· Private foundation
Ed and Claude Fortson Charitable Trust
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $205k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $175k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTHERN CRESCENT SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER | $65,000 |
| FORTSON YOUTH TRAINING CENTER | $60,000 |
| BEREA CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $50,000 |
| HENRY COUNTY SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| HARVEST POINT CHURCH | $40,000 |
| HAMPTON FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $25,000 |
| CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH OF HAMPTON INC | $20,000 |
| PEOPLE FIRST OF HENRY COUNTY INC | $15,000 |
| ZION BAPTIST CHURCH | $15,000 |
| HAMPTON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $15,000 |
| A FRIENDS HOUSE INC | $15,000 |
| REMEMBERING OFFICERS CHILDREN INC | $10,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA FLINT RIVER COUNT | $10,000 |
| TENNIS PEOPLE INC | $7,500 |
| HIGH MUSEUM OF ART | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $175k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +19% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- HCHENRY COUNTY SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2025 · $120k · revenue +42% · 68% of their budget
- AFA FRIENDS HOUSE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $85k · revenue +115%
- CHCONNECTING HENRY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $75k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- BGBoys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Incone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -18%
- FRFLINT RIVER COUNCIL INC 95 SCOUTING AMERICAone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +13%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
Perform forensic interviews on minor children in response to calls from either the Department of Children and Family Services or law enforcement, regarding potential abuse of the child. The Center works as an advocate for the child with…
Healthcare related services
The primary mission of leadership hendricks county is to seek, prepare, involve and sustain leaders from diverse backgrounds to address community and countywide changes. developing quality leaders occurs in a signature program that takes…
Provide Forensic Interviews and Therapy Services
The mission of the henry county youth services bureau services bureau is to provide counseling to troubled youth in henry county, so the youth can become responsible for their own actions and can be able to function in a socially…
To equip and empower youth, adults, and families to become healthier and contributing members of the community by providing compassionate emotional and behavioral intensive residential treatment & qualified residential treatment for ages…
Henry county health center is committed to enhancing the health of individuals and our communities through high quality, effective and efficient services.
Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.
Recruit and train and license foster parents to receive foster children from county government agencies.
To provide high-quality, comprehensive, community-sensitive health care utilizing christ-oriented principles. rooted in our faith-driven values, sichc serves as a pillar for accessible, comprehensive care of the whole person and a catalyst…
To assist the low-income individuals in the city of atlanta and fulton county of georgia to achieve self-sufficiency.
To improve the health of our wider rural community and to serve as the independent provider of choice by offering comprehensive healthcare services to all area residents without regard to insurance or income.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connecting Henry Inc and the most unlike its peers is Fortson Youth Training Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 34 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 Southern Crescent Sexual Assault Center ↗
- Who funds FORTSON YOUTH TRAINING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HENRY COUNTY SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HENRY COUNTY CANCER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds A FRIENDS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTING HENRY INC ↗
- Who funds ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc ↗
- Who funds MIGHTY HERO HOME FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FERST READERS INC ↗
- Who funds FLINT RIVER COUNCIL INC 95 SCOUTING AMERICA ↗
- Who funds LIFE RADIO 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 Taylor Foundation · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · William R & Sara Babb Smith Foundation · Servant Foundation · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Ed and Claude Fortson Charitable Trust 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.