· Private foundation
The Minnie and Bernard Lane Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k71 grants · $147k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $177k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PREGNANCY CARE CENTER OF CATAWBA VALLEY | $45,000 |
| ANTIOCH PARTNERS | $29,000 |
| ALTAVISTA AREA YMCA | $25,000 |
| CHRYSALIS INTERNATIONAL INC | $24,000 |
| AVOCA MUSEUM | $14,000 |
| DAWN | $10,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $10,000 |
| FERRUM COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| CORNERSTONE COUNSELING | $10,000 |
| ONE ANOTHER MINISTRIES | $7,500 |
| LIBERTY UNIVERSITY | $7,500 |
| WESLEYAN COVENANT ASSOCIATION | $6,000 |
| ALTAVISTA AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $5,000 |
| CONGRESO IBEROAMERICANO POR THE FAMILY | $5,000 |
| CHRIST THE KING | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $603k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 12% of The Minnie and Bernard Lane Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
103 repeat relationships — 70 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 9 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- AAAltavista Area YMCA Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $434k · revenue +90%
- PCPREGNANCY CARE CENTER OF CATAWBA VALLEY INC8× · 2018–2025 · $217k · revenue +157%
- TATHE A PARTNERS DBA THE ANTIOCH PARTNERS8× · 2018–2025 · $183k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- AWANY WOMAN CAN NPgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +44%
- TMTHE MEDICAL INSTITUTEone grant, 2021 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $4k
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.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
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 provide resources, training, and continuing support to leaders in the us and around the world in order that they may help others find freedom in christ.
To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.
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.
Gospel mission
To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…
Time of grace is for people who want more growth and less struggle in their spiritual walk. we share the truth of god's word simply and clearly through television, print, and digital media that people view millions of times each month. we…
Carolina college of biblical studies exists to disciple christ-followers, through biblical higher education, for a lifetime of effective servant leadership.
Financial planning ministry, inc. (fpm) is a not-for-profit organization devoted to assisting in the performance of the functions of christian churches by serving their financial needs.
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.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life and the most unlike its peers is Providence Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
72 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 72 of the 153 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 Altavista Area YMCA Inc ↗
- Who funds PREGNANCY CARE CENTER OF CATAWBA VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds THE A PARTNERS DBA THE ANTIOCH PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds CHRYSALIS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE COUNSELING CENTER ↗
- Who funds SEMILLA INC ↗
- Who funds Faith Christian Academy ↗
- Who funds DAWN INC ↗
- Who funds Blue Ridge Pregnancy Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Sports Outreach Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WESLEYAN COVENANT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds DISCIPLE NATIONS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER CANTERBURY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE CLAIRE PARKER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE JUSTICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE POCKET TESTAMENT LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds LAUNCH GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds LIFE IMPACT INC ↗
- Who funds AMAZEMENT SQUARE ↗
- Who funds FREE CLINIC OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds HICKORY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL INSTITUTE FOR SEXUAL HEALTH ↗
- Who funds THE KIDS OUTDOORS ZONE INC ↗
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.
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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 Minnie and Bernard Lane 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.
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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