· Community foundation
Athens Area Community Foundation Inc
Bringing people together who care deeply about athens, georgia and surrounding areas and who seek to improve the quality of life and economic well-being of all people in our community through gifts and involvement.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 180 grants below total $7,136,108 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $8,827,287 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,691,179 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k39 grants · $265k
- $10k–50k106 grants · $2.1M
- $50k–250k31 grants · $3.4M
- $250k+4 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Extra Special People Inc | $467,100 |
| Athens YMCA | $334,000 |
| Vision Atlanta Inc dba Camp Grace | $330,340 |
| Athens Resource Center for the Homeless | $300,000 |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Athens | $249,843 |
| Family Promise of Athens | $197,000 |
| Project Safe Inc | $172,881 |
| Athens Area Habitat for Humanity Inc | $172,523 |
| University of Georgia Foundation | $159,850 |
| Brothers Keeper Veterans Foundation Inc | $150,000 |
| Monsignor Walter J Donovan Catholic High School Inc | $150,000 |
| Sideways Sunlight Ministries | $147,000 |
| Piedmont Athens Regional Foundation | $143,031 |
| Books for Keeps Inc | $132,788 |
| Athens Community Council on Aging Inc | $125,523 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 76% of those 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
127 repeat relationships — 97 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 73 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M 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
- ESExtra Special People Inc8× · 2018–2025 · $3.1M · revenue +625%
- ACATHENS COMMUNITY COUNCIL ON AGING INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +86%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ATHENS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $874k · revenue +136%
Funded once
- DIDestined Incone grant, 2023 · $207k
- CCCLARK COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTHone grant, 2021 · $100k
- MLM L GOOD WORKS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $52k
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.
The organization offers social services as a compassionate outreach to abused, neglected and dependent children and families in need. the organization strives to positively impact the lives of children, families and all those who receive…
Our mission is to create thriving communities by helping nonprofits succeed. our work revolves around four primary areas of focus.1. we are a hub for social innovation 2. we are a capacity accelerator for organizations and their people3.…
The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively as a supporting organization to and for the benefit of the georgia institute of technology to foster and support education and scientific research and economic development…
Georgia Center for Opportunity GCO is an independent, non-partisan think tank dedicated to increasing opportunity and improving the quality of life for all Georgians.
Hope atlanta seeks to help georgians avoid homelessness and hunger through a comprehensive approach that equips them with the tools for lifelong stability.our vision is to end hunger and homelessness for every georgian.
Our new mission is: advocates for children is an organization of dedicated, skilled professionals and compassionate volunteers committed to the well-being of children, youth and families. through comprehensive advocacy and unwavering…
Georgia Court Appointed Special Advocates, Inc. (the Organization) is a nonprofit organization which strengthens and supports court-sanctioned, affiliate CASA programs that empower community volunteers who advocate for abused or neglected…
Strengthen and preserve the well-being of individuals, couples, and families through easy, affordable access to professional counseling services.
ACP is a group committed to identifying and providing leadership on selected issues important to driving the economic development of the city of Atlanta and for which the ACP's active involvement will make a major difference. The ACP has a…
Ahpc was formed to acquire property and make it available exclusively to 501(c)3 organizations assisting in the plight of the homeless in the athens, ga area. the homeless providers will include local shelters, food banks, and health…
The Georgia center for child advocacy's mission is to champion the needs of sexually and severely physically abused children through prevention, intervention, therapy, and collaboration.
The mission of georgia cares is to ensure that child sex trafficking victims receive quality care and services in the state of georgia
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Athens Area Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Uganda Development Initiative. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 19% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
224 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. 224 of the 298 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Extra Special People Inc ↗
- Who funds ATHENS COMMUNITY COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ATHENS INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOOKS FOR KEEPS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Monsignor Walter J Donovan Catholic High School ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Piedmont Athens Regional Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ATHENS TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF ATHENS INC ↗
- Who funds APPARO ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds ATHENS AREA HOMELESS SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ATHENS GEORGIA ↗
- Who funds Athens Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds ATHENS AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds ATHENS RESOURCE CENTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds CHESS & COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds Men Opposing Sex Trafficking Inc ↗
- Who funds Athens Area Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Divas Who Win Freedom Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ARK UNITED MINISTRY OUTREACH CENTER ↗
- Who funds SIDEWAYS SUNLIGHT MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SAFE INC ↗
- Who funds Destined Inc ↗
- Who funds ATHENS WELLNESS CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ADVANTAGE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE COTTAGE SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER & CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CLARKE COUNTY MENTOR PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
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: Jackson Emc Foundation Inc Attn Amy Rouse · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Tr Lois & Lucy Lampkin Fdn Ua · Walton Electric Trust Inc · The Newland Family Foundation Inc · The Winthrop Foundation of Athens G · Peach State Fcu Cares Foundation Inc · The Turner Family Foundation Inc · Glickman Family Foundation · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Lonnie L Michael Foundation · The Kirby Smart Family Foundation Inc
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 Athens Area Community Foundation Inc 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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.