· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
| GULF COST CHURCH OF CHRIST | $50,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD COOPERATIVE MINISTRY INC | $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 |
| COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CENTER | $25,000 |
| SERVANT FOUNDATION DBA THE SIGNATRY | $25,000 |
| LUBBOCK CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +8% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- CCChampions Community Foundation Incone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -21%
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
48 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. 48 of the 66 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Shumard Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Shumard Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Oklahoma Christian University: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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