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Cullum Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF SAVANNAH | $10,000 |
| BOYS GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER AUGUSTA INC | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF GEORGIA INC | $5,000 |
| AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| YMCA OF THE CSRA | $5,000 |
| AUGUSTA HERITAGE ACADEMY INC | $5,000 |
| FOUNDATION OF WESLEY WOODS INC | $5,000 |
| MAKEAWISH FOUNDATION OF GEORGIA INC | $5,000 |
| CHILD ENRICHMENT INC | $5,000 |
| APPARO ACADEMY INC | $3,500 |
| GOLDEN HARVEST FOOD BANK INC | $3,500 |
| THE JESSYE NORMAN SCHOOL OF THE ARTS | $2,500 |
| MINISTRIES INC | $1,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.
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 +18% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- CECHILD ENRICHMENT INC6× · 2019–2025 · $50k · revenue +99%
- GHGOLDEN HARVEST FOOD BANK INC4× · 2019–2025 · $21k · revenue +9%
- GMGAP Ministries of Augusta Inc4× · 2019–2024 · $18k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- SPSAINT PAUL'S CHURCHone grant, 2019 · $10k
- JAJunior Achievement of Georgiaone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +19%
- FYFamily Y Young Mens Christian Assoc-one grant, 2022 · $8k
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.
The organization offers social services as a compassionate outreach to abused, neglected and dependent children and families in need. the organization strives to positively impact the lives of children, families and all those who receive…
Our mission is to provide academic and spiritual training and extracurricula activities for students in the csra. it is also to prepare students to serve jesus christ as lord, partnering with family and church, instilling high standards…
The purpose of Augusta Counseling Ministry is to provide professional counseling to hurting individuals helping them learn how to cope with past and current traumatic issues anxiety and depression faced in their personal lives.
Hope atlanta seeks to help georgians avoid homelessness and hunger through a comprehensive approach that equips them with the tools for lifelong stability.our vision is to end hunger and homelessness for every georgian.
Georgia Court Appointed Special Advocates, Inc. (the Organization) is a nonprofit organization which strengthens and supports court-sanctioned, affiliate CASA programs that empower community volunteers who advocate for abused or neglected…
The mission of Family Promise of Augusta is to mobilize communities to help low-income families achieve and sustain independence.
Rebuilding lives in christ - we are a faith-based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that shelters homeless men and provides them with food, clothing and life-skills training. the mission provides the assistance to them at no cost and we…
The augusta preparatory day school, inc. provides educational services to students in grades pre-k through 12.
The augusta food bank provides a supplemental source of food to individuals and families in need.
Covenant Care Services, Inc. is a non-profit faith-based adoption agency serving birthmothers and adoptive families in the state of Georgia. The Organization counsels women experiencing unplanned pregancy and educates them about the option…
Our mission is to give every student the individual attention they need to succeed. this is at the core of everything we do. atlanta academy teaches children from pre-k through eighth grade.
As a ministry of jesus christ, agape's mission is that vulnerable and orphaned children find permanency in safe, nurturing families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Georgia Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jessye Norman School of the Arts Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 30 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 CHILD ENRICHMENT INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION OF WESLEY WOODS INC ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN HARVEST FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA HERITAGE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds APPARO ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds GAP Ministries of Augusta Inc ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE MAKING MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Jessye Norman School of the Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds RISE Augusta Inc ↗
- Who funds Junior Achievement of Georgia ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds Communities in Schools of Georgia ↗
- Who funds CHRIST COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES AUGUSTA INC ↗
- Who funds EAGLE RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA CHORAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN COOPERATIVE CHURCH MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTED HEARTS MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds PROJECT REFRESH 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 Community Foundation for the Central Savannah River Area Inc · Creel-Harison Foundation Inc · University Health Services Inc · The Knox Foundation · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · United Way of the Csra Inc · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · Children's Hospital Association · Cleon W Mauldin Fnd Trust · Erramuzpe Foundation Inc · Widows Home · Tr Dorothy M Buttolph Fdn
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 Cullum 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.