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Strain Family Charitable 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.

$178k
Granted FY2022
26
Itemized grants FY2022
26
Organizations funded FY2022
46%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Itemized, FY2022
$162k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2022
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2022
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
23 to 26
FY2020 to FY2022
Total assets, FY2022
$2.4M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 46% of the organizations Strain Family Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22
RenewedFirst-time
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
FY202226$162k46%
FY202126$145k92%
FY202023$136kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$116kRecreation & Sports$67kReligion$65kHealth$54kHuman Services$53kArts & Culture$30kYouth Development$30kAnimals$28kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Dalton First United Methodist Church$25,0001n/a
Fellowship of Christian Athletes$15,00010%
The Lovett School Inc$14,00010%
Woodward Academy Inc$9,00010%
Friendship House Inc$5,00011%
Mountain Top Boys Home Inc$5,00011%
Trevor Project Inc$5,00010%
Haywood Street Congregation$5,0001n/a
The Salvation Army$5,0001n/a
Must Ministries Inc$3,00010%
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All grantees of Strain Family Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Dalton First United Methodist Church$25,0001n/a
Fellowship of Christian Athletes$15,00010%
The Lovett School Inc$14,00010%
Woodward Academy Inc$9,00010%
Friendship House Inc$5,00011%
Mountain Top Boys Home Inc$5,00011%
Trevor Project Inc$5,00010%
Haywood Street Congregation$5,0001n/a
The Salvation Army$5,0001n/a
Must Ministries Inc$3,00010%
Park Place Outreachinc$2,00010%
Georgia Sheriffs' Youth Homes Inc$1,40010%
Praters Mill Foundation Inc$1,00011%
First Presbyterian Day School Inc$1,00010%
America's Second Harvest of Coastal Georgia Inc$80010%

Plus 44 recipients with no EIN on record ($345k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFellowship of Christian Athletes: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Lovett School Inc: $14,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWoodward Academy Inc: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriendship House Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMountain Top Boys Home Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTrevor Project Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMust Ministries Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPark Place Outreachinc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGeorgia Sheriffs' Youth Homes Inc: $1,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPraters Mill Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFirst Presbyterian Day School Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerica's Second Harvest of Coastal Georgia Inc: $800 over 1y, 0.0% 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 12.

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.

The Community Foundation of Northwest Georgia IncGA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Northwest Georgia Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Strain Family Charitable Foundation

How much does Strain Family Charitable Foundation give?
Strain Family Charitable Foundation reported 26 itemized grants totaling $161,500, out of $177,500 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 26 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2022.
What does Strain Family Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2022, its largest causes are Education (14%), Recreation & Sports (8%), Religion (8%).
Who are Strain Family Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2022: Dalton First United Methodist Church ($25k), Fellowship of Christian Athletes ($15k), The Lovett School Inc ($14k).
Does Strain Family Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 46% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Strain Family Charitable 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 Strain Family Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Northwest Georgia Inc, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
Where is Strain Family Charitable Foundation based?
Strain Family Charitable Foundation is based in GA.

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 60 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $141k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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