· Community foundation
North Georgia Community Foundation Inc
The north georgia community foundation helps people and non-profits invest generously in the lives of those who call our community home.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 213 grants below total $20,038,898 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $21,542,168 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,503,270 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k63 grants · $450k
- $10k–50k116 grants · $2.2M
- $50k–250k23 grants · $2.3M
- $250k+11 grants · $15M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA FO | $4,896,350 |
| GOOD NEWS CLINICS | $4,680,506 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LANIER | $1,302,250 |
| ATHENS TECH FOUNDATION INC | $1,147,635 |
| NORTHEAST GEORGIA HEALTH SYSTEM FOU | $922,900 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA | $547,212 |
| UNITED WAY OF HALL COUNTY | $393,433 |
| GAINESVILLE FIRST UNITED METHODIST | $318,700 |
| CORNER FARMS FORSYTH | $315,000 |
| NORTHEAST GEORGIA HISTORY CENTER | $285,000 |
| SAUTEE-NACOOCHEE COMMUNITY ASSOCIAT | $270,956 |
| HABERSHAM COUNTY UNITED WAY INC | $206,903 |
| THE HAMBIDGE CENTER FOR THE CREATIV | $178,285 |
| SISU | $146,245 |
| CENTER POINT INC | $144,660 |
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 (FY17–24, $2.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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 +39% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
197 repeat relationships — 134 still active in FY2024, 63 since wound down; 46 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $803k 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
- GNGOOD NEWS CLINICS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $11M · revenue +86% · 72% of their budget
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF LANIER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $5.5M · revenue +236%
- CHCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA GROUP RETURN3× · 2022–2024 · $5.1M · revenue +14%
Funded once
- TUTOTAL UNDER 5000one grant, 2020 · $2.0M
- MEMOUNTAIN EDUCATION CENTER INCone grant, 2017 · $674k
- EUEmory Universitygraduatedone grant, 2019 · $368k · revenue +54%
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.
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.…
Strengthen and preserve the well-being of individuals, couples, and families through easy, affordable access to professional counseling services.
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…
Supporting people with special needs to lead fulfilled lives.
Georgia Court Appointed Special Advocates, Inc. (the Organization) is a nonprofit organization which strengthens and supports court-sanctioned, affiliate CASA programs that empower community volunteers who advocate for abused or neglected…
Our commitment is to provide the individual support, meaningful training and employment services to people to remove barriers and close skill gaps so that individuals build brighter futures.
Our new mission is: advocates for children is an organization of dedicated, skilled professionals and compassionate volunteers committed to the well-being of children, youth and families. through comprehensive advocacy and unwavering…
Hope atlanta seeks to help georgians avoid homelessness and hunger through a comprehensive approach that equips them with the tools for lifelong stability.our vision is to end hunger and homelessness for every georgian.
To support caregivers and their loved ones by providing a compassionate care center offering safe, engaging, and reliable adult services.
To perpetuate a village community to provide progressive life assistance to adults with developmental disabilities so that they can maximize their abilities and maintain their independence in the least restrictive environment.
Inform and influence georgia leaders through research and non-partisan advocacy to impact education policies and practices for the improvement of student achievement.
The mission of the grady health foundation is to grow both philanthropic support and broad-based understanding of the critical role that grady health system plays in the metro atlanta region. our focus is to ensure grady health system has…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation and the most unlike its peers is First Impressions Clothing Minstry Inc. 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 27 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 20% 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.
267 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. 267 of the 401 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 UNIVERSITY OF NORTH GEORGIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD NEWS CLINICS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF LANIER INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA GROUP RETURN ↗
- Who funds Junior Achievement of Georgia ↗
- Who funds THE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC DBA THE NORTHEAST GEORGIA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUN ↗
- Who funds ATHENS TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAUTEE-NACOOCHEE COMMUNITY ASSOCIAT ↗
- Who funds EAGLE RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds THE ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF HALL COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds SISU OF GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF HALL COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF HALL COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BRENAU UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST GEORGIA HISTORY CENTER AT BRENAU UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds INTERACTIVE NEIGHBORHOOD FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA TECH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds GAINESVILLE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL INC AKA LAKEVIEW ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA MOUNTAIN FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER POINT GA INC ↗
- Who funds QUINLAN ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds ELACHEE NATURE SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CROSS TRAINING SPORTS CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds Corner Farms Forsyth 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: Jackson Emc Foundation Inc Attn Amy Rouse · Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · United Way of Hall County Inc · Northeast Georgia Health System Inc · Roy C Moore Foundation · James D and Diane S Magnus Foundation · J Bulow Campbell Foundation · Peach State Fcu Cares Foundation Inc · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · Athens Area Community Foundation 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 North Georgia Community 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.