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Cleon W Mauldin Fnd Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

Cleon W Mauldin Fnd Trust

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$65k
Granted FY2026still arriving
8
Grants FY2026still arriving
2
States reached
$17k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% 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$218kEducation$206kPhilanthropy$35kHuman Services$8kRecreation & Sports$2kOther$0
02FY2026 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k6 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $27k
$7,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC$17,000
AUGUSTA SYMPHONY INC$10,000
DANCE AUGUSTA INC$7,500
JESSYE NORMAN SCHOOL OF THE ARTS$7,500
MORRIS MUSEUM OF ART$7,500
AIKEN CIVIC ORCHESTRA$7,500
AUGUSTA MINI THEATRE INC$5,000
AUGUSTA COMMUNITY CONCERT BAND INC$3,000
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 (FY17–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 17%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA EDUCATIONAL: $10k → 16%University of South Carolina Educational: $10k → 17%THE SALVATION ARMY A GA CORPORATION: $5k → 14%MORRIS MUSEUM OF ART: $10k → 18%EAST GEORGIA STATE COLLEGE: $8k → 21%University of SC Educational Foundation: $10k → 16%University of South Carolina Educational: $10k → 17%AUGUSTA SYMPHONY INC: $10k → 18%University of South Carolina Educational: $8k → 17%MORRIS MUSEUM OF ART: $9k → 18%University of South Carolina Educational: $5k → 17%MORRIS MUSEUM OF ART: $8k → 18%Aiken Music Festival: $3k → 17%JESSYE NORMAN SCHOOL OF THE ARTS: $8k → 18%The RECing Crew: $2k → 17%AUGUSTA SYMPHONY INC: $7k → 18%MORRIS MUSEUM OF ART: $6k → 18%THE JESSYE NORMAN SCHOOL OF THE ARTS: $5k → 18%AUGUSTA HERITAGE ACADEMY INC: $5k → 18%AUGUSTA HERITAGE ACADEMY INC: $5k → 18%AUGUSTA BALLET: $5k → 18%AUGUSTA HERITAGE ACADEMY INC: $5k → 18%JESSYE NORMAN SCHOOL OF THE ARTS: $5k → 18%RACHEL LONGSTREET FOUNDATION: $5k → 18%RACHEL LONGSTREET FOUNDATION: $5k → 18%THE JESSYE NORMAN SCHOOL OF THE: $5k → 18%THE JESSYE NORMAN SCHOOL OF THE ARTS: $5k → 18%THE JESSYE NORMAN SCHOOL OF THE ARTS: $5k → 18%AUGUSTA HERITAGE ACADEMY INC: $5k → 18%AUGUSTA HERITAGE ACADEMY INC: $5k → 18%AUGUSTA HERITAGE ACADEMY INC: $3k → 18%SACRED HEART CULTURAL CENTER INC: $2k → 18%DANCE AUGUSTA INC: $5k → 18%DANCE AUGUSTA INC: $5k → 18%Dance August Inc: $5k → 18%DANCE AUGUSTA INC: $5k → 18%APPARO ACADEMY INC: $3k → 18%AUGUSTA MINI THEATRE INC: $5k → 18%Augusta State University Foundation: $15k → 18%Augusta State University Foundation: $15k → 18%Augusta State University Foundation: $10k → 18%Augusta State University Foundation: $10k → 18%Augusta State University Foundation: $10k → 18%THE SALVATION ARMY: $3k → 18%WESTABOU MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $3k → 18%AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $18k → 18%AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $17k → 18%AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $15k → 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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$476k · 12 repeat orgs$66k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2026, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
15

Total granted

$476k
$61k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-18%
+9%

Still filing today

67%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • JN
    Jessye Norman School of the Arts Inc
    8× · 2019–2026 · $43k · revenue +94%
  • DA
    DANCE AUGUSTA INC
    6× · 2020–2026 · $38k · revenue +28%
  • AC
    AIKEN CIVIC ORCHESTRA
    2× · 2024–2026 · $10k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • University of South Carolina Educational Foundation
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +21%
  • EG
    EAST GEORGIA STATE COLLEGE
    one grant, 2019 · $8k
  • ST
    STORYLAND THEATRE
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
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
Sumter County Fine Arts Council

Cultural enrichment through arts programs

Arts & Culture
2
Suzuki Academy of Columbia

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…

Education
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
SouthEastern Young Artists Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
5
Augusta Heritage Center Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
6
Augustana Arts Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
7
Augusta Symphony Guild Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
8
Auburn Civic Symphony

The auburn civic symphony provides opportunities for foothill area musicians, composers, and audiences to share enriching musical experiences.

