· Public charity
Georgia Independent College Association Inc
Georgia independent college association, inc ("gica") supports private higher education in georgia in the areas of public policy, increased public awareness, fund raising for student financial aid, and collaborative projects, in partnership with institutions, business and community leaders.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $653,184 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $679,910 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $26,726 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MERCER UNIVERSITY | $125,895 |
| BERRY COLLEGE | $85,515 |
| OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY | $70,664 |
| SHORTER UNIVERSITY | $69,425 |
| PIEDMONT UNIVERSITY | $67,493 |
| BRENAU UNIVERSITY | $66,629 |
| LAGRANGE COLLEGE | $57,282 |
| AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE | $57,202 |
| WESLEYAN COLLEGE | $53,079 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of your 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.
24 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
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
- TCTHE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +34%
- BCBERRY COLLEGE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $556k · revenue +36%
- OUOGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $471k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $3k
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.
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The mission of eckerd college is to provide excellent innovative undergraduate liberal arts education and lifelong learning programs in the unique florida environment, within the context of a covenant relationship with the presbyterian…
Belhaven university prepares students academically and spiritually to serve jesus christ in their careers, in human relationships, and in the world of ideas.
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.
The university statement of values consists of christian heritage, baptist heritage, academic excellence, liberal arts, teamwork, a student-centered focus, community engagement and diversity.
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SMC Delivers an exceptional education that fuses the empowerment of the liberal arts with crucial career skills. Our mission is to equip our students with the knowledge, skills, virtues, and mindset needed to thrive personally, create…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shorter University and the most unlike its peers is Life University 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 80 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 30% 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 21% 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 25 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 CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BERRY COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds SHORTER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds BRENAU UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Agnes Scott College ↗
- Who funds LaGrange College ↗
- Who funds WESLEYAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds EMMANUEL UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Spelman College ↗
- Who funds REINHARDT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MOREHOUSE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds COVENANT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds TRUETT MCCONNELL UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds ANDREW COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Clark Atlanta University Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUNG HARRIS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds POINT UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Toccoa Falls College Inc ↗
- Who funds LIFE UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds THOMAS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BREWTON-PARKER COLLEGE 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.
Open a dossier: Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Ty Cobb Educational Fd Tr Ua · Council of Independent Colleges · Tulsa Community Foundation · Watson-Brown Foundation Inc · National Collegiate Athletic Association · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The Banks Scholarship Trust-Main · Wih and Lula E Pitts Foundation · Churches Homes Foundation Inc · Frances Wood Wilson 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 Independent College Association 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.
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.