· Private foundation
Courtney Knight Gaines 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.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $270k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $360k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SECOND HARVEST OF COASTAL GA | $360,000 |
| LAKE JUNALUSKA ASSEMBLY | $50,000 |
| HAYWOOD CHRISTIAN MINISTRY | $35,000 |
| HOSPICE SAVANNAH | $30,000 |
| WESLEY MONUMENTAL CHURCH | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| SAVANNAH BOOK FESTIVAL | $20,000 |
| UNION MISSION INC | $20,000 |
| NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| CONGREGATION MICKVE ISRAEL | $15,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VA ATHLETICS FDN | $10,000 |
| YMCA | $10,000 |
| BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| PACIFIC CREST TRAIL ASSN | $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 (FY17–24, $390k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
55 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 4 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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
Lake Junaluska Assembly Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $430k · revenue +38%- HSHOSPICE SAVANNAH INC6× · 2017–2024 · $270k · revenue +52%
SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER7× · 2017–2023 · $130k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $40k
- CGCOASTAL GEORGIA COUNCIL INCone grant, 2017 · $33k · revenue -46%
- WRWARNER ROBINS FIRST UMCone grant, 2018 · $15k
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.
Scad prepares talented students for creative professions through engaged teaching and learning in a positively oriented university environment.
Our mission is to enhance the health of over 867,000 acres of georgias national forest by protecting our forests and streams, advocating for natural processes, and identifying opportunities to improve forest management.
Triangle land conservancy (tlc) strives to create a healthier and more vibrant triangle region by safeguarding clean water, protecting natural habitats, supporting local farms, and connecting people with nature through land protection and…
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.
The mission of the atlantic coast conservancy is to provide 21st century solutions and sound scientific applications for conservation of critical natural resources in the face of a changing climate, focusing on the southeasthern united…
The mission of friends is to partner with, promote and preserve georgia state parks & historic sites. statewide, friends works to raise awareness of the economic and intrinsic values of georgia's greatest treasures. we work with state and…
In 2024, biscayne bay waterkeeper (d/b/a miami waterkeeper) built on our reputation by navigating challenges, seizing opportunities, and continuing our unwavering commitment to safeguarding our precious waterways and finding local…
The georgia trust works for the preservation and revitalization of georgia's diverse historic resources and advocates for their appreciation, protection, and use.
The mission of alachua conservation trust (act) is to protect the natural, historic, scenic and recreational resources in and around alachua county, florida. act protects land through purchase, donation, and conservation easements.
Healthy savannah is dedicated to making savannah a healthier place to live. our aim is to increase opportunities for citizens to engage in physical activity and consume a nutritious, balanced diet.
Build partnerships that create, conserve and connect parks and greenspace in sandy springs, georgia. our actions to further our mission connect people to nature and each other for enhanced physical and mental health. our board of directors…
Upstate forever is a conservation organization with a mission to protect critical lands, waters, and the unique character of the upstate of south carolina.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Senior Citizens Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. 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 42 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 — 2% 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.
43 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. 43 of the 74 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 Lake Junaluska Assembly Inc ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE SAVANNAH INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds PERFORMANCE INITIATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVALINC ↗
- Who funds THE SAVANNAH BOOK FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CITIZENS INC ↗
- Who funds UNION MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WESLEYAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds REED HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds MEXICO BEACH ARTIFICIAL REEF ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds STEP UP SAVANNAH INC ↗
- Who funds Haywood Christian Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HOUSING SERVICES AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds SAVANNAH TREE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COASTAL GEORGIA COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC CREST TRAIL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Chatham Transitional Ministries 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: The Savannah Community Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Colonial Foundation Inc · United Way of the Coastal Empire · The Savannah Benevolent Association · The Hodge Foundation Inc · Savannah Jewish Council Inc Dba Savannah Jewish Federation · John G Kennedy Foundation Inc · International Paper Company Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 Courtney Knight Gaines 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.
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.
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