How much does The Cantrell Group give?

The Cantrell Group reported 22 grants totaling $103,031 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 44 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Cantrell Group fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (62%), Education (23%), Human Services (5%).

Who are The Cantrell Group's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: First Baptist of Woodstock ($541k), King's Classical Academy Inc ($232k), Horatio Alger Assn of Distinguished Americans Inc ($60k).

Does The Cantrell Group fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Cantrell Group 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 The Cantrell Group?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Servant Foundation, The Signatry Charitable Trust, Christian Community Foundation Inc.

Where is The Cantrell Group based?

The Cantrell Group is based in GA.

The Cantrell Group

The Cantrell Group at a glance

· 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.

$103k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$47k

Largest

01What it funds

0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$786kEducation$295kHuman Services$62kHealth$37kInternational$16kRecreation & Sports$9kPublic Benefit$8kHousing & Shelter$7kOther$0

02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k20 grants · $39k
$10k–50k2 grants · $64k

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$304k

Total assets

Largest grants
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
REDLANDS BAPTIST CHURCH	$2,000
FRONTLINE POLICY COUNCIL	$2,000
CHRISTIAN FAMILIES TODAY	$2,000
FAITH FAMILY MINISTRIES	$2,000
FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES	$2,000
EAST-WEST MINISTRIES	$1,000
THE HOPE CENTER	$1,000
REAL MOMENTUM MINISTRIES	$1,000
LIFE MINISTRY	$1,000

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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.2M · 54 repeat orgs$94k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +67% since the first grant, against +5% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.2M

$80k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%

+5%

Still filing today

50%

30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

ReligionHuman ServicesEducationHealthPublic BenefitPhilanthropyOther

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

KC
KING'S CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC
6× · 2018–2024 · $232k · revenue +67%
FR
FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL
7× · 2017–2023 · $57k · revenue +63%
BM
BYELORUSSIAN MISSION INC
3× · 2017–2019 · $35k · revenue +88%

Funded once

IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2019 · $19k
DG
DNA Global Network Inc
one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +8%
GM
GRACE MINISTRIES
one grant, 2021 · $6k

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.

For the Gospel Ministries

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…

Religion

Wounded Spirits Ministries

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…

Recreation & Sports

Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry Inc

To glorify god by equipping the church with proper christian doctrine and to help non-believers come to a saving knowledge of jesus christ.

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Bible Thinker Inc

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…

Religion

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…

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Jubal Band Ministries

Jubal band ministries mission is to invite people to become disciples of christian life with jesus.

Religion

Faithbytheword Incorporated

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…

Human Services

Explore God Network

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Freedom in Christ Ministries

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.

Religion

More International Ministries

To spread the gospel of jesus christ through crusades

Religion

Influencers Global Ministries

Religious organization devoted to strengthening members' personal faith.

Religion

Global Faith Network

Human Services

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation; 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.

04the grantee network

45 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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)

41/45

Grantees still filing

33/45

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$749,843Education$300,600Religion$108,131Human Services$96,846Public Benefit$7,600Youth Development$7,100Housing & Shelter$6,700

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.

Servant FoundationKS21.2× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Cantrell Group funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Cantrell Group. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

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