· Private foundation
George a Sancken Jr Foundation
Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of George a Sancken Jr Foundation’s FY2022 grant dollars went to The Community Foundation For The Central Savannah River Area Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year George a Sancken Jr Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 12 organizations, $16k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD | $5,300 |
| AUGUSTA TRAINING SHOP | $3,625 |
| UGA ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $1,200 |
| CENTER FOR LIFE ENRICHMENT | $500 |
| TUTTLE NEWTON HOME | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| HISTORIC AUGUSTA | $450 |
| AUGUSTA SYMPHONY | $325 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $250 |
| HALE FOUNDATION | $200 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN | $100 |
| ALDERSGAGE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $100 |
| HARLEM UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $100 |
| JUDD HICKEY CENTER | $100 |
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 (FY18–18, $200) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
15 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2021, 6 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2021, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- ATAUGUSTA TRAINING SHOP INC5× · 2017–2021 · $17k · revenue +21%
- AUAUGUSTA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC4× · 2017–2021 · $4k · revenue +145%
- TNTUTTLE NEWTON HOME INC5× · 2017–2021 · $3k · revenue +152%
Funded once
- MTMILLER THEATREone grant, 2017 · $3k
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NYone grant, 2020 · $1k
- APAUGUSTA PLAYERS INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $300 · revenue +261%
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.
Augusta university research institute, inc. (the "institute") was incorporated under the laws of the state of georgia as a nonprofit corporation on july 31, 1980. the institute qualified as a tax-exempt corporation under section 501(c)(3)…
Collect, preserve, and disseminate knowledge and information in relation to genealogical, historical, biographical, and heraldic data.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
To restore and operate the historic augusta colonial theater for the artistic, educational, and charitable benefit of the community. the colonial theater will be a far-reaching, viable, restored historic theater in the downtown of our…
Growing tennis to inspire healthier people and communities everywhere.
Our mission is to provide academic and spiritual training and extracurricula activities for students in the csra. it is also to prepare students to serve jesus christ as lord, partnering with family and church, instilling high standards…
To provide healthcare marked by compassion and sustainable excellence in a progressive environment, guided by physicians, delivered by exceptional professionals, and inspired by the communities we serve.
The gertrude herbert institue of art inc's mission is to provide opportunities for visual arts education and to develop visual arts awareness and appreciation through the greater augusta community.
The UGA Real Estate Foundation manages and improves various real estate assets for the benefit of the University of Georgia, governed by the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia. The UGA Real Estate Foundation may also…
Armstrong state university foundation, inc ("foundation') raises funds to support student scholarships and the scientific, literary, and educational purposes of armstrong state university.effective july 1, 2019, the foundation was merged…
The augusta metro chamber of commerce's mission is to lead the business community by serving as its advocate, promoting the region, enhancing the business climate, and providing quality membership programs and services.
The mission of augusta health is to strengthen the health and well-being of all people in our communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Augusta Players Inc and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United 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 52 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% 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 19% 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.
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 63 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 THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER AREA INC ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA TRAINING SHOP INC ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TUTTLE NEWTON HOME INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC AUGUSTA INC ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER AUGUSTA ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds Cancer Support Services Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HALE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds FORE AUGUSTA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FORCESUNITED INC ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
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 Knox Foundation · Creel-Harison Foundation Inc · Porter Fleming Fdn Tr Ua · The Community Foundation for the Central Savannah River Area Inc · Kirby Family Foundation Inc · Richards Family Foundation · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Rhodes Family Foundation Inc · Georgia Rehabilitation Institute Inc · The Pollock Foundation Inc · Clinton-Anderson Hospital Inc · Patricia S McGee 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 George a Sancken Jr Foundation 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.
- Florida Southern College — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to George a Sancken Jr Foundation?
Find your warmest path to George a Sancken Jr Foundation 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.