· Private foundation
The Minnie and Bernard Lane Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k56 grants · $124k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $167k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PREGNANCY CARE CENTER OF CATAWBA VALLEY | $45,000 |
| ANTIOCH PARTNERS | $26,000 |
| ALTAVISTA AREA YMCA | $25,000 |
| AVOCA MUSEUM | $15,500 |
| CHRYSALIS INTERNATIONAL INC | $15,000 |
| BLUE RIDGE PREGNANCY CENTER | $15,000 |
| SEMILLA INC | $15,000 |
| CORNERSTONE COUNSELING | $10,000 |
| CORINTH REFORMED CHURCH | $7,500 |
| HICKORY COVE BIBLE CAMP | $7,500 |
| DAWN | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| ONE ANOTHER MINISTRIES | $5,500 |
| ALTAVISTA AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $5,000 |
| FAITH CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–26, $643k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 12% of The Minnie and Bernard Lane Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
108 repeat relationships: 55 still active in FY2026, 53 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AAAltavista Area YMCA Inc10× · 2017–2026 · $459k · revenue +90%
- PCPREGNANCY CARE CENTER OF CATAWBA VALLEY INC9× · 2018–2026 · $262k · revenue +157%
- TATHE A PARTNERS DBA THE ANTIOCH PARTNERS9× · 2018–2026 · $209k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- FCFERRUM COLLEGEone grant, 2025 · $10k · revenue 0%
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSEgraduatedone grant, 2025 · $10k · revenue +134%
- AWANY WOMAN CAN NPgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +44%
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.
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.
Carolina college of biblical studies exists to disciple christ-followers, through biblical higher education, for a lifetime of effective servant leadership.
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.
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.
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…
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 equip and assist christians and their churches to respond to conflict biblically.
To minister to the capitol community and to government leaders in states across the nation.
To develop christ-centered servant leaders through a challenging academic environment in order to impact the world for the kingdom of god.
How this is measured
74 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 74 of the 161 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 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 DISCIPLE NATIONS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds WESLEYAN COVENANT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LAKE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER CANTERBURY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE POCKET TESTAMENT LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds LAUNCH GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE JUSTICE FOUNDATION ↗
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- Who funds AMAZEMENT SQUARE ↗
- Who funds LIFE IMPACT INC ↗
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- Who funds MEDICAL INSTITUTE FOR SEXUAL HEALTH ↗
- Who funds THE KIDS OUTDOORS ZONE 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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Minnie and Bernard Lane Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Minnie and Bernard Lane Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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