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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 FY2024(still arriving)
17
Grants FY2024
10
Organizations funded FY2023
30%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$205,434
Organizations funded a year
7 to 13
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$7.6M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 30% of the organizations Splawn Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
EducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving17$415k41%
FY202310$417k30%
FY202213$447k31%
FY202112$336k67%
FY20207$78kn/a
90% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

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

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Southern Wesleyan University$305,00031%
National Christian Foundation Inc$257,13424%
Vapor Ministries Inc$225,00031%
Furman University$175,00040%
Lifeline Children's Services Inc$95,00050%
Alabama Game Changers$70,00035%
Canvas Church$50,0001n/a
Cross Creek Church Pca$35,0002n/a
Hoover Helps$25,00028%
Rock Bridge Ministries Inc$16,08034%
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All grantees of Splawn Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Southern Wesleyan University$305,00031%
National Christian Foundation Inc$257,13424%
Vapor Ministries Inc$225,00031%
Furman University$175,00040%
Lifeline Children's Services Inc$95,00050%
Alabama Game Changers$70,00035%
Canvas Church$50,0001n/a
Cross Creek Church Pca$35,0002n/a
Hoover Helps$25,00028%
Rock Bridge Ministries Inc$16,08034%
Sav-A-Life Inc$15,50031%
Delta Gamma Foundation$10,00010%
Street Children International Ministries Inc$7,50012%
Mission Dental Inc$5,00010%
The South Carolina Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$5,00010%
Greenville Symphony Association$5,00010%
First Baptist Church of Hendersonville$2,5001n/a
Dawson Memorial Baptist Church$2,5001n/a
Do Money Different Inc$1,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($385k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Splawn Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetMission Dental Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe South Carolina Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGreenville Symphony Association: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Splawn Family Foundation

How much does Splawn Family Foundation give?
Splawn Family Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $414,534 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 13 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Splawn Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (30%), Religion (24%), Philanthropy (15%).
Who are Splawn Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Southern Wesleyan University ($305k), National Christian Foundation Inc ($257k), Vapor Ministries Inc ($225k).
Does Splawn Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Splawn Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Splawn Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham, Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund.
Where is Splawn Family Foundation based?
Splawn Family Foundation is based in AL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 29 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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