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Splawn Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$415k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$205k
Largest
01What you fund
0190% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Education$510kReligion$401kPhilanthropy$257kInternational$249kHuman Services$136kHealth$82kArts & Culture$5kAnimals$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $47k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $62k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $305k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$7.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC$205,434
CANVAS CHURCH$50,000
FURMAN UNIVERSITY$50,000
CROSS CREEK CHURCH$25,000
HOOVER HELPS$15,000
BIRMINGHAM COMMUNITY CHURCH$12,100
DELTA GAMMA FOUNDATION$10,000
SAV A LIFE INC$8,500
GREENVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
GREENVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY$5,000
FOUNDRY DENTAL CENTER$5,000
LIFELINE CHILDREN'S SERVICE$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
SOUTHERN WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY$5,000
02The need
03

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 (FY21–24, $241k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, 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.

area typical 11%VAPOR MINISTRIES: $100k → 18%VAPOR MINISTRIES: $75k → 18%VAPOR MINISTRIES: $50k → 18%SAV A LIFE INC: $9k → 16%SAV A LIFE INC: $4k → 16%SAV A LIFE INC: $4k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.6M · 15 repeat orgs$116k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
7

Total granted

$1.6M
$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+56%

Still filing today

60%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyReligionOther

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

  • NC
    NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $257k · revenue +48%
  • VM
    Vapor Ministries Inc
    3× · 2021–2023 · $225k · revenue +32%
  • LC
    LIFELINE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $95k · revenue +82%

Funded once

  • TP
    TRINITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • SC
    STREET CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES INC
    one grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue -2%
  • HM
    HUGHES MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · $5k

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.

1
North Greenville University

North greenville university exists to glorify god by cultivating graduates who are equipped to serve as transformational leaders for church and society.

Education
2
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
3
Evangel University

Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.

Education
4
Southeastern Universities Research Association Inc

Sura's mission is to advance collaborative research and education and to strengthen the scientific capabilities of its members and our nation.

Science & Tech
5
Carolina College of Biblical Studies

Carolina college of biblical studies exists to disciple christ-followers, through biblical higher education, for a lifetime of effective servant leadership.

Education
6
Greenville College

Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.

Education
7
San Diego Christian College

San Diego Christian College exists to educate and inspire students through the truth of scripture and the development of competencies that prepare graduates whose purpose is to impact the world.

Education
8
Southwestern Christian University

Scu is a christ-centered liberal arts institution equipping students for a life of learning, leadership, and service; integrating faith, learning, and living; and empowering graduates to excel and to positively impact their world for jesus…

Education
9
Barclay College

The mission of barclay college is to prepare students in a bible-centered environment for effective christian life, service, and leadership.

Education
10
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission On Colleges Inc

The southern association of colleges and schools commission on colleges is the regional body for the accreditation of degree-granting higher education institutions in the southern states. the commission's mission is the enhancement of…

Education
11
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

12
Global Media Outreach

Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lifeline Children's Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Alabama Game Changers. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

14 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 29 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
8/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SOUTHERN WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $305,000 · EducationSOUTHERN WESLEYAN UNIVERSITYFURMAN UNIVERSITY — $175,000 · EducationFURMAN UNIVERSITY+1 more — $10,000 · EducationBIRMINGHAM COMMUNITY CHURCH — $287,100 · OtherBIRMINGHAM COMMUNITY CHURCHCANVAS CHURCH — $50,000 · OtherCANVAS CHURCHIndividual grant recipient — $42,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCROSS CREEK CHURCH PCA — $35,000 · OtherCROSS CREEK CHURCH PCA+15 more — $95,080 · Other+15 moreNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC — $257,134 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL CHRISTIA…Vapor Ministries Inc — $225,000 · Human ServicesVapor Ministries…SAV-A-LIFE INC — $15,500 · Human ServicesSAV-A-LIFE INCLIFELINE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC — $95,000 · ReligionAlabama Game Changers — $70,000 · HealthMISSION DENTAL INC — $5,000 · HealthHOOVER HELPS — $25,000 · Community Improvement
Education$490,000Other$509,680Philanthropy$257,134Human Services$240,500Religion$95,000Health$75,000Community Improvement$25,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSOUTHERN WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $305,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC — $257,134 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetVapor Ministries Inc — $225,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetFURMAN UNIVERSITY — $175,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLIFELINE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC — $95,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAlabama Game Changers — $70,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetHOOVER HELPS — $25,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetROCK BRIDGE MINISTRIES INC — $16,080 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetSAV-A-LIFE INC — $15,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetDELTA GAMMA FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTREET CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES INC — $7,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTHE SOUTH CAROLINA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMISSION DENTAL INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREENVILLE SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 SOUTHERN WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds Vapor Ministries Inc
  • Who funds FURMAN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds LIFELINE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC
  • Who funds Alabama Game Changers
  • Who funds HOOVER HELPS
  • Who funds ROCK BRIDGE MINISTRIES INC
  • Who funds SAV-A-LIFE INC
  • Who funds DELTA GAMMA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds STREET CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES INC
  • Who funds THE SOUTH CAROLINA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
  • Who funds MISSION DENTAL INC
  • Who funds GREENVILLE SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION

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 IncGA13.4× affinity12 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Splawn Family 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 29 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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