· Public charity
The Shumard Foundation Inc
The shumard foundation, inc.
Read this first · the figures below need context
67% of The Shumard Foundation Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Servant Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year The Shumard Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 33 organizations, $1M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
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.
The 39 grants below total $1,469,298 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,526,398 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $57,100 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k3 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k30 grants · $518k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $427k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY | $500,000 |
| LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY | $171,628 |
| LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| HOMEWOOD CHURCH OF CHRIST | $55,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD COOPERATIVE MINISTRY INC | $50,000 |
| GULF COST CHURCH OF CHRIST | $50,000 |
| HARDING UNIVERSITY | $47,020 |
| THE EXTENSION INC | $30,000 |
| HIS WAY RECOVERY CENTER OF GEORGIA INC | $30,000 |
| NORTH ATLANTA CHURCH OF CHRIST | $28,000 |
| PREDISAN USA INC | $27,500 |
| PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| SERVANT FOUNDATION DBA THE SIGNATRY | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CENTER | $25,000 |
| LAGRANGE ACADEMY INC | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $164k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 27% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +48% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2022, 14 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- LULIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $7.0M · revenue +44%
- MHMary Hall Freedom Village Inc4× · 2017–2021 · $420k · revenue +24%
- CACOMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CENTER INC7× · 2017–2023 · $333k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- FBFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH SUGAR HILLone grant, 2021 · $25k
- CSCAMP SHILOHone grant, 2019 · $20k
- HPHIGH POINTE CHURCH OF CHRISTone grant, 2018 · $10k
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.
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.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Provide education in theology, divinity, religious education, ministerial training, business and organizational leadership.
Manna University is a biblical higher education institution dedicated to educating, equipping, and empowering emerging leaders to change the world.
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.
His university provides graduate and undergraduate degree and diploma education and training for his family ministry specialists who desire to pursue careers in counseling and ministry.
Providing guality Christian education to the network generation
Training pastors, growing churches, and transforming communities for christ.
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…
Welch college is a christian higher education institution that educates leaders to serve christ, his church, and his world through biblical thought and life
Mid-america christian university prepares students through a wesleyan perspective to create, collaborate, and innovate to solve local and global problems for the glory of god through jesus christ and the good of society.
The mission of hope international university is to empower students through christian higher education to serve the church and impact the world for christ. the university specializes in fields offering significant influence on society…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Atlanta Christian Schools Inc and the most unlike its peers is Corners Outreach Llc. 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 30 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% 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.
48 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. 48 of the 66 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 LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Servant Foundation ↗
- Who funds Mary Hall Freedom Village Inc ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO VALLEY UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD COOPERATIVE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Harding University Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER ATLANTA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HEALTH TALENTS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds PREDISAN USA INC ↗
- Who funds MISSION UPREACH INC ↗
- Who funds The Extension Inc ↗
- Who funds FAULKNER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AFRICA TRANSFORMATION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds CORNERS OUTREACH LLC ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma Christian University ↗
- Who funds HEALING HANDS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Cancer Research Institute of West Tennessee Inc ↗
- Who funds HIS WAY RECOVERY CENTER OF GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ↗
- Who funds MISSIONS RESOURCE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds MARRIAGE HELPER INC ↗
- Who funds EVERGREEN RETREAT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LUBBOCK CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR GUIDANCE AID PLACEMENT AND EMPATHY ↗
- Who funds P2L INC ↗
- Who funds Gathering Industries Inc ↗
- Who funds Vision Atlanta 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: The Signatry Charitable Trust · Servant Foundation · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Fraser-Parker Foundation · J Bulow Campbell Foundation · Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Imlay Foundation Inc · Frazier Foundation Inc · Stephens' Christian Trust · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc · The Scott Hudgens Family Foundation Inc
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 Shumard Foundation Inc 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.
- Oklahoma Christian University — 0% 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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