· Private foundation
George E Crouch Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k45 grants · $120k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THOMASVILLE HISTORY CENTER | $10,000 |
| ACORN TO OAKS FOUNDATION | $7,088 |
| PEACHTREE ROAD UNITED METHODIST CHU | $6,000 |
| TREES ATLANTA | $5,000 |
| FURMAN UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| MOUNT DESERT LAND AND GARDEN PRESER | $5,000 |
| CORPORATION FOR JEFFERSONS POPLAR F | $5,000 |
| UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF ACADIA | $5,000 |
| BIRDSONG NATURE CENTER | $5,000 |
| GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY FDN | $5,000 |
| BENTON MACKAYE TRAIL ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| JEFFERSON COUNTY DEPT OF FAMILY AND | $4,000 |
| APPALACHIAN TRAIL MUSEUM | $3,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 21% of George E Crouch Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 59% of the giving stays in GA; read by stated purpose it is 46% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +41% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
54 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 5 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- GSGeorgia Southern University Foundation Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $82k · revenue +45%
- CCCHATTOOGA CONSERVANCY6× · 2019–2024 · $43k · revenue +128%
- TATREES ATLANTA INC5× · 2020–2024 · $41k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- SCSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue -67%
- COCOLLEGE OF CHARLESTONone grant, 2022 · $4k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA - AIKEone grant, 2021 · $4k
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.
To protect georgia through ecological and economic solutions for stewardship, conservation, and sustainable use of the land and its resources.
The mission of friends is to partner with, promote and preserve georgia state parks & historic sites. statewide, friends works to raise awareness of the economic and intrinsic values of georgia's greatest treasures. we work with state and…
The mission of the atlantic coast conservancy is to provide 21st century solutions and sound scientific applications for conservation of critical natural resources in the face of a changing climate, focusing on the southeasthern united…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
To conserve the rural, natural, and cultural heritage of the new river region, protecting farms, forests, open spaces, and historic places.
To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.
The wildlife society's mission is to inspire, empower, and enable wildlife professionals to sustain wildlife populations and habitats through science-based management and conservation.
Triangle land conservancy (tlc) strives to create a healthier and more vibrant triangle region by safeguarding clean water, protecting natural habitats, supporting local farms, and connecting people with nature through land protection and…
The new jersey audubon society is a privately supported, not-for-profit, statewide membership organization. (see schedule o for details).
To help protect the 2,200 mile appalachian national scenic trail and 370,000 acres of land in the appalachian trail (a.t. or the trail) corridor; advocate for the trail; compile and disseminate educational information; and cooperatively…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trees Atlanta Inc and the most unlike its peers is The International Dark-Sky Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 75 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 Georgia Southern University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Colonial Williamsburg Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHATTOOGA CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds TREES ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds Benton MacKaye Trail Assoc Inc ↗
- Who funds Acorns to Oaks Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BIRDSONG NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Acadia ↗
- Who funds Mount Desert Land and Garden Preserve ↗
- Who funds THOMASVILLE ENTERTAINMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds THOMASVILLE LANDMARKS INC ↗
- Who funds FURMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CONCERN WORLDWIDE (US) INC ↗
- Who funds CASHIERS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Mainspring Conservation Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL DARK-SKY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE GARDEN CLUB OF GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds OGEECHEE RIVERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds CASHIERS HIGHLANDS 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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · The Double Eagle Foundation 4191-06-43 · William Howard Flowers Jr Foundation Inc · Florence Mauboules Charitable Trust · The Dunn Foundation · Williams Family Foundation of Georgia Inc · The Billi Marcus Foundation Inc · Tickle Family Foundation · The Wailes Family Foundation · Parker Poe Charitable Trust · A Friends Foundation Trust · Brighton Foundation Trust Robert D Markley Trustee
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 E Crouch 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.
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.
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