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Colquitt Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$899k
Granted FY2024still arriving
53
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 53 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k41 grants · $65k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $283k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
  • $250k+2 grants · $500k
$1,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$30M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THRIVE LONSDALE$250,000
WEARS VALLEY RANCH$250,000
LONG BRANCH MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH$51,000
HAYWOOD CHRISTIAN MINISTRY$44,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$42,000
UNITED WAY OF HAYWOOD COUNTY INC$41,000
THE NORTH CAROLINA DISASTER RELIEF FUND$41,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$40,000
KNOXVILLE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS INC$30,000
IMMANUEL COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC$20,000
SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN$15,000
INTERNATIONAL GENEROSITY FOUNDATION$10,000
CHAMPION CHRISTMAS BASKET AND SANTA PAL$5,000
MOUNTAIN PROJECTS INC$4,000
BELOVED OF ASHEVILLE$4,000
02The need
02

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $560k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WEARS VALLEY RANCH: $250k → 12%SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN: $15k → 8%MERCY CHEFS: $1k → 20%THRIVE LONSDALE: $250k → 12%HAYWOOD CHRISTIAN MINISTRY: $44k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your field

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.

1
Western Carolina Rescue Ministries Inc

Provide food, shelter, rehabilitation and christian ministry to the poor and homeless

Housing & Shelter
2
Feeding the Carolinas

The mission of the Organization is to coordinate, support, and advocate for member Food Banks across the Carolinas to create lasting solutions to address hunger.

Food & Nutrition
3
Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc

Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.

Food & Nutrition
4
Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.

Animals
5
Northern Virginia Food Rescue

Northern virginia food rescue is responding to the disconnect between wasting 40% of our food while 1 in 6 go hungry. northern virginia food rescue aims to address the disconnect in distribution-in supply and access-by rescuing food about…

Food & Nutrition
6
God's Pantry Food Bank Inc

The mission of god's pantry food bank is reducing hunger by working together to feed kentucky communities. god's pantry food bank envisions a nourished life for every kentuckian.

7
Glean Kentucky Inc

Glean kentucky nourishes kentucky's hungry by rescuing and redistributing surplus fresh foods.

Food & Nutrition
8
Safe Haven for Cats

The mission of safe haven for cats is to use no-kill principles and education to save cats' lives through rescue, adoption, spay/neuter services and community programs.

Animals
9
Feeding Avery Families Inc

Provide food at no cost to hungry people in need in avery county, nc and improve their health where possible

Food & Nutrition
10
World Renew

Compelled by a deep passion for justice and mercy, World Renew joins communities around the world to renew hope, reconcile lives, and restore creation with programs focused on disaster response, community health, economic opportunity, food…

11
Smoky Mountain Area Rescue Ministries Inc

Provide assistance to individuals in sevier county who are temporarily in financial difficulty through the issuance of vouchers for utilities, rent, lodging, etc., and through our hot meals for hungry hearts program.

Health
12
Wnc Lighthouse Inc

The mission of WNC Lighthouse Inc is Changing lives, by being a light for Christ our Lord. Our vision is To be fully devoted to Jesus Christ, by opening our arms and providing Christian services to the underseved children, adults and…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mountain Projects Inc and the most unlike its peers is CATMAN2 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsUnited Way AffiliatesEnvironmental Conservation …Food Banks and PantriesSchool District FoundationsCommunity Food PantriesAnimal Rescue and Shelter
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 28 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%10%<5yr14%13%5–10yr17%13%10–20yr13%20%20–35yr11%30%35–55yr24%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%3%<5yr14%1%5–10yr17%7%10–20yr13%32%20–35yr11%51%35–55yr24%6%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/35
the rest of the field
13%
4,628/36,365

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.

03the grantee network

29 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 53 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
11/29
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SOAR YOUTH MINISTRIES INC THRIVE LONSDALE — $250,000 · Human ServicesSOAR YOUTH MINISTRIES INC THRIVE LONSDALEWEARS VALLEY RANCH INC — $250,000 · Human ServicesWEARS VALLEY RANCH INCHaywood Christian Ministry Inc — $44,000 · Human ServicesHaywood Christian Ministry Inc+2 more — $16,000 · Human ServicesLONG BRANCH MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH — $51,000 · OtherLONG BRANCH MISSIONAR…UNITED WAY OF HAYWOOD COUNTY INC — $41,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF HAYWOOD…IMMANUEL COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC — $20,000 · OtherIMMANUEL COMMUNITY SC…INTERNATIONAL GENEROSITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL GENEROS…+34 more — $51,000 · Other+34 moreSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $42,000 · ReligionUNITED WAY OF NORTH CAROLINA — $41,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $1,000 · PhilanthropyWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $40,000 · International+1 more — $1,000 · InternationalKNOXVILLE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS INC — $30,000 · AnimalsSARGES ANIMAL RESCUE FOUNDATION INC — $4,000 · Animals+1 more — $1,000 · AnimalsBELOVED ASHEVILLE — $4,000 · Housing & ShelterEIGHT DAYS OF HOPE INC — $2,000 · Housing & Shelter
Human Services$560,000Other$173,000Religion$42,000Philanthropy$42,000International$41,000Animals$35,000Housing & Shelter$6,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSOAR YOUTH MINISTRIES INC THRIVE LONSDALE — $250,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetWEARS VALLEY RANCH INC — $250,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetHaywood Christian Ministry Inc — $44,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $42,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF HAYWOOD COUNTY INC — $41,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTH CAROLINA — $41,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKNOXVILLE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBELOVED ASHEVILLE — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSARGES ANIMAL RESCUE FOUNDATION INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMOUNTAIN PROJECTS INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEIGHT DAYS OF HOPE INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAYWOOD COUNTY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCATMAN2 INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCLOTHES TO KIDS OF HAYWOOD COUNTY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGREATER GOOD CHARITIES — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL INDEPENDENT VENUE FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAERIAL RECOVERY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Jamaica Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMANNA FOOD BANK INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY CHEFS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PEARL PSYCHEDELIC INSTITUTE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUnited Cajun Navy — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMountainTrue — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLoving Food Resources Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAppalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina IncNC25× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · East Tennessee Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Dogwood Health Trust · Ken & Deborah Wilson Foundation Inc · Wnc Bridge Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The John C Harmon Family Foundation · Gradison Foundation · Pisgah Health Foundation

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 Colquitt Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report 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, FY2025

    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.

    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Colquitt Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Colquitt Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 53 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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