· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTER | $10,000 |
| WEST BROWARD CHURCH OF CHRIST | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| HIS HANDS OF HOPE | $10,000 |
| NATION OF COACHES INC | $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 (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 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.
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
How this is measured
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
- HCHERITAGE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +23%
- EEEASTERN EUROPEAN MISSIONone grant, 2018 · $3k
- GPGREENWOOD PARK CHURCH OF CHRISTone grant, 2018 · $2k
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.
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
How this is measured
10 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. 10 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 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 ↗
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 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Solley Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Solley Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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