· Community foundation
Community Foundation of Greater Rome Inc
To improve the quality of life for every person in rome and floyd county, now and forever, and to build a culture of giving.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 27 grants below total $607,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $722,170 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $115,170 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $321k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $239k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BERRY COLLEGE | $130,000 |
| DARLINGTON SCHOOL | $108,700 |
| YMCA OF ROME AND FLOYD COUNTY GA | $45,700 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $35,350 |
| ST PETER'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $35,000 |
| SOUTH ROME COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC | $33,355 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $20,250 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF ROME GEORGIA | $18,500 |
| OPEN DOOR CHILDREN'S HOME | $14,650 |
| EXTRA SPECIAL PEOPLE | $12,184 |
| STETSON UNIVERSITY INC | $12,000 |
| FSU FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| LIVING PROOF RECOVERY | $11,295 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $11,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER AREA | $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 (FY18–23, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 22% of Community Foundation of Greater Rome Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 90% of the giving stays in GA; read by stated purpose it is 37% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
27 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 7 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $101k 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
- BCBERRY COLLEGE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $495k · revenue +36%
- DSDarlington School Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $138k · revenue +32%
- YLYOUNG LIFE5× · 2018–2024 · $107k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- FPFIRST PRESBYTERIANone grant, 2018 · $38k
- YYMCAone grant, 2018 · $28k
- MHMYRTLE HILL OAK HILL MEMORIAL ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2020 · $27k
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.
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Belhaven university prepares students academically and spiritually to serve jesus christ in their careers, in human relationships, and in the world of ideas.
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The College of Arts and Sciences is committed to the development of the whole person through a liberal arts education of the highest quality. The School of Theology educates women and men to serve the broad whole of the Episcopal Church in…
The college's mission is to train christians to serve god and his church.
Our commitment is to provide the individual support, meaningful training and employment services to people to remove barriers and close skill gaps so that individuals build brighter futures.
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A christ-centered university committed to exceptional teaching, scholarly research, creative innovation, and professional collaboration.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgia-Alabama Land Trust Inc and the most unlike its peers is A Teens Choice 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 45 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.
24 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. 24 of the 54 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 BERRY COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds Darlington School Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds The Florida State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds STETSON UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Extra Special People Inc ↗
- Who funds The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago ↗
- Who funds LIVINGPROOF RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL IMPACT INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA-ALABAMA LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Lovejoy Community Services Inc ↗
- Who funds A TEENS CHOICE INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR HOME ↗
- Who funds HOSPITALITY HOUSE FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC ↗
- Who funds ELEVATION HOUSE 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: Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Floyd Healthcare Management Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Elwood & Louise Hunt Charitable Foundation Inc · Camp Family Foundation Inc · United Way of Rome & Floyd County Inc Dba United Way of Floyd Polk & Chattoog · D Gaines Lanier Family Foundation · International Paper Company Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Network for Good · 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 Community Foundation of Greater Rome 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.
- Stetson University Inc — 0% of income from government
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.