· Private foundation
John and Emma Derst Foundation Inc
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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k41 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAVANNAH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,400 |
| FRESH AIRE HOME | $5,000 |
| SONS OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS | $2,000 |
| GEORGIA INDEPENDENT COLLEGES ASSN | $1,700 |
| SALVATION ARMY SAV'H HOME TOWN ENDW | $1,700 |
| SENIOR CITIZENS MEALS ON WHEELS | $1,700 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,600 |
| HOSPICE OF SAVANNAH ENDWMT | $1,500 |
| SCOTTISH RITE CHILD CARE ENDWMT FD | $1,500 |
| COASTAL HERITAGE SOCIETY ENDWMT FD | $1,400 |
| MEMORIAL DAY SCHOOL ENDWMT | $1,350 |
| ST VINCENT'S ACADEMY ENDWMT FD | $1,350 |
| RAM BAM DAY SCHOOL ENDWMT FD | $1,350 |
| BENEDICTINE MILLITARY SCHOOL ENDOWM | $1,350 |
| YMCA HABERSHAM ST ENDWMT FD | $1,300 |
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 (FY20–25, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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.
46 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- SOSONS OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $11k · revenue +66%
- GIGEORGIA INDEPENDENT COLLEGE ASSOCIATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $10k · revenue +28%
- TCTHE COASTAL HERITAGE SOCIETY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $8k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- UMUNION MISSION FOR PARKER'S HSone grant, 2023 · $5k
- UMUNION MISSION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +53%
- SASALVATION ARMY HURRICANE RELIEFone grant, 2024 · $5k
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 promote the compassionate treatment of animals in our community through adoption, public spay/neuter services, sheltering and education.
Humane treatment of animals.
Promote and preserve the history of georgetown county, sc.
Georgia Historical Society (GHS) is the premier independent statewide institution responsible for collecting, examining, and teaching Georgia history. GHS houses the oldest and most distinguished collection of materials related exclusively…
Establishment and administration of historical museum, working to educate and motivate, purchase artifacts ect for museum
Education and service to the public through programs relating to science and natural history.
The purpose of the Coastal Georgia Historical Society (Society) is to aid in the administration, restoration and maintenance of those historic facilities and resources entrusted to its care so that they will be preserved as a living part…
A non-profit corporation that provides shelter for homeless men and women in savannah, georgia.
To preserve the lives and enhance the well-being of animals.
To provide shelter and humane care to lost and homeless pets, reunite lost pets with their families, promote positive pet adoptions and educate our community in order to inspire compassion and responsible pet guardianship.
The corporation is organized to provide residential and long-term care services to the sick and elderly in a spiritual setting. the mission is accomplished through the operation of a 125-bed long-term care facility and a 94-unit retirement…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Savannah Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sons of Confederate Veterans Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 55 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 THE SAVANNAH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SONS OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA INDEPENDENT COLLEGE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE COASTAL HERITAGE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds WEST BROAD STREET YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA SALZBURGER SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SAVANNAH-OGEECHEE CANAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds TELFAIR MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Masonic Home of Georgia ↗
- Who funds VOCAL POINT INC ↗
- Who funds Coastal Pet Rescue 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: Colonial Foundation Inc · The Savannah Community Foundation Inc · The Dunn Foundation · Savannah Jewish Council Inc Dba Savannah Jewish Federation · The Meridian Foundation Inc · International Paper Company Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 John and Emma Derst Foundation Inc 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.