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GEORGIA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
The georgia chamber foundation, the research arm of the GEORGIA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, dedicates itself to producing in-depth economic analyses and actionable insights.
$2.0M
Granted FY2024
37
Grants
1
Communities
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 83% of GEORGIA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
transportation
2019
historybusinessghsresponsible
2020
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2021
transportation
2022
recreation
2023
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 37 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k29 grants · $853k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
- FRANKLIN COUNTY SCHOOLS$50,000
- JOHNSON COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION$50,000
- MERIWETHER COUNTY SCHOOL SYSTEM$49,605
- BERRIEN COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION$49,520
- CHATTAHOOCHEE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT$48,824
- DECATUR COUNTY SCHOOLS$48,813
- BACON COUNTY CHARTER SCHOOLS$48,503
- TATTNALL COUNTY SCHOOLS$48,426
- CHATTOOGA COUNTY SCHOOLS$47,645
- CLINCH COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION$46,218
- IRWIN COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION$34,100
- LANIER COUNTY SCHOOLS$33,397
- MCDUFFIE COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION$32,254
- BRANTLEY COUNTY SCHOOL SYSTEM$29,209
- VIDALIA HIGH SCHOOL$28,010
02The need
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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:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 19% — the area typically sits at 9%. 93% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.
16%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$233k · 3 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 34 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
3
6
Total granted
$233k
$260k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+38%
+37%
Still filing today
100%
83%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $974k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationCommunity ImprovementOther
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
- GPGEORGIA PARTNERSHIP FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION5× · 2020–2024 · $118k · revenue +38%
- URUGA RESEARCH FOUNDATION3× · 2019–2021 · $80k · revenue +79%
- GTGEORGIA TRANSPORTATION ALLIANCE INC3× · 2017–2021 · $35k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $100k
- COCHOOSE OUTDOORS INCone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -93%
- GCGEORGIA CHAMBER OF COMMERCEgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $32k · revenue +48%
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.
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Georgia Economic Development
The foundation functions as an advocate of economic development for the state of georgia.
Community Improvement
2
Greater Columbus Chamber of Commerce
The mission of the greater columbus chamber of commerce is to lead the columbus region as a catalyst for growth, economic opportunity, business strength and community engagement. the chamber is the first in georgia to receive 5-star…
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3
Georgia Center for Opportunity Inc
Georgia Center for Opportunity (GCO) is an independent, non-partisan think tank dedicated to increasing opportunity and improving the quality of life for all Georgians.
Education
4
Greater Macon Chamber of Commerce
The promotion of businesses within the greater macon regional area.
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5
Environment Georgia Research and Policy Center
The corporation is organized for the purpose of conducting public interest research, policy development, analysis, and education to protect the environment and people of Georgia, including, but not limited to, the quality of Georgia's air,…
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6
Georgia Association of Realtors Inc
Professional membership association for the georgia real estate industry.
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7
Georgia State Golf Association
Promotion of game/rules of golf throughout the state of georgia
Recreation & Sports
8
Georgia Budget and Policy Institute Inc
The Georgia Budget and Policy Institutes mission is to advance lasting solutions that expand economic opportunity and well-being for all Georgians.
Public Benefit
9
Georgia Restaurant Association Inc
The georgia restaurant association (gra) represents the food service industry, which is integral and essential to the economic and social well being of the state of georgia. the gra will 1.) work to improve the political, economic, and…
Community Improvement
10
Georgia Research Alliance Inc
To drive more impact out of university research and entrepreneurship to benefit the state of georgia and the world.
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11
Georgia Business Council Inc
To foster and expand mutually beneficial economic opportunities between certified minority business enterprises (mbes) corporations, and government entities within the state of georgia; and to help build a stronger,
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12
Georgia Economic Developers
The Organization's mission is to serve as the resource for networking, professional development and public policy for Georgia's economic development community.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgia Partnership for Excellence and the most unlike its peers is Choose Outdoors Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$1,218,963Education$212,510Community Improvement$35,000
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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation GEORGIA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 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
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: CHOOSE OUTDOORS INC.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 263822889 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on CHOOSE OUTDOORS INC, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 8% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to Georgia Chamber of Commerce?
Find your warmest path to Georgia Chamber of Commerce through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines