Georgia · Private foundation
CS Foundation Inc
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.
- $6.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 32
- Grants FY2025
- 38
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 32%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 38
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $38M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 32% of the organizations CS Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 32 | $6.4M | 22% |
| FY2024 | 38 | $5.9M | 32% |
| FY2023 | 32 | $4.6M | 34% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $3.7M | 17% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $2.5M | 13% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $2.0M | 43% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $1.4M | 39% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $768k | 53% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Dollywood Foundation | $1,000,000 | 1 | 1% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $850,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Breakthrough Corporation D/B/A Autism Breakthrough of Knoxville | $740,000 | 9 | 4% |
| Cleveland State Community College Foundation | $538,432 | 5 | 32% |
| Bradley Cleveland Public Education Foundation | $440,000 | 8 | 13% |
| Cleveland State Community College | $300,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Family Cornerstones Inc | $140,000 | 5 | 33% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $125,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Alliance Defending Freedom | $87,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Wesley Memorial Church Inc | $85,000 | 3 | n/a |
Show all 29 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($23M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
CS Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Cleveland and Bradley County · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About CS Foundation Inc
- How much does CS Foundation Inc give?
- CS Foundation Inc reported 32 grants totaling $6,444,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 38 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does CS Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (36%), Health (30%), Human Services (12%).
- Who are CS Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Dollywood Foundation ($1.0M), St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($850k), Breakthrough Corporation D/B/A Autism Breakthrough of Knoxville ($740k).
- Does CS Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does CS Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as CS Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Cleveland and Bradley County, The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc, Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund.
- Where is CS Foundation Inc based?
- CS Foundation Inc is based in GA.
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