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Brown-Whitworth Foundation 096465-000

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$10M
Granted FY2022
5
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$5.1M
Largest

Read this first · the figures below need context

50% of Brown-Whitworth Foundation 096465-000’s FY2022 grant dollars went to The Community Foundation Of Northwest Georgia Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

2
’20
1
’21
0
’22

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2022.

Philanthropy$5.2MEducation$652kHealth$200kYouth Development$90kRecreation & Sports$30kFood & Nutrition$10kReligion$5kOther$0
02FY2022 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
  • $250k+2 grants · $9.9M
$150,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NW GEORGIA$5,089,099
Individual grant recipient$4,828,323
DALTON STATE COLLEGE$150,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS NW GEORGIA$30,000
CHRISTIAN HERITAGE SCHOOL ENDOWMENT$30,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%REINHARDT UNIVERSITY: $150k → 6%NORTHWEST GEORGIA FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $15k → 13%REINHARDT UNIVERSITY: $50k → 6%FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTAIN ATHLETES: $15k → 13%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NW GEORGIA: $5.1M → 13%BROWN WHITWORTH REYNOLDS: $4.8M → 13%DALTON STATE COLLEGE: $162k → 13%DALTON STATE COLLEGE: $150k → 13%WHITFIELD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $100k → 13%WHITFIELD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $100k → 13%DALTON STATE COLLEGE: $75k → 13%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NW GEORGIA: $40k → 13%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NW GEORGIA: $40k → 13%CHATTANOOGA AREA FOOD BANK: $10k → 13%CHRIST COMMUNITY CHURCH: $5k → 13%DALTON STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%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.

13%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$737k · 4 repeat orgs$4.9M to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2022, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
5

Total granted

$737k
$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+40%

Still filing today

25%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.8M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • DS
    DALTON STATE COLLEGE
    3× · 2020–2022 · $387k
  • REINHARDT UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2020–2021 · $200k · revenue +3%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS NW GEORGIA
    3× · 2020–2022 · $90k

Funded once

  • NG
    NORTHWEST GEORGIA FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
  • FO
    FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTAIN ATHLETES
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • CA
    CHATTANOOGA AREA FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
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
04the grantee network

4 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. 4 of the 12 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
4/4
Grantees still filing
4/4
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $4,828,323 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDALTON STATE COLLEGE: $386,750 · OtherDALTON STATE COLLEGE+6 more: $195,000 · OtherTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST GEORGIA INC: $5,169,099 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST GEORGIA INCREINHARDT UNIVERSITY: $200,000 · Education+1 more: $5,000 · EducationWHITFIELD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 · Health
Other$5,410,073Philanthropy$5,169,099Education$205,000Health$200,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST GEORGIA INC: $5,169,099 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetREINHARDT UNIVERSITY: $200,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWHITFIELD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetDALTON STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST GEORGIA INC ↗
  • Who funds REINHARDT UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WHITFIELD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds DALTON STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION 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.

The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta IncGA13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Brown-Whitworth Foundation 096465-000 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brown-Whitworth Foundation 096465-000. 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
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to Brown-Whitworth Foundation 096465-000 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 12 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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