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Environmental Fund for GeorgiaInc
EarthShare Georgia connects people to trusted not-for-profit organizations dedicated to protecting our air, land and water.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $155,676 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $229,495 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $73,819 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k9 grants · $57k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $89k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Earthshare National | $88,866 |
| Chattahoochee Riverkeeper | $10,199 |
| Trees Atlanta | $7,858 |
| Georgia Wildlife Federation | $7,062 |
| Chattahoochee Nature Center | $6,969 |
| Friends of State Botanical Garden of Georgia | $6,489 |
| Georgia Audubon | $6,087 |
| Southface Energy | $5,682 |
| Georiga Organics | $5,682 |
| Atlanta Bicycle Coalition | $5,429 |
| The Georgia Conservancy | $5,353 |
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 (FY17–19, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% 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 +80% since the first grant, against -33% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2020, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $89k 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
- CRCHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER INC4× · 2017–2020 · $59k · revenue +41%
- TATREES ATLANTA INC4× · 2017–2020 · $49k · revenue +234%
- GWGEORGIA WILDLIFE FEDERATION4× · 2017–2020 · $40k · revenue +95%
Funded once
- TCTrees Columbus Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue +28%
- WHWILLIAM H REYNOLDS MEM NATURE PRESERVEone grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue -74% · 73% of their budget
- SRSAVANNAH RIVERKEEPER INCone grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue -37%
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.
Our mission is to enhance the health of over 867,000 acres of georgias national forest by protecting our forests and streams, advocating for natural processes, and identifying opportunities to improve forest management.
A mission to create outdoor recreation opportunity, connect communities and trails, promote quality of life, and to protect our natural resources.
To sustain Georgia's green legacy by partnering with individuals, organizations, and communities in raising awareness toward improving and maintaining Georgia's community forests.
The corporation is organized for the purpose of conducting public interest research, policy development, analysis, and education to protect the environment and people of Georgia, including, but not limited to, the quality of Georgia's air,…
Advocating for the conservation of Georgias natural resources by providing organization, leadership and a unified strategic direction to the soil and water conservation districts of the state.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Promote social welfare on matters relating to water conservation.
Through rigorous immersive educational experiences help equip Georgia leaders with the environmental knowledge, perspectives, and relationships they need to lead our state for decades to come.
Upstate forever is a conservation organization with a mission to protect critical lands, waters, and the unique character of the upstate of south carolina.
The mission of the South Fork Conservancy is to restore and preserve habitat along the tributaries of Peachtree Creek. We give the community access to these healthy, restored greenspaces by designing, building and maintaining nature trails.
Mission is to seek protection of land and water resources through restoration and conservation; and conducting education and outreach on the ecological and economic importance of natural lands. we protect land from development and protect…
To protect and restore the ecological integrity of the chattooga river watershed; to ensure the viability of native species and a healthy human environment; to empower communities to practice good land stewardship.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trees Atlanta Inc and the most unlike its peers is William H Reynolds Mem Nature Preserve. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 20% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
24 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. 24 of the 25 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 EARTHSHARE ↗
- Who funds CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds TREES ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA ORGANICS INC ↗
- Who funds PROPEL ATL INC ↗
- Who funds CHATTAHOOCHEE NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHFACE ENERGY INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF GA STATE PARKS & HISTORI ↗
- Who funds Birds Georgia Corporation ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE STATE BOTANICAL GARDEN OF GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ALLIANCE FOR CLEAN ENERGY ↗
- Who funds PARK PRIDE INC ↗
- Who funds West Atlanta Watershed Alliance ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA RIVER NETWORK INC dba GEORGIA RIVERS ↗
- Who funds FLINT RIVERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds Trees Columbus Inc ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM H REYNOLDS MEM NATURE PRESERVE ↗
- Who funds SAVANNAH RIVERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds ELACHEE NATURE SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Captain Planet Foundation 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 Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Turner Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Ray C Anderson Foundation Inc · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · Patagoniaorg · Bright Wings Fndtn Tr Ua · The Virginia & Charles Brewer Family Foundation · R Howard Dobbs Jr Foundation Inc · AEC Trust · The Imlay Foundation Inc · The Arthur M Blank Family 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 Environmental Fund for GeorgiaInc 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.