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Carroll Electric Membership Foundation Inc
The purpose of the foundation is to provide assistance to area organizations and projects whose primary purpose is an improvement in the quality of life for residents in communities located within the carroll electric membership cooperative service territory.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 82% of CARROLL ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $54,857 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $320,045 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $265,188 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THS EMERGENCY SHELTER INC | $6,945 |
| TRUTH IN NATURE | $6,584 |
| HEARD COUNTY FIRE & EMERGENCY SRVCS | $6,445 |
| CITY OF BREMEN PARKS AND RECREATION | $6,334 |
| SHARP CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $6,014 |
| WEST GEORGIA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $5,979 |
| CITY OF CARROLLTON | $5,621 |
| BAY SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL | $5,601 |
| ST MARGARET'S COMMUNITY OUTREACH | $5,334 |
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 (FY22–24, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +62% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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
- WGWEST GEORGIA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY3× · 2021–2024 · $21k · revenue +422%
- TITRUTH IN NATURE INC3× · 2022–2024 · $20k · revenue +164%
- RCRapha Clinic of West Georgia Inc3× · 2018–2022 · $20k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- GTGeorgia Transplant Foundation Incone grant, 2023 · $9k · revenue +17%
- BDBRAXTON DOLLAR FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue -11%
- FPFRANKLIN POLICE DEPARTMENTone grant, 2022 · $6k
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.
Seeking to put Gods love into action, Habitat for Humanity of Dalton brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope in Whitfield and Murray counties in Northwest Georgia. This is accomplished through providing zero-interest…
Provide medical, dental, behavioral, and specialty care for the working poor, uninsured and homeless of bartow county, georgia.
To provide for the nutritional needs of the persons within Carroll County, Georgia and the surrounding area to the extent of such services that are provided by the organization.
Simple Needs GAs mission is to meet the simple needs of children and people experiencing homelessness and others in need, while inspiring our community to do the same.
To provide individual crisis intervention including food, housing, clothing, and transportation for domestic violence victims and their children.
The rescue missions purpose is to provide food, housing , and transportation in emergency situations to local residents and transients, Those served are spiritually ministered.
Community Share's mission is to feed, clothe, and house people in need within the Polk County, GA and surrounding communities.
The Carroll County Child Advocacy Center exists to champion the needs of sexually, physically, and emotionally abused children in Carroll, Haralson and Heard counties through prevention, intervention and collaboration.
Macon Volunteer Clinic (MVC)provides free primary medical and dental care, as well as medication assistance, to uninsured, working adult residents of Middle Georgia. All patients live at or below 200% of federal poverty level.
To collaborate with others to eliminate substandard, overcrowded and unsafe housing in Glynn County by building simple, safe, decent and affordable homes. To improve housing conditions through home construction, rehabilitation, repairs,
Covenant Care Services, Inc. is a non-profit faith-based adoption agency serving birthmothers and adoptive families in the state of Georgia. The Organization counsels women experiencing unplanned pregancy and educates them about the option…
To empower women and their children experiencing homelessness to achieve economic independence and long-term stability.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rapha Clinic of West Georgia Inc and the most unlike its peers is Braxton Dollar Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 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.
- Who funds WEST GEORGIA DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds WEST GEORGIA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds TRUTH IN NATURE INC ↗
- Who funds Rapha Clinic of West Georgia Inc ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds KEEP CARROLL BEAUTIFUL ↗
- Who funds Georgia Transplant Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BRAXTON DOLLAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THS EMERGENCY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds Ferst Readers of Carroll County Inc ↗
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: Community Foundation of W Georgia · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Cole Family Charitable Foundation Co Charles Edwin Cole Trustee · Network for Good · 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 Carroll Electric Membership Foundation Inc 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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