· Private foundation
Fickling Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 24 grants below total $300,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $316,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $16,000 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $120k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY | $75,000 |
| THE 1085 INSTITUTE, INC. | $50,000 |
| UGA FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE BOTANICAL GARDEN OF GEORGIA, INC. | $25,000 |
| OTIS REDDING FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CENTRAL GEORGIA COUNCIL OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $15,000 |
| WESLEYAN COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| MACON-BIBB COUNTY CLEAN COMMUNITY COMMISSION KEEP MACON-BIBB BEAUTIFUL COMMISSION | $10,000 |
| GEORGIA PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION, INC. | $10,000 |
| THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| 21ST CENTURY PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION, INC. | $10,000 |
| MULBERRY STREET UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $6,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL GEORGIA, INC. | $5,000 |
| THE SUNSHINE FOUNDATION AT ROB'S PLACE, INC. | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL GEORGIA, INC. | $5,000 |
| STEER SMART, INC. | $5,000 |
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 +18% since the first grant, against -19% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $194k 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
- WCWESLEYAN COLLEGE3× · 2017–2024 · $165k · revenue +12%
- GPGEORGIA PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION INC4× · 2017–2024 · $35k · revenue +112%
- RGRabun Gap-Nacoochee School4× · 2017–2024 · $20k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- T1THE 1055 INSTITUTE, INC.one grant, 2023 · $50k
- SCSHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -345%
- GHGeorgia Historical Societygraduatedone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +33%
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.
Scad prepares talented students for creative professions through engaged teaching and learning in a positively oriented university environment.
Coker university is a student-centered, comprehensive university. it is dedicated to providing every student an academic curriculum based upon a uniformly excellent liberal arts core that enhances the structured development of key personal…
The Georgia Symphony Orchestra GSO is a non-profit corporation organized for the purposes of providing significant cultural and educational value to the north-metro Atlanta community. The organization performs public concerts through our…
Emory University's mission is to create, preserve, teach, and apply knowledge in the service of humanity. (See Schedule O for continuation)
The schs mission is to expand, preserve, and make accessible our invaluable collection, and to encourage interest and pride in the rich history of our state.
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…
Surrounded by a rich musical and southern culture, the macon film festival celebrates independent film while promoting filmmaking for entertainment, inspiration, education, and economic development. through the work of the macon film…
The gordon youth science and technology center (gystc) is a regional center dedicated to promoting student interest and achievement in science and mathematics. we aim to stimulate a child's interest from an early age to enjoy, not fear,…
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…
Atlanta history center seeks to connect people, history, and culture to build a stronger community. through exhibitions, collections, historic houses, gardens, archives, educational school tours, public programs, and digital and virtual…
The mission of the gibbes museum of art is to enhance lives through art by engaging people of every background and experience with art and artists of enduring quality; collect and preserve the art that touches charleston; and provide…
Wesleyan university is dedicated to providing an education in liberal arts by building a diverse, energetic community of students, faculty, and staff who value independence of mind and generosity of spirit. see additional description in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Otis Redding Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Steer Smart Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
23 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. 23 of the 54 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 1065 INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds WESLEYAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OTIS REDDING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School ↗
- Who funds Wesley Glen Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds STEER SMART INC ↗
- Who funds Georgia Historical Society ↗
- Who funds METHODIST HOME OF THE SOUTH GEORGIA CONFERENCE INC ↗
- Who funds MACON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds 21st Century Partnership Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF ARTS & SCIENCES INC ↗
- Who funds HAMBIDGE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS AND SCIENCES INC ↗
- Who funds MACON POPS 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: Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Peyton Anderson Foundation · Ej Grassmann Trust · Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc · Griffith Family Foundation Inc · John S and James L Knight Foundation · Ia Ga Pine Level Fdn Non-Direct · Robins Financial Credit Union · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Martin Foundation Inc · WL Amos Sr Foundation Inc co William L Amos III · Perkins-Ponder 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.
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