Arts & Culture
9
Asheville Symphony Society Inc

The Asheville Symphony Orchestra performs and promotes symphonic music for the benefit, enjoyment and education of the people of Western North Carolina.

Arts & Culture
10
Charleston Academy of Music

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.

Arts & Culture
11
Jazzarts Charlotte

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…

Arts & Culture
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Augusta Symphony Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 28 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/19
Grantees still filing
9/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MORRIS MUSEUM OF ART: $67,000 · OtherMORRIS MUSEUM OF ARTAUGUSTA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $66,800 · OtherAUGUSTA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCAugusta State University Foundation: $60,000 · OtherAugusta State University FoundationUniversity of South Carolina Educational: $42,500 · OtherUniversity of South Carolina EducationalAUGUSTA CHORAL SOCIETY INC: $30,000 · OtherAUGUSTA CHORAL SOCIETY INCAUGUSTA COMMUNITY CONCERT BAND INC: $12,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $12,000 · Other+9 more: $37,700 · Other+9 moreAUGUSTA SYMPHONY INC: $67,000 · Arts & CultureAUGUSTA SYMPHONY INCDANCE AUGUSTA INC: $37,500 · Arts & CultureDANCE AUGUSTA INCAIKEN CIVIC ORCHESTRA: $10,000 · Arts & CultureAIKEN CIVIC ORCHESTRAAugusta Mini Theatre Inc: $5,000 · Arts & CultureSTORYLAND THEATRE: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $4,500 · Arts & CultureJessye Norman School of the Arts Inc: $42,500 · PhilanthropyAUGUSTA HERITAGE ACADEMY INC: $28,588 · EducationUniversity of South Carolina Educational Foundation: $10,000 · EducationENGAGING CREATIVE MINDS: $2,500 · EducationTHE RECING CREW: $1,600 · Recreation & Sports
Other$328,500Arts & Culture$129,000Philanthropy$42,500Education$41,088Recreation & Sports$1,600

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMORRIS MUSEUM OF ART: $67,000 over 9y, 3.1% of budgetAUGUSTA SYMPHONY INC: $67,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetAUGUSTA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $66,800 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJessye Norman School of the Arts Inc: $42,500 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetDANCE AUGUSTA INC: $37,500 over 6y, 8.6% of budgetAUGUSTA CHORAL SOCIETY INC: $30,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetAUGUSTA HERITAGE ACADEMY INC: $28,588 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of South Carolina Educational Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAIKEN CIVIC ORCHESTRA: $10,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetAUGUSTA BALLET INC: $5,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetHARRY JACOBS CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetENGAGING CREATIVE MINDS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAIKEN MUSIC FESTIVAL: $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWestabou Montessori School: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSACRED HEART CULTURAL CENTER INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE RECING CREW: $1,600 over 1y, 0.4% 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 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 AIKEN CIVIC ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds Augusta Mini Theatre Inc ↗
  • Who funds STORYLAND THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds AUGUSTA BALLET INC ↗
  • Who funds HARRY JACOBS CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds ENGAGING CREATIVE MINDS ↗
  • Who funds AIKEN MUSIC FESTIVAL ↗
  • Who funds APPARO ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds Westabou Montessori School ↗
  • Who funds SACRED HEART CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE RECING CREW ↗

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 Foundat…Creel-Harison Foundat…The Knox FoundationGreater Augusta Arts …Cullum FoundationTr Dorothy M Buttolph…Porter Fleming Fdn Tr…Kirby Family Foundati…Georgia Rehabilitatio…University Health Ser…Georgia Power Foundat…Truist Foundation Inc
The Community Foundation for the Central Savannah River Area IncGA34.3× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Cleon W Mauldin Fnd Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cleon W Mauldin Fnd Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 28 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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