· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Boys & Girls Clubs of the Lowcountry | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $225 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 64% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
10 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2021, 8 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 FY2021, 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
- FOFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES4× · 2017–2020 · $130k · revenue +120%
- HCHERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2020 · $71k · revenue +50%
- LJLOVE JUSTICE INTERNATIONAL3× · 2017–2020 · $11k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THEone grant, 2018 · $9k
- WCWORTHINGTON CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $5k
- LJLOVE JUSTICEone grant, 2018 · $4k
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.
We are a k-12 christian school founded under the following (4) pillars: academics: we provide an amazing accredited academic program utilizing 100% certified teachers. schedule: we provide our students and their families an opportunity on…
In partnership with parents, hca develops students who impact the kingdon and their culture b employing a christ-centered curriculum taught with excellence by gifted educators who embrace the classical model of education. hca emphasized…
To promote academic excellence and to foster spiritual growth through a college preparatory curriculum in a christian environment.
Summit christian academy's mission is to inspire students to achieve their god given potential through excellent academics & christian training in a compassionate environment.
The mission of harrells christian academy is to prepare each student for higher education within an environment that instills judeo-christian values, fosters self-discipline, enhances creativity, and promises a love and respect for…
The mission of heritage christian school is to glorify god through the discipleship of students and the pursuit of excellence in education with the bible as the foundation and jesus christ as our focus.
At heritage christian school, we exist to serve christ by partnering with parents to provide biblically faithful, academically excellent education.
To provide a christ-centered educational environment that equips students to develop character, demonstrate competence, and discover their calling.
Columbia christian schools seeks to provide a christ-centered education focused on excellence in faith, character and academics to students in preschool through 12th grade.
The school is an independent, multi-denominational, biblically based christian school, that desires to work with families across the spectrum of the body of christ to produce a distinctively christian college preparatory environment.
Provide an education to children in lower and middle school using classical christian methodology.
Provide a distinctly christian education in the classical tradition which equips students to know, love, and practice that which is true, good, and beautiful and thus prepares them to live purposefully and intelligently in service of god…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 21 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 FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY INC ↗
- Who funds LOVE JUSTICE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE FUNDERBURKE YOUTH ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds HILTON HEAD ISLAND RECREATION ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds RESCUING HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds HILTON HEAD CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE STONEHAVEN SCHOOL ↗
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: 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
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 True North Foundation (FKA Stertzer Family Charitable Fnd) 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.
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.