· Public charity
Renewanation
To inspire and equip the family, church and school to give children a biblical worldview.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 44 grants below total $1,917,901 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,977,098 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $59,197 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $74k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $437k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAITH CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $247,783 |
| COVENANT SCHOOL | $212,596 |
| BEREAN ACADEMY | $142,751 |
| GRACE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL - STAUNTON | $141,283 |
| COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $119,574 |
| MAIN STREET SCHOOL | $110,726 |
| SMITH MOUNTAIN LAKE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $108,300 |
| ROANOKE VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS | $97,175 |
| JEFFERSON CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $63,650 |
| BLUE RIDGE CHRISIAN SCHOOL | $58,000 |
| FAIRFAX BAPTIST TEMPLE ACADEMY | $54,930 |
| CAPE CHARLES CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $50,448 |
| COVENANT CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $45,727 |
| REGENTS SCHOOL OF CHARLOTTESVILLE | $44,742 |
| CORNERSTONE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $43,979 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 43% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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.
50 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k 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
- SMSmith Mt Lake Christian Academy Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +563% · 34% of their budget
- TCTHE COVENANT SCHOOL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +88%
- FCFaith Christian School Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $916k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- PHPARKWAY HOUSE OF PRAYERone grant, 2020 · $74k
- TFTHE FOUNDRYone grant, 2020 · $39k
- BHBROOK HILL RETIREMENT CENTER FOR HORSES INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $38k · revenue +44%
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.
Education of students from preschool to 12th grade
The mission of victory christian academy, in partnership with christian parents, is to provide a loving, christ-centered environment of educational excellence so that the students may develop their gifts, knowledge, skills and energies to…
Covenant Christian School exist to partner with Christian parents in training their children: to provide quality Christ-centered academic education for children, and to actively promote service in the local church, community and nation.
Aiding parents in their responsibility to educate their children so that they may love the lord their god with all their heart, all their soul, all their mind and all their strength.
Christian School grades k-8
Education - private christian school grades k-12
Provide classroom instruction and educational services to K-12 students
The school provides a biblically sound education program of high academic standards in a loving environment that meets the need of the whole child: spiritually, academically, physically, and socially.
To glorify God by partnering with parents to equip students spiritually, intellectually, physically, and socially using Jesus Christ as our model.
Quality education from a biblical perspective.
Partnering with families in a christ-centered learning community to provide a biblically based education that affords parents more time with their children.
Christ Community School strives to provide a superior education in a warm, caring atmosphere that will equip students to serve and lead in Christ.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grace Christian School and the most unlike its peers is Brook Hill Retirement Center for Horses Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 24 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) — 15% of your grantees by number, and just 5% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 71 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 Smith Mt Lake Christian Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds THE COVENANT SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Faith Christian School Inc ↗
- Who funds GRACE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Community Christian Academy ↗
- Who funds REGENTS SCHOOL OF CHARLOTTESVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Cape Charles Christian School Inc ↗
- Who funds BEREAN CHRISTIAN LAYMEN'S ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COVENANT CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds WISE COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BANNER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds NOAH-CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY CTR ANGELS OF HOPE OUTREACH MINISTRY IN ↗
- Who funds MAIN STREET SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds AD FONTES EDUCATIONAL TRUST ↗
- Who funds Parkway Christian Academy ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Christian Heritage Academy ↗
- Who funds Kings Christian Academy Roanoke Inc ↗
- Who funds Dayspring Christian Schools Inc ↗
- Who funds Cair Paravel Latin School Inc ↗
- Who funds BROOK HILL RETIREMENT CENTER FOR HORSES INC ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds The Light Academy 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: Foster Foundation · Kansas Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies · Folds of Honor Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · Servant Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Renewanation 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.