· Private foundation
Athens Community Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k29 grants · $99k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $229k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ATHENS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $29,647 |
| ATHENS CULTURAL ART CENTER INC | $29,005 |
| MOUNT HOPE CEMETERY | $20,000 |
| WEST ATHENS LIMESTREET FIRE CO NO 1 | $19,200 |
| VILLAGE OF ATHENS | $18,280 |
| WEST ATHENS LIMESTREET FIRE DISTRICT | $17,800 |
| TOWN OF ATHENS | $16,975 |
| ATHENS STREET FESTIVAL | $16,000 |
| ATHENS RECREATION CENTER | $15,950 |
| ATHENS COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY | $12,800 |
| ATHENS PERFORMING ARTS CORPORATION | $12,000 |
| LEEDS HOSE CO NO 1 | $11,000 |
| VILLAGE OF ATHENS | $10,360 |
| ATHENS PADDOCK CLUB | $8,000 |
| EJ ARTHUR ELEMENTARY PTO | $7,345 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of your 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.
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.
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.
To collect and display items of historical nature relating to athens county with community access to genealogical researc.
Fund raising for local public library
Restoring old theater building
To create a sustainable town center economy that contributes to the communities' health while retaining the unique history and culture of the local downtown
to provide support to Athens Public Library
Cultural/Folk Arts on PBS Radio/TV & Live Programs
Community theater arts
Community and business development
Restoration of integrity and functionality to historic structure as a community landmark and asset
To promote the city of athens and limestone county to communities 50 miles away and farther to enjoy our history, culture, nature trails, hotels, restaurants, shopping, attractions, and friendly people on our five communities
To provide art education and cultural events to our community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Athens Performing Arts Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Rivertown Housing Development Fund Co Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 55 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
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 ATHENS PERFORMING ARTS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ATHENS CULTURAL ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ATHENS COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds ATHENS STREET FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds DR EVARTS LIBRARY DISTRICT ↗
- Who funds GREENE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds RIVERTOWN HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CO INC ↗
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.
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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 Community Foundation 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.
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.
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