· Private foundation
Colonial Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k43 grants · $137k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $145k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $740k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT | $400,000 |
| UNITED WAY | $305,597 |
| YMCA | $300,000 |
| ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL | $207,500 |
| SECOND HARVEST OF COASTAL GEORGIA | $141,000 |
| BENEDICTINE MILITARY SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| ELEVATE SAVANNAH | $76,250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $60,000 |
| ST VINCENT'S ACADEMY | $55,000 |
| SAVANNAH CLASSICAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| SAVANNAH PHILHARMONIC | $50,000 |
| TELFAIR MUSEUMS | $25,000 |
| MEDBANK | $25,000 |
| NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE MIGHTY EIGHTH | $25,000 |
| FRANK CALLEN BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $64k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 81% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +29% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
63 repeat relationships — 50 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 11 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k 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
- SCSAVANNAH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC4× · 2021–2024 · $825k · revenue +29%
- ASAMERICA'S SECOND HARVEST OF COASTAL GEORGIA INC5× · 2020–2024 · $484k · revenue +55%
- ESELEVATE SAVANNAH5× · 2020–2024 · $351k · revenue +71%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $400k
- UWUNITED WAY - EMPLOYEE MATCHone grant, 2021 · $121k
- TMTYBEE MARINE SCIENCE CENTERone grant, 2020 · $100k
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.
Scad prepares talented students for creative professions through engaged teaching and learning in a positively oriented university environment.
To nurture the members of the savannah community engaged in creative or innovative endeavors and to cultivate an environment in which they can thrive.
As a community development financial institution ("cdfi"), and administrators of the savannah affordable housing fund ("sahf"), chsa provides financing and technical assistance to individuals and businesses. (continued at schedule…
To raise awareness and support the affordable and workforce housing initiatives in the greater savannah/chatham county area.
The organization's primary mission is a grassroots initiative that advances sustainable development of natural, cultural and historic resources for enhanced quality of life and economic revitalization of communities in south carolina.
Education and service to the public through programs relating to science and natural history.
Volunteer fire & emergency services to protect the community.
The purpose of the Coastal Georgia Historical Society (Society) is to aid in the administration, restoration and maintenance of those historic facilities and resources entrusted to its care so that they will be preserved as a living part…
Education concerning the american revolution, commemorations thereof and other activities to preserve its heritage; historic preservation, renovation, and conservation of historically significant properties in the state of georgia, united…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Old Savannah City Mission Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
62 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. 62 of the 122 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 SAVANNAH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICA'S SECOND HARVEST OF COASTAL GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE SAVANNAH ↗
- Who funds SAVANNAH PHILHARMONIC CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SAVANNAH CLASSICAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE SAVANNAH CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE MIGHTY EIGHTH AIR FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds UNION MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds TELFAIR MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CITIZENS INC ↗
- Who funds COASTAL JAZZ ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HABERSHAM SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE SAVANNAH INC ↗
- Who funds CHATHAM-SAVANNAH CITIZEN ADVOCACY ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA INDEPENDENT COLLEGE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY 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: The Savannah Community Foundation Inc · The Hodge Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Savannah Benevolent Association · Courtney Knight Gaines Foundation · United Way of the Coastal Empire · The Dunn Foundation · John G Kennedy Foundation Inc · The Brenneman Family Charitable Foundation Inc · John and Emma Derst Foundation Inc · Jolly Foundation Inc · Savannah Jewish Council Inc Dba Savannah Jewish Federation
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 Colonial 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.