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Bennett-Mothner Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Bennett-Mothner Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$20k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$341k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VIA COGNITIVE HEALTH$10,000
AUGUSTA SYMPHONY$5,000
WESTOBOU$4,000
MORRIS MUSEUM OF ART$1,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PROJECT REFRESH INC: $5k → 18%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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$113k · 6 repeat orgs$55k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
10

Total granted

$113k
$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-27%
+26%

Still filing today

67%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
Arts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthCrime & LegalFood & 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

  • AS
    AUGUSTA SYMPHONY INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $41k · revenue -64%
  • HA
    HISTORIC AUGUSTA INC
    3× · 2018–2022 · $25k · revenue -27%
  • VC
    VIA COGNITIVE HEALTH INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $15k · revenue -37%

Funded once

  • SH
    SAFE HOMES DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • PC
    PHINIZY CENTER FOR WATER SCIENCESgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue +25%
  • SR
    SAVANNAH RIVERKEEPER INC
    one grant, 2021 · $7k · revenue +18%
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
Augusta Genealogical Society

Collect, preserve, and disseminate knowledge and information in relation to genealogical, historical, biographical, and heraldic data.

Arts & Culture
2
Augusta Regional Spca Inc

The arspca advocates the humane treatment of companion animals through leadership and proactive solutions to pet overpopulation including adoptions, spay/neuter efforts, and education.

Animals
3
Colonial Theater Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
4
Augusta Housing Service Corporation

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.

Housing & Shelter
5
Augusta Food Bank

The augusta food bank provides a supplemental source of food to individuals and families in need.

Food & Nutrition
6
Historic Atlanta Inc

Historic atlanta advances social justice and community by saving historic places

Environment
7
Greater Augusta Arts Council Inc

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…

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8
The Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
9
Augusta Resources for Resilience Opportunity & Wellness

Charitable mental health service organization

Health
10
The Staunton Augusta County African American Resea

Preserve african american heritage

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11
Turn Back the Block Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
12
Renewing Homes of Greater Augusta Inc

Rehab homes for low income homeowners

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Historic Augusta Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AUGUSTA SYMPHONY INC: $41,000 · Arts & CultureAUGUSTA SYMPHONY INCHISTORIC AUGUSTA INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC AUGUSTA INCAUGUSTA JEWISH MUSEUM INC: $7,000 · Arts & CultureAUGUSTA JEWISH MUSEUM INCHERITAGE ACADEMY INC: $15,000 · OtherHERITAGE ACADEMY INCCHRIST COMMUNITY HEALTH: $10,000 · OtherCHRIST COMMUNITY HEALTHSAFE HOMES DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER: $10,000 · OtherSAFE HOMES DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTE…CSRA HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $5,000 · OtherCSRA HUMANE SOCIETY INCBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE CSRA: $5,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE CSRAWESTOBOU: $4,000 · OtherWESTOBOU+2 more: $2,000 · OtherVIA COGNITIVE HEALTH INC: $15,000 · HealthVIA COGNIT…PHINIZY CENTER FOR WATER SCIENCES: $8,000 · EnvironmentPHINIZY CE…SAVANNAH RIVERKEEPER INC: $7,000 · EnvironmentSAVANNAH R…PROJECT REFRESH INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesSAFE HOMES OF AUGUSTA INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesGOLDEN HARVEST FOOD BANK INC: $5,000 · Food & NutritionGEORGIA JUSTICE PROJECT INC: $3,000 · Crime & Legal
Arts & Culture$73,000Other$51,000Health$15,000Environment$15,000Human Services$6,000Food & Nutrition$5,000Crime & Legal$3,000

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

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
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.

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 FoundationCreel-Harison Foundat…The Community Foundat…Patricia S McGee Foun…Porter Fleming Fdn Tr…Ramachandra and Niran…Georgia Power Foundat…Natl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bennett-Mothner Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bennett-Mothner Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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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