· Community foundation
Community Foundation of W Georgia
To enhance the quality of life for the people of the west georgia area.
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 99 grants below total $3,188,017 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,427,122 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $239,105 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 $10k31 grants · $226k
- $10k–50k49 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k18 grants · $1.6M
- $250k+1 grant · $257k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF WEST GA FOUND INC | $256,837 |
| THE CARROLLTON CITY SCHOOLS ED FOUN | $172,570 |
| THS RESOURCE BRIDGE | $168,000 |
| SOUTHERN HILLS THE CHURCH AT CITY | $120,000 |
| COWETA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $114,955 |
| CITY OF CARROLLTON | $109,344 |
| CARROLL COUNTY SCHOOLS -FIELD TRIPS | $100,379 |
| THE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC | $100,000 |
| EMORY UNIVERSITY | $85,000 |
| CIRCLES OF WEST GEORGIA | $79,000 |
| ST MARGARET'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $76,503 |
| ST MARGARET'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH COM | $74,289 |
| CARROLL COUNTY EDF | $71,000 |
| BERRY COLLEGE INC | $65,000 |
| LEADING THE WAY WITH DR MICHAEL YOU | $60,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
119 repeat relationships — 56 still active in FY2024, 63 since wound down; 29 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $736k 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
- UOUniversity of West Georgia Foundation Inc7× · 2017–2023 · $1.6M · revenue +29%
- TMTANNER MEDICAL FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +21%
- EUEmory University8× · 2017–2024 · $846k · revenue +80%
Funded once
- PFPATH FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $948k · revenue -7%
- CHCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA GROUP RETURNgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +51%
- CHCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INCone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -22%
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.
Our mission is to create thriving communities by helping nonprofits succeed. our work revolves around four primary areas of focus.1. we are a hub for social innovation 2. we are a capacity accelerator for organizations and their people3.…
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.
George fox university, a christ centered community, prepares students spiritually, academically, and professionally to think with clarity, act with integrity, and serve with passion.
The mission of Toccoa Falls College is to glorify God through seeking and developing Christian servant leaders who will impact their world with the love and message of Jesus Christ.
The mission of the grady health foundation is to grow both philanthropic support and broad-based understanding of the critical role that grady health system plays in the metro atlanta region. our focus is to ensure grady health system has…
Supporting people with special needs to lead fulfilled lives.
The mission of georgia cares is to ensure that child sex trafficking victims receive quality care and services in the state of georgia
The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively as a supporting organization to and for the benefit of the georgia institute of technology to foster and support education and scientific research and economic development…
The corporation will serve to establish and direct a classical high schoolgrounded in the catholic faith in western cobb county, georgia, usa.
To support caregivers and their loved ones by providing a compassionate care center offering safe, engaging, and reliable adult services.
The organization's mission is to build lives, families and communities one career at a time by helping people develop their god-given gifts through education, work and career development services. goodwill strives to end poverty one new…
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Positive Response Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 28 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
145 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. 145 of the 231 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds University of West Georgia Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CARROLLTON CITY SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TANNER MEDICAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF W GEORGIA ↗
- Who funds PATH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds FERST READERS INC ↗
- Who funds THS EMERGENCY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds CIRCLES OF WEST GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds Oak Mountain Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds WESLEYAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds Ferst Readers of Carroll County Inc ↗
- Who funds KIDSPEACE NATIONAL CENTERS OF GEORGIA ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds YOUTH INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Impact International Inc ↗
- Who funds KEEP CARROLL BEAUTIFUL ↗
- Who funds THE OVARIAN CANCER INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA JUSTICE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA ORGANICS INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CARROLL COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCATES ↗
- Who funds OPEN HANDS UNITED CHRISTIAN MINISTRYINC ↗
- Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds WAYPOINT RANCH CLC INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS ADVANCING STUDENT SUCCESS ↗
- Who funds CARROLL COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COWETA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CARROLL COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER 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 · The Cole Family Charitable Foundation Co Charles Edwin Cole Trustee · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Atlanta Community Food Bank Inc · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia · Clothes Less Traveled Thrift Shop Inc · Carroll Electric Membership Foundation Inc · The Imlay Foundation Inc · Coweta Community Foundation Inc · Coweta-Fayette Trust Inc · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main
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 W Georgia 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.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% 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.