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Green South Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.8M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
26
Grants FY2024
15
Organizations funded FY2023
33%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$55,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$230,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 15
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
11
Total assets, FY2024
$25M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Green South Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $281k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
EnvironmentEducationPublic BenefitArts & CultureEmploymentScience & TechOther
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
FY2024still arriving17$1.8M53%
FY202315$1.4M33%
FY202214$1.1M100%
FY20211$40kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Environment$1.7MArts & Culture$1.6MEducation$606kPublic Benefit$330kPhilanthropy$235kRecreation & Sports$120kScience & Tech$40k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MT
WI
NY
MA
OR
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Journalism Funding Partners$1,278,924318%
Catawba College$352,01720%
Grist Magazine Inc$340,00032%
Fund for Constitutional Government$300,00025%
Hacks Hackers$250,00035%
Creative Visions Foundation$230,00012%
The Trust for Public Land$230,00010%
American Conservation Coalition Inc$200,00023%
Deployus Inc$200,00022%
Potential Energy Coalition Inc$150,00020%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($113k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Green South Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJournalism Funding Partners: $1,278,924 over 3y, 18% of budgetCatawba College: $352,017 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGrist Magazine Inc: $340,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetFund for Constitutional Government: $300,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetHacks Hackers: $250,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetCreative Visions Foundation: $230,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetThe Trust for Public Land: $230,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Conservation Coalition Inc: $200,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetDeployus Inc: $200,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetPotential Energy Coalition Inc: $150,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUniversity Radio Foundation Inc: $130,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetOcmulgee National Park & Preserve Initiative Inc: $120,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetOpen Space Institute Land Trust Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMountainTrue: $100,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRewild: $60,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetResource Media: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCenter for Biological Diversity Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSouth Carolina Farm Bureau Land Trust Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSouthern Environmental Law Center: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONSULTATIVE GROUP ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC Biodiversity Funders Grp: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetClimate Ride Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPacoima Beautiful: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProtect Our Winters: $2,000 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 25.

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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.

The William & Flora Hewlett FoundationCA20.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The Richards Foundation · United States Energy Foundation · The Hartfield Fdn Inc 0739-80-42 · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Argosy Foundation · Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Inc · Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc · Resources Legacy Fund · Foundation to Promote Open Society · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation

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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How do I get to Green South Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Green South Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Green South Foundation Inc

How much does Green South Foundation Inc give?
Green South Foundation Inc reported 26 grants totaling $1,822,850 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 15 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Green South Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (36%), Arts & Culture (35%), Education (13%).
Who are Green South Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Journalism Funding Partners ($1.3M), Catawba College ($352k), Grist Magazine Inc ($340k).
Does Green South Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Green South 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 Green South Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, The Richards Foundation, United States Energy Foundation.
Where is Green South Foundation Inc based?
Green South 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 31 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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