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Colonial Foundation Inc at a glance

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Colonial Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
64
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Youth Development$2.5MEducation$2.5MPhilanthropy$1.3MFood & Nutrition$523kArts & Culture$456kHuman Services$350kHealth$199kScience & Tech$105kOther$0
02FY2024 · 64 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k43 grants · $137k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $145k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $740k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.0M
$5,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE MIGHTY EIGHTH$25,000
TELFAIR MUSEUMS$25,000
MEDBANK$25,000
HABERSHAM SCHOOL$10,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $500 → 9%METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME: $100 → 16%CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH: $100 → 20%JIMMY RANE FOUNDATION: $2k → 16%SD GUNNER FUND: $9k → 8%COUNCIL OF COMMUNITY SERVICES: $3k → 20%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $500 → 9%SD GUNNER FUND: $3k → 8%SENIOR CITIZENS: $20k → 16%SENIOR CITIZENS INC: $5k → 16%SENIOR CITIZENS INC: $3k → 16%SENIOR CITIZENS INC: $3k → 16%SENIOR CITIZENS INC: $3k → 16%SENIOR CITIZENS INC: $3k → 16%SENIOR CITIZENS INC: $3k → 16%HOSPICE SAVANNAH: $5k → 16%HOSPICE SAVANNAH: $5k → 16%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
IL
NY
WY
VA
NC
SC
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.9M · 63 repeat orgs$946k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +23% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

63
46

Total granted

$7.9M
$900k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+23%

Still filing today

56%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsOther
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

  • SC
    SAVANNAH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $825k · revenue +29%
  • AS
    AMERICA'S SECOND HARVEST OF COASTAL GEORGIA INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $484k · revenue +55%
  • ES
    ELEVATE SAVANNAH
    5× · 2020–2024 · $351k · revenue +71%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $400k
  • UW
    UNITED WAY - EMPLOYEE MATCH
    one grant, 2021 · $121k
  • TM
    TYBEE MARINE SCIENCE CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
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
Savannah College of Art and DesignInc

Scad prepares talented students for creative professions through engaged teaching and learning in a positively oriented university environment.

Education
2
The Creative Coast Inc

To nurture the members of the savannah community engaged in creative or innovative endeavors and to cultivate an environment in which they can thrive.

Community Improvement
3
Community Housing Services Agency Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
4
Housing Savannah Inc

To raise awareness and support the affordable and workforce housing initiatives in the greater savannah/chatham county area.

Housing & Shelter
5
South Carolina National Heritage Corridor

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.

Arts & Culture
6
The Hibernian Society of Savannah Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
7
Savannah Science Museum Inc

Education and service to the public through programs relating to science and natural history.

Arts & Culture
8
Savannah Volunteer Fire Company

Volunteer fire & emergency services to protect the community.

Public Safety & Disaster
9
Savannah State Univ Nat Alum Assoc
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10
Savannah Museum of African Art Inc
Arts & Culture
11
Coastal Georgia Historical Society

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…

Arts & Culture
12
Society of the Cincinnati in the State of Georgia

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Old Savannah City Mission Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

