· Public charity
North Georgia Electric Membership Foundation
Provide funding to charitable and community service organizations within the north georgia electric cooperative service area.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of North Georgia Electric Membership Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Community Foundation Of Northwest Georgia Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year North Georgia Electric Membership Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 25 organizations, $225k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 25 grants below total $225,240 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $400,040 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $174,800 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 · FY2022
- Under $10k10 grants · $75k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHRIST'S CHAPEL SHARE & CARE MISSION | $10,000 |
| VARNELL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $10,000 |
| HEALING HANDS CLINIC OF GORDON COUNTY | $10,000 |
| CATOOSA COUNTY FOSTER PARENT ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| NWGA FAMILY CRISIS CENTER INC | $10,000 |
| HERE I AM DBA THE CARE MISSION | $10,000 |
| UPWARD LIFE MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| OPERATION APPRECIATION INC | $10,000 |
| THE GREENHOUSE CHILD ADVOCACY & SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER | $10,000 |
| CHATTANOOGA AREA FOOD BANK - NORTHWEST GEORGIA BRANCH | $10,000 |
| THE HAVEN - LAFAYETTE | $10,000 |
| FIRST FRUITS MINISTRY OF NORTHWEST GEORGIA INC | $10,000 |
| THE SEXUAL ASSAULTS VICTUMS ADVOCACY CENTER INC | $10,000 |
| JONATHANS HOUSE MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| DOC-UP DALTON ORGANIZATION OF CHURCHES UNITED FOR PEOPLE | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $158k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 78% of North Georgia Electric Membership Foundation’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, 99% of the giving stays in GA; read by stated purpose it is 25% — 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 +47% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2022, 11 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2022, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k 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
- CCCHRIST CHAPEL SHARE & CARE MISSION INC5× · 2017–2022 · $46k · revenue +47%
- DODalton Organization of Churches United for People5× · 2018–2022 · $42k · revenue +8%
- HIHERE I AM INC4× · 2019–2022 · $39k · revenue +93%
Funded once
- SFSER FAMILIAgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +254%
- GCGRACE CHURCH FOOD BANKone grant, 2021 · $10k
- DCDEO CLINIC INCone grant, 2021 · $9k · revenue +22%
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 provide free food to needy families in appling county.
Community Share's mission is to feed, clothe, and house people in need within the Polk County, GA and surrounding communities.
Provide Group and Foster care for Homeless Children and Counseling
Provide food and shelter for the homeless.
Strengthen and preserve the well-being of individuals, couples, and families through easy, affordable access to professional counseling services.
Social services
The red door food pantry exists to provide food assistance to those experiencing food insecurity in bartow county, georgia.
Provide supportive services for the working poor and homeless population in the middle georgia area
Family promise of greater chattanooga's mission is to provide help for homeless families with children be housed and self-sufficient.
To provide assistance from domestic violence.
Providing groceries for those in need without cost to them for floyd, harralson, and polk counties in georgia and cleburne and cherokee counties in alabama
Provide assistance to victims of domestic violence and their children in four counties in central georgia through education, referrals, and support services to aid victims in exploring their options.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Hope Counseling Svcs and the most unlike its peers is Communities in Schools of Catoosa. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 8% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
32 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. 32 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 THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds CHRIST CHAPEL SHARE & CARE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST FRUITS MINISTRY OF NORTHWEST GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds Dalton Organization of Churches United for People ↗
- Who funds HERE I AM INC ↗
- Who funds Northwest Georgia Family Crisis Center ↗
- Who funds Chattanooga Area Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS ENDING HUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CRISIS CENTER OF WALKER DADE CATOOSA& CHATTOOGA COINC ↗
- Who funds THE SEXUAL ASSAULT VICTIMS ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CATOOSA ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Greenhouse Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST GEORGIA HEALTHCARE PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds SER FAMILIA ↗
- Who funds Jonathans House Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds DEO CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR FAMILIES CHILDREN AND ADULTS INC ↗
- Who funds ROSSWOODS INC ↗
- Who funds LATIN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION ↗
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 Community Foundation of Northwest Georgia Inc · Chattanooga Area Food Bank Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Atlanta Community Food Bank Inc · Mohawk Carpet Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · United Way of Northwest Georgiainc · The Anna Sue and Bob Shaw Foundation · United Way of Greater Chattanooga · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Brown Whitworth Reynolds Foundation · Frank P Pierce 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 Electric Membership Foundation 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.