· Private foundation
The Peery Cauthen Foundation Colonial Trust Company
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 78% of THE PEERY CAUTHEN FOUNDATION COLONIAL TRUST COMPANY’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k25 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $82k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SYCAMORE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH PCA | $39,000 |
| COVENANT CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $20,000 |
| ELIJAH HOUSE ACADEMY | $12,000 |
| MISSION TO THE WORLD PCA | $11,000 |
| ASHEVILLE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $7,000 |
| CHRIST COMMUNITY CHURCH MONTREAT EPC | $6,000 |
| EFFECTIVE MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| HISTORIC CRAB ORCHARD MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| CORNERSTONE SCHOOLS OF WASHINGTON DC | $5,000 |
| SERGE DONATIONS PROCESSING C | $5,000 |
| REFORMED UNIVERSITY FELLOWSHIP | $5,000 |
| WAVE STARTERS ANDREW BRUNSON | $5,000 |
| ALLEGRO ORGANIZATION SOLUTIONS INC | $5,000 |
| TRINITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $3,000 |
| 1040 VISIONS | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–21, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +52% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
62 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 39 since wound down; 6 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- EHELIJAH HOUSE ACADEMY6× · 2017–2024 · $137k · revenue +89%
- AOALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC3× · 2022–2024 · $22k · revenue +4%
- ACAsheville Christian Academy Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $21k · revenue +75%
Funded once
- COCRAB ORCHARD MUSEUMone grant, 2021 · $50k
- AOALLIANCE OF CONFESSING EVANGELICALS INCone grant, 2017 · $11k · revenue +8%
- GNGARTH NEWEL MUSIC CENTER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -29%
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.
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…
Asbury Theological Seminary is a community called to prepare theologically educated, sanctified, Spirit-filled men and women to evangelize and to spread scriptural holiness throughout the world through the love of Jesus Christ, in the…
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 prepare students to serve christ and his church through biblical, experiential and practical ministry. prts provides theological training and instruction in accordance with the scriptures and the historic reformed creeds for promotion…
Erskine College exists to glorify God as a Christian academic community where students are equipped to flourish as whole persons for lives of service through the pursuit of undergraduate liberal arts and graduate theological education.
God's bible school and college seeks to glorify god and to serve his church by providing higher education centered in holy scripture and shaped by wesleyan conviction, thus preparing faithful servants to proclaim jesus christ and spread…
Carolina college of biblical studies exists to disciple christ-followers, through biblical higher education, for a lifetime of effective servant leadership.
Provide education in theology, divinity, religious education, ministerial training, business and organizational leadership.
To foster biblical literacy through studies of all 66 books of the bible, cultivate professional and lay leadership skills, and deploy trained christian disciples in service worldwide.
To present the gospel by providing life-long opportunities to integrate faith and learning through balanced, biblically based scholarship, training people to love god by renewing their minds and equipping the church to engage the world for…
To promote charismatic renewal of the christian church at large and to promote the religious education of its members and youth within a christian worldview.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life and the most unlike its peers is The South Carolina Historical Society. 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 45 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 89 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 ELIJAH HOUSE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA STUDY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Asheville Christian Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW CITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMS PLACE ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE OF CONFESSING EVANGELICALS INC ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE SCHOOLS OF WASHINGTON DC INC ↗
- Who funds GARTH NEWEL MUSIC CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BIBLE STUDY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN REFORMED MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds 1040 VISIONS ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Resource Exchange International Inc ↗
- Who funds TRUTH FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds Renovare Inc ↗
- Who funds SEEJESUSNET INC ↗
- Who funds EFFECTIVE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CS Lewis Institute ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC CRAB ORCHARD MUSEUM & PIONEER PARK INC ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
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: Servant Foundation · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Sozo Supporting Organization Fund · Tyndale House Ministries · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation
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 Peery Cauthen Foundation Colonial Trust Company 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.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
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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