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Braswell Fund
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Georgia Military College | $4,600 |
| Georgia Gwinnett College | $2,300 |
| University of North Georgia | $2,300 |
| Georgia College State University | $2,300 |
| University of Georgia | $2,300 |
| Western Carolina University | $2,300 |
| Georgia Southern University | $2,300 |
| Abraham Baldwin Agricultural Colleg | $2,300 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of your 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.
18 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
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
- UOUniversity of Georgia6× · 2018–2025 · $24k
- GSGeorgia Southern University5× · 2019–2025 · $18k
- UOUniversity of North Georgia6× · 2017–2025 · $10k
Funded once
- SASaint Augustine's Universityone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue -34%
- FDFuture Dental Assistants of Atlantaone grant, 2022 · $2k
- TFToccoa Falls College Incone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +7%
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.
The Foundation exists to support development of educational excellence at Valdosta State University.
The UGA Real Estate Foundation, Inc. manages and improves various real estate assets for the benefit of the University of Georgia, governed by the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia. The UGA Real Estate Foundation may…
To provide quality post secondary educational opportunities and contribute to the betterment of society through research and development
Support the mission and best interests of georgia state university
The College is an institution of higher education and provides instruction and various support services in achieving its purpose.
The georgia southern university foundation was established in 1963 to receive, manage, and administer private gifts in support of the georgia southern university mission and priorities. the foundation primarily accomplishes this mission by…
To encourage, solicit, receive and administer gifts and bequests of property and funds for the scientific, educational and charitable purposes for the advancement of georgia college & state university. private gifts from alumni, friends,…
Challenging students to be dedicated scholars and leaders who impact the world for Christ.
See schedule o for complete mission description.the university system of georgia foundation's primary goal is to support the state of georgia university system and its 26 colleges and universities to ensure access to academic excellence…
Establishing and administering endowment funds for the benefit of augusta university.
To provide advice, guidance, and leadership to advance athletics at georgia state university.
The organization operates for the exclusive benefit of auburn university, an educational, land-grant institution which is tax exempt under irc section 115.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of West Georgia and the most unlike its peers is Toccoa Falls College Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
6 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. 6 of the 24 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.
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: Tulsa Community Foundation · Ty Cobb Educational Fd Tr Ua · Watson-Brown Foundation Inc · 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 Braswell Fund 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.
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