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David Gambrell Endowment Fund Inc at a glance

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David Gambrell Endowment Fund Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$11k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$216kEducation$115kInternational$65kHealth$11kEnvironment$10kCrime & Legal$6kArts & Culture$6kReligion$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$649k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SUNSHINE HOUSE$5,000
OGEECHEE RIVERKEEPER$2,500
GA HI-LO TRAIL$2,500
EAST GA STATE COLLEGE FND$1,000
MAGNOLIA CEMETARY TRUST$250
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–18, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%PRESBYTERIAN HOMES OF GEORGIA: $1k → 9%PRESBYTERIAN HOMES OF GEORGIA: $1k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$357k · 19 repeat orgs$93k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
9

Total granted

$357k
$89k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+52%

Still filing today

68%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesCrime & LegalArts & CultureInternationalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • AU
    ATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION
    3× · 2018–2020 · $118k · revenue +10%
  • TC
    THE CARTER CENTER INC
    3× · 2017–2020 · $65k · revenue +38%
  • EC
    EMANUEL CO CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION CTR
    8× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • Davidson Collegegraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $70k · revenue +52%
  • PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +109%
  • EC
    EMANUEL CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Morehouse School of Medicine

Leading the creation and advancement of health equity we exist to improve the health and well-being of individuals and communities, increase the diversity of the health professional and scientific workforce, and address primary health care…

Education
2
Emory University

Emory University's mission is to create, preserve, teach, and apply knowledge in the service of humanity. (See Schedule O for continuation)

Education
3
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
4
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
5
Savannah College of Art and DesignInc

Scad prepares talented students for creative professions through engaged teaching and learning in a positively oriented university environment.

Education
6
Spelman College

Spelman college, a historically black college and global leader in the education of women of african descent, is dedicated to the academic excellence of its students.

Education
7
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
8
Anderson University

The university is a comprehensive university affiliated with the south carolina baptist convention offering bachelors, masters, and doctorate degrees. located on approximately 398 acres in the upstate region of south carolina near the…

Education
9
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
10
Florida Southern College

Florida southern college (florida southern or the college) is committed to educational excellence and is a selective comprehensive, private, united methodist affiliated college with a strong liberal arts core and signature programs. (see…

Education
11
University of the South

The College of Arts and Sciences is committed to the development of the whole person through a liberal arts education of the highest quality. The School of Theology educates women and men to serve the broad whole of the Episcopal Church in…

Education
12
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Student Aid Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 30 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
16/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION: $117,500 · Human ServicesATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORAT…+1 more: $2,000 · Human ServicesTHE SALVATION ARMY: $56,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYEAST GEORGIA STATE COLLEGE: $25,000 · OtherEAST GEORGIA STATE COLLEGEIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientEMANUEL CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $5,000 · OtherEMORY LAW SCHOOL: $4,000 · OtherStudent Aid Foundation Inc: $4,000 · Other+11 more: $16,000 · Other+11 moreDavidson College: $70,000 · EducationDavidson CollegeThe Westminster Schools Inc: $10,000 · EducationThe Westminster Scho…+2 more: $500 · EducationTHE CARTER CENTER INC: $65,000 · InternationalTHE CARTER CENTE…EMANUEL CO CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION CTR: $40,000 · Crime & LegalEMANUEL CO…GEORGIA JUSTICE PROJECT INC: $3,000 · Crime & LegalGEORGIA JU…PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · HealthSHEPHERD CENTER INC: $1,000 · HealthFOUNDATION OF WESLEY WOODS INC: $500 · HealthOGEECHEE RIVERKEEPER INC: $10,000 · Environment
Human Services$119,500Other$120,000Education$80,500International$65,000Crime & Legal$43,000Health$11,500Environment$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION: $117,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetDavidson College: $70,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CARTER CENTER INC: $65,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEMANUEL CO CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION CTR: $40,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetThe Westminster Schools Inc: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOGEECHEE RIVERKEEPER INC: $10,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetStudent Aid Foundation Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN HOMES OF GEORGIA INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGeorgia Historical Society: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAGNOLIA CEMETERY TRUST: $1,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSHEPHERD CENTER INC: $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOUTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAgape Community Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION OF WESLEY WOODS INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRhodes College: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 Foundat…The Knox FoundationThe Imlay Foundation …Georgia Power Foundat…The Community Foundat…Natl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Community Foundation for the Central Savannah River Area IncGA15.6× affinity5 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 · The Knox Foundation · The Imlay Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization David Gambrell Endowment Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David Gambrell Endowment Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to David Gambrell Endowment Fund Inc?

    Find your warmest path to David Gambrell Endowment Fund Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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