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Solley Foundation
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $81k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PROJECT RESCUE INC | $50,000 |
| MIDDLE TENNESSEE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST | $10,600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| HIS HANDS OF HOPE | $10,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTER | $10,000 |
| WEST BROWARD CHURCH OF CHRIST | $10,000 |
| NATION OF COACHES INC | $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 (FY25–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
9 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
- PRPROJECT RESCUE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $347k · revenue +49%
- MTMIDDLE TENNESSEE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL6× · 2017–2025 · $107k · revenue +184%
- AAALABAMA ALLIANCE FOR CHRISTIAN EDUCATION INC6× · 2017–2022 · $14k · revenue +109%
Funded once
- EEEASTERN EUROPEAN MISSIONone grant, 2018 · $3k
- HCHERITAGE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +23%
- GPGREENWOOD PARK CHURCH OF CHRISTone grant, 2018 · $2k
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.
Educational programs
Hampton christian academy provides a private christian education for grades 4k through 12th grade.
Mission is to rely upon his grace to equip our students to penetrate the world with the gospel.
The school is an independent, multi-denominational, biblically based christian school, that desires to work with families across the spectrum of the body of christ to produce a distinctively christian college preparatory environment.
Education, K-5 through 12th grade
The mission of houston christian university is to provide a learning experience that instills in students a passion for academic, spiritual, and professional excellence as a result of our central confession, "jesus christ is lord."
Serving Christ is the first part and foundation of HCCA's Mission Statement. Serving Christ means to follow Jesus and to serve one another as Jesus served. At HCCA we serve Christ with our heart, mind, soul, and strength every day. We do…
To Provide a Christian Education
Christian Heritage Academy exists to educate children with excellent academics that place Christ at the beginning and end of all knowledge and to lead children into lives guided by Christ-centered values and respectful relationships.…
Prepare individuals to become pastors, evangelists, missionary workers, christian education teachers, and to assist the local church in carrying out its mission.
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.
Faith based organization church
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Middle Tennessee Christian School and the most unlike its peers is Project Rescue Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 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 PROJECT RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE TENNESSEE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Harding University Inc ↗
- Who funds HIS HANDS OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA ALLIANCE FOR CHRISTIAN EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTER OF AL ↗
- Who funds NATIONS OF COACHES INC ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BARREN RIVER AREA CHILD ADVOCACY CE ↗
- Who funds HEALING HANDS INTERNATIONAL 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: The Melvin and Virginia Hutson Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Network for Good · 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 Solley Foundation 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.
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