· Public charity
Georgia's Own Foundation Inc
The mission of georgia's own foundation is to implement georgia's own credit union's "people helping people" philosophy by raising funds and supporting programs that help people get ahead, get involved, and own their future.
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 4 grants below total $185,908 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $290,377 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $104,469 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 $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $27k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $154k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEAD INC | $153,600 |
| VICTIMS FIRST INC | $13,997 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF GEORGIA | $13,231 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $5,080 |
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, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 60% 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.
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.
8 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- LILEAD INC8× · 2017–2024 · $990k · revenue +280%
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION4× · 2019–2022 · $48k · revenue +62%
- GSGeorgia State University Foundation Inc2× · 2018–2019 · $46k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- ADAIDVANTAGEUS DEPT EDUCATIONone grant, 2023 · $25k
- KSKENTUCKY STATE TREASURER PUBLIC PROTECTION CABINETone grant, 2021 · $18k
- STSHARE THE MAGIC FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +40%
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.
Assist and further research at georgia southern university
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Armstrong state university foundation, inc ("foundation') raises funds to support student scholarships and the scientific, literary, and educational purposes of armstrong state university.effective july 1, 2019, the foundation was merged…
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…
The university foundation is organized to assist and aid the board of trustees of the university of alabama in fulfilling its educational, research, and public service programs and activities.
The Foundation exists to support development of educational excellence at Valdosta State University.
The corporation has been organized to engage in activities and pursuits which contribute to the educational, research, and service functions of georgia state university. thus, the corporation will attempt to secure gifts, contributions,…
The UGA Real Estate Foundation manages and improves various real estate assets for the benefit of the University of Georgia, governed by the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia. The UGA Real Estate Foundation may also…
To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…
At unc health foundation, we inspire philanthropic support for unc health and unc school of medicine that transforms healthcare and provides hope to the people of north carolina and communities around the world.
To assist the georgia tech foundation in the acquisition of real estate or other projects for the support of the georgia tech institute of technology
Support of miami university
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgia State University Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is University of Southern California. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 17 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 LEAD INC ↗
- Who funds ACTION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Georgia State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPE ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds Victims First Inc ↗
- Who funds BRIAN JORDAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHARE THE MAGIC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds PHOEBE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JESSES HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds CAMP TWIN LAKES 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: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Foundation 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.
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