association of Houston ↗
  • Who funds Savannah College of Art and DesignInc ↗

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.

Michael & Susan Dell FoundationTX13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Michael & Susan Dell Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Paul Millsap Foundation Corporation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Paul Millsap Foundation Corporation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 130 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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