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The Peery Cauthen Foundation Colonial Trust Company

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$146k
Granted FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$39k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$576kEducation$272kArts & Culture$71kInternational$37kHealth$29kPublic Benefit$7kYouth Development$6kCrime & Legal$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k25 grants · $64k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $82k
$2,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
CORNERSTONE SCHOOLS OF WASHINGTON DC$5,000
HISTORIC CRAB ORCHARD MUSEUM$5,000
ALLEGRO ORGANIZATION SOLUTIONS INC$5,000
EFFECTIVE MINISTRIES$5,000
WAVE STARTERS ANDREW BRUNSON$5,000
SERGE DONATIONS PROCESSING C$5,000
REFORMED UNIVERSITY FELLOWSHIP$5,000
TRINITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$3,000
WOUNDED WARRIORS$2,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%DYERSBURG-DYER COUNTY UNION MISSION: $500 → 15%DYERSBURG-DYER COUNTY UNION MISSION: $250 → 15%DYERSBURG-DYER COUNTY UNION MISSION: $250 → 15%DYERSBURG-DYER COUNTY UNION MISSION: $250 → 15%DYERSBURG-DYER COUNTY UNION MISSION: $250 → 15%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
WI
NY
OR
WY
IA
OH
PA
CA
CO
MO
WV
VA
AZ
TN
NC
SC
DC
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$880k · 62 repeat orgs$137k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

62
21

Total granted

$880k
$121k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+12%

Still filing today

47%
24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionArts & CultureHealthInternationalEducationPublic BenefitOther
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

  • EH
    ELIJAH HOUSE ACADEMY
    6× · 2017–2024 · $137k · revenue +89%
  • AO
    ALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $22k · revenue +4%
  • AC
    Asheville Christian Academy Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $21k · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • CO
    CRAB ORCHARD MUSEUM
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • AO
    ALLIANCE OF CONFESSING EVANGELICALS INC
    one grant, 2017 · $11k · revenue +24%
  • GN
    GARTH NEWEL MUSIC CENTER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -29%
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.

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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
2
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
3
Asbury Theological Seminary

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…

Education
4
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

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…

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5
Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary

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…

Education
6
Erskine College and Theological Seminary

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.

Education
7
God's Bible School College & Missionary Training Home

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…

Education
8
Carolina College of Biblical Studies

Carolina college of biblical studies exists to disciple christ-followers, through biblical higher education, for a lifetime of effective servant leadership.

Education
9
Reformed University Inc

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

Education
10
The Bible Seminary

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.

Education
11
Probe Ministries International

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…

Religion
12
The Word of God

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.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life; 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.
04the grantee network

41 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. 41 of the 89 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/41
Grantees still filing
30/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SYCAMORE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH PCA: $158,500 · OtherSYCAMORE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH PCAELIJAH HOUSE ACADEMY: $137,000 · OtherELIJAH HOUSE ACADEMYCOVENANT CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $80,000 · OtherCOVENANT CHRISTIAN ACADEMYCHRIST COMMUNITY CHURCH MONTREAT EPC: $76,500 · OtherCHRIST COMMUNITY CHURCH MONTREAT EPCTRINITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH PCA: $70,250 · OtherTRINITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH PCACRAB ORCHARD MUSEUM: $50,000 · OtherCRAB ORCHARD MUSEUMMISSION TO THE WORLD PCA INC: $33,300 · Other+54 more: $204,200 · Other+54 moreCAROLINA STUDY CENTER INC: $23,800 · ReligionCAROLINA …ALLIANCE OF CONFESSING EVANGELICALS INC: $10,500 · ReligionALLIANCE …BIBLE STUDY FUND INC: $10,000 · ReligionBIBLE STU…PRESBYTERIAN REFORMED MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 · ReligionPRESBYTER…TRUTH FOR LIFE: $6,700 · ReligionTRUTH FOR…SEEJESUSNET INC: $6,500 · ReligionSEEJESUSN…EFFECTIVE MINISTRIES INC: $6,000 · ReligionEFFECTIVE…SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $4,000 · Religion+5 more: $8,050 · Religion+5 moreAsheville Christian Academy Inc: $20,500 · EducationCORNERSTONE SCHOOLS OF WASHINGTON DC INC: $10,000 · EducationCS Lewis Institute: $5,000 · EducationALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC: $22,000 · InternationalResource Exchange International Inc: $7,000 · InternationalCHRISTIAN SOLIDARITY WORLDWIDE-USA: $3,500 · InternationalWILLIAMS PLACE: $16,500 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $8,000 · HealthTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $1,750 · HealthGARTH NEWEL MUSIC CENTER FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC CRAB ORCHARD MUSEUM & PIONEER PARK INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SOUTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1,600 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $300 · Arts & Culture1040 VISIONS: $8,000 · Human ServicesDyersburg-Dyer County Union Mission: $2,750 · Human Services
Other$809,750Religion$85,550Education$35,500International$32,500Health$26,250Arts & Culture$16,900Human Services$10,750

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetELIJAH HOUSE ACADEMY: $137,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetCAROLINA STUDY CENTER INC: $23,800 over 7y, 9.3% of budgetALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC: $22,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAsheville Christian Academy Inc: $20,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW CITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $18,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetWILLIAMS PLACE: $16,500 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetALLIANCE OF CONFESSING EVANGELICALS INC: $10,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCORNERSTONE SCHOOLS OF WASHINGTON DC INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGARTH NEWEL MUSIC CENTER FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBIBLE STUDY FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN REFORMED MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budget1040 VISIONS: $8,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $8,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetResource Exchange International Inc: $7,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTRUTH FOR LIFE: $6,700 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetRenovare Inc: $6,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSEEJESUSNET INC: $6,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetEFFECTIVE MINISTRIES INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCS Lewis Institute: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHISTORIC CRAB ORCHARD MUSEUM & PIONEER PARK INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $4,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN SOLIDARITY WORLDWIDE-USA: $3,500 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetDyersburg-Dyer County Union Mission: $2,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRansom Fellowship: $2,750 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetAMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION INC: $2,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $2,400 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDESIRING GOD MINISTRIES: $2,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetScripture Union: $2,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $1,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOUTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1,600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWOFFORD COLLEGE: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY: $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWellspring Living Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGod's World Publications Inc: $950 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES: $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWESTMINSTER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENTRUST: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $300 over 3y, 0.0% 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 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 ↗

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.

Servant FoundationKS21.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Peery Cauthen Foundation Colonial Trust Company funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Peery Cauthen Foundation Colonial Trust Company. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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 Peery Cauthen Foundation Colonial Trust Company 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 89 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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