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The Paul S & Jean R Amos Family Foundation at a glance

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The Paul S & Jean R Amos 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.

$5.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$3.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Religion$6.0MInternational$2.5MPhilanthropy$1.9MEducation$1.2MHuman Services$650kArts & Culture$509kHousing & Shelter$70k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $49k
  • $250k+2 grants · $5.0M
$2,000,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$38M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BILL GRAHAM EVANGELITIC ASSOCIATION$3,000,000
ASBURY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY$2,000,000
COLUMBUS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO$33,358
TROY STATE UNIVERSITY$15,291
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LOVE A CHILD INC: $500k → 11%TROY STATE UNIVERSITY: $59k → 22%SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $1.0M → 21%USO COUNCIL OF GEORGIA: $650k → 8%NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION: $1.0M → 13%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $25k → 14%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $530k → 18%ASBURY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $2.0M → 12%TROY STATE UNIVERSITY: $51k → 22%SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $1.0M → 21%CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY COMM FOUNDATIO: $509k → 18%TROY STATE UNIVERSITY: $38k → 22%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $249k → 18%TROY STATE UNIVERSITY: $35k → 22%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $165k → 18%TROY STATE UNIVERSITY: $24k → 22%PLUMMER HOME: $50k → 18%TROY STATE UNIVERSITY: $16k → 22%PLUMMER HOME: $15k → 18%TROY STATE UNIVERSITY: $15k → 22%VALLEY RESCUE MISSION: $5k → 18%COLUMBUS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO: $235k → 18%COLUMBUS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO: $131k → 18%COLUMBUS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO: $91k → 18%COLUMBUS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO: $47k → 18%COLUMBUS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO: $43k → 18%COLUMBUS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO: $33k → 18%COLUMBUS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO: $31k → 18%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.2M · 7 repeat orgs$4.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +65% since the first grant, against +40% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
6

Total granted

$8.2M
$2.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
+40%

Still filing today

43%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHousing & ShelterReligionPhilanthropyInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    2× · 2022–2023 · $2.0M · revenue +40%
  • CS
    Columbus State University Foundation Inc
    7× · 2018–2024 · $611k · revenue +161%
  • TP
    THE PLUMMER HOME INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $65k · revenue +65% · 70% of their budget

Funded once

  • NC
    NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $1.0M · revenue ×103
  • UC
    USO COUNCIL OF GEORGIA INC
    one grant, 2023 · $650k · revenue +25%
  • CV
    CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY COMM FOUNDATIO
    one grant, 2018 · $509k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Northeastern Seminary

Northeastern seminary strives to be a vibrant source for christian theological formation whose students are formed in a biblical vision of gracious christianity and impact wholeness to the world in an expansive array of vocations and…

Education
2
Reformed University Inc

Provide education in theology, divinity, religious education, ministerial training, business and organizational leadership.

Education
3
Heritage Christian University

Heritage Christian University equips servants through undergraduate and graduate and continuing education. HCU produces effective communicators, preachers, teachers and missionaries for real world ministry with a focus on evangelism and a…

Education
4
American Baptist Theological Seminary dba American Baptist College

Is to provide educational opportunities for gifted students who have limited academic experiences and resources but unlimited potential for leadership in society.

Education
5
Regent University

Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.

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6
The King's University

The King's University integrates Biblical education and practical ministry to shape Spirit-formed individuals who follow Jesus, serve His Church, and are sent to impact the world.

Education
7
Southern Methodist College

The college's mission is to train christians to serve god and his church.

Education
8
Christianity Today International

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.

Religion
9
Servant Foundation

The Signatry advances the Christian faith by carrying out its mission, "to inspire and facilitate revolutionary biblical generosity across generations to solve the world's greatest problems," through financial and other support of I.R.C.…

Religion
10
Valor Christian College

VCC is a biblically based community of higher education called to educate and equip Christian leaders in academic excellence, moral integrity, spiritual and physical purity to be agents of character and to serve Christ in the advancement…

Education
11
Olivet University

Providing guality Christian education to the network generation

Education
12
Charis Bible College Inc

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.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Uso Council of Georgia Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Plummer Home Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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 14 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BILL GRAHAM EVANGELITIC ASSOCIATION: $4,000,000 · OtherBILL GRAHAM EVANGELITIC ASSOCIATIONCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $943,877 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATIONUSO COUNCIL OF GEORGIA INC: $650,000 · OtherUSO COUNCIL OF GEORGIA INCCHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY COMM FOUNDATIO: $509,177 · OtherCHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY COMM FOUNDATIOST LUKE SCHOOL: $350,000 · OtherTROY STATE UNIVERSITY: $237,309 · OtherASBURY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $2,000,000 · EducationASBURY THEOLOGICAL SEMI…Columbus State University Foundation Inc: $610,968 · EducationColumbus State Universi…+1 more: $25,000 · EducationSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $2,000,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSENATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 · PhilanthropyLOVE A CHILD INC: $500,000 · InternationalTHE PLUMMER HOME INC: $65,000 · Housing & ShelterVALLEY RESCUE MISSION: $4,959 · Housing & Shelter
Other$6,690,363Education$2,635,968Religion$2,000,000Philanthropy$1,000,000International$500,000Housing & Shelter$69,959

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $2,000,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetASBURY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $2,000,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetColumbus State University Foundation Inc: $610,968 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetLOVE A CHILD INC: $500,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE PLUMMER HOME INC: $65,000 over 2y, 70% of budgetEmory University: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVALLEY RESCUE MISSION: $4,959 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds ASBURY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds USO COUNCIL OF GEORGIA INC ↗
  • Who funds Columbus State University Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds LOVE A CHILD INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PLUMMER HOME INC ↗
  • Who funds Emory University ↗
  • Who funds VALLEY RESCUE MISSION ↗

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.

Natl Christian Charit…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Paul S & Jean R Amos Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Paul S & Jean R Amos Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Love a Child Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to The Paul S & Jean R Amos Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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