· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| SENIOR CITIZENS MEALS ON WHEELS | $1,700 |
| SALVATION ARMY SAV'H HOME TOWN ENDW | $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 |
| RAM BAM DAY SCHOOL ENDWMT FD | $1,350 |
| ST VINCENT'S ACADEMY ENDWMT FD | $1,350 |
| MEMORIAL DAY SCHOOL ENDWMT | $1,350 |
| BENEDICTINE MILLITARY SCHOOL ENDOWM | $1,350 |
| BETHESDA UNION SOCIETY | $1,300 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +66% since the first grant, against +53% for those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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 +86%
Funded once
- SASALVATION ARMY HURRICANE RELIEFone grant, 2024 · $5k
- UMUNION MISSION FOR PARKER'S HSone grant, 2023 · $5k
- UMUNION MISSION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +53%
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 55 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 TELFAIR MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds Masonic Home of Georgia ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA SALZBURGER SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SAVANNAH-OGEECHEE CANAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds VOCAL POINT INC ↗
- Who funds Coastal Pet Rescue Inc ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John and Emma Derst Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John and Emma Derst Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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