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· Private foundation
SOLLIE EMMITT MCCRELESS & LILLA MARR
This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications.
$89k
Granted FY2025
8
Grants
4
Communities
$30k
Largest
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 62% of SOLLIE EMMITT MCCRELESS & LILLA MARR’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
care ugandaeducationmissions
2019
care ugandaeducationmissions
2020
care ugandaeducationmissions
2021
educationmissions
2022
educationmissions
2023
education
2024
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2025
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2025 · 8 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $77k
$12,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
- ASBURY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY$30,000
- ASBURY UNIVERSITY$20,000
- EDIFY$15,000
- RELIANT MISSION$12,000
- A FOUNDATION OF THEOLOGICAL EDUCATI$5,000
- WORLD LINK MINISTRIES$3,000
- CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST$2,400
- FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES$2,000
02The need
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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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of SOLLIE EMMITT MCCRELESS & LILLA MARR’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
SOLLIE EMMITT MCCRELESS & LILLA MARRlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient addressRecipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$854k · 16 repeat orgs$48k to everyone else
16 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
16
10
Total granted
$854k
$40k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+36%
+40%
Still filing today
38%
20%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationInternationalHuman ServicesReligionOther
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
- ATASBURY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY9× · 2017–2025 · $293k · revenue +4%
- CHCHRISTIAN HEALTH SERVICE CORPS3× · 2018–2020 · $30k · revenue +9%
- VMVILLAGE MISSIONS6× · 2017–2022 · $6k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- GNGOOD NEWSone grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue -50%
- AFA FOUNDATION FOR THEOLOGICAL EDUCATone grant, 2024 · $7k
- OMONE MISSION SOCIETY USAone grant, 2024 · $6k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
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Angleton Christian School
The mission of the school is to provide the students of acs with quality, god-centered education; training children in the way they should go, equipping students to glorify god by being a witness for jesus christ to the world through a…
Education
2
Abilene Christian School Inc
The mission of Abilene Christian School, Inc. is to equip students to excel academically, serve meaningfully, and walk faithfully with God.
Education
3
In Christ Alone El Paso Christian School
With the bible as our foundation, and Classical Christian Education as our model, El Paso Christian School seeks to prepare students in wisdom, virtue, and service to glofify God.
Education
4
American Christian School Society
Educational Institution - PreK through High School college preparatory school that exists to develop students who think critically, communicate effectively and excel academically for Christ, utilizing a classical Christian education.
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Christian Educators Inc
To provide academic excellence based on biblical principles, while enhancing the christ-centered family and strengthening the local churches. we are committed to equip each student intellectually, socially, physically and spiritually, and…
Education
6
Trinity Christian Academy Inc
Christian education, pre-k through 12th grade
Education
7
Logos Evangelical Seminary
Logos Evangelical Seminary equips servant-leaders in the four core areas of spiritual formation, academic excellence, ministerial competence and godly living; to serve Christ's Church and to proclaim the gospel to the world effectively.
Education
8
Charlotte Christian College &
To educate, train, and develop ministers, evangelists, missionaries, and other people who are going to enter the Christian ministry. Educate ministers and missionaries to serve the Lord.
Religion
9
Christian Schools Inc
To prepare students for life by building confidence, intellectual growth and spritual strength through Christian education
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10
San Antonio Christian School
Provide students pre-k to 12th a christ-centered education while fostering a life of faith & service.
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Knoxville Christian School
Educate preschool through twelfth grade children in a Christian environment while developing them spiritually,academically, emotionally, and physically with Jesus Christ as their standard and the Bible as their foundation.
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12
Kentucky Mountain Bible College Inc
To educate and prepare students for biblical gospel ministry as educators, pastors, and foreign missionaries.
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Asbury Theological Seminary and the most unlike its peers is Alice Lloyd College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
06the grantee network
10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$563,057Education$301,500International$30,000Human Services$4,000Religion$3,000
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 ASBURY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN HEALTH SERVICE CORPS ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVERS CENTER FOR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds GOOD NEWS ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE MISSIONS ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO YOUTH FOR CHRIST ↗
- Who funds ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds RANSOMED LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds KOR EDUCATION SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WORLD LINK MINISTRIES ↗
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.
Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA10.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation 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 organisation SOLLIE EMMITT MCCRELESS & LILLA MARR 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: GOOD NEWS.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 237041932 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on GOOD NEWS, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 19% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to Sollie Emmitt McCreless & Lilla Marr?
Find your warmest path to Sollie Emmitt McCreless & Lilla Marr through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines