How much did James Hyde Porter Testamentary Trust grant in FY2025?

Education$920kArts & Culture$739kYouth Development$523kHealth$522kHuman Services$486kHousing & Shelter$363kCommunity Improvement$210kCrime & Legal$187kOther$0

02FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k9 grants · $37k
$10k–50k23 grants · $467k
$50k–250k1 grant · $100k

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$10M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
The Corporation of Mercer University	$100,000
Washington Street Community Center Inc	$40,000
United Way of Central Georgia	$32,500
Individual grant recipient	$32,500
Wesleyan College	$31,800
Crisis Line & Safe House of Central Georgia	$25,000
Museum of Arts & Sciences	$25,000
Alcovy CASA	$25,000
Community Arts Association in Newton County Inc	$25,000
A Child's Voice Child Advocacy Center Inc	$20,000
The Arc Macon	$20,000
Individual grant recipient	$20,000
NewTown Macon Inc	$20,000
The Mentor's Project of Bibb County Inc	$20,000
Boy Scouts Central Georgia Council	$15,000

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $217k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$4.0M · 48 repeat orgs$308k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.

48 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.0M

$218k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%

+1%

Still filing today

63%

44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementOther

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

WC
WESLEYAN COLLEGE
9× · 2017–2025 · $478k · revenue +12%
CA
COMMUNITY ARTS ASSOCIATION IN NEWTON COUNTY INC
8× · 2018–2025 · $468k · revenue +16%
TC
THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY
6× · 2019–2025 · $275k · revenue +22%

Funded once

CC
CENTENARY COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC
one grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue -47%
TM
TUBMAN MUSEUM
one grant, 2019 · $25k
RE
RIVER EDGE FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -46%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Macon Ga Chapter of the Links Inc

Volunteer community service

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Greater Macon Chamber of Commerce

To promote business, economic development, and community development within the greater macon area.

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The Fuller Center for Housing of Macon Georgia Inc

Serving the middle Georgia area with low-income housing solutions through the Fuller Center for Housings Save a House/Make a Home and Greater Blessings programs.

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Macon County Care Network

Serving our neighbors in need by providing food and nurturing hope.

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Middle Georgia Center for Independent Living Inc

To enable all people with disabilities to attain and have access to all opportunities in life.

Civil Rights

Macon Recovers Inc

The mission is to mobilize resources within and outside the recovery community to increase the prevalence and quality of long-term recovery from alcohol and other drug dependency in georgia by increasing recovery capital, with a priority…

Human Services

The Georgia Center for Nonprofits

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.…

Community Improvement

Community Child Development Center Inc

The organization provides quality care and education to 50 children in macon county and surrounding areas

Education

Masonic Home of Georgia

Rearing at-risk children including education beyond high school.

Human Services

Georgia Agape Inc

The organization offers social services as a compassionate outreach to abused, neglected and dependent children and families in need. the organization strives to positively impact the lives of children, families and all those who receive…

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Family Counseling Center of Central Georgia Inc

Strengthen and preserve the well-being of individuals, couples, and families through easy, affordable access to professional counseling services.

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Children's Advocacy Centers of Georgia Inc

To promote, assist and support the development, growth & continuation of children's advocacy centers in the state of Georgia.

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Newton Community Partnership Inc fka and the most unlike its peers is Bibb Extension 4-H. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

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 31% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 21% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%1/43

the rest of the field

21%

270/1,276

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.

04the grantee network

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 68 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

40/41

Grantees still filing

29/41

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,394,550Education$1,080,700Arts & Culture$708,250Health$453,800Housing & Shelter$243,000Human Services$226,445Community Improvement$190,000

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.

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.

Georgia Power Foundation IncGA37.9× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Ej Grassmann Trust · Navicent Health Foundation Inc · The Peyton Anderson Foundation · Griffith Family Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Georgia Inc · The Thomas C Burke Foundation · Perkins-Ponder Foundation · Martin Foundation Inc · Robins Financial Credit Union · John S and James L Knight Foundation · Trustee for Samuel T Mercer Fdn

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 Hyde Porter Testamentary Trust 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.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines