· Private foundation
Rusty Pulliam Foundation Inc
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 $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $120k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $225k
- $250k+1 grant · $365k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Montreat College | $365,000 |
| Crossfire Ministries | $125,000 |
| ABCCM | $100,000 |
| Swing King University | $30,000 |
| Asheville Area Habitat for Humanity | $25,000 |
| Timothy Brown Ministries | $25,000 |
| Kenilworth Presbyterian Church | $25,000 |
| Sports Outreach | $15,000 |
| Coaches Quest | $5,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $255k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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 +45% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- TGTHE GIVENS ESTATES INC3× · 2022–2024 · $255k · revenue +45%
- ACAsheville Christian Academy Inc2× · 2022–2023 · $180k · revenue +142%
- TBTimothy Brown Ministries Corp3× · 2023–2025 · $75k · revenue +6% · 32% of their budget
Funded once
- TRTC Roberson Rams Club Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue +38%
- TAThe Asheville Police Department Foundationone grant, 2024 · $40k
- QEQB1 Enterprises Incone grant, 2024 · $25k
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.
Provide a distinctly Christ-centered, biblical and classical education producing students who glorify God in their thoughts, words and deeds.
Oconee Christian Academy exists to glorify God by nurturing students and equipping them to fulfill God's unique purpose for their lives.
Educational instruciton for students in prek-12th grades.
Mount Pisgah Christian School provides an outstanding college preparatory education grounded in Christian faith and values.
Grace christian school is a loving community that spiritually and academically equips, challenges, and inspires students to impact their world for christ.
The purpose of the school is to organize and operate a school which will provide a standard of scholastic excellence serving students from pre-kindergarten through grade 12.
Ic imagine's mission is to champion an inclusive environment for academic excellence, strong relationships, physical and mental well-being, creativity, and exploration. ic imagine graduates are engaged citizens prepared to succeed in…
Christ-centered, college preparatory, academic program.
Arborbrook Christian Academy partners with parents to equip, empower, and encourage students to cultivate godly character, pursue life-long learning, and love the Lord Jesus Christ.
The mission of harrells christian academy is to prepare each student for higher education within an environment that instills judeo-christian values, fosters self-discipline, enhances creativity, and promises a love and respect for…
The mission of Souteastern Bible College is to promote Christian education. The Organization's board made the decision that a transfer of the net assets to a previously described university would be the best use of the net assets of the…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Asheville Christian Academy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Peak Academy Charter School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 18 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 MONTREAT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE GIVENS ESTATES INC ↗
- Who funds Asheville Christian Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds Timothy Brown Ministries Corp ↗
- Who funds ASHEVILLE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds SPORTS OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds TC Roberson Rams Club Inc ↗
- Who funds The Asheville Police Department Foundation ↗
- Who funds PEAK Academy Charter School ↗
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 of Western North Carolina Inc · Dogwood Health Trust · Foundation for the Carolinas · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Rusty Pulliam Foundation Inc 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.