· Private foundation
Jolly 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $3,500 |
| CARETTA RESEARCH PROJECT | $2,000 |
| OGEECHEE RIVERKEEPER | $1,200 |
| MOUNTAIN FILM IN SAVANNAH | $1,000 |
| SAVANNAH TREE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| UNION MISSION | $1,000 |
| SAVANNAH WILDLIFE RESCUE CENTER | $1,000 |
| THE ORIANNE SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA | $750 |
| CHATHAM-SAVANNAH CITIZEN ADVOCACY | $750 |
| OSSABAW ISLAND FOUNDATION INC | $750 |
| SWAINSBORO BETTY GAMBRELL ANIMAL SHELTER | $700 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $500 |
| PRESBYTERIAN HOMES OF GEORGIA | $500 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $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 (FY17–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 11% of Jolly Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 92% of the giving stays in GA; read by stated purpose it is 83% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +107% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 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, 92% 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
- STSAVANNAH TREE FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $7k · revenue +165%
- TOTHE ORIANNE SOCIETY9× · 2017–2025 · $7k · revenue +114%
- TOTHE OSSABAW ISLAND FOUNDATIONINC8× · 2017–2025 · $4k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- EPECOLOGY PROJECT INTERNATIONALone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +19%
- MMOUNTAINFILMone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +9%
- GRGRAY'S REEF NAT'L MARINE SANCTUARYone grant, 2017 · $1k
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 land stewardship, to enhance the scientific understanding of tropical ecosystems and apply learning to conservation, to provide education and training for future generations and to enhance the quality of life for local…
Our mission is to enhance the health of over 867,000 acres of georgias national forest by protecting our forests and streams, advocating for natural processes, and identifying opportunities to improve forest management.
To acquire, transfer and manage land in a manner designed to promote the preservation of environmentally valuable or sensitive resources, recreational resources, agricultural resources, resources of historic or cultural importance and open…
To protect environmentally sensitive land throughout the central savannah river basin through the use of permnanent conservation easements and land acquisitions. also to educate the public on conservation related topics.
The corporation is organized for the purpose of conducting public interest research, policy development, analysis, and education to protect the environment and people of Georgia, including, but not limited to, the quality of Georgia's air,…
The mission of the atlantic coast conservancy is to provide 21st century solutions and sound scientific applications for conservation of critical natural resources in the face of a changing climate, focusing on the southeasthern united…
The mission of the organization is to achieve international recognition of the importance of the Sargasso Sea and to develop protection measures for it through competent regional and international organizations.
See schedule o - 01. general explanation attachment
To be the fundraising arm for the georgia aquarium, inc., to hold financial and other investments for the benefit of the georgia aquarium, inc., and to make distributions/grants/loans to and for the benefit of the georgia aquarium, inc.…
Georgia rivers works to protect and connect people with georgia's rivers.
The organization was established to protect and restore the santa barbara channel and its watersheds through science-based advocacy, education, field work, community engagement, and citizen enforcement of environmental laws.
Our mission is to inspire conservation of the natural world by exhibiting and caring for animals, by excelling in education and research, and by providing an exceptional visitor experience.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Old Savannah City Mission Inc and the most unlike its peers is Greenbough House of Prayer. 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 31 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 56 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 SAVANNAH TREE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ORIANNE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE OSSABAW ISLAND FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds OGEECHEE RIVERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds One Hundred Miles Inc ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN HOMES OF GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds ABILITIES UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds SAVANNAH WILDLIFE RESCUE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNION MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds THE OLD SAVANNAH CITY MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds ECOLOGY PROJECT INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds SAVANNAH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAINFILM ↗
- Who funds CHATHAM-SAVANNAH CITIZEN ADVOCACY ↗
- Who funds East-West Ministries International ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVALINC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREENBOUGH HOUSE OF PRAYER ↗
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: The Savannah Community Foundation Inc · Colonial Foundation Inc · John G Kennedy Foundation Inc · The Hodge Foundation Inc · Courtney Knight Gaines Foundation · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · Patagoniaorg · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Jolly 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.
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