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· Public charity
THE LARRY PAYNE FOUNDATION
To make contributions for the benefit of any 501(3)(c) school
$136k
Granted FY2021
8
Grants
4
Communities
$37k
Largest
01What you fund
0185% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2021.
Education$543kOther$97k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
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2020
educational
2021
educational
2022
educationstudents
2023
preparatoryeducationstudentsuniv
2024
comprehensivepreparatorystudents
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2021 · 8 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k3 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $105k
$15,024
Median grant
4
States reached
$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
- THE USM FOUNDATION$36,885
- UNIV OF MS MEDICAL$23,144
- UNI OC CALIFORNIA-IRVINE$17,335
- MARINERS CHURCH PRESCHOOL$15,024
- UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI$12,316
- LAMAR SCHOOL$9,872
- UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA$7,228
- INDIANA UNIV OF PENNSAVANIA$5,179
02The need
04
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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 21% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your 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.
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Furman University
Furman university is an institution of higher education providing distinctive undergraduate education emphasizing an engaged approach combining classroom learning with real world experiences and self-discovery.
Education
2
Lafayette College
Provision of educational services as an accredited four-year undergraduate college.
Education
3
Augustana College
Offer a challenging education that develops the qualities of mind, spirit and body for students.
Education
4
Delaware Valley University
A private four-year university providing higher education to individuals seeking advancement.
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5
Lycoming College
To provide a distinguished baccalaureate education in the liberal arts and sciences.
Education
6
Pennsylvania Institute of Technology
To provide student success by offering the best collegiate education.
Education
7
University of Dayton
The university of dayton is a top-tier catholic research university with academic offerings from the undergraduate to the doctoral levels. we are a diverse community committed, in the marianist tradition, to educating the whole person and…
Education
8
Simpson College
A residential, coeducation, undergraduate liberal arts college.
Education
9
Schreiner University
Schreiner university offers a personalized, integrated education that prepares its students for meaningful work and purposeful lives in a changing global society.
Education
10
Park University
Park university provides leadership and innovative education for a diverse group of learners who will become leaders in the global community.
Education
11
Wilson College
Wilson college is a private, liberal arts institution committed to access and affordability in higher education. degrees are offered in 34 undergraduate majors with 40 minors as well as 10 graduate-level programs of study.
Education
12
University of the Ozarks
A presbyterian church related university that provides undergraduate liberal arts education.
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Foundation for Indiana University and the most unlike its peers is Country Schoolhouse Education. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Education$542,917Other$97,291
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.
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.
Tulsa Community FoundationOK14.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Tulsa Community Foundation · Pinebelt Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 organisation THE LARRY PAYNE 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: THE USM FOUNDATION.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~10 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 646022505 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on THE USM FOUNDATION, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 10 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 1% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to The Larry Payne Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The Larry Payne Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines