· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $3,500 |
| CARETTA RESEARCH PROJECT | $2,000 |
| OGEECHEE RIVERKEEPER | $1,200 |
| SAVANNAH TREE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| SAVANNAH WILDLIFE RESCUE CENTER | $1,000 |
| MOUNTAIN FILM IN SAVANNAH | $1,000 |
| UNION MISSION | $1,000 |
| THE ORIANNE SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| CHATHAM-SAVANNAH CITIZEN ADVOCACY | $750 |
| OSSABAW ISLAND FOUNDATION INC | $750 |
| UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA | $750 |
| SWAINSBORO BETTY GAMBRELL ANIMAL SHELTER | $700 |
| ONE HUNDRED MILES | $500 |
| THE UNFORGETTABLE DREAM FUND | $500 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $500 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 11% of Jolly Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 92% of the giving stays in GA; by stated purpose, 83%.
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 +107% since the first grant, against +50% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- STSAVANNAH TREE FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $7k · revenue +165%
- TOTHE ORIANNE SOCIETY9× · 2017–2025 · $7k · revenue +146%
- 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
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 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.
How this is measured
25 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. 25 of the 56 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 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 ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF OATLAND ISLAND ↗
- Who funds SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVALINC ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jolly Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jolly Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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