· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +34% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- TAThe Asheville Police Department Foundationone grant, 2024 · $40k
- TRTC Roberson Rams Club Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue +38%
- QEQB1 Enterprises Incone grant, 2024 · $25k
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 18 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 The Asheville Police Department Foundation ↗
- Who funds TC Roberson Rams Club Inc ↗
- Who funds PEAK Academy Charter School ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Rusty Pulliam Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rusty Pulliam Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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