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Georgia Humanities Council Inc

Georgia humanities connects people and communities to encourage understanding and inspire hope.

$69k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2023.

Arts & Culture$948kEducation$402kHuman Services$47kPublic Benefit$30kCommunity Improvement$20kPhilanthropy$20kHousing & Shelter$16kCivil Rights$15kOther$0
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 1 grants below total $5,969 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $69,359 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $63,390 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$5,969
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY$5,969
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 (FY20–22, $87k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FRIENDS OF GEOGIA STATE PARKS: $20k → 10%FERST READERS INC: $20k → 11%SENIOR CITIZENS INC: $20k → 16%MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA: $20k → 14%MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA: $7k → 14%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.

31%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$473k · 18 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2023, 18 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
78

Total granted

$473k
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+13%

Still filing today

94%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementSocial ScienceYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • TA
    Tubman African American Museum Inc
    2× · 2020–2022 · $35k · revenue +1%
  • GT
    GEORGIA TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION INC
    2× · 2020–2022 · $33k · revenue +102%
  • MC
    Morgan County Foundation Inc
    2× · 2020–2022 · $33k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • GS
    GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $22k · revenue +26%
  • MH
    MERIDIAN HERALD INC
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -98%
  • SP
    SYNCHRONICITY PERFORMANCE GROUPgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +54%

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
Georgia Historical Society

Georgia Historical Society (GHS) is the premier independent statewide institution responsible for collecting, examining, and teaching Georgia history. GHS houses the oldest and most distinguished collection of materials related exclusively…

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2
Georgias Old Capital Heritage Center At the Depot

Establishment and administration of historical museum, working to educate and motivate, purchase artifacts ect for museum

Arts & Culture
3
Historic Atlanta Inc

Historic atlanta advances social justice and community by saving historic places

Environment
4
Macon County Historical Society

To preserve whatever relates to the natural, industrial, civil, military, political, social, educational, or religious history of macon county

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5
Historic Cobbham Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
6
American Civil War Museum Collection

The mission of the american civil war museum collection is to serve as the preeminent world center for the display, study, interpretation, commemoration, and preservation of the history and artifacts of the confederate states of america.

Arts & Culture
7
Augusta Genealogical Society

Collect, preserve, and disseminate knowledge and information in relation to genealogical, historical, biographical, and heraldic data.

Arts & Culture
8
The Institute for Northwest Georgia History

To collect, preserve, and present the history of rome, floyd county and surrounding areas for education, enlightenment and enjoyment.

Arts & Culture
9
Upcountry History Museum

The upcountry history museum connects people, history and culture.

Arts & Culture
10
The African Diasporic Art Museum of Atlanta Inc

to showcase contemporary art and culture of the African Diaspora

Arts & Culture
11
Society of Colonial Wars in State of Ga

To perpetuate the memory of colonial history by seeking to collect and preserve such historical records relating to the american colonial period, and erecting related memorials to inspire its members and the community.

Arts & Culture
12
The Staunton Augusta County African American Resea

Preserve african american heritage

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Historical Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Thiokol Memorial Project 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHigher Education FoundationsArts and Cultural Organizat…Disability Services Organiz…Christian Ministry Organiza…Youth & Family Stability Se…Independent Schools and Aca…Collegiate Fraternity Housi…Georgia Policy Advocacy Org…Donor-Advised Fund Sponsors
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 39 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number30%1%<5yr17%4%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr14%22%20–35yr9%29%35–55yr10%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value30%1%<5yr17%5%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr14%19%20–35yr9%31%35–55yr10%33%55yr+

The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 20% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%3/97
the rest of the field
20%
7,269/35,901

