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Banksouth Foundation Ltd

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$308k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$515kEducation$309kHealth$177kHuman Services$75kPublic Safety & Disaster$39kCommunity Improvement$20kCrime & Legal$13kPhilanthropy$11kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ATLAS MINISTRIES$250,000
THILLEN EDUCATION FOUNDATION$30,000
VICTORY TRAIN$7,500
CENTRAL GA TECH ADELINE SHUMAN$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS$5,000
UGA MARY CLAIRE MCCOMMONS$5,000
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 (FY19–20, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PUTNAM CHRISTIAN OUTREACH: $3k → 13%ATLAS MINISTRY INC: $3k → 14%ATLAS MINISTRY INC: $3k → 14%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.
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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$674k · 5 repeat orgs$529k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +112% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
55

Total granted

$674k
$502k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+112%
+29%

Still filing today

80%
24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
PhilanthropyHealthEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionOther
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

  • AA
    Athens Academy Inc
    3× · 2020–2024 · $64k · revenue +3%
  • TE
    THILLEN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $60k · revenue +112%
  • ES
    Extra Special People Inc
    3× · 2018–2020 · $25k · revenue +625%

Funded once

  • SM
    ST MARY'S FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $80k · revenue +29%
  • SM
    ST MARY'S GOOD SAMARITAN FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $52k · revenue -58%
  • P5
    PATH2COLLEGE 529
    one grant, 2020 · $37k
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
St Mary's Hospital Inc

We, trinity health georgia and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. st. mary's hospital is a member of trinity health georgia and trinity…

Health
2
Saint Joseph's Health System Inc

We, saint joseph's health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. honoring the heritage and advancing the ministry of the sisters of…

Health
3
Trinity Health of the Mid-Atlantic Region

We, trinity health of the mid-atlantic region and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.trinity health of the mid-atlantic is a member of…

Health
4
The Grady Health Foundation Inc

The mission of the grady health foundation is to grow both philanthropic support and broad-based understanding of the critical role that grady health system plays in the metro atlanta region. our focus is to ensure grady health system has…

Philanthropy
5
St Peter's Health Partners

We, st. peter's health partners and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.

Health
6
St Mary's Sacred Heart Hospital Inc

We, trinity health georgia and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. st. mary's sacred heart hospital is a member of trinity health georgia…

Health
7
Piedmont Athens Regional Medical Center Inc

The mission of piedmont athens regional medical center is to improve the lives and health of those we touch.

Health
8
Piedmont Newnan Hospital Inc

To provide healthcare marked by compassion and sustainable excellence in a progressive environment, guided by physicians, delivered by exceptional professionals, and inspired by the communities we serve.

Health
9
Piedmont Henry Hospital Inc

To provide healthcare marked by compassion and sustainable excellence in a progressive environment, guided by physicians, delivered by exceptional professionals, and inspired by the communities we serve.

Health
10
Piedmont Hospital Inc

To provide healthcare marked by compassion and sustainable excellence in a progressive environment, guided by physicians, delivered by exceptional professionals, and inspired by the communities we serve.

Health
11
Medical Center of Central Georgia Inc

To enhance the health status of those we serve in partnership with medical staff and other community organizations by providing wellness services, health education, training, and access to safe high quality health care services.

Health
12
Genesis Health Services Foundation

We, genesis health services foundation and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of the Coastal Empire; the most unlike its peers is Greene County Food Pantry Inc. 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

19 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. 19 of the 65 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
12/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ATLAS MINISTRIES: $505,000 · OtherATLAS MINISTRIESST MARY'S GOOD SAMARITAN FOUNDATION INC: $51,500 · OtherST MARY'S GOOD SAMARITAN FOUNDATION INCPATH2COLLEGE 529: $37,120 · OtherTRACY STROZIER FAMILY: $31,480 · Other+48 more: $313,555 · Other+48 moreAthens Academy Inc: $63,600 · EducationAthens Acad…THILLEN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 · EducationTHILLEN EDU…ST MARY'S FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 · HealthST MARY'S…ST MARY'S GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL INC: $10,000 · HealthST MARY'S…Piedmont Athens Regional Foundation Inc: $10,000 · HealthPiedmont …COMMUNITY SUSTAINABILITY ENTERPRISE INC: $20,000 · Community ImprovementATLAS Ministry Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesPUTNAM CHRISTIAN OUTREACH INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesREACH GEORGIA FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · PhilanthropyTHE GIVING KITCHEN INITIATIVE INC: $2,410 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE: $1,027 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC: $819 · PhilanthropyGREENE COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC: $6,500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$938,655Education$123,600Health$100,000Community Improvement$20,000Human Services$7,500Philanthropy$6,756Food & Nutrition$6,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetST MARY'S FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetAthens Academy Inc: $63,600 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHILLEN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 3y, 9.4% of budgetST MARY'S GOOD SAMARITAN FOUNDATION INC: $51,500 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetExtra Special People Inc: $25,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY SUSTAINABILITY ENTERPRISE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetST MARY'S GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPiedmont Athens Regional Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVICTORY TRAIN INC: $7,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGREENE COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC: $6,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetATLAS Ministry Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE PLAZA ARTS CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLAKE OCONEE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPUTNAM CHRISTIAN OUTREACH INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetREACH GEORGIA FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GIVING KITCHEN INITIATIVE INC: $2,410 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE: $1,027 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC: $819 over 1y, 0.0% 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 ST MARY'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Athens Academy Inc ↗
  • Who funds THILLEN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ST MARY'S GOOD SAMARITAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Extra Special People Inc ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY SUSTAINABILITY ENTERPRISE INC ↗
  • Who funds ST MARY'S GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds Piedmont Athens Regional Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds VICTORY TRAIN INC ↗
  • Who funds GREENE COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds ATLAS Ministry 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.

Georgia Power Foundat…Curtis Foundation Inc…Young Contracting Fou…The Nathan J & Helen …Athens Area Community…The Ayco Charitable F…Natl Christian Charit…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Raymond James Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Endowment Fo…
Georgia Power Foundation IncGA19.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Curtis Foundation Inc Richard B Curtis Jr · Young Contracting Foundation Inc · The Nathan J & Helen Goldrich Foundation Inc · Athens Area Community Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Endowment Foundation

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 Banksouth Foundation Ltd funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Banksouth Foundation Ltd. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Banksouth Foundation Ltd?

    Find your warmest path to Banksouth Foundation Ltd through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 65 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-PF 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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