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True North Foundation (FKA Stertzer Family Charitable Fnd)

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$5k
Granted FY2021
2
Grants FY2021
2
Organizations funded FY2021
0%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Median grant, FY2021
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2021
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 13
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
1
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 0% of the organizations True North Foundation (FKA Stertzer Family Charitable Fnd) funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21
EducationYouth DevelopmentHealthCrime & LegalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20212$5k0%
FY20207$88k14%
FY201910$73k40%
FY201813$84k54%
FY20179$85kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Recreation & Sports$207kYouth Development$50kReligion$41kEducation$19kInternational$11kCrime & Legal$6kHealth$3k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

OH
CO
NE
MO
AZ
SC
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Fellowship of Christian Athletes$130,00040%
Heritage Classic Foundation$71,00040%
Boys & Girls Clubs of the Lowcountry Inc$26,33540%
Worthington Christian Schools Inc$11,5002n/a
Love Justice International$11,00030%
Lawrence Funderburke Youth Organization$9,00025%
Young Life$4,00020%
Hilton Head Island Recreation$4,00010%
American Heart Association Inc$2,57910%
Rescuing Hope Inc$1,50011%
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All grantees of True North Foundation (FKA Stertzer Family Charitable Fnd) by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Fellowship of Christian Athletes$130,00040%
Heritage Classic Foundation$71,00040%
Boys & Girls Clubs of the Lowcountry Inc$26,33540%
Worthington Christian Schools Inc$11,5002n/a
Love Justice International$11,00030%
Lawrence Funderburke Youth Organization$9,00025%
Young Life$4,00020%
Hilton Head Island Recreation$4,00010%
American Heart Association Inc$2,57910%
Rescuing Hope Inc$1,50011%
Hilton Head Christian Academy$1,26510%
The Stonehaven School$1,00010%

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($62k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget True North Foundation (FKA Stertzer Family Charitable Fnd) supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFellowship of Christian Athletes: $130,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHeritage Classic Foundation: $71,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of the Lowcountry Inc: $26,335 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLove Justice International: $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLawrence Funderburke Youth Organization: $9,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetYoung Life: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHilton Head Island Recreation: $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $2,579 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRescuing Hope Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHilton Head Christian Academy: $1,265 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Stonehaven School: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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.

Community Foundation of the LowcountrySC13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Lowcountry · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Network for Good · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

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About True North Foundation (FKA Stertzer Family Charitable Fnd)

How much does True North Foundation (FKA Stertzer Family Charitable Fnd) give?
True North Foundation (FKA Stertzer Family Charitable Fnd) reported 2 grants totaling $5,225 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does True North Foundation (FKA Stertzer Family Charitable Fnd) fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (62%), Youth Development (15%), Religion (12%).
Who are True North Foundation (FKA Stertzer Family Charitable Fnd)'s largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: Fellowship of Christian Athletes ($130k), Heritage Classic Foundation ($71k), Boys & Girls Clubs of the Lowcountry Inc ($26k).
Does True North Foundation (FKA Stertzer Family Charitable Fnd) fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does True North Foundation (FKA Stertzer Family Charitable Fnd) accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as True North Foundation (FKA Stertzer Family Charitable Fnd)?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of the Lowcountry, The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc.
Where is True North Foundation (FKA Stertzer Family Charitable Fnd) based?
True North Foundation (FKA Stertzer Family Charitable Fnd) is based in SC.

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 21 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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