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Ameris Bank Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$109k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2024
9
Organizations funded FY2023
67%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 11
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$972k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 67% of the organizations Ameris Bank Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 77% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
HealthEducationCrime & LegalPhilanthropyOther
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
FY2024still arriving11$109k82%
FY20239$104k67%
FY202211$44k91%
FY20219$104kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Public Safety & Disaster$118kHealth$115kReligion$30kCommunity Improvement$28kYouth Development$25kEducation$24kPhilanthropy$21kHuman Services$11k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 26 grantees
All grantees of Ameris Bank Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
America's Charities$109,50020%
American Heart Association Inc$40,00030%
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention$26,83030%
National Association of Minority Contractors$25,000110%
City of Refuge$20,00010%
Atlanta Ronald McDonald House Charities Inc$15,00010%
Christopher's Haven Atlanta Inc$14,000113%
Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc$12,00010%
Moving in the Spirit Inc$10,00011%
Inspiredu Inc$10,00010%
Scholarship America Inc$10,00010%
United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc$10,00010%
Clayton State University Foundation$5,00020%
Love Thy Neighbor of Jackson Ga Inc$5,0001n/a
New Rocky Creek Baptist Church$5,0001n/a
Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Young Harris College$5,00010%
North Fulton Community Charities Inc$3,00010%
Foundation of Wesley Woods Inc$2,50010%
Mossy Pond Volunteer Fire Dept Inc$2,5001n/a
Dukes Foundation Coproration$2,50011%
Shepherd Center Foundation Inc$2,5001n/a
Business Women Empowerment Project Inc$2,5001n/a
Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Florida Inc$1,50010%
United Way of Colquitt County Inc$1,00010%
Boys & Girls Club of Bartow County Inc$1,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($14k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ameris Bank Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerica's Charities: $109,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Foundation for Suicide Prevention: $26,830 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNational Association of Minority Contractors: $25,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetCity of Refuge: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAtlanta Ronald McDonald House Charities Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetChristopher's Haven Atlanta Inc: $14,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetMuscular Dystrophy Association Inc: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMoving in the Spirit Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetInspiredu Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetScholarship America Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Atlanta Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetClayton State University Foundation: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTallahassee Memorial Healthcare Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYoung Harris College: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Fulton Community Charities Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation of Wesley Woods Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDukes Foundation Coproration: $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Central Florida Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of Colquitt County Inc: $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 20.

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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.

Georgia Power Foundation IncGA19.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · J Bulow Campbell Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Ameris Bank Foundation Inc

How much does Ameris Bank Foundation Inc give?
Ameris Bank Foundation Inc reported 11 grants totaling $109,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 11 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Ameris Bank Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (32%), Health (31%), Religion (8%).
Who are Ameris Bank Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: America's Charities ($110k), American Heart Association Inc ($40k), American Foundation for Suicide Prevention ($27k).
Does Ameris Bank Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ameris Bank Foundation Inc 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 Ameris Bank Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Georgia Power Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc, J Bulow Campbell Foundation.
Where is Ameris Bank Foundation Inc based?
Ameris Bank Foundation Inc is based in GA.

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 35 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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