How much does The Providence Foundation give?

The Providence Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $181,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Providence Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (34%), International (25%), Education (12%).

Who are The Providence Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Project Hope Foundation Inc ($475k), Water Missions International ($155k), Faces and Voices of Recovery(Favor) Upstate Sc ($130k).

Does The Providence Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Providence Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Providence Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Duke Energy Foundation, United Way of Greenville County Inc, Ge Aerospace Foundation.

Where is The Providence Foundation based?

The Providence Foundation is based in NC.

The Providence Foundation

The Providence Foundation at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Private foundation

The Providence Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$181k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$50k

Largest

01What it funds

0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$617kInternational$458kEducation$213kHuman Services$190kFood & Nutrition$83kHousing & Shelter$40kReligion$35kPhilanthropy$30kOther$0

02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k5 grants · $33k
$10k–50k7 grants · $99k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.5M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
CROSSROADS CORP	$50,000
ACCESSIBLE HOPE INTERNATIONAL	$25,000
OPERATION AIRDROP	$15,000
THE FOUNDATION FOR TOMORROW	$15,000
SACRED VALLEY PROJECT	$13,500
WATER MISSION	$10,000
HOPE INC	$10,000
PROJECT HOPE FOUNDATION	$10,000
FIRST IN FAMILES OF MECKLENBURG	$7,500
FOOD FOR THE POOR	$7,500
SAMARITAN'S PURSE	$7,500
FAVOR UPSTATE	$5,000
NOURISH UP	$5,000

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $484k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.7M · 26 repeat orgs$137k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.7M

$117k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%

+32%

Still filing today

54%

47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureReligionPhilanthropyOther

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

PH
PROJECT HOPE FOUNDATION INC
7× · 2017–2025 · $475k · revenue +34%
WM
WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL
8× · 2017–2025 · $155k · revenue +115%
FA
FACES AND VOICES OF RECOVERY(FAVOR) UPSTATE SC
6× · 2017–2025 · $130k · revenue +98%

Funded once

BS
BON SECOURS ST FRANCIS FOUNDATION
one grant, 2021 · $25k
GT
GREENVILLE TECHNICAL COLLEGE
one grant, 2017 · $18k
DIRECT RELIEF
one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue +1%

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.

Feed the Hunger Inc

Feeding the spiritual and physical hunger, especially in at-risk children.

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Food for the Hungry Inc

Food for the hungry is a christian humanitarian aid and global development organization that has designed, developed and delivered solutions for more than 50 years so that children, families and communities can flourish. (continued on…

International

Hope Ministries of Baton Rouge

Prevent homelessness. promote self-sufficiency and dignity.

Housing & Shelter

Chariots for Hope Inc

Chariots for hope shares the hope of christ by loving kenyan children through christian discipleship and long-term physical, emotional, and educational care and provision. the vision of chariots for hope is to create a transformed future…

International

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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Habitat for Humanity of Greater Palm Beach County

Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.

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Trinity Hope Inc

Teach christian beliefs and feed children in haiti.

International

Christian Healthcare Ministries Inc

To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.

Religion

Baptist Children's Homes of North Carolina Incorporated

Baptist children's homes of north carolina (bch) is a nonprofit organization that reaches out to children and families in crisis. the agency's mission statement is "sharing hope...changing lives."

Religion

Love the Hungry Inc

The corporation is organized to provide nutritious fortified meals throughout the world to children and families that are most vunerable to hunger and malnutriion.

Food & Nutrition

Hope Worldwide Ltd

Motivated by god's love, we partner with our neighbors in need, equip volunteers, respond to disasters and strenghten communities to inspire greater hope in our world.

International

Hope of the Poor Inc

To inspire all generations to radically live out the gospel through finding christ in the distressing disguise of the poor.

Religion

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Convoy of Hope; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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

29 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. 29 of the 49 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

26/29

Grantees still filing

21/29

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$770,486Human Services$506,598International$335,120Education$97,500Religion$75,500Recreation & Sports$10,000Arts & Culture$10,000Philanthropy$7,000

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.

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.

Duke Energy FoundationNC20.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Duke Energy Foundation · United Way of Greenville County Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Scansource Charitable Foundation · Dabo's All in Team Foundation · South Carolina Christian Foundation · Yeargin Foundation · Neill M Timmons Foundation · AWT Family Foundation · Scsymmes Foundation · John I Smith Charities Inc

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 Providence Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Providence Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home