How much did ATHENS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2024?

ATHENS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC reported 72 grants totaling $6,056,358 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is ATHENS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC based?

ATHENS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is based in GA.

ATHENS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

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· Community foundation

ATHENS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

Bringing people together who care deeply about athens, georgia and surrounding area and who seek to improve the quality of life and economic well-being of all people in our community through gifts and involvement.

$6.1M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$2.4M

Largest

01What you fund

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 43% of ATHENS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

hope healsaccessibleraisetrusteesdeservingcemeteryrespite

2020

neglectreligiousgirlsgirlmake betterbetter placerefugees

2021

blindguide dogcemeteryneglectreligiousrefugeesgirl

2022

personaltriballakota cultureenablepotentialbuildingmultiple

2023

camp kudzuicrcseriousdiabetesself-managementwhole childred cross

2024

kennesawtraffickingaltriskrescueinclusivepresbyterian church

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 72 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k7 grants · $47k
$10k–50k47 grants · $925k
$50k–250k14 grants · $1.7M
$250k+4 grants · $3.3M

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$28M

Total assets

Largest grants

EXTRA SPECIAL PEOPLE$2,355,000
APPARO ACADEMY$400,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ATHENS$300,000
MEN OPPOSING SEX TRAFFICKING INC$250,000
PIEDMONT ATHENS REGIONAL FOUNDATION$225,000
ATHENS TECH FOUNDATION INC$197,851
DIVAS WHO WIN FREEDOM CENTER$160,000
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND$150,000
ATHENS COMMUNITY COUNCIL ON AGING INC$136,786
BOOKS FOR KEEPS INC$135,033
ATHENS ACADEMY INC$125,000
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION$108,350
SIDEWAYS SUNLIGHT MINISTRIES$100,000
CANCER FOUNDATION OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA$91,925
FAMILY PROMISE OF ATHENS$65,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 20% — the area typically sits at 10%. 69% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$16M · 101 repeat orgs$2.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +60% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.

101 repeat relationships — 52 still active in FY2024, 49 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

101

Total granted

$16M

$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%

+36%

Still filing today

84%

70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $834k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentInternationalArts & CultureOther

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

ES
EXTRA SPECIAL PEOPLE
7× · 2018–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +1014%
AC
ATHENS COMMUNITY COUNCIL ON AGING INC
7× · 2018–2024 · $879k · revenue +64%
BA
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WINDER
7× · 2018–2024 · $613k · revenue +136%

Funded once

VT
VETERANS TREATMENT COURT FUNDgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $284k · revenue +264%
DI
DESTINED INC
one grant, 2023 · $207k
TC
THE COTTAGE SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER & CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CE
one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +19%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Georgia Center for Child Advocacy Inc

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.

Human Services

Georgia Agape Inc

Georgia agape's mission is to provide professional social services as a compassionate christian outreach to children and families in order to enhance their propects for a better and brighter future.

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Athens Homeless Property

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…

Housing & Shelter

Georgia Care Connection Office Inc

See schedule o for complete description.the mission of georgia cares is to ensure that child sex trafficking victims receive quality care and services in the state of georgia. georgia cares is the single, statewide coordinating agency to…

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Georgia Economic Development

The foundation functions as an advocate of economic development for the state of georgia.

Community Improvement

The Georgia Center for Nonprofits

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.…

Community Improvement

Georgia Court Appointed Special

develops and supports court-sanctioned, community-based affiliate programs that provide trained and supervised volunteers to advocate for the best interests of abused and neglected children involved in juvenile court dependency proceedings.

Civil Rights

Georgia State University Athletic

To provide advice, guidance, and leadership to advance athletics at georgia state university.

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Atlanta Committee for Progress Inc

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…

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Atlanta Court Appointed Special

Atlanta Court Appointed Special Advocates, Inc.'s mission: To educate the community and to recruit, train and supervise court appointed volunteers to advocate for the best interest, safety and permanent placement of abused and neglected…

Civil Rights

Georgia Center for Opportunity Inc

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.

Education

Children's Advocacy Centers of

To promote, assist and support the development, growth & continuation of children's advocacy centers in the state of Georgia.

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Club of Athens Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kennesaw State University. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 31 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%3/201

the rest of the field

16%

9,178/58,100

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.

05the grantee network

164 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

161/164

Grantees still filing

127/164

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$9,093,560Education$2,594,571Health$2,273,215Human Services$1,618,462Youth Development$1,193,028Housing & Shelter$869,930Food & Nutrition$566,595

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.

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.

Jackson Emc Foundation IncGA85.3× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jackson Emc Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Tr Lois & Lucy Lampkin Fdn Ua · Walton Electric Trust Inc · The Newland Family Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater · The Turner Family Foundation Inc · The Kirby Smart Family Foundation Inc · Glickman Family Foundation · The Winthrop Foundation of Athens G · Peach State Fcu Cares Foundation Inc · Frances Wood Wilson 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 organisation 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF ATHENS.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~1 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 582029406 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF ATHENS, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 95% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Athens Area Community Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Athens Area Community Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

ATHENS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

164 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Athens Area Community Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph

ATHENS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

164 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Athens Area Community Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph