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Gb & Ca Saunders Foundation Inc

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.

$56k
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$12k
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.

Health$84kArts & Culture$82kReligion$70kEducation$64kYouth Development$31kHuman Services$18kAnimals$14kHousing & Shelter$12kOther$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k24 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
$2,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SPRINGER OPERA HOUSE$12,000
CHATTAHOOCHEE COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS$4,000
COLUMBUS STATE UNIVERSITY$2,800
MERCER UNIVERSITY$2,800
EMORY UNIVERSITY$2,800
WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$2,800
NATIONAL CIVIL WAR NAVAL MUSEUM$2,800
WYNN HOUSE$2,500
TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH$2,000
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$2,000
METROPOLITAN INTER-FAITH ASSOCIATION$2,000
1909 PRESERVATION SOCIETY (CCC)$2,000
SALVATION ARMY$2,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB$1,500
ST ANDREW'S - SEWANEE SCHOOL$1,500
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 (FY23–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%METROPOLITAN INTER-FAITH ASSOCIATION: $2k → 17%METROPOLITAN INTER-FAITH ASSOCIATION: $2k → 17%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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IL
IA
NJ
AZ
TN
NC
SC
DC
MS
AL
GA
TX

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$351k · 44 repeat orgs$49k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.

44 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
17

Total granted

$351k
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+6%

Still filing today

59%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
HealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyEducationYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther

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

  • TW
    THE WYNN HOUSE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $19k · revenue +40%
  • BS
    BROOKSTONE SCHOOL INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $15k · revenue +27%
  • SO
    SPRINGER OPERA HOUSE ARTS ASSOCIATIONINC
    2× · 2017–2024 · $14k · revenue +132%

Funded once

  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $11k · revenue +32%
  • LL
    LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY
    one grant, 2017 · $4k
  • GP
    GEORGIA PKU CONNECT INC
    one grant, 2017 · $3k

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
The Medical Center Inc

To provide healthcare marked by compassion and sustainable excellence in a progressive environment, guided by physicians, delivered by professionals, and inspired by the communities we serve.

Health
2
Columbus Ambulatory Healthcare Services Inc

To provide healthcare marked by compassion and sustainable excellence in a progressive environment, guided by physicians, delivered by professionals, and inspired by the communities we serve.

3
Conway Hospital Community Services

Conway hospital community services provides outpatient health care services to horry county and the surrounding community in conjunction with conway hospital, inc., a non-profit acute care hospital system.

Health
4
Thomas University

Thomas university is an independent, not for profit, institution of higher education with undergraduate and graduate programs that prepare students for successful careers and responsible citizenship in a rapidly changing and complex world.

Education
5
World Molecular Imaging Society

The world molecular imaging society (wmis) is an international scientific educational organization dedicated to the understanding of biology and medicine through multimodal in vivo imaging of cellular and molecular events involved in…

Health
6
Columbus Housing Initiative Inc

Stabilize neighborhoods through establishing financing, education, rehabilitation of existing housing and development of new housing

Housing & Shelter
7
Chattahoochee Hospice Inc

The organization pledges to provide quality programs, service, and technology to meet the unique physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of the terminally ill and their families, and to educate the community about end of life issues.

Human Services
8
Uncompahgre Combined Clinics

To provide quality, cost-effective, accessible, and affordable healthcare to the community.

Health
9
Columbus Regional Healthcare System Inc

To provide healthcare marked by compassion and sustainable excellence in a progressive environment, guided by physicians, delivered by professionals, and inspired by the communities we serve.

Health
10
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

11
Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…

Health
12
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is The Wynn House Inc. 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 35 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number28%3%<5yr17%6%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr14%31%20–35yr9%17%35–55yr13%33%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value28%3%<5yr17%2%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr14%19%20–35yr9%19%35–55yr13%44%55yr+

The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/45
the rest of the field
19%
10,947/58,256

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.

04the grantee network

37 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. 37 of the 68 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/37
Grantees still filing
26/37
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GRACE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — $34,000 · OtherGRACE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION — $30,500 · OtherALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATIONTHE WYNN HOUSE INC — $19,000 · OtherTHE WYNN HOUSE INCCHATTAHOOCHEE COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS — $15,000 · OtherCHATTAHOOCHEE COUNCIL BOY SCOUTSNATIONAL MPS SOCIETY INC — $12,500 · OtherTRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH — $10,000 · OtherCOLUMBUS STATE UNIVERSITY — $9,800 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY — $9,500 · OtherHISTORIC COLUMBUS FOUNDATION INC — $9,000 · Other+37 more — $118,600 · Other+37 moreSPRINGER OPERA HOUSE ARTS ASSOCIATIONINC — $13,500 · Arts & CultureSPRINGER O…YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF GREATER COLUMBUS INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureYOUTH ORCH…RIVERCENTER INC — $6,000 · Arts & CultureRIVERCENTE…THE COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE COLUMB…1909 PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC — $2,000 · Arts & Culture1909 PRESE…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $11,000 · HealthMERCYMED OF COLUMBUS INC ATTN TONY NGUYEN — $9,000 · HealthHouse of TIME Inc — $4,500 · HealthThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc — $3,500 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $3,000 · Health+1 more — $1,000 · HealthBROOKSTONE SCHOOL INC — $15,000 · EducationTHE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY — $10,800 · EducationPiney Woods School — $6,000 · EducationInternational Friendship Ministries Inc — $13,000 · PhilanthropyWHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $2,800 · PhilanthropySHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 · PhilanthropyMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION — $2,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC — $1,000 · PhilanthropyYOUNG LIFE — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentRIGHT FROM THE START — $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentVALLEY RESCUE MISSION — $6,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$267,900Arts & Culture$36,500Health$32,000Education$31,800Philanthropy$21,300Youth Development$7,500Housing & Shelter$6,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE WYNN HOUSE INC — $19,000 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetBROOKSTONE SCHOOL INC — $15,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSPRINGER OPERA HOUSE ARTS ASSOCIATIONINC — $13,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetInternational Friendship Ministries Inc — $13,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetNATIONAL MPS SOCIETY INC — $12,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY — $10,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH ORCHESTRA OF GREATER COLUMBUS INC — $10,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetMERCYMED OF COLUMBUS INC ATTN TONY NGUYEN — $9,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHISTORIC COLUMBUS FOUNDATION INC — $9,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetST ANDREW'S-SEWANEE SCHOOL — $6,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTamassee DAR School Inc — $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetRIVERCENTER INC — $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPiney Woods School — $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVALLEY RESCUE MISSION — $6,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE — $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHouse of TIME Inc — $4,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPASTORAL INSTITUTE INC — $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEAST ALABAMA HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $4,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMetropolitan Inter-Faith Association — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc — $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF HARRIS COUNTY — $3,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $2,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIGHT FROM THE START — $2,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCOLUMBUS HOSPICE INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget1909 PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COLUMBUS BOTANICAL GARDENS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEASTER SEALS WEST GEORGIA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOOD MILL — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMIDTOWN INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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 THE WYNN HOUSE INC
  • Who funds BROOKSTONE SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds SPRINGER OPERA HOUSE ARTS ASSOCIATIONINC
  • Who funds International Friendship Ministries Inc
  • Who funds NATIONAL MPS SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF GREATER COLUMBUS INC
  • Who funds MERCYMED OF COLUMBUS INC ATTN TONY NGUYEN
  • Who funds HISTORIC COLUMBUS FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds ST ANDREW'S-SEWANEE SCHOOL
  • Who funds Tamassee DAR School Inc
  • Who funds RIVERCENTER INC
  • Who funds Piney Woods School
  • Who funds VALLEY RESCUE MISSION
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE
  • Who funds THE COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC
  • Who funds House of TIME Inc
  • Who funds PASTORAL INSTITUTE INC
  • Who funds EAST ALABAMA HUMANE SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association
  • Who funds The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer 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.

Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley IncGA54.3× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc · Lockwood Partners Foundation Inc · Bradley-Turner Foundation Inc · Mildred Miller Fort Foundation Inc · The Daniel P Amos Family Foundation · The Jordan Foundation Inc · The Cms Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Cliboca Foundation Inc · Beloco Foundation Inc · Jw & Ethel I Woodruff Foundation Inc · George and Ann Swift Family Foundation Inc

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 Gb & Ca Saunders Foundation Inc 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%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 68 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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