How much does The Beard-Payne Family Foundation give?

The Beard-Payne Family Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $360,767 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 31 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does The Beard-Payne Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (45%), Religion (32%), Health (7%).

Who are The Beard-Payne Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The University of Georgia Foundation ($688k), Augusta University Foundation Inc ($120k), Masters Tournament Foundation Inc ($50k).

Does The Beard-Payne Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Beard-Payne 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.

Where is The Beard-Payne Family Foundation based?

The Beard-Payne Family Foundation is based in GA.

The Beard-Payne Family Foundation

The Beard-Payne Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Beard-Payne Family 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.

$361k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$125k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$898kReligion$653kHealth$133kPhilanthropy$125kYouth Development$85kRecreation & Sports$59kArts & Culture$25kHousing & Shelter$13kOther$0

02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k13 grants · $24k
$10k–50k4 grants · $102k
$50k–250k2 grants · $235k

$2,100

Median grant

States reached

$1.0M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
PEACHTREE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH	$125,000
UGA FOUNDATION	$110,000
FOUNDATION OF THE CAROLINAS	$41,667
AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION	$40,000
GEORGIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY	$10,000
NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH	$10,000
Individual grant recipient	$7,500
KIRBY SMART FOUNDATION	$5,000
TUNNELS TO TOWERS	$5,000
ST JUDES CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL	$2,100
PATH FOUNDATION	$1,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE	$1,000
WOUNDED WARRIORS	$500
THE ART CENTER OF MOULTRIE	$500
RESPITE CARE ATLANTA	$500

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $19k) 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.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

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.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.6M · 32 repeat orgs$242k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +78% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

32 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.6M

$215k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+78%

+14%

Still filing today

56%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthPhilanthropyEducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsReligionOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

TU
THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION
6× · 2020–2025 · $688k · revenue +160%
GH
Georgia Historical Society
6× · 2020–2025 · $21k · revenue +117%
RC
RESPITE CARE ATLANTA INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $18k · revenue +212%

Funded once

MT
MASTERS TOURNAMENT FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
AU
AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY REAL ESTATE FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue -84%
MA
MD ANDERSON
one grant, 2020 · $25k

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.

04Its field

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.

Emory University

Emory University's mission is to create, preserve, teach, and apply knowledge in the service of humanity. (See Schedule O for continuation)

Education

Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education

Morehouse School of Medicine

Leading the creation and advancement of health equity we exist to improve the health and well-being of individuals and communities, increase the diversity of the health professional and scientific workforce, and address primary health care…

Education

The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education

The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health

Augusta University Research Institute Inc

Augusta university research institute, inc. (the "institute") was incorporated under the laws of the state of georgia as a nonprofit corporation on july 31, 1980. the institute qualified as a tax-exempt corporation under section 501(c)(3)…

Education

St Mary's Good Samaritan Foundation Inc

We, trinity health georgia and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. st. mary's good samaritan foundation is a member of the trinity health…

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Global Down Syndrome Foundation

To significantly improve the lives of people with down syndrome through research, medical care, education and advocacy. an important part of this mission is to support the global affiliate organizations that we helped establish and…

Health

Mercy Care Foundation Inc

We, saint joseph's health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. honoring the heritage and advancing the ministry of the sisters of…

Health

Saint Joseph's Health System Inc

Health

Duke University

To provide a superior liberal education, to prepare future members of learned professions, to advance the frontiers of knowledge, and to help those who suffer, cure disease, and promote health

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shepherd Center Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Masters Tournament Foundation Inc. 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

42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 81 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

41/42

Grantees still filing

29/42

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,009,240Education$699,317Philanthropy$211,501Health$55,200Human Services$19,100Housing & Shelter$11,800Religion$10,250

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.

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.

Georgia Power Foundation IncGA16.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Beard-Payne Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Beard-Payne Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

3report 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, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home