Alabama · Nonprofit
The True Vine A Christian Foundation
The True Vine A Christian Foundation (Alabama) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $468,304 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($242,694). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $385k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $468k
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What The True Vine A Christian Foundation does
Mission
To create a place where people can come to reconnect - whether it's with God, their teammates, or their families. The goal is to impact generations, through all age groups and backgrounds. With current facilities, the Foundation has already made a tremendous impact and sees great value in adding to the existing structures to accommodate more groups year round. On 90 acres of loblolly pines and sprawling oaks, the Foundation has created a haven, believing in a strong sense of place, and how mood and attitude can be influenced by surroundings. The Foundation has built outstanding facilities with an emphasis on aesthetic and quality design built to last. Surrounding the Foundation are vineyards, gardens, and open spaces to facilitate interaction with nature and spark awe in those who walk onto the property.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
To create a place where people can come to reconnect - whether it's with God, their teammates, or their families. The goal is to impact generations, through all age groups and backgrounds. With current facilities, the Foundation has already made a tremendous impact and sees great value in adding to the existing structures to accommodate more groups year round. On 90 acres of loblolly pines and sprawling oaks, the Foundation has created a haven, believing in a strong sense of place, and how mood and attitude can be influenced by surroundings. The Foundation has built outstanding facilities with an emphasis on aesthetic and quality design built to last. Surrounding the Foundation are vineyards, gardens, and open spaces to facilitate interaction with nature and spark awe in those who walk onto the property.
$307,351 spentof which $12,000 as grants$119,313 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $307,351.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $2.5M to $2.3M (−6%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
65% of The True Vine A Christian Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
John F McRae Jr
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $22k → $65k.
5 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of The True Vine A Christian Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
The True Vine A Christian Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
68% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund The True Vine A Christian Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 51% · 2019 62% · 2020 38% · 2021 70% · 2022 51% · 2023 59% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
75% of The True Vine A Christian Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
66% of The True Vine A Christian Foundation's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $161k that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from Alabama funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $307k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
The True Vine A Christian Foundation receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $468k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,816 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like The True Vine A Christian Foundation
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
57% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The True Vine A Christian Foundation: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds The True Vine A Christian Foundation?
- The True Vine A Christian Foundation (Alabama) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $468,304 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($242,694). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does The True Vine A Christian Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $468,304 in grants to The True Vine A Christian Foundation, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The True Vine A Christian Foundation?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $242,694 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The True Vine A Christian Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 11 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing