· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Boys & Girls Clubs of the Lowcountry | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $225 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 64% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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…
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 21 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization True North Foundation (FKA Stertzer Family Charitable Fnd) funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from True North Foundation (FKA Stertzer Family Charitable Fnd). Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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