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Gerald and Carol Driver Foundation Inc

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$17k
Granted FY2026(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2026
11
Organizations funded FY2025
18%
First-time grantees FY2025
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Median grant, FY2026
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2026
$8,050
Organizations funded a year
11 to 21
FY2019 to FY2025
States reached, FY2026
4
Total assets, FY2026
$248k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2025, 18% of the organizations Gerald and Carol Driver Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHousing & ShelterOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2026still arriving11$17k0%
FY202511$15k18%
FY202419$17k42%
FY202316$15k0%
FY202219$15k21%
FY202121$15k29%
FY202014$15k50%
FY201921$16k43%
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$35kHealth$32kHuman Services$20kEducation$16kPhilanthropy$9kFood & Nutrition$7kArts & Culture$5kYouth Development$3kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MN
IL
IN
PA
VA
TN
NC
DC
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Alps Road Presbyterian Church$32,9755n/a
Extra Special People Inc$9,900100%
Prince Avenue Christian School Inc$8,00080%
Mercy Health Center Inc$6,32570%
Piedmont Athens Regional Foundation Inc$5,25050%
Project Safe Inc$4,75050%
Athens Academy Inc$4,10030%
Books for Keeps Inc$4,00040%
Foundation of Wesley Woods Inc$2,50030%
The Salvation Army$2,3753n/a
Show all 26 grantees
All grantees of Gerald and Carol Driver Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Alps Road Presbyterian Church$32,9755n/a
Extra Special People Inc$9,900100%
Prince Avenue Christian School Inc$8,00080%
Mercy Health Center Inc$6,32570%
Piedmont Athens Regional Foundation Inc$5,25050%
Project Safe Inc$4,75050%
Athens Academy Inc$4,10030%
Books for Keeps Inc$4,00040%
Foundation of Wesley Woods Inc$2,50030%
The Salvation Army$2,3753n/a
Sage School Inc$2,00020%
The Bigger Vision of Athens Inc$2,00020%
Arthritis Foundation Inc$1,80090%
Wreaths Across America$1,38960%
Friends of Oconee Hill Cemetery Inc$1,28070%
American Bible Society$55040%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$50020%
College of Athens Inc$50020%
Samaritan's Purse$25010%
Athens Pbjs$2501n/a
Shepherd Center Inc$25010%
Athens Area Diaper Bank Inc$20010%
State YMCA of Georgia Inc$10010%
Epilepsy Foundation of Georgia$1001n/a
CaringBridge$5010%
Proverbs 31 Ministry Inc$2510%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($61k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Gerald and Carol Driver Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetExtra Special People Inc: $9,900 over 10y, 0.1% of budgetPrince Avenue Christian School Inc: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Health Center Inc: $6,325 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPiedmont Athens Regional Foundation Inc: $5,250 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetProject Safe Inc: $4,750 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAthens Academy Inc: $4,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBooks for Keeps Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFoundation of Wesley Woods Inc: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSage School Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Bigger Vision of Athens Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetArthritis Foundation Inc: $1,800 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWreaths Across America: $1,389 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Oconee Hill Cemetery Inc: $1,280 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Bible Society: $550 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCollege of Athens Inc: $500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShepherd Center Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAthens Area Diaper Bank Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetState YMCA of Georgia Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCaringBridge: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProverbs 31 Ministry Inc: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 22.

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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.

Athens Area Community Foundation IncGA26.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About Gerald and Carol Driver Foundation Inc

How much does Gerald and Carol Driver Foundation Inc give?
Gerald and Carol Driver Foundation Inc reported 12 grants totaling $17,254 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 21 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
What does Gerald and Carol Driver Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Religion (26%), Health (24%), Human Services (15%).
Who are Gerald and Carol Driver Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: Alps Road Presbyterian Church ($33k), Extra Special People Inc ($10k), Prince Avenue Christian School Inc ($8k).
Does Gerald and Carol Driver Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2025, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Gerald and Carol Driver Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Gerald and Carol Driver Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Athens Area Community Foundation Inc, The Winthrop Foundation of Athens G, Georgia Power Foundation Inc.
Where is Gerald and Carol Driver Foundation Inc based?
Gerald and Carol Driver Foundation Inc is based in GA.

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 65 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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