62 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. 62 of the 122 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/62
Grantees still filing
47/62
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT: $2,017,500 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENTUNITED WAY: $1,172,503 · OtherUNITED WAYBENEDICTINE MILITARY SCHOOL: $500,000 · OtherBENEDICTINE MILITARY SCHOOLST ANDREW'S SCHOOL: $465,000 · OtherST ANDREW'S SCHOOLIndividual grant recipient: $400,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientYMCA: $320,000 · OtherST VINCENT'S ACADEMY: $230,000 · Other+82 more: $1,401,072 · Other+82 moreSAVANNAH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $825,000 · EducationSAVANNAH COUN…THE SAVANNAH CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC: $100,000 · EducationTHE SAVANNAH …SAVANNAH CLASSICAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · EducationSAVANNAH CLAS…+7 more: $45,800 · EducationAMERICA'S SECOND HARVEST OF COASTAL GEORGIA INC: $484,000 · Food & NutritionELEVATE SAVANNAH: $351,250 · Youth Development+3 more: $21,000 · Youth DevelopmentSAVANNAH PHILHARMONIC CORPORATION: $175,000 · Arts & CultureTELFAIR MUSEUM OF ART INC: $53,000 · Arts & CultureCOASTAL JAZZ ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $11,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE MIGHTY EIGHTH AIR FORCE INC: $85,000 · PhilanthropySENIOR CITIZENS INC: $37,500 · Human ServicesHOSPICE SAVANNAH INC: $15,700 · Human ServicesThe SD Gunner Fund Inc: $11,500 · Human ServicesCHATHAM-SAVANNAH AUTHORITY FOR THE HOMELESS: $10,000 · Human Services+7 more: $7,450 · Human Services
Other$6,506,075Education$1,070,800Food & Nutrition$484,000Youth Development$372,250Arts & Culture$259,000Philanthropy$85,000Human Services$82,150

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAVANNAH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $825,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetAMERICA'S SECOND HARVEST OF COASTAL GEORGIA INC: $484,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetELEVATE SAVANNAH: $351,250 over 5y, 23% of budgetSAVANNAH PHILHARMONIC CORPORATION: $175,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetTHE SAVANNAH CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSAVANNAH CLASSICAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetNATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE MIGHTY EIGHTH AIR FORCE INC: $85,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetUNION MISSION INC: $75,250 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTELFAIR MUSEUM OF ART INC: $53,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSENIOR CITIZENS INC: $37,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTHE HABERSHAM SCHOOL INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCOASTAL JAZZ ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetHOSPICE SAVANNAH INC: $15,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHATHAM-SAVANNAH CITIZEN ADVOCACY: $15,300 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetGEORGIA INDEPENDENT COLLEGE ASSOCIATION INC: $15,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSAVANNAH TREE FOUNDATION INC: $13,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetROYCE LEARNING CENTER: $13,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE OLD SAVANNAH CITY MISSION INC: $12,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThe SD Gunner Fund Inc: $11,500 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $10,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHATHAM-SAVANNAH AUTHORITY FOR THE HOMELESS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE LIVING VINE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetGirl Scouts of Historic Georgia Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRANK CALLEN BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetURBAN HOPE INC: $9,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetHISTORIC SAVANNAH FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGEORGIA CONSERVANCY INC: $9,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCure Childhood Cancer Inc: $7,103 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SAVANNAH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBRIGHTSIDE CHILD AND FAMILIY ADVOCACY INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHOSPICE SAVANNAH FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOUNTAIN FILM IN SAVANNAH INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetCoastal Empire Habitat For Humanity: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPARK PLACE OUTREACHINC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF OATLAND ISLAND: $5,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetNATIONAL SOCIETY OF COLONIAL DAMES In the state of Maine: $5,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetSHIPS OF THE SEA MARITIME MUSEUM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOLD SOLDIERS HOME FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSAVANNAH TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOUNCIL OF COMMUNITY SERVICES: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE SHELTER CENTER FOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCITRUS COUNTY 4-H ASSOCIATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetGeorgia Southern University Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRESH AIR HOME INC: $1,800 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetJIMMY RANE FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGIA COMMUNITY WATER SPORTS CENTER INC: $1,500 over 1y, 1.3% 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 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 THE SAVANNAH CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds SAVANNAH CLASSICAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION 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 THE HABERSHAM SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds COASTAL JAZZ ASSOCIATION 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 ↗

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 Savannah Communit…The Hodge Foundation …Georgia Power Foundat…The Savannah Benevole…Courtney Knight Gaine…United Way of the Coa…The Dunn FoundationJohn G Kennedy Founda…The Brenneman Family …John and Emma Derst F…Jolly Foundation IncSavannah Jewish Counc…
The Savannah Community Foundation IncGA73.2× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Colonial Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Colonial Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 122 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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