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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.

$8.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
180
Grants FY2025still arriving
16
States reached
$467k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$7.2MEducation$4.3MReligion$2.7MYouth Development$2.4MHuman Services$2.2MHousing & Shelter$1.7MArts & Culture$993kCrime & Legal$809kOther$0
02FY2025 · 180 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 180 grants below total $7,136,108, the rows itemized in this filing. The $8,827,287 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,691,179 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
$15,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$39M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PEACE PLACE INC: $8k → 10%Center for New Beginnings: $10k → 22%ATHENS COMMUNITY COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $137k → 7%SHARE THE MAGIC FOUNDATION INC: $8k → 13%COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP OF ELBERT CO: $7k → 16%ATHENS COMMUNITY COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $81k → 7%Share the Magic Foundation: $8k → 13%HAPPYFEATORG OF GEORGIA INC: $17k → 9%YMCA of Georgia's Piedmont: $18k → 9%SHARE THE MAGIC FOUNDATION INC: $20k → 27%ATHENS Y CAMP FOR BOYS: $10k → 6%Happyfeat: $8k → 9%HAPPYFEATORG OF GEORGIA INC: $7k → 9%ADVENTURE BAGS INC: $15k → 9%PEACE PLACE INC: $13k → 9%Lydia's Place: $41k → 6%CHOSEN FOR LIFE MINISTRIES: $40k → 6%BARROW COUNTY FAMILY CONNECTION INC: $10k → 9%BETHEL HAVEN INC: $32k → 6%YMCA OF GEORGIA'S PIEDMONT INC: $8k → 9%JACKSON COUNTY FAMILY CONNECTION: $10k → 7%FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES TOGETHER RELIEF - FACT RELIEF: $10k → 7%FAMILY CONNECTION-COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF ATHENS: $18k → 6%CHOSEN FOR LIFE MINISTRIES: $13k → 6%CHOSEN FOR LIFE MINISTRIES: $9k → 6%Chosen for Life Ministries: $7k → 6%HOPE 139 HOUSE INC: $25k → 6%ATHENS COMMUNITY COUNCIL ON AGING: $246k → 27%HOPE HEALS: $11k → 13%Hope Heals: $9k → 13%ATHENS COMMUNITY COUNCIL ON AGING: $158k → 27%Athens Community Council on Aging Inc: $126k → 27%ATHENS COMMUNITY COUNCIL ON AGING: $97k → 27%ATHENS COMMUNITY COUNCIL ON AGING: $89k → 27%ATHENS COMMUNITY COUNCIL ON AGING: $72k → 27%LYDIA'S PLACE: $33k → 27%ATHENS YMCA: $18k → 27%ATHENS COMMUNITY COUNCIL ON AGING: $11k → 27%ATHENS YMCA: $8k → 27%Athens YMCA: $334k → 27%DIVAS WHO WIN FREEDOM CENTER: $160k → 27%Divas Who Win Freedom Center: $107k → 27%Georgia Options Inc: $65k → 27%YMCA OF ATHENS GEORGIA: $31k → 27%LYDIA'S PLACE INC: $25k → 27%AREA COMMITTEE TO IMPROVE OPPORTUNI: $12k → 27%LYDIA'S PLACE INC: $11k → 27%YMCA OF ATHENS GEORGIA: $7k → 27%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
WY
SD
IA
IN
PA
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
AL
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$22M · 127 repeat orgs$3.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

127
90

Total granted

$22M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+12%

Still filing today

83%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentInternationalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • ES
    Extra Special People Inc
    8× · 2018–2025 · $3.1M · revenue +625%
  • AC
    ATHENS COMMUNITY COUNCIL ON AGING INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +86%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ATHENS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $874k · revenue +136%

Funded once

  • DI
    Destined Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $207k
  • CC
    CLARK COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • ML
    M L GOOD WORKS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $52k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
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 prospects for a better and brighter future.

