· Private foundation
Elam Alexander 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, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $71k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MENTOR'S PROJECT | $22,000 |
| MUSEUM OF ARTS AND SCIENCES | $20,000 |
| MOTIVATING YOUTH FOUNDATION INC | $15,000 |
| CAMPUS CLUB | $14,000 |
| HAY HOUSE | $6,000 |
| MOTIVATING YOUTH ADULT READINESS | $5,000 |
| MACON ARTS ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
| FIRST TEE | $5,000 |
| MIDDLE GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOU | $5,000 |
| WESLEYAN COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| NUTCRACKER OF MIDDLE GEORGIA | $5,000 |
| OTIS REDDING FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| THE CANNONBALL HOUSE | $2,000 |
| MORNING MUSIC CLUB | $2,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 23%. 0% 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.
16 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CCCAMPUS CLUBS INC7× · 2019–2025 · $82k · revenue +37%
- MYMOTIVATING YOUTH FOUNDATION INC7× · 2019–2025 · $81k · revenue +3%
- MAMACON ARTS ALLIANCE INC7× · 2019–2025 · $44k · revenue +86%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $20k
- MPMENTORS PROJECT OF BIBB COUNTY INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +55%
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.
To foster interest in fine art in macon ga
Providing a collective for all visual artists in franklin, macon county and the surrounding areas; promoting art and art appreciation through education and exibition; supporting the work of artists and art endeavors; supporting the work of…
To promote art in the community which includes providing a space where artists can work and teach and students can take lessons and artists can exhibit their art
To promote economic development.
To stage concerts for the benefit of the public.
To provide scholarships and promote ag education.
County fair
Music education
To bring a grammy museum and educational programs to georgia.
Family literacy education
To provide small ensemble chamber music perfs
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 20 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 MUSEUM OF ARTS & SCIENCES INC ↗
- Who funds CAMPUS CLUBS INC ↗
- Who funds MOTIVATING YOUTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MACON ARTS ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds WESLEYAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE ARC MACON INC ↗
- Who funds NUTCRACKER OF MIDDLE GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds MENTORS PROJECT OF BIBB COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE MORNING MUSIC CLUB ↗
- Who funds OTIS REDDING FOUNDATION 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: Griffith Family Foundation Inc · The Peyton Anderson Foundation · Ej Grassmann Trust · John S and James L Knight Foundation · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · James Hyde Porter Testamentary Trust · Martin Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Elam Alexander Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Elam Alexander Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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