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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.

$61k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2025
10
Organizations funded FY2024
10%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 12
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$1.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 10% of the organizations Cullum Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24
HealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentInternationalReligionHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving13$61k38%
FY202410$50k10%
FY202312$60k42%
FY202210$65k30%
FY20217$63k57%
FY201912$68kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$101kHuman Services$86kCrime & Legal$50kFood & Nutrition$41kReligion$39kYouth Development$13kPhilanthropy$13kHealth$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Child Enrichment Inc$50,00061%
Foundation of Wesley Woods Inc$38,50050%
Augusta University Foundation Inc$22,50030%
Golden Harvest Food Bank Inc$21,00040%
Augusta Heritage Academy Inc$20,00030%
Apparo Academy Inc$18,50040%
GAP Ministries of Augusta Inc$17,50041%
Miracle Making Ministries Inc$15,00021%
Hope House Inc$14,00030%
The Salvation Army$13,0002n/a
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($73k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Cullum Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChild Enrichment Inc: $50,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetFoundation of Wesley Woods Inc: $38,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAugusta University Foundation Inc: $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGolden Harvest Food Bank Inc: $21,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAugusta Heritage Academy Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetApparo Academy Inc: $18,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGAP Ministries of Augusta Inc: $17,500 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetMiracle Making Ministries Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHope House Inc: $14,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetJessye Norman School of the Arts Inc: $12,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetRISE Augusta Inc: $10,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetJunior Achievement of Georgia: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of Georgia Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommunities in Schools of Georgia: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChrist Community Health Services Augusta Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAugusta Choral Society Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetDowntown Cooperative Church Ministries Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetProject Refresh Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetEagle Ranch Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetConnected Hearts Ministry: $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 20.

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.

The Community Foundation for the Central Savannah River Area IncGA30.2× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Cullum Foundation

How much does Cullum Foundation give?
Cullum Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $60,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 12 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Cullum Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (28%), Human Services (23%), Crime & Legal (14%).
Who are Cullum Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Child Enrichment Inc ($50k), Foundation of Wesley Woods Inc ($39k), Augusta University Foundation Inc ($23k).
Does Cullum Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Cullum Foundation 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 Cullum Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation for the Central Savannah River Area Inc, Creel-Harison Foundation Inc, University Health Services Inc.
Where is Cullum Foundation based?
Cullum Foundation is based in MO.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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