· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| BETHANY ASSOCIATE REFORMED PRESBYTE | $100 |
| CLOVER ASSOCIATE REFORMED PRESBYTER | $100 |
| WESTMINSTER - CANTERBURY | $100 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH LYNCHBURG | $100 |
| COLLEGE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $100 |
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 (FY20–25, $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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
Vanderbilt Universityone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue +10%
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.
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.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 28 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 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 Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN ASSOCIATION OF MUSICIANS ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR LAY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE PRESBYTERIAN FOUNDATION OF COLUMBUS INDIANA ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Grier Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Grier Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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