· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| HARVEST POINT CHURCH | $40,000 |
| HENRY COUNTY SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| HAMPTON FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $25,000 |
| CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH OF HAMPTON INC | $20,000 |
| HAMPTON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $15,000 |
| PEOPLE FIRST OF HENRY COUNTY INC | $15,000 |
| ZION BAPTIST 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 |
| MIGHTY HERO HOME FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +1% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 34 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ed and Claude Fortson Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ed and Claude Fortson Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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