· Public charity
The Larry Payne Foundation
To make contributions for the benefit of any 501(3)(c) school
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $84k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $242k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE USM FOUNDATION | $149,260 |
| UNIV OF MS MEDICAL | $92,742 |
| FRANCIS MARION UNIV | $37,257 |
| ST ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $36,488 |
| SACRED HEART SCHOOL | $10,125 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA | $8,200 |
| JONES COLLEGE | $5,931 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI | $5,612 |
| MS GULF COAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $5,430 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +154% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.
4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 5 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $677k · revenue +154%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MISS MEDICAL CENTER5× · 2021–2025 · $116k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI6× · 2020–2025 · $40k
Funded once
- ROREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA3× · 2021–2023 · $17k
- MCMARINERS CHURCH2× · 2021–2022 · $15k
- LSLAMAR SCHOOL FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2024 · $10k · revenue +24%
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.
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.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Mount marty university, an academic community in the catholic benedictine liberal arts tradition, prepares students for a contemporary world of work, service to the human community, and personal growth. the institution is a private,…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.
The corporation is organized to manage and coordinate student services at shippensburg university consistent with the statutory authority granted to the president of the university and the officially recognized student government…
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
Through innovative learning opportunities, individual student attention, and an unwavering commitment to inclusive educational access, simpson college cultivates a diverse community of learners to lead lives of meaning and purpose.
Education
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
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."
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 13 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.
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: Pinebelt Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Larry Payne Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Larry Payne Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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