· Private foundation
Cleon W Mauldin Fnd Trust
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $38k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $18,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA EDUCATIONAL | $10,000 |
| AUGUSTA SYMPHONY INC | $10,000 |
| MORRIS MUSEUM OF ART | $8,500 |
| THE JESSYE NORMAN SCHOOL OF THE ARTS | $5,000 |
| AUGUSTA HERITAGE ACADEMY INC | $5,000 |
| AUGUSTA COMMUNITY CONCERT BAND INC | $3,500 |
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 18%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 92% 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.
11 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 4 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.
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
- ASAugusta State University Foundation5× · 2017–2022 · $60k
- MMMORRIS MUSEUM OF ART8× · 2017–2025 · $60k · revenue -25%
- ASAUGUSTA SYMPHONY INC7× · 2019–2025 · $57k · revenue -33%
Funded once
University of South Carolina Educational Foundationone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +21%- EGEAST GEORGIA STATE COLLEGEone grant, 2019 · $8k
- STSTORYLAND THEATREone grant, 2019 · $5k
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.
Cultural enrichment through arts programs
To enrich the educational and ethical development of local youth by fostering critical thinking, social consciousness, and personal development through affordable fine arts instruction, performances, and workshops.
The mission of the Suzuki Academy of Columbia is to enrich the lives of children through studying a musical instrument from an early age. Our philosophy is based on the teachings of Dr. Shinichi Suzuki, who believed that every child has…
Augusta heritage center in elkins, west virginia, united states, is a non- profit organization which fosters the scholarly study and practice of traditional arts in music, dance, craft, and folklore.
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…
To aid and assist the Augusta Symphony Orchestra in its continued growth and to broaden it activities. The Augusta Symphony Guild, Inc. raises funds in various ways to support the Augusta Symphony Orchestra.
The auburn civic symphony provides opportunities for foothill area musicians, composers, and audiences to share enriching musical experiences.
We bridge the gap between audience and artist so that all feel welcome and are able to experience the arts in a deeper, more meaningful way.
The Asheville Symphony Orchestra performs and promotes symphonic music for the benefit, enjoyment and education of the people of Western North Carolina.
JazzArts Charlotte's (JazzArts) mission is connecting the cultural community and developing an audience for jazz through quality education, performance and musician support. JazzArts' vision is to be a catalyst for cultural enrichment and…
The SouthEastern Young Artists brings artists and community together by putting on performances for the public. Additionally artists will go into local schools and education institutions to do workshops around music and social emotional…
The Charleston Academy of Music is committed to providing access to exceptional music education, performance and community outreach to all, regardless of age, skill, gender, ethnicity or income.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Augusta Symphony Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sacred Heart Cultural Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 27 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 MORRIS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Jessye Norman School of the Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds DANCE AUGUSTA INC ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA CHORAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA HERITAGE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds University of South Carolina Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds STORYLAND THEATRE ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds HARRY JACOBS CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ENGAGING CREATIVE MINDS ↗
- Who funds Westabou Montessori School ↗
- Who funds AIKEN CIVIC ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds AIKEN MUSIC FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds APPARO ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds SACRED HEART CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE RECING CREW ↗
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: The Community Foundation for the Central Savannah River Area Inc · Creel-Harison Foundation Inc · The Knox Foundation · Greater Augusta Arts Council Inc · Cullum Foundation · Tr Dorothy M Buttolph Fdn · Porter Fleming Fdn Tr Ua · Kirby Family Foundation Inc · Georgia Rehabilitation Institute Inc · University Health Services Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Truist Foundation Inc
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 Cleon W Mauldin Fnd Trust 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.