· Private foundation
Athens Community Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AVATHENS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT2× · 2018–2025 · $71k
- APATHENS PERFORMING ARTS CORPORATION2× · 2018–2025 · $40k · revenue +35% · 50% of their budget
- ACATHENS COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC2× · 2018–2025 · $24k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- ACAthens Cultural Centerone grant, 2018 · $36k
- ARAthens Recreational Associationone grant, 2018 · $27k
- HMHOPES MISSION OF GREENE COUNTY INCone grant, 2018 · $8k
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 51 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Bank of Greene County Charitable Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Athens Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Athens Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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