· Public charity
Georgia's Own Credit Union
Banking on purpose.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $218,305 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $283,761 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $65,456 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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $132k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GEORGIA'S OWN FOUNDATION INC | $60,000 |
| AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $31,877 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GEORGIA | $25,000 |
| SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC | $22,500 |
| SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC | $12,500 |
| WARE COUNTY TOUCHDOWN CLUB | $10,000 |
| TRIQUEST CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| SOUTHEASTERN CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CHATTAHOOCHEE TECH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| TREES ATLANTA | $7,261 |
| THE BRIAN JORDAN FOUNDATION | $6,667 |
| KING'S RIDGE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ATTN JAIME DEARTH ONE ASSOC | $6,500 |
| LIVESAFE RESOURCES INC | $6,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $577k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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 11% of Georgia's Own Credit Union’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, 94% of the giving stays in GA; read by stated purpose it is 88% — 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.
16 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 8 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, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $129k 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 State University Foundation Inc6× · 2017–2023 · $603k · revenue +42%
- GOGEORGIA'S OWN FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $567k · revenue +97% · 32% of their budget
- KRKing's Ridge Christian School8× · 2017–2024 · $85k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- EAEO ATLANTA CHAPTER INCone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue -12%
- ATAURORA THEATRE INCone grant, 2018 · $12k · revenue +24%
- AMACTION MINISTRIES INCone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue 0%
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.
The corporation is a voluntary association of individuals and organizations the purposes of which are to upgrade and advance the atlanta metropolitan area in population, commerce and finance; to effect civic and social improvements; to…
ACP is a group committed to identifying and providing leadership on selected issues important to driving the economic development of the city of Atlanta and for which the ACP's active involvement will make a major difference. The ACP has a…
It is the mission of leadership atlanta to build a better community for everyone in the atlanta region through education about the key issues facing the region and inspiring members and others to take on and exercise real leadership…
Acec georgia champions the business of engineering by driving impactful public policy advocacy, delivering unmatched business development opportunities, empowering member firms with essential business resources, providing future-focused…
The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively as a supporting organization to and for the benefit of the georgia institute of technology to foster and support education and scientific research and economic development…
The primary purpose of the association is to promote the educational programs of georgia tech through student body participation in "healthful exercises, recreations, athletic games and contests". the association "develops the young people…
Our mission is to create thriving communities by helping nonprofits succeed. our work revolves around four primary areas of focus.1. we are a hub for social innovation 2. we are a capacity accelerator for organizations and their people3.…
It is the mission of the georgia tech foundation, inc., to: 1. promote the cause of higher education in the state of georgia; 2. receive and manage financial donations received by the foundation for support and enhancement of the georgia…
Georgiaforward's mission is to improve the state of georgia by working as a catalyst to promote cross-sector, statewide conversations and partnerships by engaging young professionals and business, political, academic, and civic leaders.
Girls on the Run Georgia empowers girls with vital social-emotional skills to help them succeed in school, at home, and within friendships. Our programs, Girls on the Run (3rd-5th grade) and Heart & Sole (6th-8th grade) are taught by…
Georgia alliance for breast cancer mission is to engage with georgia's breast cancer community to increase access to care and reduce disparities in cancer outcomes.
The mission of the atlanta community food bank is to engage, educate and empower our community to fight hunger. our bold goal is to see that all people in our service area have access to the nutritious meals they need when they need them.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Chris Tucker Foundation. 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 25 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 31% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 22% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 39 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 State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA'S OWN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BRIAN JORDAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds King's Ridge Christian School ↗
- Who funds GAINESVILLE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL INC AKA LAKEVIEW ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CLAYTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Junior Achievement of Georgia ↗
- Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SYNCHRONICITY PERFORMANCE GROUP ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEASTERN CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHRIS TUCKER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OurSong ↗
- Who funds The Theatrical Outfit Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CORPORATE DIRECTORS ↗
- Who funds EO ATLANTA CHAPTER INC ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AURORA THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds TECH NORTH ATLANTA INC FKA Tech Alpharetta Inc ↗
- Who funds LiveSafe Resources Inc ↗
- Who funds ACTION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MGBA Inc ↗
- Who funds Chattahoochee Tech Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds LEAD INC ↗
- Who funds TRIQUEST CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds WARE COUNTY TOUCHDOWN CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS ENDING HUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds PARK PRIDE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ASSOCIATED CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TREES ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds LGE COMMUNITY OUTREACH FOUNDATION 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: Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Imlay Foundation Inc · Atlanta Braves Foundation · Southern Company Gas Charitable Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · AEC Trust · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable 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's Own Credit Union 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.