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Bennett-Mothner Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$20k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
4
Grants FY2025
5
Organizations funded FY2024
60%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 5
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$341k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 60% of the organizations Bennett-Mothner Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 45% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthFood & NutritionCrime & LegalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving4$20k50%
FY20245$20k60%
FY20233$12k33%
FY20224$16k50%
FY20213$20k67%
FY20203$20k33%
FY20193$20k33%
FY20183$20k67%
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What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$74kHealth$25kEducation$15kEnvironment$15kHuman Services$11kAnimals$5kYouth Development$5kFood & Nutrition$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Augusta Symphony Inc$41,00080%
Historic Augusta Inc$25,00033%
Via Cognitive Health Inc$15,00021%
Heritage Academy Inc$15,0003n/a
Phinizy Center for Water Sciences$8,00011%
Augusta Jewish Museum Inc$7,00022%
Savannah Riverkeeper Inc$7,00012%
Project Refresh Inc$5,00015%
Golden Harvest Food Bank Inc$5,00010%
Csra Humane Society Inc$5,00013%
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All grantees of Bennett-Mothner Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Augusta Symphony Inc$41,00080%
Historic Augusta Inc$25,00033%
Via Cognitive Health Inc$15,00021%
Heritage Academy Inc$15,0003n/a
Phinizy Center for Water Sciences$8,00011%
Augusta Jewish Museum Inc$7,00022%
Savannah Riverkeeper Inc$7,00012%
Project Refresh Inc$5,00015%
Golden Harvest Food Bank Inc$5,00010%
Csra Humane Society Inc$5,00013%
Georgia Justice Project Inc$3,00010%
Safe Homes of Augusta Inc$1,00010%
Morris Museum of Art$1,00010%

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($30k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bennett-Mothner Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAugusta Symphony Inc: $41,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetHistoric Augusta Inc: $25,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetVia Cognitive Health Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetPhinizy Center for Water Sciences: $8,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetAugusta Jewish Museum Inc: $7,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSavannah Riverkeeper Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetProject Refresh Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetGolden Harvest Food Bank Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCsra Humane Society Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetGeorgia Justice Project Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSafe Homes of Augusta Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMorris Museum of Art: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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.

The Knox FoundationGA26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Bennett-Mothner Charitable Foundation

How much does Bennett-Mothner Charitable Foundation give?
Bennett-Mothner Charitable Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $20,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 5 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Bennett-Mothner Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (44%), Health (15%), Education (9%).
Who are Bennett-Mothner Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Augusta Symphony Inc ($41k), Historic Augusta Inc ($25k), Via Cognitive Health Inc ($15k).
Does Bennett-Mothner Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Bennett-Mothner Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Bennett-Mothner Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Knox Foundation, Creel-Harison Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation for the Central Savannah River Area Inc.
Where is Bennett-Mothner Charitable Foundation based?
Bennett-Mothner Charitable Foundation is based in GA.

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 18 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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