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

78 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. 78 of the 97 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
75/78
Grantees still filing
49/78
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Tubman African American Museum Inc — $35,000 · Arts & CultureTubman African American Museum IncGEORGIA TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION INC — $33,200 · Arts & CultureGEORGIA TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION INCMorgan County Foundation Inc — $32,500 · Arts & CultureTHE COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC — $29,044 · Arts & CultureAUGUSTA MUSEUM OF HISTORY INC — $27,500 · Arts & CultureNORTHEAST GEORGIA HISTORY CENTER AT BRENAU UNIVERSITY INC — $25,000 · Arts & CulturePORT COLUMBUS CIVIL WAR NAVAL CENTER INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WILLIAM BREMAN JEWISH HERITAGE MUSEUM INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureCoastal Georgia Historical Society — $23,000 · Arts & Culture+28 more — $363,549 · Arts & Culture+28 moreMUSCOGEE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT — $22,998 · OtherFriends of the Sixth Cavalry Museum — $21,500 · OtherMERIDIAN HERALD INC — $20,000 · OtherChipley Historic Center — $19,520 · OtherWHITFIELD-MURRAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $17,500 · OtherEXPRESS H O M E PROGRAM — $16,400 · OtherWE LOVE BUFORD HIGHWAY INC — $20,000 · Other+29 more — $336,094 · Other+29 moreNORTHWEST GA REGIONAL LIBRARY INC — $30,000 · EducationNORTHWEST GA REGI…ANDREW COLLEGE — $23,250 · EducationANDREW COLLEGEGEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $22,256 · EducationGEORGIA STATE UNI…University of West Georgia Foundation Inc — $20,000 · EducationUniversity of Wes…University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc — $19,489 · EducationUniversity of Geo…COMMON GOOD ATLANTA — $17,500 · EducationCOMMON GOOD ATLAN…AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $15,000 · EducationAUGUSTA UNIVERSIT…HALL COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM — $15,000 · EducationHALL COUNTY LIBRA…WALKER COUNTY AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORICAL AND ALUM — $15,000 · EducationWALKER COUNTY AFR…WESLEYAN COLLEGE — $14,500 · EducationWESLEYAN COLLEGEDEKALB LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC — $12,000 · EducationLaGrange College — $10,000 · EducationDecatur Book Festival — $10,000 · Education+1 more — $7,500 · EducationMARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA INC — $27,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF GA STATE PARKS & HISTORI — $20,000 · Human ServicesFERST READERS INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesSENIOR CITIZENS INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesGeorgia Council on Economic Education — $25,000 · Social ScienceGEORGIA COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SCIENCES — $10,757 · Social ScienceSWEET AUBURN WORKS — $13,000 · Community ImprovementBoggs Rural Life Center Inc — $10,000 · Community ImprovementGEORGIA WOMEN OF ACHIEVEMENT INC — $10,000 · Community ImprovementGEORGIA CENTER FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT INC — $30,000 · Youth Development
Arts & Culture$618,793Other$474,012Education$231,495Human Services$87,000Social Science$35,757Community Improvement$33,000Youth Development$30,000

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$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTubman African American Museum Inc — $35,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetGEORGIA TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION INC — $33,200 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMorgan County Foundation Inc — $32,500 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetGEORGIA CENTER FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT INC — $30,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetNORTHWEST GA REGIONAL LIBRARY INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC — $29,044 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAUGUSTA MUSEUM OF HISTORY INC — $27,500 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetMARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA INC — $27,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHEAST GEORGIA HISTORY CENTER AT BRENAU UNIVERSITY INC — $25,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetPORT COLUMBUS CIVIL WAR NAVAL CENTER INC — $25,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetGeorgia Council on Economic Education — $25,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHE WILLIAM BREMAN JEWISH HERITAGE MUSEUM INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetANDREW COLLEGE — $23,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCoastal Georgia Historical Society — $23,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetGEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $22,256 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Sixth Cavalry Museum — $21,500 over 2y, 13% of budgetMERIDIAN HERALD INC — $20,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetSYNCHRONICITY PERFORMANCE GROUP — $20,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF GA STATE PARKS & HISTORI — $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF CHIEFTAINS MUSEUM INC — $20,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetFERST READERS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetUniversity of West Georgia Foundation Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWE LOVE BUFORD HIGHWAY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetATLANTA JEWISH FILM SOCIETY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSENIOR CITIZENS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetChipley Historic Center — $19,520 over 1y, 46% of budgetUniversity of Georgia Research Foundation Inc — $19,489 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJOEL CHANDLER HARRIS ASSOCIATION — $18,200 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetTRUE COLORS THEATRE COMPANY — $17,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWHITFIELD-MURRAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $17,500 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetCOMMON GOOD ATLANTA — $17,500 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetDEKALB HISTORY CENTER — $17,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetAUGUSTA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE DOUGLASS THEATRE COMPLEX — $15,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCOLLECTIONS OF LIFE & HERITAGE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetTHE OSSABAW ISLAND FOUNDATIONINC — $15,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAUTEE-NACOOCHEE COMMUNITY ASSOCIAT — $15,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetMUSEUM OF ARTS & SCIENCES INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWESLEYAN COLLEGE — $14,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA IN THE STATE OF GA — $14,225 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHISTORIC SAVANNAH FOUNDATION INC — $12,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE AVERITT CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC — $12,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ATLANTA INC — $12,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHIOKOL MEMORIAL PROJECT INC — $12,252 over 1y, 25% of budgetTHE ALBANY MUSEUM OF ART INCORPORA — $12,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetDEKALB LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC — $12,000 over 1y, 3.4% 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.

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.

Emory UniversityGeorgia Power Foundat…The Community Foundat…Community Foundation …The Arthur M Blank Fa…Watson-Brown Foundati…Tw Marian W Ottley At…Frances Wood Wilson F…Bradley-Turner Founda…Atl Fdn-W Peters MainTr Uw Charles I BrananThe Imlay Foundation …
Emory UniversityGA150.9× affinity76 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Emory University · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · Watson-Brown Foundation Inc · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · Frances Wood Wilson Foundation Inc · Bradley-Turner Foundation Inc · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · The Imlay 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 Georgia Humanities Council 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%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
    25report 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, FY20–25

    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 97 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $64k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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