· Private foundation
Bennett-Mothner Charitable 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 $10k3 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VIA COGNITIVE HEALTH | $10,000 |
| AUGUSTA SYMPHONY | $5,000 |
| WESTOBOU | $4,000 |
| MORRIS MUSEUM OF ART | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those 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.
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.
6 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- ASAUGUSTA SYMPHONY INC8× · 2018–2025 · $41k · revenue -64%
- HAHISTORIC AUGUSTA INC3× · 2018–2022 · $25k · revenue -27%
- VCVIA COGNITIVE HEALTH INC2× · 2024–2025 · $15k · revenue -37%
Funded once
- SHSAFE HOMES DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTERone grant, 2019 · $10k
- PCPHINIZY CENTER FOR WATER SCIENCESgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue +28%
- SRSAVANNAH RIVERKEEPER INCone grant, 2021 · $7k · revenue +18%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Collect, preserve, and disseminate knowledge and information in relation to genealogical, historical, biographical, and heraldic data.
The arspca advocates the humane treatment of companion animals through leadership and proactive solutions to pet overpopulation including adoptions, spay/neuter efforts, and education.
To restore and operate the historic augusta colonial theater for the artistic, educational, and charitable benefit of the community. the colonial theater will be a far-reaching, viable, restored historic theater in the downtown of our…
To promote the establishment of local low-income housing sponsors through corporations, partnerships, or joint ventures and to utilize taxable or tax-exempt financing on behalf of the AHA.
The augusta food bank provides a supplemental source of food to individuals and families in need.
Historic atlanta advances social justice and community by saving historic places
To promote arts in the csra through community events, weekly radio show, and marketing campaign. coordinate diverse community events, manage art grants for the city of augusta. public art agency for the city of augusta, manages the public…
The gertrude herbert institue of art inc's mission is to provide opportunities for visual arts education and to develop visual arts awareness and appreciation through the greater augusta community.
Charitable mental health service organization
Preserve african american heritage
Turn back the block is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to reviatlize the harrisburg neighborhood in augusta, ga through the rehabilitation of existing housing stock, construction of new housing and the promotion of home ownership…
Rehab homes for low income homeowners
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Historic Augusta Inc and the most unlike its peers is Via Cognitive Health Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 18 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 AUGUSTA SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC AUGUSTA INC ↗
- Who funds VIA COGNITIVE HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds PHINIZY CENTER FOR WATER SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA JEWISH MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds SAVANNAH RIVERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT REFRESH INC ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN HARVEST FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds CSRA HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA JUSTICE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE HOMES OF AUGUSTA INC ↗
- Who funds MORRIS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Knox Foundation · Creel-Harison Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for the Central Savannah River Area Inc · Patricia S McGee Foundation Inc · Porter Fleming Fdn Tr Ua · Ramachandra and Niranjini Reddy Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Bennett-Mothner Charitable 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.