How much does James Hyde Porter Testamentary Trust give?

James Hyde Porter Testamentary Trust reported 33 grants totaling $604,100 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 35 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does James Hyde Porter Testamentary Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (21%), Arts & Culture (17%), Youth Development (12%).

Who are James Hyde Porter Testamentary Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Wesleyan College ($478k), Community Arts Association in Newton County Inc ($468k), The Corporation of Mercer University ($275k).

Does James Hyde Porter Testamentary Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does James Hyde Porter Testamentary Trust accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as James Hyde Porter Testamentary Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Georgia Power Foundation Inc, Ej Grassmann Trust, Navicent Health Foundation Inc.

Where is James Hyde Porter Testamentary Trust based?

James Hyde Porter Testamentary Trust is based in GA.

James Hyde Porter Testamentary Trust

James Hyde Porter Testamentary Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

James Hyde Porter Testamentary Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$604k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$100k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

02FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
Community Arts Association in Newton County Inc	$25,000
Alcovy CASA	$25,000
The Mentor's Project of Bibb County Inc	$20,000
Individual grant recipient	$20,000
NewTown Macon Inc	$20,000
The Arc Macon	$20,000
A Child's Voice Child Advocacy Center Inc	$20,000
Campus Clubs	$15,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +1% for those 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

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.

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%

How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Macon Ga Chapter of the Links Inc

Volunteer community service

—

Greater Macon Chamber of Commerce

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

—

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.

—

Macon County Care Network

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

—

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…

—

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.

—

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

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Newton Community Partnership Inc fka; 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.

04the grantee network

41 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

40/41

Grantees still filing

29/41

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization James Hyde Porter Testamentary Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James Hyde Porter Testamentary Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

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

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

Play a game based on James Hyde Porter Testamentary’s filings →

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 endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home