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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.

$680k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$126k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$5.1M
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $653,184, the rows itemized in this filing. The $679,910 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $26,726 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$67,493
Median grant
1
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BRENAU UNIVERSITY: $67k → 12%AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE: $61k → 14%PIEDMONT UNIVERSITY: $67k → 14%SHORTER UNIVERSITY: $69k → 15%LAGRANGE COLLEGE: $57k → 18%MERCER UNIVERSITY: $214k → 23%BRENAU UNIVERSITY: $65k → 12%AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE: $57k → 14%PIEDMONT UNIVERSITY: $67k → 14%SHORTER UNIVERSITY: $67k → 15%LAGRANGE COLLEGE: $57k → 18%MERCER UNIVERSITY: $205k → 23%BRENAU UNIVERSITY: $62k → 12%AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE: $56k → 14%PIEDMONT COLLEGE: $59k → 14%SHORTER UNIVERSITY: $58k → 15%LAGRANGE COLLEGE: $54k → 18%MERCER UNIVERSITY: $183k → 23%BRENAU UNIVERSITY: $62k → 12%PIEDMONT COLLEGE: $59k → 14%SHORTER UNIVERSITY: $58k → 15%MERCER UNIVERSITY: $131k → 23%BRENAU UNIVERSITY: $56k → 12%PIEDMONT COLLEGE: $57k → 14%SHORTER UNIVERSITY: $58k → 15%MERCER UNIVERSITY: $130k → 23%BRENAU UNIVERSITY: $54k → 12%PIEDMONT COLLEGE: $54k → 14%SHORTER UNIVERSITY: $57k → 15%MERCER UNIVERSITY: $126k → 23%SHORTER UNIVERSITY: $56k → 15%MERCER UNIVERSITY: $113k → 23%SHORTER UNIVERSITY: $56k → 15%MERCER UNIVERSITY: $104k → 23%BERRY COLLEGE: $86k → 15%WESLEYAN COLLEGE: $55k → 23%BERRY COLLEGE: $80k → 15%BERRY COLLEGE: $70k → 15%BERRY COLLEGE: $66k → 15%BERRY COLLEGE: $65k → 15%BERRY COLLEGE: $65k → 15%BERRY COLLEGE: $64k → 15%OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY: $72k → 14%BERRY COLLEGE: $61k → 15%OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY: $71k → 14%OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY: $67k → 14%OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY: $58k → 14%OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY: $54k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.1M · 24 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

24 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
1

Total granted

$5.1M
$3k

Still filing today

96%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TC
    THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +34%
  • BC
    BERRY COLLEGE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $556k · revenue +36%
  • OU
    OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $471k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Coker University

Coker university is a student-centered, comprehensive university. it is dedicated to providing every student an academic curriculum based upon a uniformly excellent liberal arts core that enhances the structured development of key personal…

Education
2
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
3
Greenville College

Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.

Education
4
University of the South

The College of Arts and Sciences is committed to the development of the whole person through a liberal arts education of the highest quality. The School of Theology educates women and men to serve the broad whole of the Episcopal Church in…

Education
5
Eckerd College

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…

Education
6
Belhaven University

Belhaven university prepares students academically and spiritually to serve jesus christ in their careers, in human relationships, and in the world of ideas.

Education
7
Regent University

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.

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8
Greensboro College

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.

Education
9
Gardner-Webb University

The university statement of values consists of christian heritage, baptist heritage, academic excellence, liberal arts, teamwork, a student-centered focus, community engagement and diversity.

Education
10
Barton College

Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…

Education
11
Spartanburg Methodist College

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…

Education
12
John Brown University

John brown university (jbu) provides christ-centered education that prepares students to honor god and serve others by developing their intellectual, spiritual, and professional lives. (continued on schedule o)jbu serves traditional…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shorter University; 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.
04the grantee network

23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
19/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY: $1,206,286 · EducationTHE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITYBERRY COLLEGE INC: $556,344 · EducationBERRY COLLEGE INCSHORTER UNIVERSITY: $478,490 · EducationSHORTER UNIVERSITYOGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY INC: $471,415 · EducationOGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY INCBRENAU UNIVERSITY INC: $466,596 · EducationBRENAU UNIVERSITY INCLaGrange College: $409,995 · EducationLaGrange CollegeWESLEYAN COLLEGE: $380,828 · EducationWESLEYAN COLLEGE+13 more: $268,160 · Education+13 morePIEDMONT UNIVERSITY: $465,937 · OtherPIEDMONT UNIVERSITYAgnes Scott College: $417,435 · OtherAgnes Scott College+3 more: $25,319 · Other
Education$4,238,114Other$908,691

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY: $1,206,286 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBERRY COLLEGE INC: $556,344 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSHORTER UNIVERSITY: $478,490 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetOGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY INC: $471,415 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBRENAU UNIVERSITY INC: $466,596 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAgnes Scott College: $417,435 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLaGrange College: $409,995 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWESLEYAN COLLEGE: $380,828 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetEmory University: $51,839 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetEMMANUEL UNIVERSITY INC: $27,558 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSpelman College: $25,251 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetREINHARDT UNIVERSITY: $25,126 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $20,543 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT COLLEGE: $18,997 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTRUETT MCCONNELL UNIVERSITY INC: $18,396 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetANDREW COLLEGE: $17,432 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetClark Atlanta University Inc: $17,407 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG HARRIS COLLEGE: $13,702 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPOINT UNIVERSITY INC: $12,521 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetToccoa Falls College Inc: $11,613 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLIFE UNIVERSITY INC: $10,202 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS UNIVERSITY: $10,094 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBREWTON-PARKER COLLEGE INC: $9,798 over 4y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Lettie Pate Whitehead…Georgia Power Foundat…Ty Cobb Educational F…Council of Independen…Tulsa Community Found…Watson-Brown Foundati…National Collegiate A…The Community Foundat…The Banks Scholarship…Wih and Lula E Pitts …Churches Homes Founda…Frances Wood Wilson F…
Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation IncGA30.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Georgia Independent College Association Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Georgia Independent College Association Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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