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Fred R & Nell W Blackwell Testamentary Charitable Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$128k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$903kArts & Culture$172kHealth$40kCommunity Improvement$19kHousing & Shelter$2kPublic Safety & Disaster$2kPhilanthropy$2kAnimals$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $105k
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF WEST GA FOU$55,000
ELEVATE COWETA STUDENTS$50,000
COWETA SAMARITAN CLINIC$20,000
NEWNAN CARNEGIE LIBRARY$2,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LOCAL MEDIA FOUNDATION: $2k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 8 repeat orgs$84k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +90% since the first grant, against -3% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
12

Total granted

$1.1M
$81k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+90%
-3%

Still filing today

50%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureCivil RightsHealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentAnimalsOther

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

  • EC
    ELEVATE COWETA STUDENTS INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $350k · revenue +90%
  • CS
    COWETA SAMARITAN CLINIC INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $40k · revenue +161%
  • NC
    NEWNAN COWETA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • CI
    COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
  • NA
    NEWNAN ARTIST IN RESIDENC
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • NA
    NEWNAN ARTIST IN RESIDENCE PROGRAM
    one grant, 2018 · $9k · revenue -49%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Newnan Coweta Spay Neuter

To provide a non-lethal solution to companion over population. we help control the animal population by providing high volume, high quality, low cost spay/netuer procedures in coweta and surrounding counties.

Animals
2
Community Arts Association in Newton County Inc

The mission of the arts association in newton county is to encourage youth and adults in the community to participate in the arts both as audience and as artists and to present world-class artists to all the citizens of the metro atlanta…

Arts & Culture
3
Newnan Country Club

To provide golf course, dining facilities, tennis courts, and swimming pool for club members.

Recreation & Sports
4
Greater Macon Chamber of Commerce

To promote business, economic development, and community development within the greater macon area.

5
Newnan-Coweta Historical Society I

The newnan-coweta historical society is dedicated to the interpretation and preservation of the historical, cultural and architectural heritage of coweta county through its programs, exhibitions, and collections while serving, engaging and…

6
New City Arts Initiative

We envision the charlottesville area as a place where a thriving group of local artists unsettles and transforms our community to work toward a more just, beautiful future.

Arts & Culture
7
Coweta Community Foundation Inc

We focus on local philanthropy and on our community's changing needs. we manage individual gifts and bequests as an endowed pool of assets distributing grants to a wide variety of organizations that enhance and support the quality of life…

Philanthropy
8
Creative Waco

Creative waco's mission is to grow and support a thriving cultural and creative community in waco and mclennan county, texas.

Arts & Culture
9
Black Mountain Swannanoa Valley Arts Center

Operation of an art center for the public

Arts & Culture
10
Colquitt County Arts Council Inc

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to encourage participation and enjoyment of the arts among the citizens of colquitt county, georgia.

11
Newnan Naturals Inc
Recreation & Sports
12
Newnan-Coweta Board of Realtors

The newnan coweta board of realtors is a professional organization dedicated to promoting excellence in real estate business practices, advocating private property rights, and serving its community. the organization's mission is to enhance…

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Elevate Coweta Students Inc and the most unlike its peers is Patrons of the Centre Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 21 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF WEST GA FOU — $451,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WEST GA FOUCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF — $50,000 · OtherCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OFUNIVERSITY OF WEST GA FOUNDATION INC — $47,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WEST GA FOUNDATION INC+11 more — $43,350 · Other+11 moreELEVATE COWETA STUDENTS INC — $350,000 · Civil RightsELEVATE COWETA STUDENTS INCPATRONS OF THE CENTRE INC — $148,043 · Arts & CulturePATRONS OF THE …NEWNAN ARTIST IN RESIDENCE PROGRAM — $9,000 · Arts & CultureNEWNAN ARTIST I…COWETA SAMARITAN CLINIC INC — $40,000 · HealthLOCAL MEDIA FOUNDATION — $1,500 · Human ServicesBoys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc — $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentNEWNAN COWETA HUMANE SOCIETY — $1,000 · Animals
Other$591,850Civil Rights$350,000Arts & Culture$157,043Health$40,000Human Services$1,500Youth Development$1,000Animals$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetELEVATE COWETA STUDENTS INC — $350,000 over 7y, 14% of budgetPATRONS OF THE CENTRE INC — $148,043 over 2y, 30% of budgetCOWETA SAMARITAN CLINIC INC — $40,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNEWNAN ARTIST IN RESIDENCE PROGRAM — $9,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetNEWNAN COWETA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $1,650 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLOCAL MEDIA FOUNDATION — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEWNAN COWETA HUMANE SOCIETY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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 ELEVATE COWETA STUDENTS INC
  • Who funds PATRONS OF THE CENTRE INC
  • Who funds COWETA SAMARITAN CLINIC INC
  • Who funds NEWNAN ARTIST IN RESIDENCE PROGRAM
  • Who funds NEWNAN COWETA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC
  • Who funds LOCAL MEDIA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc
  • Who funds NEWNAN COWETA HUMANE SOCIETY

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.

Edgar B Hollis Testamentary TrustGA20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Edgar B Hollis Testamentary Trust · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Fred R & Nell W Blackwell Testamentary 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Fred R & Nell W Blackwell Testamentary Charitable Trust?

    Find your warmest path to Fred R & Nell W Blackwell Testamentary Charitable Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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