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2
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
3
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. committed to connecting…

Philanthropy
4
Georgia Advanced Technology Ventures Inc

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…

Education
5
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
6
Hope Atlanta Inc

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.

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7
Georgia Court Appointed Special Advocates Inc

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…

Civil Rights
8
Advocates for Children Inc

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…

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9
Family Counseling Center of Central Georgia Inc

Strengthen and preserve the well-being of individuals, couples, and families through easy, affordable access to professional counseling services.

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10
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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11
Georgia Care Connection Office Inc

The mission of georgia cares is to ensure that child sex trafficking victims receive quality care and services in the state of georgia

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12
Athens Homeless Property Corporation

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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Athens Resource Center for the Homeless Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

224 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

15
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
57
Early backer (in before they grew)
218/224
Grantees still filing
129/224
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Extra Special People Inc: $3,056,025 · OtherExtra Special People IncFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH: $1,044,109 · OtherFIRST BAPTIST CHURCHMonsignor Walter J Donovan Catholic High School: $576,925 · OtherAPPARO ACADEMY INC: $438,000 · OtherFOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA INC: $565,613 · Other+113 more: $6,741,894 · Other+113 moreTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $817,139 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY …BOOKS FOR KEEPS INC: $627,179 · EducationBOOKS FOR KEEPS…ATHENS TECH FOUNDATION INC: $446,840 · EducationATHENS TECH FOU…Athens Academy Inc: $362,000 · EducationAthens Academy …CHESS & COMMUNITY INC: $301,486 · EducationCHESS & COMMUNI…UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $170,000 · EducationBROTHERS KEEPER VETERANS FOUNDATION: $150,000 · Education+13 more: $584,300 · Education+13 moreTHE CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $593,009 · HealthTHE CANCER FO…MERCY HEALTH CENTER INC: $541,150 · HealthMERCY HEALTH …Piedmont Athens Regional Foundation Inc: $494,037 · HealthPiedmont Athe…MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY FOUNDATION INC: $269,350 · HealthMYOTONIC DYST…ATHENS WELLNESS CLINIC INC: $202,235 · HealthATHENS WELLNE…THE COTTAGE SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER & CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $167,011 · HealthTHE COTTAGE S…Acceptance Recovery Center Inc: $137,469 · Health+15 more: $485,749 · Health+15 moreATHENS COMMUNITY COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $1,016,225 · Human ServicesATHENS COM…THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ATHENS GEORGIA: $408,156 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG …Divas Who Win Freedom Center Inc: $267,000 · Human ServicesDivas Who …FAMILY CONNECTION COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF ATHENS INC: $118,322 · Human ServicesLYDIAS PLACE INC: $116,500 · Human ServicesCHOSEN FOR LIFE MINISTRIES INC: $87,100 · Human Services+11 more: $311,218 · Human Services+11 moreBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ATHENS INC: $873,526 · Youth DevelopmentSIDEWAYS SUNLIGHT MINISTRIES: $247,000 · Youth DevelopmentDestined Inc: $207,000 · Youth DevelopmentFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $163,800 · Youth DevelopmentDOWNTOWN MINISTRIES INC: $67,750 · Youth Development+4 more: $135,295 · Youth DevelopmentFAMILY PROMISE OF ATHENS INC: $442,880 · Housing & ShelterATHENS AREA HOMELESS SHELTER INC: $431,643 · Housing & ShelterATHENS AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY FOR HUMANITY INC: $332,877 · Housing & ShelterATHENS RESOURCE CENTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $310,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE BIGGER VISION OF ATHENS INC: $139,850 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $23,628 · Housing & ShelterAthens Area Community Foundation Inc: $284,330 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA INC: $129,622 · PhilanthropySHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $110,000 · PhilanthropyTHE RESERVE AT LAKE KEOWEE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $80,000 · PhilanthropyINTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $40,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC: $27,750 · PhilanthropyREACH GEORGIA FOUNDATION INC: $27,500 · Philanthropy+1 more: $15,000 · Philanthropy
Other$12,422,566Education$3,458,944Health$2,890,010Human Services$2,324,521Youth Development$1,694,371Housing & Shelter$1,680,878Philanthropy$714,202

