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Perkins-Ponder Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAMILY COUNSELING CENTER OF CENTRAL GA | $7,000 |
| MACON VOLUNTEER CLINIC | $7,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC | $7,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| MENTORS PROJECT OF BIBB COUNTY | $6,000 |
| REBUILDING MACON | $5,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $3,500 |
| JAYS HOPE FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| WESLEY GLEN MINISTRIES | $3,000 |
| MULBERRY STREET UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $2,500 |
| ATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $2,500 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $2,500 |
| RESCUE MISSION OF MIDDLE GEORGIA | $2,500 |
| FRIENDS OF DISABLED ADULTS AND CHILDREN | $2,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, 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.
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 +38% since the first grant, against -12% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 11 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- MVMACON VOLUNTEER CLINIC INC8× · 2018–2025 · $51k · revenue +97%
- MPMENTORS PROJECT OF BIBB COUNTY INC7× · 2018–2025 · $48k · revenue +55%
- ARATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC8× · 2018–2025 · $24k · revenue +380%
Funded once
- TCTWIN CEDARS YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INCone grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue -12%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GENESEE COUNTY NY INCone grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue -49%
- CLCRISIS LINE & SAFE HOUSE CTRL GAone grant, 2024 · $5k
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.
Seeking to put gods love into action, habitat for humanity builds homes, communities, and hope. the organization works toward this mission by providing home repair and construction programs for low-income homeowners in…
Rearing at-risk children including education beyond high school.
Serving the middle Georgia area with low-income housing solutions through the Fuller Center for Housings Save a House/Make a Home and Greater Blessings programs.
Habitat for humanity dekalb works in partnership with families and the community to build, repair, and preserve, affordable housing for low-to-moderate income residents of dekalb county, ga.
Habitat for humanity of greater chattanooga (hfh-gc) brings together businesses, churches, and other community organizations in partnership with low income families to spark authentic transformation in our city through the construction of…
HomeAids mission is to help people experiencing or at risk of homelessness build new lives through construction, community engagement, and education.
Construction of Residential Housing for Low-income families
A non-demoninational christian ministry working in partnership with its community and future homeowners, to provide decent, affordable, and safe housing for those in need. we believe that not only is family strength supported and improved…
Habitat for humanity of williamson-maury (hfhwm) seeks to put god's love into action by partnering with communites to build affordable housing, inspiring hope and life-changing stability for families through homeownership.
To construct and provide housing to Macon and Jackson county residents who exhibit a true need for decent housing and the ability to repay a zero interest loan and willingness to partner with Habitat.
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity mississippi capital area brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
Dorchester habitat for humanity, inc.'s ("dhfh") mission statement is "putting god's love into action by bringing people together building homes and hope." dhfh was founded in 1993 and has built seventy-five (75) homes and three (3)…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rescue Mission of Middle Georgia Inc and the most unlike its peers is Habitat for Humanity International Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 31 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 MACON VOLUNTEER CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds MENTORS PROJECT OF BIBB COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds REBUILDING MACON INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF ARTS & SCIENCES INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of Historic Georgia Inc ↗
- Who funds DEPAUL USA INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds JAY'S HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MACON AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds Wesley Glen Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds TWIN CEDARS YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GENESEE COUNTY NY INC ↗
- Who funds WESLEYAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE ORANGE DUFFEL BAG INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds RESCUE MISSION OF MIDDLE GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF DISABLED ADULTS & CHILDREN TOO 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: The Peyton Anderson Foundation · Ej Grassmann Trust · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · James Hyde Porter Testamentary Trust · Navicent Health Foundation Inc · Griffith Family Foundation Inc · Trustee for Samuel T Mercer Fdn · Martin Foundation Inc · Robins Financial Credit Union · The Thomas C Burke Foundation · WL Amos Sr Foundation Inc co William L Amos III · Tr Ui Will Kathleen Jaques Foundation American National Bank of Texas
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 Perkins-Ponder 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.
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