· Private foundation
James D and Diane S Magnus Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 64% of JAMES D AND DIANE S MAGNUS FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $47k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $176k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LANIER CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $101,400 |
| TOUCHDOWN CLUB | $75,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION | $27,300 |
| NATIONAL FOOTBAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| COVENANT COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $8,000 |
| EAGLE RANCH | $6,350 |
| GOOD NEWS CLINIC | $6,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF HALL COUNTY | $5,750 |
| GEORGIA BASEBALL FUND | $5,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $1,600 |
| WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $1,500 |
| NORTH GEORGIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
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 (FY25–25, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k 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
- LCLANIER CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $247k · revenue +179%
- UOUniversity of Georgia Athletic Assn Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $224k · revenue +91%
- JLJUNIOR LEAGUE OF GAINESVILLE -2× · 2021–2022 · $50k · revenue +266%
Funded once
- NGNORTHEAST GEORGIA CARE INC CHOICES PREGNANCY CARE CENTERone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
- TTTHE TOUCHDOWN CLUB OF ATHENS INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +39%
- CPCHOICES PREGNANCY CENTERone grant, 2017 · $15k
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.
To enhance the health status of those we serve in partnership with medical staff and other community organizations by providing wellness services, health education, training, and access to safe high quality health care services.
North greenville university exists to glorify god by cultivating graduates who are equipped to serve as transformational leaders for church and society.
Education - lagrange college challenges the minds and inspires the souls of its students. founded in 1831 and committed to its relationship with the united methodist church and its wesleyan and liberal arts traditions, the college supports…
Navicent health's mission is to elevate health and well-being through compassionate care for all. our values are integrity, respect, ownership, and caring. navicent health, inc. is a nonprofit corporation whose primary purpose is to serve…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
George fox university, a christ centered community, prepares students spiritually, academically, and professionally to think with clarity, act with integrity, and serve with passion.
Leading the creation and advancement of health equity we exist to improve the health and well-being of individuals and communities, increase the diversity of the health professional and scientific workforce, and address primary health care…
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.
Morehouse college is a historically black college whose mission is to develop men with disciplined minds who will lead lives of leadership and service.
We are a k-12 christian school founded under the following (4) pillars: academics: we provide an amazing accredited academic program utilizing 100% certified teachers. schedule: we provide our students and their families an opportunity on…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Hall County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Eliza Baker Memorial Scholarship. 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 37 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 100 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 LANIER CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds University of Georgia Athletic Assn Inc ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF GAINESVILLE - ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF LANIER INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds CENTER POINT GA INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST GEORGIA CARE INC CHOICES PREGNANCY CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds COVENANT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE TOUCHDOWN CLUB OF ATHENS INC ↗
- Who funds EAGLE RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA MOUNTAIN FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds HALL COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF HALL COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds GLORY HOPE & LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE MANAGEMENT CONSULTING INC ↗
- Who funds SACRED ROOTS FARM INC ↗
- Who funds THE OVARIAN CANCER INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds VAGABOND SCHOOL OF THE DRAMA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD NEWS CLINICS INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF HALL COUNTY 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: Ralph & Mary Cleveland Foundation · Jackson Emc Foundation Inc Attn Amy Rouse · North Georgia Community Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Roy C Moore Foundation · United Way of Hall County Inc · Northeast Georgia Health System Inc · J Bulow Campbell Foundation · Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Fieldale Farms Foundation · United Community Bank 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 James D and Diane S Magnus Foundation 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.