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The Grier Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $19,000 |
| PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE | $11,000 |
| ERSKINE COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| THORNWELL HOME & SCHOOL | $6,400 |
| BONCLARKEN CONFERENCE CENTER | $3,500 |
| PRESBYTERIAN HERITAGE CENTER | $1,000 |
| CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES | $1,000 |
| GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY FDN | $1,000 |
| JEKYLL ISLAND UNITED METHODIST CHUR | $250 |
| VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $100 |
| WESTMINSTER - CANTERBURY | $100 |
| BETHANY ASSOCIATE REFORMED PRESBYTE | $100 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH LYNCHBURG | $100 |
| COLLEGE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $100 |
| CLOVER ASSOCIATE REFORMED PRESBYTER | $100 |
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 (FY20–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
17 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250 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
- PCPRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE6× · 2020–2025 · $131k · revenue +11%
- ECErskine College and Theological Seminary5× · 2020–2025 · $23k · revenue +14%
- PHPRESBYTERIAN HERITAGE CENTER4× · 2020–2025 · $11k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- DWDUE WEST ASSOCIATE REFORMED PRESBYTone grant, 2020 · $5k
- GHGREENVILLE HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $3k
- PAPRESBYTERIAN ASSOCIATION OF MUSICIANSgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +131%
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.
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
Asbury Theological Seminary is a community called to prepare theologically educated, sanctified, Spirit-filled men and women to evangelize and to spread scriptural holiness throughout the world through the love of Jesus Christ, in the…
Northeastern seminary strives to be a vibrant source for christian theological formation whose students are formed in a biblical vision of gracious christianity and impact wholeness to the world in an expansive array of vocations and…
To prepare students to serve christ and his church through biblical, experiential and practical ministry. prts provides theological training and instruction in accordance with the scriptures and the historic reformed creeds for promotion…
Provide education in theology, divinity, religious education, ministerial training, business and organizational leadership.
The mission of barclay college is to prepare students in a bible-centered environment for effective christian life, service, and leadership.
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.
The mission of westminster college is to help students develop competencies, commitments, and characteristics which have distinguished human beings at their best. see continuation on schedule o.the liberal arts tradition is the foundation…
Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.
SMC Delivers an exceptional education that fuses the empowerment of the liberal arts with crucial career skills. Our mission is to equip our students with the knowledge, skills, virtues, and mindset needed to thrive personally, create…
Central christian college of the bible (central) exists to develop servant-leaders for the church. as a traditional undergraduate bible college of the restoration movement, central equips faithful men and women for leadership ministry.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Presbyterian College and the most unlike its peers is Presbyterian Association of Musicians. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 28 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 PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Erskine College and Theological Seminary ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN HERITAGE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER CANTERBURY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN ASSOCIATION OF MUSICIANS ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR LAY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE PRESBYTERIAN FOUNDATION OF COLUMBUS INDIANA ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Grier Family Foundation Inc 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.
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