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetExtra Special People Inc: $3,056,025 over 8y, 12% of budgetATHENS COMMUNITY COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $1,016,225 over 9y, 5.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ATHENS INC: $873,526 over 9y, 10.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $817,139 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBOOKS FOR KEEPS INC: $627,179 over 8y, 25% of budgetTHE CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $593,009 over 9y, 8.8% of budgetMonsignor Walter J Donovan Catholic High School: $576,925 over 8y, 7.2% of budgetFOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA INC: $565,613 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetMERCY HEALTH CENTER INC: $541,150 over 8y, 11% of budgetPiedmont Athens Regional Foundation Inc: $494,037 over 7y, 12% of budgetATHENS TECH FOUNDATION INC: $446,840 over 5y, 28% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF ATHENS INC: $442,880 over 6y, 29% of budgetAPPARO ACADEMY INC: $438,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetATHENS AREA HOMELESS SHELTER INC: $431,643 over 9y, 8.8% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ATHENS GEORGIA: $408,156 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetAthens Academy Inc: $362,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetATHENS AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY FOR HUMANITY INC: $332,877 over 8y, 4.1% of budgetATHENS RESOURCE CENTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $310,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetCHESS & COMMUNITY INC: $301,486 over 9y, 26% of budgetMen Opposing Sex Trafficking Inc: $300,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetAthens Area Community Foundation Inc: $284,330 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetMYOTONIC DYSTROPHY FOUNDATION INC: $269,350 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetDivas Who Win Freedom Center Inc: $267,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetTHE ARK UNITED MINISTRY OUTREACH CENTER: $261,622 over 6y, 20% of budgetSIDEWAYS SUNLIGHT MINISTRIES: $247,000 over 2y, 53% of budgetPROJECT SAFE INC: $221,031 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetATHENS WELLNESS CLINIC INC: $202,235 over 6y, 11% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $180,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF ADVANTAGE INC: $175,962 over 4y, 35% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $170,000 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetTHE COTTAGE SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER & CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $167,011 over 2y, 20% of budgetCLARKE COUNTY MENTOR PROGRAM INC: $164,569 over 5y, 30% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $163,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAthens Film Arts Institute Inc DBA Cine: $161,807 over 6y, 6.9% of budgetTHE BIGGER VISION OF ATHENS INC: $139,850 over 5y, 21% of budgetTHE CLASSIC CENTER CULTURAL FOUNDATION: $139,850 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetAcceptance Recovery Center Inc: $137,469 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA INC: $129,622 over 5y, 5.6% of budgetFAMILY CONNECTION COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF ATHENS INC: $118,322 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF OCONEE HILL CEMETERY INC: $116,500 over 5y, 28% of budgetLYDIAS PLACE INC: $116,500 over 5y, 15% of budgetCollege Factory Inc: $110,250 over 6y, 11% of budgetSHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $110,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetATHENS LAND TRUST INC: $108,687 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetEAST ATHENS DEVELOPMENT CORP INC: $100,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetTHE NUCI PHILLIPS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $96,304 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $95,200 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetASHTON HOPE KEEGAN FOUNDATION INC: $94,979 over 4y, 23% of budget
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 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 ↗

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.

Jackson Emc Foundatio…Georgia Power Foundat…Tr Lois & Lucy Lampki…Walton Electric Trust…The Newland Family Fo…The Winthrop Foundati…Peach State Fcu Cares…The Turner Family Fou…Glickman Family Found…The Community Foundat…Lonnie L Michael Foun…The Kirby Smart Famil…
Jackson Emc Foundation Inc Attn Amy RouseGA89.6× affinity44 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Athens Area Community Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Athens Area Community Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
36report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 298 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home