· Private foundation
The Lanier Family 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, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $103k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $160k
- $250k+1 grant · $280k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Point University | $280,000 |
| Faulkner University | $100,000 |
| The Edge | $59,785 |
| Spring Rd Christian Church | $48,000 |
| Fuller Center for Housing | $15,000 |
| Lee Scott Academy | $15,000 |
| Marannook | $15,000 |
| Springwood School | $10,000 |
| Hope Builders Ministries | $8,000 |
| CMF International | $6,000 |
| Faith Baptist Church | $2,500 |
| Sav-a-Life | $2,500 |
| Mission to the World | $1,600 |
| Casas Por Cristo | $1,350 |
| Auburn Christian Fellowship | $1,200 |
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 (FY17–23, $71k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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: 20 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 6 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FUFAULKNER UNIVERSITY6× · 2018–2024 · $221k · revenue +51%
- PCPRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE3× · 2018–2022 · $175k · revenue +5%
- LSLEE SCOTT ACADEMY INC7× · 2017–2024 · $174k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- TCTeen Challenge SE Regionone grant, 2022 · $250k
- SRSpring Road Christian Churchone grant, 2021 · $50k
- LCLIFELINK CAREER RESOURCE CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $11k · revenue +53%
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.
To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Welch college is a christian higher education institution that educates leaders to serve christ, his church, and his world through biblical thought and life
Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.
Charis Bible Colleges, Inc. (CBC) was established to train and equip individuals to carry out the Gospel of Jesus Christ through practical application through mentoring, training, and teaching.
The mission of houston christian university is to provide a learning experience that instills in students a passion for academic, spiritual, and professional excellence as a result of our central confession, "jesus christ is lord."
God's bible school and college seeks to glorify god and to serve his church by providing higher education centered in holy scripture and shaped by wesleyan conviction, thus preparing faithful servants to proclaim jesus christ and spread…
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…
To develop christ-centered servant leaders through a challenging academic environment in order to impact the world for the kingdom of god.
Mid-atlantic christian university is an undergraduate institution of christian higher learning whose mission is to impact the world by transforming ordinary people into extraordinary christian leaders. students are taught to think…
To educate, train, and develop ministers, evangelists, missionaries, and other people who are going to enter the Christian ministry. Educate ministers and missionaries to serve the Lord.
How this is measured
54 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. 54 of the 114 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 POINT UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL TEEN CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds FAULKNER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LEE SCOTT ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE BUILDERS MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds MARANNOOK INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CASAS POR CRISTO ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Ligonier Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGER FILMS INC ↗
- Who funds Troup County College & Career Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds LIFELINK CAREER RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN SERVICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds CHATTAHOOCHEE FULLER CENTER PROJECT 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: D Gaines Lanier Family Foundation · The Charter Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Hands of Blessing Inc · Scott Foundation Inc · Lockwood Partners Foundation Inc · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Lanier Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lanier Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Amherst College Trustees: 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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