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The Four P 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.

$148k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Religion$668kInternational$197kHuman Services$87kEducation$79kRecreation & Sports$25kHealth$21kHousing & Shelter$18kArts & Culture$8kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $67k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$6,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHURCH OF THE INCARNATION$60,000
THE KELLERMANN FOUNDATION$34,000
THE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL$23,475
COACHES OUTREACH$10,000
PRESTON HOLLOW WOMEN'S CLUB FUND$6,500
LITERACY ACHIEVES$5,600
THE FRIENDS OF HOPE ACADEMY$3,000
FAMILY GATEWAY$2,500
AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$1,500
CAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATERS$1,500
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY18–22, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COMMUNITY HOSPICE OF TEXAS: $500 → 11%BLESSED ABUNDANTLY MINISTRIES: $5k → 14%BLESSED ABUNDANTLY MINISTRIES: $5k → 14%THE FAMILY PLACE: $500 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WI
NY
PA
CO
SC
MS
AL
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.0M · 15 repeat orgs$67k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.

15 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
22

Total granted

$1.0M
$58k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+5%

Still filing today

53%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesInternationalEducationPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterEmploymentOther

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

  • KF
    Kellermann Foundation
    8× · 2017–2024 · $197k · revenue +109%
  • TC
    THE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $85k · revenue +11%
  • CO
    COACHES OUTREACH
    3× · 2022–2024 · $25k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • UC
    UGANDA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSI
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • TU
    THE UM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • NH
    NASHOTAH HOUSE
    one grant, 2022 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…

Education
2
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
3
Alliance for Transformational Ministry

Enable christian organizations worldwide to initiate and strenghten ministries that lead people to become followers of jesus and transform communities out of cycles of poverty and disease.

Religion
4
Evangel University

Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.

Education
5
Greater Austin Christian Foundation

Mobilizing resources by inspiring biblical generosity in the greater austin, texas area.

Religion
6
Banner Alzheimer's Foundation

Established in 2006, the banner alzheimer's foundation (baf) secures and stewards charitable gifts to advance the mission of banner alzheimer's institute (bai), including groundbreaking research initiatives and pioneering prevention…

Health
7
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
8
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

9
Vitalant

Unite blood and biologics donors, talent, and innovation to save and improve lives.

Health
10
Barclay College

The mission of barclay college is to prepare students in a bible-centered environment for effective christian life, service, and leadership.

Education
11
Ecumen

We empower individuals and families to confidently navigate aging so that it is a purposeful journey filled with dignity and support.

12
Washburn University Foundation

The Foundation was created to assist in the promotion, development and enhancement of the financial resources for Washburn University of Topeka, as well as to receive and hold in trust any assets given in benefit of the University.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Coaches Outreach and the most unlike its peers is Younger Foundation. 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

17 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 39 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
11/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHURCH OF THE INCARNATION — $611,769 · OtherCHURCH OF THE INCARNATIONCHURCH OF THE APOSTLES — $34,400 · Other+27 more — $98,925 · Other+27 moreKellermann Foundation — $196,976 · InternationalKellermann Foundatio…UGANDA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY PARTNERS — $7,500 · InternationalTHE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL — $84,530 · PhilanthropyUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION — $21,500 · EducationAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $5,000 · EducationCOACHES OUTREACH — $25,000 · Recreation & SportsFAMILY GATEWAY INC — $17,500 · Housing & ShelterBLESSED ABUNDANTLY MINISTRIES — $10,000 · Human ServicesCommunity Healthcare of Texas — $500 · Human ServicesThe Family Place — $500 · Human Services
Other$745,094International$204,476Philanthropy$84,530Education$26,500Recreation & Sports$25,000Housing & Shelter$17,500Human Services$11,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetKellermann Foundation — $196,976 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetTHE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL — $84,530 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetCOACHES OUTREACH — $25,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION — $21,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY GATEWAY INC — $17,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUGANDA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY PARTNERS — $7,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetAugies Quest to Cure ALS Inc — $6,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAFRICAN LEADERSHIP AND RECONCILIATION MINISTRIES OF TEXAS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCITIZENS DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNGER FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFELLOWSHIP FOR PERFORMING ARTS INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSalesmanship Club of Dallas — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Healthcare of Texas — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Family Place — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALS ASSOCIATION-TEXAS CHAPTER — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Kellermann Foundation
  • Who funds THE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL
  • Who funds COACHES OUTREACH
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION
  • Who funds FAMILY GATEWAY INC
  • Who funds BLESSED ABUNDANTLY MINISTRIES
  • Who funds UGANDA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY PARTNERS
  • Who funds Augies Quest to Cure ALS Inc
  • Who funds AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds AFRICAN LEADERSHIP AND RECONCILIATION MINISTRIES OF TEXAS
  • Who funds CITIZENS DEVELOPMENT CENTER
  • Who funds YOUNGER FOUNDATION
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP FOR PERFORMING ARTS INC
  • Who funds Salesmanship Club of Dallas
  • Who funds Community Healthcare of Texas
  • Who funds The Family Place
  • Who funds THE ALS ASSOCIATION-TEXAS CHAPTER

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.

Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX17.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Breunig Family Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment 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 P 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 39 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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