· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| PRIMERA IGLESIA BAUTISTA | $5,000 |
| Boys and Girls Club of the Plateau | $5,000 |
| JUMP START | $5,000 |
| PLEASANT HILL BAPTIST CHURCH | $3,100 |
| DENISON UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
| SEARCH MINISTRIES | $3,000 |
| Grace Church of Powdersville | $2,000 |
| The Salvation Army | $2,000 |
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 (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 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.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
25 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. 25 of the 113 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 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 YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds EMBRACE THE DREAM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Four Bees Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Four Bees Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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