Georgia · Private foundation
Colonial Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.0M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 64
- Grants FY2024
- 53
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $400,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 45 to 64
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- Total assets, FY2024
- $14M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 36% of the organizations Colonial Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $167k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 61 | $2.0M | 18% |
| FY2023 | 53 | $1.7M | 36% |
| FY2022 | 48 | $1.9M | 21% |
| FY2021 | 45 | $1.5M | 36% |
| FY2020 | 64 | $1.7M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Savannah Country Day School Inc | $825,000 | 4 | 2% |
| America's Second Harvest of Coastal Georgia Inc | $484,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Elevate Savannah | $351,250 | 5 | 23% |
| St Vincent's Academy | $230,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Savannah Philharmonic Corporation | $175,000 | 4 | 4% |
| The Savannah Classical Academy Inc | $100,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Savannah Classical Academy Foundation Inc | $100,000 | 2 | 28% |
| National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force Inc | $85,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Union Mission Inc | $75,250 | 5 | 1% |
| Telfair Museum of Art Inc | $53,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 68 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 52 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Colonial Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 60 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About Colonial Foundation Inc
- How much does Colonial Foundation Inc give?
- Colonial Foundation Inc reported 64 grants totaling $2,027,562 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 45 and 64 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Colonial Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Youth Development (28%), Education (28%), Philanthropy (15%).
- Who are Colonial Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Savannah Country Day School Inc ($825k), America's Second Harvest of Coastal Georgia Inc ($484k), Elevate Savannah ($351k).
- Does Colonial Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Colonial Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Colonial Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Savannah Community Foundation Inc, The Hodge Foundation Inc, Georgia Power Foundation Inc.
- Where is Colonial Foundation Inc based?
- Colonial Foundation Inc is based in GA.
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