· Private foundation
The Story Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH | $5,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $3,000 |
| HOSPICE OF THE CAROLINA FOOTHILLS | $2,500 |
| POLK COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| THE MEETING PLACE | $2,000 |
| STEPS TO HOPE | $2,000 |
| THE SMILE TRAIN | $1,500 |
| SHRINERS CHILDRENS HOSPITALS | $1,500 |
| MANNA FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| IT IS WRITTEN | $1,000 |
| HENDERSONVILLE RESCUE MISSION | $1,000 |
| AMAZING FACTS INC | $1,000 |
| FOOTHILLS HUMANE SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| THE VOICE OF PROPHECY | $1,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE ASHEVILLE BUNCOMBE COUNT | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
How this is measured
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 +40% since the first grant, against -56% for those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 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
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $26k · revenue +145%- STSTEPS TO HOPE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +328%
SMILE TRAIN INC9× · 2017–2025 · $13k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- SDSEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $2k
- CFCarolina Foothills Foundationone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -56%
- YLYOUNF LIFE ASHEVILLE BUNCOMBE COUNTone grant, 2017 · $1k
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.
This organization functions as a 501(c)(3) non-profit Seventh-day Adventist Media Ministry formed exclusively for religious and charitable purposes. The mission of this organization is to meet people wherever they are with Christ's message…
This church will be that place of emergency where people can come any time of day or night. We will be a place that will lead people back to health both spiritually and naturally.
Samaritan's purse is a nondenominational evangelical christian organization providing spiritual and physical aid to hurting people around the world. since 1970, samaritan's purse has helped meet the needs of people who are victims of war,…
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…
Our mission is to meet, through the power of jesus christ, the spiritual, educational, emotional, physical, social, and vocational needs of the whole person so that those who are hurting may become fully functioning members of society. the…
Since 1816, american bible society has been fulfilling its mission of making the bible available to every person in a language and format each can understand and afford so all people may experience its life-changing message.
This organization functions as a 501(c)(3) non-profit Seventh-day Adventist Media Ministry formed exclusively for religious and charitable purposes. The mission of this organization is to share the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ with the…
To reach out with the message of the gospel of jesus to the last, least, and the lost
Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.
Union mission ministries, inc. is set apart by the spirit of god to preach the gospel and meet physical and emotional needs through out west virginia through the provision of shelter, clothing, food, counseling, and structured programs for…
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 24 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 ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds STEPS TO HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds THE MEETING PLACE ONE INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds IT IS WRITTEN INC ↗
- Who funds VOICE OF PROPHECY ↗
- Who funds MANNA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds HENDERSONVILLE RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds IN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds ADVENTIST DEVELOPMENT & RELIEF AGENCY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Foothills Humane Society Inc ↗
- Who funds Carolina Foothills 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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Story Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Story Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Adventist Development & Relief Agency International: 35% of income from government
How this is measured
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