· Private foundation
Colonial Hill Foundation Trust Margaret C Deborde Trustee
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 $10k12 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $110k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $160k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $160,000 |
| THE BLAKE HOUSE | $30,000 |
| ATLANTA YOUTH ACADEMY | $20,000 |
| WINGS CENTER | $10,000 |
| SUMMERHILL COMMUNITY MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| SHEPHERD CENTER | $10,000 |
| PIEDMONT FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $10,000 |
| CATHEDRAL OF ST PHILIP | $10,000 |
| CORAL REEF ALLIANCE | $7,500 |
| MOBILE MEALS | $7,500 |
| RICE BOWLS | $7,500 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| CHILDCARE GROUP | $5,000 |
| FOSTERING FANNIN (FORMERLY FANNIN FOSTER FAMILIES) | $5,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
41 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- TBThe Blake House Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $293k · revenue +48%
- SCSHEPHERD CENTER INC8× · 2018–2025 · $80k · revenue +48%
- TLTHE LOVETT SCHOOL INC4× · 2017–2020 · $75k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- GSGeorgia State University Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $45k · revenue +42%
- CHCOVENANT HOUSE GEORGIA INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +28%
- MTMISSIONS TO THE WORLDone grant, 2021 · $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.
To share the truth and compassion of jesus christ, support life-affirming choices and promote healthy relationships by serving and caring for women and families in pregnancy-related circumstances
Children at heart ministries is a family of christian ministries that exists to honor god and build a better world by serving children and strengthening families.
Restoration Atlanta exists to strengthen & equip under-resourced families to experience holistic restoration. We carry this out through providing ministry, childcare, and child development services to families experiencing homelessness and…
Beloved atlanta is an anti-sex trafficking organization lovingly equipping brave women on their path to freedom. we accomplish this through safe housing, mental health services, thrength based case management, and healthy community.
Our mission is to show the love of christ to each and every child and family towhom we serve and beyond. we do this by creating a culture where the needs of children,families, and staff are seen and met in creative and innovative ways.
Baptist children's homes of north carolina (bch) is a nonprofit organization that reaches out to children and families in crisis. the agency's mission statement is "sharing hope...changing lives."
Families first strengthens family resiliency so children and families can thrive. through a prevention-based, two-generation approach, the organization provides behavioral health services, intensive navigation and case management, and…
We protect consumers of behavior analysis services by systematically establishing, promoting, and disseminating professional standards.
To provide food, shelter, and programs that transform lives.
The specific purpose of this corporation is to present a biblical, christian ministry of the gospel, hope, encouragement and strength to as many people as possible. the intent of those who will conduct this corporation's work is to present…
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
We are compelled by god's word to provide security, education and the hope of jesus to children in south africa so they can thrive personally and impact their future families, communities and the kingdom of god.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shepherd Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration. 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 29 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 63 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 The Blake House Inc ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE LOVETT SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE CORAL REEF ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Rice Bowls Inc ↗
- Who funds EAGLE RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds Georgia State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SUMMERHILL COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds BENJAMIN HOUSE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds MUSIC WILL INC ↗
- Who funds THE ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds BAPTIST MEDICAL & DENTAL MISSION INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE 300 CLUB OF ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN BIBLE COLLEGES INC ↗
- Who funds ROAD SAFE AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CHILDCAREGROUP ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA JUSTICE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds BORDERS EXPANDED MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds ASCENSA HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds MOBILE MEALS OF SPARTANBURG COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds PEACHTREE PRESBYTERIAN PRE-SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICA SHARE USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE ASSOCIATION FOR FRONTOTEMPORAL DEGENERATION ↗
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 Greater Atlanta Inc · Spartanburg County Foundation · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · The Imlay Foundation Inc · South Carolina Christian Foundation · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · McKesson Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable 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 Colonial Hill Foundation Trust Margaret C Deborde Trustee 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.