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The Four Bees 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k35 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $117k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $77k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BUNCOMBE STREET UNITED METHODIST CH | $76,800 |
| HIGHLANDS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $38,050 |
| FRAZEE DREAM CENTER | $30,000 |
| MC CALLIE SCHOOL | $17,000 |
| ZOE MINISTRY | $12,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE | $10,000 |
| TRIUNE MERCY CENTER | $10,000 |
| Boys and Girls Club of the Plateau | $5,000 |
| PRIMERA IGLESIA BAUTISTA | $5,000 |
| JUMP START | $5,000 |
| PLEASANT HILL BAPTIST CHURCH | $3,100 |
| DENISON UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
| SEARCH MINISTRIES | $3,000 |
| CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES OF THE CAROLIN | $2,000 |
| The Salvation Army | $2,000 |
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 (FY20–23, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
48 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 14 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- TMTHE MCCALLIE SCHOOL6× · 2019–2024 · $60k · revenue +22%
Zoe Empowers3× · 2022–2024 · $32k · revenue +35%- DUDENISON UNIVERSITY6× · 2019–2024 · $18k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- BSBUNCOME STREET UNITED METHODIST CHUone grant, 2022 · $68k
- SWSC WATER FOWL ASSOone grant, 2019 · $15k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $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.
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…
Provide Charlotte's low-income children and youth with the academic, spiritual, and social development necessary to become Christian leaders determined to restore their communities.
Trinity oaks christian academny partners with the christian home and church in the training of children maximizing their potential to lead christian lives according to biblical standards.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Landmark christian school partners with christian families by equipping college-bound students to embrace a christ-centered worldview, grow as servant leaders, and steward god's unique purpose for their lives.
Faith-based education and care of children
Tyndale christian school provides a distinctively christian education devoted to cultivating academic excellence and love for all that is gods.
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
Summit Classical Christian School is a PreK-12 school that exists to cultivate generations of joyful disciples of Christ by partnering with faithful Christian families to educate their children from a Biblical worldview using classical…
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
Global scholars exists so that christian academics are adequately equipped to have a redemptive influence among their students, colleagues, universities and disciplines, at a reasonable cost.
To equip men to be preachers, pastors, and churchmen for christ's kingdom among the nations.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Miracle Hill Ministries Inc and the most unlike its peers is Favor 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 45 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 113 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 THE MCCALLIE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds TRIUNE MERCY CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds Zoe Empowers ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DENISON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds EMBRACE THE DREAM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of The Plateau Inc ↗
- Who funds TRINITY-PAWLING SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds EMMANUEL'S HAMMER 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: Yeargin Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Charles Timmons Foundation · John I Smith Charities Inc · South Carolina Christian Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Hayne Hipp Foundation · Spinks Family Foundation · Bill and Connie Timmons Foundation · The Jolley Foundation
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 Four Bees Foundation 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.