· Private foundation
The Cantrell Group
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $64k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST BAPTIST OF WOODSTOCK | $46,750 |
| THE KINGS ACADEMY | $17,000 |
| GRACE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL | $5,731 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,500 |
| DISCIPLE MAKER MINISTRIES | $4,000 |
| JUDICIAL WATCH | $3,800 |
| FRONTLINE POLICY COUNCIL | $2,000 |
| FAITH FAMILY MINISTRIES | $2,000 |
| REDLANDS BAPTIST CHURCH | $2,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $2,000 |
| CHRISTIAN FAMILIES TODAY | $2,000 |
| A BEACON OF HOPE | $1,000 |
| COBB PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER | $1,000 |
| PERSPECTIVE MINISTRIES | $1,000 |
| THE HOPE CENTER | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 5% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +63% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
54 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 38 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- KCKING'S CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC6× · 2018–2024 · $232k · revenue +67%
- FRFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL7× · 2017–2023 · $57k · revenue +63%
- BMBYELORUSSIAN MISSION INC3× · 2017–2019 · $35k · revenue +88%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $19k
- DGDNA Global Network Incone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +8%
- GMGRACE MINISTRIESone grant, 2021 · $6k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Support local churches, leaders, and christians from around the world through online content that strengthens and affirms their life in christ. committed to using every means possible to reach every age and life stage with the gospel…
The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…
To glorify god by equipping the church with proper christian doctrine and to help non-believers come to a saving knowledge of jesus christ.
Bible Thinker, Inc is a ministry dedicated to equipping people to think and live biblically. There are three main areas of teaching that we focus on:1. Teaching accurate theology based on exegeting the text of the Bible and confronting…
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…
Jubal band ministries mission is to invite people to become disciples of christian life with jesus.
As Christs followers, we have the Holy Spirit residing within us, which means we have His power to fulfill this command. We cant save anyone, but its our responsibility to tell people about the God who can. How will they believe unless…
To provide resources, training, and continuing support to leaders in the us and around the world in order that they may help others find freedom in christ.
To spread the gospel of jesus christ through crusades
Religious organization devoted to strengthening members' personal faith.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Dna Global Network Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 19% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
45 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 45 of the 104 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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 KING'S CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds HORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds BYELORUSSIAN MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds REAL MOMENTUM MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN FAMILIES TODAY ↗
- Who funds Grace Ministries International Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HOPE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PERSPECTIVE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds East-West Ministries International ↗
- Who funds DNA Global Network Inc ↗
- Who funds INTEGRITY RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SERENADE HEIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds CEO FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds COURAGE FOR LIFE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA FESTIVAL CHORUS INC (THE) ↗
- Who funds Georgia Life Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds FRONTLINE POLICY COUNCIL INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Servant Foundation · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Donors Trust Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Verizon Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust
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 The Cantrell Group 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.
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.