· Private foundation
The Overton 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $83k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $337k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MERCY CHEFS INC | $50,000 |
| LIBERTY BAPTIST CHURCH | $42,500 |
| UNION MISSION | $40,500 |
| PRD INC | $37,750 |
| FULLY ALIVE CHURCH | $30,000 |
| OPERATIONS BLESSING INTERNATIONAL | $21,000 |
| CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER | $18,500 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD | $18,000 |
| RIVER OAK CHURCH | $17,000 |
| STONEBRIDGE SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| OAKTREE ACADEMY | $15,000 |
| REGENT UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $13,000 |
| MT AIRY CENTER | $12,500 |
| ADVANCING NATIVE MISSIONS | $11,250 |
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 (FY17–24, $270k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against -53% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 5 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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
- TUTHE UNION MISSION8× · 2017–2024 · $328k · revenue +39%
- JAJust A Preacher Ministries Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $225k · revenue +20%
- MCMERCY CHEFS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $171k · revenue +738%
Funded once
- FBFIRST BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2019 · $10k
- RMRELENTLESS MINISTRIESone grant, 2018 · $10k
- MAMOODY ADAMS EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2017 · $8k
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.
The mission is to train and equip leaders. To help all believers reach their full potential and divine destiny, that they may become all that God has called them to be.
Spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ
North America Bible Institute (NABI) is an evangelical graduate school, made up of students who are diverse in both ethnicity and ministry aims -- but united in great love for Jesus and his gospel. As a graduate school, NABI offers them…
Promote christian religion through conferences and group meetings.
Training pastors in third world countries
Our mission is proclaiming the message of salvation through the saving power of the Holy Spirit to reach the unreached by evangelizing; motivating, mobilizing and organizing the body of Christ.
Religious Purposes
Training pastors and leaders in christian faith
Heart Bridge International exists to equip and empower Christians around the world to fulfill the Great Commission. The organization provides free ministry training, discipleship resources, and practical coaching to under-resourced…
Religious
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life and the most unlike its peers is Nellys House. 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 19 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) — 21% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 62 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 THE UNION MISSION ↗
- Who funds Just A Preacher Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds MERCY CHEFS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds ADVANCING NATIVE MISSIONS ↗
- Who funds NELLYS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds NEW LIFE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood ↗
- Who funds PAUL TRIPP MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds FREEKIND ↗
- Who funds STONEBRIDGE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GTI HOPE ↗
- Who funds Freedom 4 24 ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR SUFFOLK ↗
- Who funds URBAN DISCOVERY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds SEMILLA INC ↗
- Who funds CONCERNED WOMEN FOR AMERICA ↗
- Who funds REACH ROMANIA INC ↗
- Who funds FAITH BIBLE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds REGENT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The Christian Broadcasting Network 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.
Open a dossier: Hampton Roads Community Foundation · Sentara Health · Servant Foundation · The Christian Broadcasting Network Inc · United Way of South Hampton Roads · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Overton Family 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.