· Private foundation
The Culpepper Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
62% of The Culpepper Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to American Endowment Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 11 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year The Culpepper Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 12 organizations, $279k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k12 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $67k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $162k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Mission View Church | $111,700 |
| Habitat For Humanity East Central OH | $50,000 |
| Pregnancy and Parenting Center | $15,000 |
| Fellowship of Christian Athletes | $15,000 |
| Oasis for Orphans | $14,900 |
| Broken Chains Ministry | $12,000 |
| Leaders Edge | $10,000 |
| Choose Life Radio | $6,000 |
| Greater DoverPhila Food Pantry | $6,000 |
| Friends of the Homeless | $6,000 |
| Students International | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Haven of Rest Ministries | $5,000 |
| Resurrection House | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
28 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2023, 14 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY EAST CENTRAL OHIO5× · 2017–2023 · $251k · revenue +42%
- LELEADER'S EDGE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $92k · revenue +11%
- FOFriends of the Homeless8× · 2017–2024 · $62k · revenue +569%
Funded once
- TRTHE RECKONING INTERNATIONALgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $14k · revenue +169%
- IBInternational Business as Missionsone grant, 2020 · $5k
- BTBeneath The Shadeone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -4%
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.
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.
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How this is measured
31 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. 31 of the 66 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY EAST CENTRAL OHIO ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEADER'S EDGE INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Homeless ↗
- Who funds OASIS FOR ORPHANS ↗
- Who funds STUDENTS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds THE RECKONING INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds CHOOSE LIFE RADIO NETWORK ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds University of Mount Union ↗
- Who funds MANNA WORLDWIDE INC ↗
- Who funds Beneath The Shade ↗
- Who funds RESURRECTION HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds OFF THE WALL MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds World Help ↗
- Who funds John Carroll University ↗
- Who funds EQUIP MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST OHIO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Stark Community Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Culpepper Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Culpepper Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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